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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Beautiful Parklands Port Elizabeth
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Port Elizabeth Mill Park Bowling Club
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Port Elizabeth Mill Park Bowling Club
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Port Elizabeth Mill Park Bowling Club
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Friendly PE Dog
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Friendly PE Dog
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Store Wall Advertisement Newton Park Port Elizabeth
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The Donkin Houses 1820 Port Elizabeth
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The Donkin Houses 1820 Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Skoenmakerskop Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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Poster Salvation Army Port Elizabeth
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The Salvation Army Central Port Elizabeth
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William Booth Founder Salvation Army
The History of the Salvation Army
William Booth embarked upon his ministerial career in 1852. His crusade was to win the lost multitudes of London to Christ. He went into the streets of London to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the poor, the homeless, the hungry and the destitute.
Booth abandoned the conventional concept of a church and a pulpit and took his message to the people. His fervor led to disagreement with the leaders of the church in London. They preferred traditional measures. As a result, he withdrew from the church and traveled throughout England conducting evangelistic meetings. His wife, Catherine, was a major force in The Salvation Army movement.
In 1865, William Booth was invited to hold a series of evangelistic meetings in the east end of London. He set up a tent in a Quaker graveyard and his services became an instant success. This proved to be the end of his wanderings as an independent traveling evangelist. His renown as a religious leader spread throughout London. His followers were a vigorous group dedicated to fight for the souls of men and women.
Thieves, prostitutes, gamblers and drunkards were among Booth’s first converts to Christianity. His congregations were desperately poor. He preached hope and salvation. His aim was to lead them to Christ and to link them to a church for further spiritual guidance. Even though they were converted, churches did not accept Booth’s followers because of what they had been. Booth gave their lives direction in a spiritual manner and put them to work to save others who were like themselves. They too preached and sang in the streets as a living testimony to the power of God.
In 1867, Booth had only 10 full-time workers. By 1874, the numbers had grown to 1,000 volunteers and 42 evangelists. They served under the name "The Christian Mission." Booth assumed the title of a General Superintendent. His followers called him "General." Known as the "Hallelujah Army,'" the converts spread out of the east end of London into neighboring areas and then to other cities.
Booth was reading a printer’s proof of the 1878 Annual Report when the noticed the statement, '"The Christian Mission under the Superintendent’s of the Rev. William Booth is a volunteer army. He crossed out the words "Volunteer Army'" and penned in "Salvation Army'" From those words came the basis of the foundation deed of The Salvation Army which was adopted in August of that same year.
Converts became soldiers of Christ and are known as Salvationists. They launched an offensive throughout the British Isles. In some instances there were real battles as organized gangs mocked and attacked soldiers as they went about their work. In spite of the violence and persecution, some 250,000 persons were converted under the ministry of the Salvationists between 1881 and 1,885.
Meanwhile, the Army was gaining a foothold in the United States. Lieutenant Eliza Shirley had left England to join her parents who had migrated to America earlier in search of work. She held the first meeting of The Salvation Army in America in Philadelphia in 1879. The Salvationists were received enthusiastically. Shirley wrote to General Booth begging for reinforcements. None were available at first. Glowing reports of the work in Philadelphia convinced Booth to send an official group to pioneer the work in America in 1880.
On March 10, 1880, Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers knelt on the dockside at Battery Park in New York City to give thanks for their safe arrival. This was to be their first official street meeting held in the United States. These pioneers were to be met with similar unfriendly actions, as was the case in Great Britain. They were ridiculed, arrested and attacked. Several officers and soldiers even gave their lives.
Three years later, Railton and the seven "Hallelujah Lassies"' had expanded their operation into California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
President Grover Cleveland received a delegation of Salvation Army officers in 1886 and gave the organization a warm personal endorsement. This was the first recognition from the White House that was to be followed by similar receptions from succeeding presidents of the United States.
Termed as the "invasion of the United States," The Salvation Army movement expanded rapidly to Canada, Australia, France, Switzerland, India, South Africa, Iceland and Germany. Currently in the United States, there are more than 10,000 local neighborhood units, and The Salvation Army is active in virtually every corner of the world.
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William Booth Founder Salvation Army
The History of the Salvation Army
William Booth embarked upon his ministerial career in 1852. His crusade was to win the lost multitudes of London to Christ. He went into the streets of London to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the poor, the homeless, the hungry and the destitute.
Booth abandoned the conventional concept of a church and a pulpit and took his message to the people. His fervor led to disagreement with the leaders of the church in London. They preferred traditional measures. As a result, he withdrew from the church and traveled throughout England conducting evangelistic meetings. His wife, Catherine, was a major force in The Salvation Army movement.
In 1865, William Booth was invited to hold a series of evangelistic meetings in the east end of London. He set up a tent in a Quaker graveyard and his services became an instant success. This proved to be the end of his wanderings as an independent traveling evangelist. His renown as a religious leader spread throughout London. His followers were a vigorous group dedicated to fight for the souls of men and women.
Thieves, prostitutes, gamblers and drunkards were among Booth’s first converts to Christianity. His congregations were desperately poor. He preached hope and salvation. His aim was to lead them to Christ and to link them to a church for further spiritual guidance. Even though they were converted, churches did not accept Booth’s followers because of what they had been. Booth gave their lives direction in a spiritual manner and put them to work to save others who were like themselves. They too preached and sang in the streets as a living testimony to the power of God.
In 1867, Booth had only 10 full-time workers. By 1874, the numbers had grown to 1,000 volunteers and 42 evangelists. They served under the name "The Christian Mission." Booth assumed the title of a General Superintendent. His followers called him "General." Known as the "Hallelujah Army,'" the converts spread out of the east end of London into neighboring areas and then to other cities.
Booth was reading a printer’s proof of the 1878 Annual Report when the noticed the statement, '"The Christian Mission under the Superintendent’s of the Rev. William Booth is a volunteer army. He crossed out the words "Volunteer Army'" and penned in "Salvation Army'" From those words came the basis of the foundation deed of The Salvation Army which was adopted in August of that same year.
Converts became soldiers of Christ and are known as Salvationists. They launched an offensive throughout the British Isles. In some instances there were real battles as organized gangs mocked and attacked soldiers as they went about their work. In spite of the violence and persecution, some 250,000 persons were converted under the ministry of the Salvationists between 1881 and 1,885.
Meanwhile, the Army was gaining a foothold in the United States. Lieutenant Eliza Shirley had left England to join her parents who had migrated to America earlier in search of work. She held the first meeting of The Salvation Army in America in Philadelphia in 1879. The Salvationists were received enthusiastically. Shirley wrote to General Booth begging for reinforcements. None were available at first. Glowing reports of the work in Philadelphia convinced Booth to send an official group to pioneer the work in America in 1880.
On March 10, 1880, Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers knelt on the dockside at Battery Park in New York City to give thanks for their safe arrival. This was to be their first official street meeting held in the United States. These pioneers were to be met with similar unfriendly actions, as was the case in Great Britain. They were ridiculed, arrested and attacked. Several officers and soldiers even gave their lives.
Three years later, Railton and the seven "Hallelujah Lassies"' had expanded their operation into California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
President Grover Cleveland received a delegation of Salvation Army officers in 1886 and gave the organization a warm personal endorsement. This was the first recognition from the White House that was to be followed by similar receptions from succeeding presidents of the United States.
Termed as the "invasion of the United States," The Salvation Army movement expanded rapidly to Canada, Australia, France, Switzerland, India, South Africa, Iceland and Germany. Currently in the United States, there are more than 10,000 local neighborhood units, and The Salvation Army is active in virtually every corner of the world.
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The Salvation Army Central Port Elizabeth
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Light Pole Advert Port Elizabeth
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Bed And Breakfast Adjacent Grey School Port Elizabeth
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Port Elizabeth Environs Jeffrey's Bay Shopping Center
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Graffitti Baakens River Valley Port Elizabeth
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The Stage Door Port Elizabeth
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The Stage Door Port Elizabeth
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Beautiful Homes Port Elizabeth
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Beautiful Homes Port Elizabeth
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Beautiful Homes Port Elizabeth
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Theatre White Street Port Elizabeth
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Feather Market Hall Castle Hill Port Elizabeth
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Castle Hill Wrought Iron Gates Port Elizabeth
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Port Elizabeth Harbour
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Port Elizabeth Harbour
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is described as an ancient African word meaning "humanity to others", "share", I am what I am because of who we are", and "we become human through other persons".
It is also claimed Ubuntu is the spiritual foundation of all African societies. "Ubuntu involves the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all of humanity, a unifying world view best captured by the Zulu maximumuntu ngumuntu, ngabantu - a person is a person through other persons." Ref. www.southafrica.info
"Ubuntu ia a humanistic ideology from sub-Saharan Africa". Ref. Wikipedia
The comic strip above suggests that in Western capitals Ubuntu is supposedly unknown. The Ubuntu philosophy is not about giving a wearly traveller samp and beer as a good will humanitarian gesture after a long journey, although it is that too, but it is in a wider context about African socialism.
Humanity to others
African socialism is nothing new and one recent 20th century example is the failed Soviet socialism which was responsible for ushering in the Cold War.
Neither is the philosophy of sharing new to the ancient or modern worlds. Abraham gave gifts in abundance to Melchaezadek the High Priest in Jerusalem, but refused to share his wealth, or accept even the smallest of gifts from the king, lest GOD would bless the kings position.
It is probably historically inaccurate to attribute an Ubuntu concept to any African nation, especially the Zulu's, because of the diverse african groups in sub-Saharan Africa, the Zulu's being an aggressive and hostile Imperialistic tribe. - and the fact that none of the oral claims can be tested against historical (written) records. In hind-sight Ubuntu could just about say anything in the modern age of printed media.
Share
Sharing is a means of poverty alleviation and can change your life for the better if what has been shared with you is used in the right way, which is why world banks want to know how their money will be spent.
GOD makes people wealthy
Abraham became the wealthiest man in the ancient world with GOD's intervention, and kept on adding to his abundance just because he was a Friend of GOD.
I am what I am because of who we are
You are what GOD made you, born with gifts, talents, health and personality. We are the sum product of GOD's work in our mother's womb.
Ubuntu is irrelevent without GOD. Like when JESUS offers you eternal life, how will you respond? Christianity answers all those issues Ubuntu supposedly wishes to address, and which humanistic philosophy supercedes the Living Scriptures? Is Ubuntu greater than than the words of JESUS to, "Love one another..." and "Love your neighbour..."? And what compares to GOD's abundant power in the timeless statement, "I have come to give LIFE"?
Ubuntu's Archilles Heel
Ubuntu's world view is socialism. Capitalism and Socialism are opposite sides of the same coin, both are man made social systems. The impression on the material which makes up the coin is, figuratively speaking, none other than the Ancient of Days. It is to GOD whom we look for our provision, and should be thankful as we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread..."
Ubuntu calls for reciprocal humanitarian action, however in Africa's poverty this reciprocity becomes a one way transaction of demands. Thus it is easy to understand why the adherents of the religion of Ubuntu are able to embrace the pernicious ism's of our time. In a way Ubuntu slanders those who are said not to share, as being inhumane, uninterested and selfish, as who can say no to Africa's religion of demands, even when they are at times unworthy of their own humanistic creation. Who may we ask, would not feel ashamed as being referred to as in humane or uncareing, as this anthropocentric and ethnocentric religion does to those who are in discourse with Africa?
The shorthand script of Ubuntu is, "you're only human if you give", but the archilles heel of Ubuntu is the challenge of melding Christian truth (Christianity)with all the other Afro tribalisms into their newly articulated socialist religious system, without which it claims your humanity is lost
Tribal Renaissance
Copyright 2008
Ubuntu is described as an ancient African word meaning "humanity to others", "share", I am what I am because of who we are", and "we become human through other persons".
It is also claimed Ubuntu is the spiritual foundation of all African societies. "Ubuntu involves the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all of humanity, a unifying world view best captured by the Zulu maximumuntu ngumuntu, ngabantu - a person is a person through other persons." Ref. www.southafrica.info
"Ubuntu ia a humanistic ideology from sub-Saharan Africa". Ref. Wikipedia
The comic strip above suggests that in Western capitals Ubuntu is supposedly unknown. The Ubuntu philosophy is not about giving a wearly traveller samp and beer as a good will humanitarian gesture after a long journey, although it is that too, but it is in a wider context about African socialism.
Humanity to others
African socialism is nothing new and one recent 20th century example is the failed Soviet socialism which was responsible for ushering in the Cold War.
Neither is the philosophy of sharing new to the ancient or modern worlds. Abraham gave gifts in abundance to Melchaezadek the High Priest in Jerusalem, but refused to share his wealth, or accept even the smallest of gifts from the king, lest GOD would bless the kings position.
It is probably historically inaccurate to attribute an Ubuntu concept to any African nation, especially the Zulu's, because of the diverse african groups in sub-Saharan Africa, the Zulu's being an aggressive and hostile Imperialistic tribe. - and the fact that none of the oral claims can be tested against historical (written) records. In hind-sight Ubuntu could just about say anything in the modern age of printed media.
Share
Sharing is a means of poverty alleviation and can change your life for the better if what has been shared with you is used in the right way, which is why world banks want to know how their money will be spent.
GOD makes people wealthy
Abraham became the wealthiest man in the ancient world with GOD's intervention, and kept on adding to his abundance just because he was a Friend of GOD.
I am what I am because of who we are
You are what GOD made you, born with gifts, talents, health and personality. We are the sum product of GOD's work in our mother's womb.
Ubuntu is irrelevent without GOD. Like when JESUS offers you eternal life, how will you respond? Christianity answers all those issues Ubuntu supposedly wishes to address, and which humanistic philosophy supercedes the Living Scriptures? Is Ubuntu greater than than the words of JESUS to, "Love one another..." and "Love your neighbour..."? And what compares to GOD's abundant power in the timeless statement, "I have come to give LIFE"?
Ubuntu's Archilles Heel
Ubuntu's world view is socialism. Capitalism and Socialism are opposite sides of the same coin, both are man made social systems. The impression on the material which makes up the coin is, figuratively speaking, none other than the Ancient of Days. It is to GOD whom we look for our provision, and should be thankful as we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread..."
Ubuntu calls for reciprocal humanitarian action, however in Africa's poverty this reciprocity becomes a one way transaction of demands. Thus it is easy to understand why the adherents of the religion of Ubuntu are able to embrace the pernicious ism's of our time. In a way Ubuntu slanders those who are said not to share, as being inhumane, uninterested and selfish, as who can say no to Africa's religion of demands, even when they are at times unworthy of their own humanistic creation. Who may we ask, would not feel ashamed as being referred to as in humane or uncareing, as this anthropocentric and ethnocentric religion does to those who are in discourse with Africa?
The shorthand script of Ubuntu is, "you're only human if you give", but the archilles heel of Ubuntu is the challenge of melding Christian truth (Christianity)with all the other Afro tribalisms into their newly articulated socialist religious system, without which it claims your humanity is lost
Tribal Renaissance
Copyright 2008
Original Settler Home Castle Hill Port Elizabeth
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Original Settler Home Castle Hill Port Elizabeth
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Original Settler Home Castle Hill Port Elizabeth
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Original Settler Home Castle Hill Port Elizabeth
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St. George's Park Cemetary Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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The cemetary behind King George's Art Gallery is the resting place of many of our Hero's who protected our Christian community during Port Elizabeth's turbulent years, especially in the 1800's. We are grateful to them.
St. George's Park Cemetary Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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St. George's Park Cemetary Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
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PAG Drill Hall Port Elizabeth
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Prince Alfred's Gaurd Drill Hall Central Port Elizabeth
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