Territorial Commander's New Year Message
ONWARD! FORWARD! PRESS ON!
Onward we march into the year 2012 and I am delighted to take this opportunity to greet you all. I send you this New Year's message with three things in mind. (1) To invite all Salvationists to celebrate our past, present and future; as we prepare to celebrate 125 years of the arrival of The Salvation Army in the Caribbean territory: Jamaica. (2) To celebrate Jesus and (3) to give to each New Year Challenges.
One hundred and twenty five (125) years of service and ministry to God and man is a milestone worth celebrating. In giving God Thanks for another New Year, I invite you to praise God for our ministry in these Caribbean lands. When we commemorate a heritage such as this, we rejoice in recalling every soul won for Christ, every person liberated and made whole through the power of the Holy Spirit. We are thanking God for the people who have fought the good fight of faith with all their might, with courage and determination. We thank God for every Salvationist who has reached out a compassionate hand to those hurting and to the outcasts of our society.
Jesus is worth celebrating and we should celebrate Him just because of who He is: He is an earthly picture of our heavenly Father. He is God and we should celebrate that; who He is makes Him important. "Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. (Col. 1:15) Jesus shows us what God is like. He said in John 14:9, 'To see me is to see my Father'. Jesus is the path to God and the way for man to connect with God. He said: /1 am the road, also the truth, also the life. No one gets to the Father apart from me'. John 14:6.
Jesus is worth celebrating for what He does; He loves us just as we are. "God showed how much He loved us by having Christ die for us. (Romans 5:8). He loved us even when we did not love Him and although we were sinful; Jesus forgives the wickedness of our past, takes the broken and destroyed and makes it new. He is worth celebrating. Let us celebrate him for who He is and for what He has done for us. Read more.....
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"Recovery after Haiti's Earthquake"
Watch "Ground Work: Recovery after Haiti's Earthquake," a video by the United Kingdom and Ireland Territory of The Salvation Army (with help from the Haiti Division). Hear personal stories of recovery from Sebastian, who lives in Camp de la Paix and attends The Salvation Army's College Verena in Port-au-Prince, and Maxi, now an adult, who grew up in The Salvation Army's Port-au-Prince children's home (La Maison du Bonheur), teaches at College Verena and has taken in two children from La Maison du Bonheur following the earthquake.