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♦ SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2005
CORBITTS
From page 1A
Theological Studies and
Religion, as well as training
Salvationists for urban min
istries and continuing edu
cation.
The usual practice of the
Salvation Army is to place
married couples together in
the same job, with equal sta
tus. This new assignment
for the Corbitts, however,
will be an exception to that
rule.
“For the first time, my
wife and I will be in two
totally different jobs,” said
Corbitt.
Barry Corbitt will be an
education officer at the
School for Officer Training.
He will be teaching classes
in Doctrine, Theological
Issues, and Writing. Corbitt
will also be involved in a
cadet mentoring program.
Cindy Corbitt will become
director of the Family Life
Center, which oversees the
children and families of the
faculty and students at the
school. She will also act as a
liaison between the school
district and the children,
who attend a private school
run by the Salvation Army.
The new assignment will
be very different from any
thing the Corbitts have done
in the past.
“We’re entering academia;
that’s going to be a real
adjustment,” said Barry
Corbitt, who has two broth
ers who are public school
principals and believes that
he will be able to relate to
them better now.
The Salvation Army began
as The Christian Mission in
1865 when Methodist minis
ter William Booth went into
the poor neighborhoods of
East London to spread the
Gospel to those who were
not welcome in other
churches. Booth gained
thousands of converts and
hundreds of volunteers, and
in 1878 changed its name to
The Salvation Army and
adopted the pseudo-military
organization.
Corbitt says that the
social service aspect has
always been at the core of
The Salvation Army’s min
istry.
“At the heart of our mis
sion is asking ‘What can we
do for a person’s spiritual
needs?’ From that comes
‘What can we do for that
person’s physical needs?”’
said Corbitt.
Barry Corbitt, who is from
Knoxville, Tenn., grew up
with The Salvation Army as
his church.
“Things just fell into place
that I felt that God wanted
me to stay in the Salvation
Army as an active officer,”
he said. “I had other
options, but none of them
appealed to me as much.”
Cindy Corbitt’s connec
tion to the Salvation Army
AWARDS
From page 1A
Tesseniar also placed sec
ond in the Serious Column
category.
Staff Writer Jon Suggs
won three awards. He
placed second in Humorous
Column, second in Photo
Essay, and second in
Headline Writing.
Managing Editor Rex
Gambill placed third in
Headline Writing, and Staff
Writer Emily Johnstone
placed third in Hard News
Writing.
The newspaper also
received a third-place staff
award for Business
Coverage.
The Houston Home
Journal competes in
Division C, which is for daily
newspapers with circulation
between 8,000 and 12,000.
Other newspapers in the
same category include The
(Dublin) Courier-Herald,
The Griffin Daily News, The
LaGrange Daily News, The
(Newnan) Times-Herald,
and The Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
The HHJ received a total
of 11 journalism awards for
the year 2004. Earlier this
year, the Georgia Associated
Press Association presented
The HHJ with two awards
from its journalism contest.
goes back even further. Her
great-grandmother was
Eliza Shirley, who came over
from England to
Philadelphia in 1879 and
began the first outpost of
the Salvation Army in
America.
Barry and Cindy met
while attending Asbury
College in Wilmore, Ky.
“She had the same calling,
to make the Salvation Army
a life pursuit,” Barry Corbitt
said. “It worked out well for
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The two have been mar
ried for 21 years and have
been serving in the
Salvation Army ever since.
After being stationed in
Warner Robins, Corbitt said
he felt immediately at home.
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munity where people are so
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Corbitt says that his time
here has been good, though
hard, work.
“There have been chal
lenges - there are always
challenges in any job - and
we faced them head-on,”
said Corbitt. “We’ve under
taken a capital campaign to
raise money for improving
our buildings, including the
Safe House. We have a long
way to go, but the people of
this community are very
generous.
“I would urge anyone who
feels led to give to make a
pledge,” said Corbitt, who
chuckled and added: “That’s
my last pitch.”
Corbitt says that he has
noticed the tremendous
growth in Warner Robins
just in his short tenure.
“This community is
undergoing more change
right now than at any time
in its history,” he said. “If
you think about places in
the state that are about to
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“I’m sure I’ll come to visit
in three or four years and I
won’t even know the place.”
He joked that maybe all
the roads will be finished by
then.
“I’m going to look back
and be proud to have been a
part of this community, even
for a little while,” said
Corbitt. “We will take away
nothing but good feelingß.”