REGULAR CORPS EVENTS Sundays Meetings at 9.50. 10.30 a.m. 4-30 p.m. Messy Church every 4th Sunday 3.30 p.m. Mondays Over 60’s Club Fortnightly Lunch 12.15 p.m.. Meeting 2.00 p.m. Next meeting 2nd November Open Door 10 a.m.—12 p.m. Bible Study Tuesday Parents and Tots 10 a.m.—11.30 Wednesday Cameo Club—second Wednesday monthly 7.30 p.m. Thursday Tea, Toast and Toys 9 a.m.—11.30 a.m. Open Songster practice 4th Thursday each month 8.30 pm Friday Coffee Morning and Luncheon Club 9.30 a.m. and 12.15 Saturday Walk first Saturday every month. Details from Barrie, or Gladys. All welcome November Sun 1st Divisional Praise Staines Corps 3.30 p.m. No afternoon meeting at our Corps. Sun 8th Remembrance Sunday Bible Explore and Praise 4.30 Thurs 19th Band in the High Street at 6.45 as part of the Christmas lights switch on celebration. Sat 21st Christmas Sale. 10 a.m.— 2 p.m. Sun 22nd Captain Hilary leading. 4.30 meeting is Messy Church Sun 29th First Sunday in Advent Leighton Buzzard youth leading both meetings.

October Bible Dingbat Solutions; Morning Star Revelation 2:28 Holy Spirit Acts 2:4

Editor: Carol Gibson. Tel. 01494 534087 Mob 07799187687

Email : carol@standardbearer.info Magazine Website www.standardbearer.info

Why not……? Get your walking boots out

and go for a walk. Why not join the Corps walking group get out into the countryside and enjoy the beauty of Buckinghamshire. Talk to Gladys or Barrie and find out the details.

Standard Bearer High Wycombe

Salvation Army

November 2015 Year 15: Issue 9

Commanding Officer Captain Hilary McClintock

01494 471847

Lasting Peace

When shall we know a lasting peace, And when will wars and conquests cease, And when will peoples live again Lives free from fear and want and pain? When shall we like a clarion call, Hear “all for each and each for all”; And when, oh, when, will men rejoice, And sing glad songs in cheerful voice? The world has sunk to fearful state, Science and skill the tools of hate. The vengeful passions of the few, Millions of blameless ones subdue, So when will man no more destroy? Here is my answer; my reply When we have ceased to think of wealth As all important, and of self The foremost subject of our brain, When all those thoughts of selfish gain Are gone, uprooted like coarse weeds Which fain would stifle virtues seeds; When racial hatred is no more, When this earth’s rich, and all its poor,

The great, the small, the strong, the weak, Leader and led, the bold, the meek, Like some vast brotherhood abide, And, class distinction set aside Do strive unto the common good, With ev’ry difference understood; When we do make the rule apply, “To do as we would be done by”, If all would work, scheme, live for this,

Clear is the road to lasting peace.

Ken Newell (March 1944)

Lights on in dark days November starts on Sunday 1

st with a

Divisional Praise meeting in the afternoon at Staines Corps, with our Territorial Leaders Commissioners Clive and Marianne Adams. It is also All Saints Day as we remember the lives of those Christian saints who have been promoted to glory. We do not take for granted the freedom we have to meet and worship as Christians in this country, and the legacy we inherit. So on Sunday 8

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ber we have Remembrance Sunday and Wednesday 11

th is Remembrance Day.

Later on this month on Sunday 29

th November we celebrate the young

people in our corps and Leighton Buzzard as the Youth Sections lead our morning and afternoon meetings. They are not the Army of the future – they are the Army of the present. High Wycombe town lights will be switched on as part of the town cel-ebrations on Thursday evening 19

th November and our band will be play-

ing in the High Street in the Corn Market from 6.45pm. May the light of hope and the joy of God’s presence keep your faith strong in these days. As the Salvationist Officer and musician Joy Webb wrote in her song:

‘How great the darkness, how deep the need! How vast the problems of indifference, hate and greed.

A world rejecting the truth once known And slipping down into a nightmare of its own.

Is there a light that’s strong enough to go And metamorphasise the darkness that we know?

I am a candle of the Lord..... light me! God bless you, Captain Hilary

A quotable question….. What does Christ in us look like? Captain Hilary

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A Letter from GOD……...A Cautionary Tale One day God looked down at Earth and saw all the evil things

that were happening. He decided to send an angel down to check it out. So He

called one of his best angels and sent her to Earth for a while.

When she returned she told God, yes it is bad on Earth, 95% is

bad and 5% is good. God, thought for a moment and thought maybe He’d better

send down a second angel to get another point of view. So

God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time too.

When the angel returned he went to God and told him “Yes,

the Earth is in decline. 95% is bad and 5% is good.” God said

this was definitely not good. So He decided to send a letter to

the 5% that were good so as to encourage them and give them

a little something to help them keep going along the right path.

Do you know what that letter said?

No? So you didn’t get one either?

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The Great Christmas Sale Saturday 21st

November 10 a.m.—2 p.m.

Christmas gifts and cards

Hand knitted gifts Toiletries Jewellery

Toys and books

Greeting cards Cakes

Jigsaws Light lunches

And a 50p and £1 stall

A Note about the sale

Donations of suitable Christmassy gifts Decorations Wrapping paper still needed Home made cake or desserts will accepted on Friday or on the day. Please take a few leaflets and give them to your friends, families neighbours and any group you might belong to. Help needed setting up and clearing up. Offers to Gladys or Melinda. Come along on the day and bring others with you.

Important If you provide home made food products., i.e. cake, pre-serves, etc. Please write on a slip of paper the ingredients you use. This is to comply with Health and Safety requirements concerning aller-gens. We do not need the recipe, only a list, such as “flour, sugar, eggs, margarine, dried fruit, nuts. Thank you.

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Christmas Comes but once a year November 21st Christmas Fayre 10.00—2p.m, Thursday 3rd Carolling at Marylebone 4.30—6.30 Sat. 5th Carolling at Asda 10.30 a.m. Sunday 6th Messy Christmas 3.30 p.m. Band at All Saints for Mayor’s Christmas Festival 5 p.m. (No 4.30 p.m Meeting at the hall) Mon 7th Cameo singing group at Kingfisher House 2.30 p.m. Fri 11th Carolling at Marylebone 4.30—6.30p.m. Sat 12th Carolling at Eden Centre 10.30-12.30 a.m. Sunday 13th Toy Service 4.30 p.m. YP Band at Nancy Hall Ct. 2.30 Monday 14th Over 60s Club Christmas Festivities 2.00 p.m. Tuesday 15th Toddlers party 10.30 a.m. Cameo at Shelburne Lodge 2.30 p.m. Wednesday 16th Last CAMEO before Christmas 7.30p.m. Thurs 17th Last TT&T before Christmas 9 a.m. Fri. 18th Last Lunch Club before Christmas Carolling at Marylebone 4.30—6.30 Sat. 19th Carolling at Eden 10.30—12.30 Sunday 20th Carol Service 4.30 p.m. Christmas Card Distribution Tues 22nd Community Carol Service 11 a,m. Tea/Coffee 10.30—11. Light lunch to follow Thurs 24th Carolling at Eden 10.30- 12.30 Fri. 25th Christmas Meeting 10 a.m.. Sun 27th Carol Gibson leading. 10.30 a.m. Wed. 31st Watch Night Service 11.30 p.m.

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Divisional Praise With the

Territorial Leaders Commissioners Clive and Marianne Adams

Supported by Reading Central Band

(Ian Clack) United Songsters from Hemel Hempstead High Wycombe, Maidenhead and Woking

(Major John Martin)

Everyone Welcome!

Sunday 1st November, 3.30 p.m. Staines Corps,

Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, Middx. TW15 3JY

Front Cover……. The poem is this month’s ‘Ten years ago in Standard Bearer’ Although it was written 71 years ago (by the editor’s Uncle), it seems to me that it is still as relevant now. A plea to humankind to follow Jesus’ com-mand that we love one another.

December Standard Bearer….Your big opportunity to see your name in print. “What does Christmas mean to you?” If you are young, if you are not young, please let me have your item, printed, emailed, or written in your ‘best writing’ by Sunday 22nd November, with your name. Does it mean presents, the turkey, the tree, the carol service, the car-ols, the band in the shopping centre, memories of years gone by………? I hope to receive many items. (Not too long). Thank you.

Leighton Buzzard Youth Will be at High Wycombe Corps

Sharing with our own youth On Sunday 29th November

10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. Come along and enjoy the

Enthusiasm of youthfulness.

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