1. Faith, Hope, Love and The Salvation Army Lesson objectives To be able to explain what The Salvation Army is and some of the work it does To understand.

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Faith, Hope, Love and The Salvation Army

Lesson objectives• To be able to explain what The Salvation Army is and

some of the work it does • To understand what motivates members of The Salvation

Army • To think about the themes of faith, hope and love

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Starter: Three in a rowChoose nine of these words and write them on your card in any random order.

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homeless faith salvation action army hope

love charity poverty church Christian mission

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What do you know about The Salvation Army?

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*Research by nfpSynergy, May 2009

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Poster discussion activity

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What have you learnt?

Plenary

Use the Faith Hope Love plenary sheet to show what you have learnt about The Salvation Army and to think about your own values, ideas and beliefs.

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I’ll fight!

Reflection: what would you fight for?

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a) Write your own ‘I’ll fight’ speech about some of the issues and problems you feel strongly about or

b) b) Write a modern-day version of William Booth’s ‘I’ll fight’ speech

Reflection: what’s most important?

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‘The three most important things to have are faith, hope and love. But the greatest of them is love.’ The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13

Do you agree? Why or why not? What do you feel are the three most important things to have in this life?

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