stroyed.
WC:
over the last 25 years?
emphasis on the issue of female
trafficking. While it has been
done over the years, it's becoming
more and more open. People have
been made more aware of the is-
sue. We are learning about the
trafficking of women who are in
our own cities.
where families could not
earn enough to make a
living so they would sell
their young girls to some-
body who was into traf-
ficking. It hurts when I think
.how long this has gone on. I am
pleased that the Church and espe-
cially The Salvation Army have
done a great deal to address this
issue here in the States as well as
around the world. There is great
effort to make people aware of
what's going on and then to stand
up and address it. Our own dear,
beloved, now deceased Commis-
sioner Helen Clifton continued to
write to a newspaper about ads
they were printing that promoted
such brothels until finally one day
the ads no longer appeared. She
persisted until change came. That
proves there's power in what we
can do as one person or as a group
in helping to combat this terrible
evil.
.
their potential?
years The Home League was the
was often what built the corps and
held it together. There were well
rounded programs to meet spiritu-
al, physical and social needs.
Women were encouraged in their
living. There was always a teach-
ing element. People from outside
taught new skills and new ideas.
Women were encouraged to grow
in as many ways as they could.
Women still need to be encour-
aged to grow in different ways and
the Church, and the Army espe-
cially, still have an important part
in doing that. We need to continue
to meet the social needs of women
in many of our corps and centers.
Women are taking time away
from their busy work schedules for
such study. We are working hard
in our corps and centers to minis-
ter to the total needs of the
women who are coming to us ...
trying to lay out programs and op-
portunities that will better meet
their specific spiritual, social,
physical, and emotional needs.
.
you say?
made us to be women, but His
women. We need to have high
standards and values and not let
society pull down our value sys-
tem. When we compromise our
Christian values, it brings every-
thing down.
.
mental, I realize the values she
placed in me, the high standard
that she lived by. She was indeed
a woman of God, a woman of
great faith. I saw her faith in ac-
tion and her deep prayer life as
she cared for us. My youngest
brother was handicapped and I
watched the patience with which
she cared for him and challenged
him to move far beyond what the
doctors ever thought he would be
able to achieve. She kept the
derful father worked as many
hours of overtime as he could to
keep the bills paid. As I get older
and reminisce more about my
early life, I have more and more
love and respect and admiration
for mom. If I could be like any-
body it would be my mom and I
could only hope to have as many
good things said about me at my
funeral as were said at hers.
.
home for college and then work.
The advice for all of my children,
my girls especially, encompassed
living their lives to please God--
living by His standards and laws
and not letting their values down,
even when those around them
were. Also to be patient and take
time to make decisions, and to
bring God into those decisions.