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'My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.'

Called to love! ❤️

Each of us is called to love God and love others. In John 15, Jesus teaches, 'My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.'

Loving others can be as simple as letting them know that you care. In this photo, Bij Bosshardt (community centre) coordinator, Hille Simons shares a special moment with one of the centre’s neighbours in Amsterdam South East, the Netherlands, as part of the Faith in the Neighbourhood initiative.

What does loving God and others look like in your life?

📷 Photo: Goed Folk, 2020

How was your Mother's Day? 💐

We celebrated all the wonderful Mothers across the United States and many other countries this past Sunday. What joy! 😍

We also celebrated all the Mothers who are no longer with us, Mothers-to-be, and all the other women in our lives who step in to the role of a mentor, older friend, Mother, and lovingly care for us and offer wise counsel.

✨ Proverbs 31:28 says, "Her children have risen and called her blessed..."

Comment below with the first name of the woman in your life whom this verse describes, or tag her!

Let's thank God for these life-giving women in our lives 🙌

Check out the ladies of Midland celebrating Together Let's... MOVE this week.

#wmtogetherlets #togetherletsmove #togetherletsshare

Yesterday the ladies of Midland liiiiittterallllyyyyy stretched and challenged themselves with a little yoga. They had a great time!

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Above personal callings to places, professions and people, we are called by God, to God and for God first. 🙏

We read Paul's instruction to the followers of Jesus in Colossae, 'Whatever work you do, do it with all your heart. Do it for the Lord and not for men.' (Colossians 3:23)

🙌 We believe that we are called to live a Christlike life, transformed and empowered by the gospel.
✝️ We're commencing a new focus, which will explore callings and what that means for each of us. Stay tuned!

Salvation Army Week: Pure Grit, Pure Love - War Cry

Salvation Army Week: Pure Grit, Pure Love - War Cry In recognition of Salvation Army week, we recall the legacy of Salvationists who supported troops on the battlefields of World War I.

Happy Mother's Day! 💐

Happy Mother's Day! 💐

Waxahachie Women Ministry learned how to make Elote Corn, enjoyed lunch, and fellowshipped Together.

#wmtogetherlets #togetherletslearn #togetherletsshare

"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you." Jeremiah 29:12

#NationalDayOfPrayer

"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you." Jeremiah 29:12

#NationalDayOfPrayer

Midland Corps celebrating Together Let's Learn by making delicious elote.

#wmtogetherlets #togetherletslearn #togetherletsshare

Our ladies making some delicious elote today!

Photos from ALM Women's Ministries's post

Appreciation post for those who are raising up the next generation! 🙌

💜 It takes a village to raise a child. Who are you grateful to have or have had in your village?
🌱 You don't have to be a parent to positively impact the life of a child or young person. How are you serving the children, youth and families in your community?

#MothersDay #WhatMakesAMother

Around the world, many will be celebrating the gift of family as they mark Mother's Day this Sunday (9th May). The World President, Commissioner Rosalie Peddle, will be sharing a video message to mark the occasion. 🌎

With the help of her daughters and granddaughters, Commissioner Rosalie explores what it really takes to make a mother. Join us as we thank God for the special mothers and mother figures in our lives.

We will post the video here at 3am (UK time) on Sunday 9th May.

Here's something you MAY enjoy! ✨

Here's something you MAY enjoy! ✨

Check out the schedule for the Together Let's: Virtual Women's Retreat TX & ALM. Be sure to visit the Facebook event page for more information.

“When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.” Romans 1:12 (NLT)
#wmtogetherlets

Photos from Salv Army Women's post

I don't know if you're as excited as we and ALM Women's Ministries are about Women's Retreat 2021! #wmtogetherlets

We're also excited to all be fully vaccinated to be able get together in person!! Get ready for some fun and fellowship this month!

I don't know if you're as excited as we and ALM Women's Ministries are about Women's Retreat 2021! #wmtogetherlets

We're also excited to all be fully vaccinated to be able get together in person!! Get ready for some fun and fellowship this month!

'In days of not being able to embrace others – to shake hands, to hug, to place a hand on our neighbour’s shoulder – we feel a deep angst, because it is in our Christian nature to reach out and embrace.

'We serve an incarnational God and our ability to embrace demonstrates God’s embracement of the world in which we live. It matters that we acknowledge the angst, within ourselves and those whom we serve, and to name the grief and sorrow of feeling isolated and physically removed from one another.'

These are the words of Major Deborah Robinson, our final guest writer in our #WomeninLeadership series, who currently serves as a corps officer (church minister) in the city of Perth, Western Australia. Deborah shares what she has learned following her experience of leading during the pandemic, though her community was minimally impacted.

🙏 Read 'Women in Leadership: Beyond COVID-19': https://sar.my/15h
🇦🇺 Major Deborah is a corps officer at Perth Fortress in Western Australia, committed to the proclamation of God’s word and the empowerment and encouragement of others.

Happy #EarthDay 2021!
"The Earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the World, and all who live in it." - Psalm 24:1

Happy #EarthDay 2021!
"The Earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the World, and all who live in it." - Psalm 24:1

"To love well, we must know ourselves well."
Women's Ministries International Headquarters' final article of this season's #WomeninLeadership focus comes from Major Deborah Robinson (Australia).

"To love well, we must know ourselves well." 🙌

Our final article of this season's #WomeninLeadership focus comes from Major Deborah Robinson (Australia).

Deborah shares some wisdom she has gained as a corps officer leading through the pandemic. Her challenge to us all is clear: 'embrace the angst, acknowledge your mortality, communicate tenfold and love well.'

'John Wesley taught that our calling in life is to perfect our love of God and others with a love that is pure in heart, pure in motives. To love well, we must know ourselves well – know our limits, when to take a break, to allow ourselves to feel, and to remember we are spiritual beings.'

📖 Read Major Deborah's article, 'Women in Leadership: COVID-19 and beyond', here: https://sar.my/15h
🇦🇺 Deborah currently serves as the corps officer (church leader) at Perth Fortress, Western Australia.

Your Faith Has Saved You - Salvation Army Women's Ministry Resources

“Your faith has saved you; go in peace” - Luke 7:38-50

Your Faith Has Saved You - Salvation Army Women's Ministry Resources She ran her fingers lightly over her forearm and winced. The deepening purple mark was a parting gesture from her last client of the night. Crumpled in a heap on the floor she applied perfume from an alabaster jar over her body. For a moment, the lovely fragrance helped her escape her ugly reality.....

Check out these inspirational book suggestions from the international women's ministries team in order to enhance and deepen the focus of women in leadership.

What books have inspired you lately?

As we say begin to say goodbye to our seasonal focus on women in leadership, we want to leave you with some recommended reading material to take you further and deeper.

As part of her own commitment to developing leaders, the World President recently sent these three inspiring and encouraging books to the international women’s ministries team... and we want to share them with you!

📚 The Moment of Lift: How empowering women changes the world, by Melinda Gates (2019)
📚 Women Leading, edited by Jo Baldwin Trott (2020)
📚 Influential: Women in leadership at church, work and beyond, by Jo Saxton (2012)

Add any of your recommendations in the comments below!

#WomeninLeadership #EquippedandEmpowered

If we choose not to rush away from one another’s brokenness...

🌍 How could we emerge from this global crisis into the hope of a new season God has prepared for us?
🙏 In 2021, where can we be the hope-giving leaders that the world needs?

These are the questions that our guest writer, Emilie, uses to conclude her #WomeninLeadership study on the Book of Ruth. Persistently and faithfully, Ruth leads her mother-in-law with love and compassion from grief to redemption.

With the collective grief and trauma that our world has experienced over the past year, we need to follow Ruth’s example of loving leadership more than ever!

Read Emilie's study in full here: https://sar.my/15g

Let's talk about Ruth! A persistently faithful woman 🙏

Naomi's experience of loss is so great that she renames herself Mara, meaning ‘bitter’, believing that God has turned his fist against her. In the middle of this deep grief, Ruth promises her mother-in-law: ‘Don’t urge me to leave you… Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God’ (Ruth 1:16).

Ruth doesn’t rush away from the painful, hard-to-be-around emotions of grief and hardship; instead, she is determined to remain. In times of crisis and chaos we look quickly to those in positions of political power, wealth and influence for strong leadership or our exit map. In this story, that person is Boaz, however it is Ruth who is the true hope-giver to Naomi.

In the sacrificial journey, in the unglamorous task of working the fields to provide, in the companionship she offers, Ruth leads Naomi to something better. She lingers in the uncomfortable in-between moments of loss. She patiently bears the gruelling journey and positions herself to hard work and servanthood, until God brings about the new season he had planned. Ruth demonstrates that loving leadership doesn’t rush ahead, but it waits and lingers in limbo.

📖 Read Emilie's #WomeninLeadership study on Ruth's Loving Leadership in full: https://sar.my/15g
🇬🇧 Our guest contributor, Emilie Trotter (UKI), works for The Salvation Army as a Student Chaplain.

Check out this valuable resource to help in your daily practice of gratefulness.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - "Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God's will for you."

Taking time to process what we are grateful for on a daily basis can be so beneficial for emotional and spiritual health!

Download our new gratitude journal resource today at http://www.sawomensministries.org/wmresources/

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - "Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God's will for you."

Bible Study: Psalm 23: You Are With Me – Always

Bible Study: Psalm 23: You Are With Me – Always Lt. Colonel Dan Jennings continues to explore Psalm 23 in the tenth installment of his “Shepherd & King” Bible Study series.

An Easter Message from the World President

'Love each other just as much as I have loved you.' 💛 #MaundyThursday

'Love each other just as much as I have loved you.' 💛

On #MaundyThursday, we reflect how Jesus spent his last night on earth before leaving this world to return to his Father’s side:

'All throughout his time with his disciples, Jesus had demonstrated a deep and tender love for them. And now he longed to show them the full measure of his love. Before their evening meal had begun, the accuser had already deeply embedded betrayal into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

'Now Jesus was fully aware that the Father had placed all things under his control, for he had come from God and was about to go back to be with him. So he got up from the meal and took off his outer robe, and took a towel and wrapped it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ dirty feet and dry them with his towel.'

After washing the feet of his disciples in an act of love and service, Jesus taught them to do for each other as he has done for them. Later, once Judas - the one who had betrayed Jesus - left the room, Jesus shared these final words with his disciples:

'My dear friends, I only have a brief time left to be with you... So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.'

Our Lord's last night on earth, and his message was Love.

📖 John 13:1-5, 33-35 (The Passion Translation)

On this Wednesday of #HolyWeek we remember the story of Jesus' anointing.

"She has done all that she could to honour me." 🙏

On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in the house of Simon, in Bethany. Mark 14 tells the story of Jesus' anointing:

As Jesus was reclining at the table, a woman came into the house, with an alabaster flask filled with the highest quality of fragrant and expensive oil. She came to Jesus, and with a gesture of extreme devotion, she broke the flask and poured out the precious oil over his head. But some were highly indignant when they saw this, and they complained to one another, saying, “What a total waste! It could have been sold for a great sum, and the money could have benefited the poor.” So they scolded her harshly.

Jesus said to them, “Leave her alone! Why are you so critical of this woman? She has honoured me with this beautiful act of kindness. You will always have the poor, whom you can help whenever you want, but you will not always have me. When she poured the fragrant oil over me, she was preparing my body in advance of my burial.

"She has done all that she could to honour me. I promise you that as this wonderful gospel spreads all over the world, the story of her lavish devotion to me will be mentioned in memory of her.”

📖 Mark 14:3-9, The Passion Translation
✝️ For further reflection on Mark 14, we recommend the first part of Salvation Army Women's Ministries devotional series, 'Sealed': https://women.salvationarmy.org.nz/Sealed

When Holy Week is Far from Perfect & You Just Need a Perfect Lamb (CHRISTIAN PASSOVER SEDER MEAL: PRINTABLE & MENU PLAN) - Ann Voskamp

When Holy Week is Far from Perfect & You Just Need a Perfect Lamb (CHRISTIAN PASSOVER SEDER MEAL: PRINTABLE & MENU PLAN) - Ann Voskamp After a year of losses, this Lent asks us to embrace the depths of loss — and embrace all of the Hope of God.

Check out this Easter playlist to help celebrate #holyweek.

This Easter playlist is giving us major #holyweek vibes! Click the link below to check out what we're listening to this week!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6N8CA7cBKfMH8S8sUwEQt8?si=3c8ac00a584e483e

Photos from Salvation Army Women's Ministries USA South's post

Photos from Salv Army Women's post

Women In Leadership - Ep 5: Major Candace Biggers

Women In Leadership - Ep 5: Major Candace Biggers

The Salvation Army USA

In response to yesterday's horrific events in Washington, D.C., the National Commander of The Salvation Army, Commissioner Kenneth Hodder, speaks about the need for unity and our responsibility to continually be building the democracy we aspire to in the United States of America.