[open]Bill Booth's Blood and Fire Drop-in (7)

[CaringBrit]

2nd one

 

[CaringBrit]

3rd one

 

[CaringBrit]

opening video of my enrollment

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/...69&oe=53D68E37

 

[CaringBrit]

ok now im posting my testimony video im posting these in order here is the line it missed off

From birth my mum bought me a kids bible which of course couldnt read it til roughly around

https://fbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net/h...ca6bad5cce3e46

 

[CaringBrit]

here is a video of me singing enjoy

https://fbcdn-video-a.akamaihd.net/h...f7e1eabeab7f4c

 

[Andy Broadley]

Blimey!!! Over six months since anyone was in here.!!

Look at the dust!

Time to have a clear up, shovel away all the junk mail, and see if the kettle still works.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Well, it's a big year for the dear old Army this year 150 years old....or at least it'll be 150 years since Booth started the tent meetings in the East End.

Talking of the old General, I had to smile recently when the news media where giving coverage to the fact that it was 50 years since Winston Churchill's funeral, and they pointed out that he was the only 'commoner' in Britain ever to have a state funeral..... and several Salvationists leaped up shouting "No he wasn't....William Booth had one too"

Quite right....General William Booth did indeed receive a state funeral upon being promoted to Glory in 1912. However, as an ordained minister, he was not classed as a commoner. So, this time at least, the BBC was right

Anyway, back to this year.

What, if anything, is your Corps doing to mark the 150th anniversary?

 

[Andy Broadley]

Came across this. We used it at cafe church recently and it made a big impact. Well worth watching

https://skitguys.com/videos/item/gods-chisel

 

[Water Walker]

Been away since 2012 and looks like not much has changed here.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Been away since 2012 and looks like not much has changed here.

Yet....it's going to.

We are gonna get us a proper cyber corps running in here

 

[Water Walker]

Yet....it's going to.

We are gonna get us a proper cyber corps running in here

OK how do we do that?

 

[Andy Broadley]

OK how do we do that?

First up, we are gonna do what we (the Army) do well.

Make some noise. No point having this place if nobody knows that we are here.

Second thing....tidy up. The Cyber Corps is a mess at the moment. Lots and lots of threads that are either obsolete or just not used anymore. Mixed in with these are a few threads that need to be boosted back up, or, if they have been closed...restarted.

 

[Andy Broadley]

So, which threads do we need to get this place up and running properly again?

1. This one. The Blood and Fire Drop In is an essential thread. The place to look in and chat. meet with each other and just generally hang out.

2. Prayer. We must have a prayer thread. There is one called The Mercy Seat....closed or still open I know not without checking, but we must have a thread dedicated to prayer.

3. Q & A. One thing I found about this place is that lots of non Army people would come along with questions, because we are not great at explaining who we are and what we do...and why. They would then start a new thread for their question.

This gave us a high number of threads that got only a handful of replies, and then get lost as they slid down the page. I suggest we have a dedicated thread for people to ask questions.

Another benefit of this is that, if we can attract a few knowledgeable Salvationists to Cyber Corps, they will be able to check in the Q&A thread whenever they get in here and answer any new questions.

4. Music. One of the Army's great strong points. Band, Songsters, Singing Companies, 'non section' bands and singers, worship groups, we have a wide range of music in the Army.

This is/was a Band Room thread. I propose boosting/restarting that thread, and adding another music thread to cover all other aspects of Army music.

5. There used to be a very good thread on Army policy/resources which served as a FAQ section (frequently asked questions). many questions that people had were answered in that section without the need to start a seperate thread.

At worst that will need restarting from scratch, at best it will be very out of date and in need to a huge update/edit.

 

[Andy Broadley]

But, and it's a HUGE but, the most important thing to do is pray. Like starting a new corps in the physical world, a virtual corps needs a bedrock of much prayer.

So, here's the plan.

1. Pray that the Lord will bless this place and show us the way forward. That He will work through us to bring growth as we move forward.

2. Organise. Get the threads boosted/updated/started/restarted as appropriate to enable an efficient and effective Corps to operate in this place.

3. Keep praying.

4 Advertise. Get the word out to other Salvationists that we are here. Use whatever means we need to. Word of mouth, other social media sites, spreading the word within CF.

5. Pray some more.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Ok, so managed to get some stuff done

I have found and boosted the Mercy Seat thread, to bring that back into use.

I found the band room thread, but that had been out of use too long, and had been closed by the mods. So I copied the OP and started a new thread.

The SA resources thread is something I'll need to speak to the mods about as I cannot access any of the links contained within it. Work in progress there then

But we have started

Update: Have sent message to Admin team asking who is responsible for moderating this section, in the hopes that we can regain access to the resources in the sticky thread. We now await their response.

 

[Andy Broadley]

This thread is rapidly turning into Andy's daily blog

Lets get the word out there and attract more people in here

 

[Andy Broadley]

A week and still no further postings in here. I shall perverse and eventually we will see life in Cyber Corps once more.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Phew....sometimes, and only sometimes, I wish I was in one of those churches where you get to be a Sunday Morning Chritian....the rest and relaxation must be amazing

I'm not serious. I know God called me to be a Salvationist, and even though it can be fall-over-exhausting sometimes, I wouldn't change it for anything (except a direct instruction from God of course).

 

[Andy Broadley]

*Forces the door open, clearing a small mountain of junk mail from behind it*

Wow, bit dusty in here.....looks like it's been empty a while.

Lets see what we can do about that shall we?

 

[CaringBrit]

Hey