Looking ahead without forgetting

The past...

Director’s Notebook

September 2014

Class of 2014:

Ambassador Jan Petit, January 2014

Ambassador Martin McBride, February 2014

Ambassadors Ron & Laurie Davis, March 2014

Ambassador Bill Hayes, April 2014

Ambassador John McIver, May 2014

DON READ

Captain Tim Carr Divisional Secretary

Prior to becoming an officer of The Salvation Army I held various jobs. I worked at a

doughnut shop, butcher shop, shoe store, church administration, manager of a car

rental franchise at the San Jose airport, ASL interpreter, tutor, and I was a teacher at

university and high school. I earned a B.S. in Mathematics in 1996 and was working

on a Masters degree in Special Education with and emphasis on Deaf and Hard of

Hearing when I felt led to a position with The Salvation Army in Casper, WY as the

Corps Assistant/Youth Pastor. From there I entered training School in 2000 and was

ordained and commissioned in 2002 a member of the Crossbearers session of Ca-

dets. I was stationed as the Assistant Corps Officer in Billings, MT where I served for

two years, Following that I spent three years in Bozeman, MT as the Corps Officer and

3 years in Alaska as the Divisional Youth and Candidates Secretary. I was moved in

2010 to the College for Officer Training as a Curriculum Officer and finally last July I

was transferred to the wonderful Sierra Del Mar Division as the Divisional Secretary

for Business. I am excited to be a part of this great team and look forward to working

together to push forward the mission of ministry of The Salvation Army in this

beautiful place.

I am an officer With The Salvation Army in Post retirement Service 34 years as an active officer. my last appointment was the Ashland Ohio Kroc Center that my Wife and I developed. We have retired and live in Ashland we now have lived there 8 years. in my spare time I enjoy teaching Bible Study at the Kroc Center and taking care of my Grand Daughter in OHIO although I was raised in Binghamton NY and lived there 25 years Helping Corps implement trained EDS Teams.

Major Larry Shade

My Name is Lisa Folden I am a soldier at Murrieta Salvation Army Corps and have been for 6 years. I came to the Army in 1986 at the age of 12. My first Corps was the Richland Corps in WA; I come from a broken family of drugs and alcohol. I am married to my best friend and we have 3 boys, I have worked with the youth quite a bit over the years. I have been on Day Camp staff, Evangelistic Team, VBS, Bible Bowl and Corps Cadets. I currently teach Sunday school. I also have the honor of working in our Family Services Admin office. I enjoy working with the public, helping people, encouraging people and most of all showing the love of Jesus. My husband and I have applied for College for Officer Training and are currently waiting to be accepted for the 2016 session. It is such a blessing to be fully involved in our Corps to see our boys grow, learn and become young men who love God. In my free time I love to read and spend time with my family we especially love to play board games. If I have learned anything over the years, God must be first, the verse I rely on is. Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding."

Lisa Folden

North East Ohio Division

Big Changes happening at DHQ

“If at first a new idea doesn’t seem ridiculous, then there is no hope for it.” That was Albert Einstein, and our institutions of learning would be a lot better off, as would we, if he had been responsible for masterminding their missions and policies. Unfortunately, our schools are not based on the premise of learning new ideas, big picture thinking (systems thinking) and decision making, but rather on memorizing history, and classifying people’s aptitudes based on one mode of learning. This has had quite a profoundly negative effect on our perception of our capacity to learn. So, very much like understanding why we resist change, this step is critical in order to shed negative re-inforcement. Indeed, this understanding and therefore unlearning our bad learning habits is the last prepara-tory step in the adaptability process. Fear tells you this: I can’t do it. It certainly isn’t true. But it’s important to understand why that fear constantly steps in, that is the key to un-doing the effects of lifelong negative reinforcement. This fear has everything to do with our learning institu-tions. Continual self doubt is simply the residue of being negatively reinforced for so long. It’s akin to being afraid of change. You have been told since you were a child, by teacher, parents, grading systems, and certain mar-keting institutions that sell products by using negative reinforcement, that you are either good or bad at some-thing, that you have aptitude for certain things, but not others, and that you need things you don’t have in or-der to be whole. People who decided as children that elementary school math class didn’t come easily and quickly often believe as adults that they are simply not good at math. It’s all a matter of focus, desire, and finding the proper learning method and tools for your disposition. Ulti-mately, when it came to education, Albert Einstein’s advice was to hold imagination in higher regard than knowledge. That means to trust who you are and let your sense of wonder, curiosity and playfulness guide you. Your intellect is a given. Think of it as a large empty tool box in your mind. Knowledge is simply material—tools—you gather to fill that box. You can attain any knowledge you want. And in terms of the best way for you to learn something? Consider that each toolbox might have a different lock. You just need to find the proper key. Are you a visual learner? Tactile? There are ways to find this out, if you don’t already know. And if you do know, for instance, that you are a tactile learner but you’re trying to learn a new skill where hands-on teaching isn’t immediately available, don’t despair. There are tools now that can offer you a tactile experience when you need. Perhaps the most important aspect of learning new skills is to be open and assertive in terms of what you need in order to learn something efficiently and comfortably. There is no shame in needing tools. People get so ashamed if they don’t learn something immediately, even if the method of teaching is crude, such as the mind-numbing, convoluted worksheets most public schools use to allegedly teach our country’s children math. That shame is societal conditioning. It has nothing to do with your ability to learn.

The tools are here! It’s the 21st century. The primitive group-think method of 20th century classrooms aren’t where education ends. Because of conditioning, upbringing, training, and exposure, certain knowledge might come easier and faster than other pieces of information. And you can argue that not everyone’s toolboxes are the same size, or that other factors, such as biochemical substance imbalance in the brain, cause different capacities. But you know what? These are minor differences, particularly when applied to the realistic, every day, new things you must learn to keep up with changing times. But let’s be clear here. If you really wanted to become a physicist today, and you are 35 years old, have never been good at math, and are a working at Burger King, you could in fact do it. It’s all a matter of focus. You are just fine the way you are, capable of learning anything, and nothing bad is going to happen. The key is to start by asking questions, and knowing that there are no stupid ones. You will discover that there are many more avenues to find answers, and to do so with immediacy. The first question you may want to ask yourself is what new things do you need to learn. Make a list. Then ask how you can best learn them, and finally, where do you find the tools you need. If you have a smart phone, that great shared memory tool that is thankfully a new turbo charged organ in our bodies, you can find out easily, using your sense of digital kinesthesia to jump in and research our global network of tools and ideas, and get social feedback while you’re at it, join a community of people just like you. If you encounter self doubt along the way, that the newness you’re experiencing is somehow false and wasting your time, take a look, just for fun, at a few examples of attacks on technology that seem idiotic now. Guess, for instance, which technologies people thought would cause death and illiteracy? Trains, telephones, and phonographs. Nick Bilton interviewed on the NPR show “On the Media”

There were scientists of the day that said that if we traveled on a train over 20 miles an hour that our bones could explode. The telephone, for example – 1876, front page of The New York Times, and the telephone de-buts, and the article, you know, starts off describing what this technology is but then goes into this long list of things that the telephone is going to do negative to society. And one of them is that people will never leave their house again. Not even a year later, out comes the phonograph, and the front-page article in The New York Times about the phonograph says the telephone that was just regarded as the invention of the century is about to be eclipsed by the phonograph, where people can buy bottled quarts of con-versations, and they’ll never leave their home again.

ServSafe California Food Handler Online Course and Assessment meets the requirements set forth by the California Retail Code (with specified excep-tions). The law describes a food handler as anyone who is involved in the prep-aration, storage, or service of food. For more information about the legisla-tion, visit calrest.org/foodhandler. Food handlers must have a California Food Handler Card. New hires will have 30 days following the date of hire to acquire a food handler card. ServSafe California Food Handler Online Course covers five key areas: Basic Food Safety Personal Hygiene Cross-Contamination & Allergens Time and Temperature Cleaning and Sanitation Once the course has been purchased and launched, participants can select to take the course in English or Spanish.

Practice Test!!

Answers on page 13!!!!!

Take the actual test Online!

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Practice-Test.pdf

Southern California VOAD Meeting 8.25.2014

Networking SCVOAD with

Chairperson Cheryl Nagy and

FEMA AND TSA

Thank you Bob Bush for

all the great

volunteer work that

you do!

EDS Training for the month of September will be:

Accident Investigation If you are interested in training courses please contact Angela 619-446-0200 or by email: Angela.ellis@usw.salvationarmy.org