Satterlee's beautiful poem in a recent issue, I cut it out, framed it, called a few people who are going through tough times and read it to them. My daughter is emailing it to her friends. Many of them are also having desper- ate situations--e.g., kids missing, cancer, job loss, the infi rmities of age. I have been reading the War Cry for years. I pick it up at the thrift store. Thanks so much, especially for this truthful poem. Via email an excellent presentation of of my mother with Fred. Also, it was a nice touch to present the 1944 War Cry announcement of Fred's death dur- ministry. Thanks for your efforts. moved my spirit as much as when I read your article in the Easter 2014 is- sue. Your writing caused me to feel as though I was actually there, stealth- ily following the women going to Jesus' tomb so early on that fi rst Easter morn. I felt their anxiety, and the "banging of a rhythm in their ears" produced a similar emotion in my own heart. It was easy to sense--to almost feel--the physical experience of "limbs ery woman, should deservedly en- woman who fi rst of all announced, stone and the empty tomb. Colonel Dennis Phillips only touched me inspired me and sire to do some- order to increase awareness of and raise funding for eliminating home- lessness of single women. There seems to be a miscon- ception that there are more homeless single men then women. Since I am one, I know this to not be true. Women simply tend to be more vulnerable to compromising their morals and values to have a home and three meals a day. issue saying that the "War" in War Cry It's not a war to encourage military war. with poverty, sickness, being down Keep up the "War Cry" so people know battlefi eld at the Midway, Illinois Citadel Corps for almost two de- cades. I believe the War Cry is cor- rectly titled. As Christians we are in a spiritual war. As believers we fi ght to win over lost souls for our Savior. coordinate our policy on sanctions for several countries including Sudan and South Sudan. I recently worked through a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Sudan adopted in February. As part of sanctions, the U.N. sends experts to monitor and report. Certain council members, namely Russia, regularly reject the experts' reporting and call it biased so they block any meaningful (even minor) improvements to the sanctions. Satellite Sentinel Project, which funds remote sensing of Sudan. Because of this, I reached out to them to learn more and see if con- necting them with the U.N. would be worthwhile. In short, the meeting was highly productive. We discussed their advocacy and how that could support greater action. They also offered to research targets for sanctions as a way to assist in this process. Needless to say, I will be scheduling a meeting for them with the U.N. experts during their next consultation in Washington DC. Via email |