There are LEADERS and there are leaders...

General Eva Burrows has her first book coming out in a few weeks, published by SALVATION BOOKS (IHQ).  It is called A FIELD FOR EXPLOITS: Training leaders for The Salvation Army.  She is an expert on the subject, having done it for years in Africa and then in two appointments at the International College for Officers.  Long into her retirement, Burrows continues to lecture at the training college in Melbourne.

The book collects highlights from history’s four salvo leader training councils along with teaching by Burrows that represent the very best insights into leader training in The Salvation Army. 

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From the contents, here are a few outtakes:

On cultivating initiative in cadets, "Say to the cadet, "This is your street, visit the people, do Meetings, stand on your head - only do something!"" (Catherine Bramwell Booth) Nice. I wonder if some might think standing on your head today foolish (we know that when we did it preaching as a cadet some thought that).

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On failure - "Nothing happened!... What is going to be the good of you as a Captain? If you effect nothing when a Cadet, with responsibility for one street, what will you do with a town?" (Catherine Bramwell Booth) CBB doesn't mince words - if you can't cut it on a street, what makes you think that when we change the colour of your epaulets you will turn into a GSR?

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"We believe in miracles! We should be no good as Training Officers if we did not; and we must see that Officers under our direction are also confirmed in this faith." (CBB). We believe in miracles. We look for them, pray for them, fight for them.

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"I do not consider it too much to say that, if any Cadet thinks he can do God's will as fully outside the ranks of The Salvation Army as within it, he should be encouraged to go outside. I feel this very strongly. We are not out essentially to make a big Salvation Army - although God grant it may be as big as we can make it!" (CBB p99) And if CBB remembered her grandmother's prophecy she'd know that we're about inaugurating the final conquest, not necessarily filling all of the ranks with salvos. Let's be as big as necessary to inaugurate the final conquest of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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"A man may be a good Catholic, or a good Presbyterian, or a good Methodist without being in any way pledged or bound to devote himself to the Salvation of his fellows, but without that ambition no man can be a good Salvationist. It is vital that our Officers should recognise that. The solemn duty rests on us as leaders to make that principle felt everywhere among our people." (Bramwell, p6,7) So, are you reading? Understand, implement, disseminate.

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Steve Court, Major Canada