Day 89: Praying for open-air and street ministry (1962)

Join with Salvationists of the Wales Division for day 89 of 150 days of prayer.

• ‘The heavens belong to you and so does the earth. You made the world and everything that is in it’ (Psalm 89:11, EasyEnglish Bible). 

1962

Swansea Citadel celebrated its 80th anniversary in 1962. Its brochure included two announcements from the early days of the corps, revealing how different the early 1880s were from the early 1960s.

LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!
The Salvation Army has just taken The Circus in Richardson Street and will commence operations on Sunday next… During the day, Major Coombs and the Hallelujah Lasses will lead the attack.
COME IN THOUSANDS

WAR! BLOOD! FIRE!
AND BOMBARDMENT OF SWANSEA.
Shot and shell will be fired, and soldiers will march with drawn swords, and the Army doctor will attend the wounded.

And so the Army came to Swansea, led by Major Coombs and Captain Kate Shepherd, who had already led a revival in the Rhondda Valley.

The Army was still on the march in Swansea in 1962, as the citadel’s history book records in a report on the ‘Whit Weekend Visit of Reading Central Band’ on 9-11 June:

‘Monday afternoon the band gave a programme in the Patti Pavilion following a united march with Swansea Citadel and bandsmen from surrounding corps. The final festival of the weekend was given at the Brangwyn Hall, the divisional commander, Brigadier Wm Davidson, presiding.

Prayer

• Is open-air and street ministry going on where you are? If so, pray for those involved. 
• If not, maybe your prayer could be: ‘Please God, guide us as to how we might use street ministry to draw people into the Kingdom.’