GOODNEWS! Volume 29 Number 4 INSIDE
CAST TO HIGHLIGHT OOB General Linda Bond; Commis- sioners R. Steven and Judith A. Hedgren, territorial lead- ers; Commissioners Francis; the Captains Francis, and CAST will minister at the Pavilion, beach, and Pier. PAGE 8
APRIL/MAY 2012
NYSB CELEBRATES 125 YEARS The fi rst staff band in Sal- vation Army history hosts a concert at New York's famed Carnegie Hall.
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'Army Essential/Essential Army' 'Salvation People' explore founding principles >>
NSE IS COMING Learn how to walk across a room, start a conversation, and share the Gospel with amazing confi dence at this annual event.
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illiam Booth wished he could suspend each one of his offi cers
over hell for 24 hours," said Commis- sioner R. Steven Hedgren, territorial com- mander, as he passionately shared his vision for the Eastern Territory to more than 1,200 offi cers seated in a large conference center in Hershey, Pa. He con- tinued quoting the Founder, who wrote, "We are Salvation People. That is our specialty. Getting saved, keeping saved, and then getting someone else saved."
Hedgren said that the concept of Army
Essentials/Essential Army is a fundamen- tal plan to save the lost and to bring them to the Lord. "It is rooted in the very DNA of every Salvationist. Every General from the Founder to our current leader has sought to lead us back to an ideal of fi rst things—and forward to the practical effectiveness in our present reality." Hedgren compared the connection be-
tween the founding principles and today's needs to a "tether" that ties Salvationists
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WARREN L. MAYE
"If [offi cers] could see the fl ames and smell the smoke and feel the heat and hear the cries of the damned, they would go out to preach what they had seen and heard. They would then preach like dying men to dying people." —William Booth, Founder of The Salvation Army
