Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba By Doreen Martens moving from an old Motel to the seven Storey former Owca building in downtown Winnipeg this summer should give the salvation army Catherine Booth Bible College a much higher but it certainly wont turn the school into an Ivory in keeping with a Century old tradition of social a bbl Only Lay College run by the army in the world is one school where students often cant wait to apply their academic studies to something and that just the Way the army wants for some students its difficult to sit in the classroom because theres a Strong desire to be out on the explains Gord an american student at the College who participated for two years in a student run team that patrols the streets at night to help drunks and Street people in Winnipeg neediest neighbor social conscience in says some people can understand that what there doing is a Short term thing Here at the study ing and trying to ground themselves in the but some cant last that Long and devote too much time to activities other than practical service to the poor is part of the expectation Laid on students at the five year old housed for the time being in the former Canada House motor Lodge on Assiniboine at the same the College emphasizes a primary aspect of the salvation army often overlooked by the Public that it first and a Christian Deomina although practice is rarely far from theory at the the schools primary aim is to give students a solid grounding in their major Earl a former Vancou ver corps officer pastor who came Here to set up the school seven years likes to describe the army in the words of former prime minister Arthur Meighen a religious movement with an acute social professional despite an academic rigor not always emphasized among Robinson says the College is actually encouraging a return to the original philosophy of the which was to have every member Active in the work of the the methodist preacher who began the Sally Ann in London poverty stricken East end in 1878 perceived that the people he was trying to bring Back to god needed to have their physical and social needs met before they would listen to what he had to the founder of the salvation William was fairly Well educated but he was very much a Pragman and his emphasis was As one of repeated slogan describes go and do so 1 guess you might say that intellectual Pursuit has not been a Strong Point of the salvation says Robin who holds degrees from several major theological but the army now has fourth and fifth generation Many in the salvation army to keep its ideals in new building Winnipeg free press March 1988 Page 18 students enter the army Catherine Booth Bible named after the founders wife Middle or upper Middle who Are reflecting on their Faith in deeper ways and wanting to become More involved in the Church religious and charitable Active like Many the army has become More professionalized in recent giving More responsibility to offi cers clergy and often leaving Lay Mem Bers the Elm unlike the army Seminary Isle Foncer training of which there Are two in the College named after Booths remarkable Catherine Mui Mord Booth equips Active members no Arent necessarily headed for i he professional whats says Robin is an educative process that will enable our Young people to go Back into their situations and be much More highly involved and confidently involved than they otherwise might although still the school has attracted numerous foreign giving it an International flavor unusual in an institution with Only 52 full time this years student body includes people from new South Africa and the with a faculty of the College offers a bachelors degree with a major in biblical and theological studies or in Christian concentrating on either Chris Tian social pastoral ministries or the new purchased from the financially ailing Owca last is being renovated to turn the present gym into a a front area into a Library and the present Pool area into a new dorm rooms will require Little renovation to accommodate 123 nearly triple the schools current the building is in a much More visible location in the City close to the army regional office and the University of with which it is hoped a Collegia relationship can be Opportunity its also within easy reach of the army local social service including a mens women Home for unwed a drug dependency pro seniors Home and a correctional services department working within prisons and a permanent Home for the school was to have been built in a suburban says a new Structure would have been much More when asked what they would change about the army if they students give a variety of Grant a new would like people in congregations to be More committed to Active and to have More opportunities available for Young and Lay people that what i like about this because it gives you even if you Only come for a year a Good grounding in what you can even if youre going on to University somewhere Faith a Black student who came Here from South on a Church Hopes to help improve some of the social services run by the army in her Home Gillis would like to see the army be open to taking More particularly in Rais ing its profile As a religious organization even if that would mean reduced revenues during Public fund that what the army was formed on bonnets things Are changing in the venerable Sally including the uniform worn by committed the matronly women bonnets of yesteryear have been replaced by More up Odate brimmed but Messing with tradition too much can be a new York salvation lists have Learned that Kettle drive donations Rise by 50 per cent when the bonnets Are the old ladies not the old ladies of the army but the old ladies of the world love the says joining in general laughter at mention of the hat every time they see a Young girl in a Bonnet it just warms their some girls look attractive in learning occurs by trial and error i our 12yearold son has always been responsible and this he started Junior High school and begin hanging around with sever Al kids who Are known trouble As soon As we found we forbade the but no matter what we do to keep him away from these he Man Ages to get together with weve punished him for disobey ing weve talked ourselves Blue in the weve even tried bribing All to no he says were trying to choose his friends and seems determined to Buck us on this its the first really major conflict weve Ever and quite a bit what should we do this is actually a great Opportunity for Boih you and your son to learn some very important you can Itam to let to Stop being so protect in he can learn to be More responsible for the choices he none of you Are going to learn unless you allow him the it Edom to make certain hard learning generally place by trial no aug that it takes atom this us Viany mistakes a is truly i mered if i Iii is prevented from i the lean Illig wont take this applies to learning to tin a cum Iii i i a car Asil Dora 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