The Aim of training
Orders Regulation for the Training of Salvation Army Officers identifies the following three aims for the training programme:
1. The supreme aim of training shall be to develop officers of such Blood and Fire spirit that they will be enabled to sustain and advance the purpose of The Salvation Army.
2. Specific Goals:
a) To provide a disciplined Christian environment designe
d to foster personal growth and maturity, self-discipline, and acceptance of authority. b) To provide a Programme intended to promote the spiritual development of cadets. c) To provide for the evaluation of the development in cadets of basic leadership characteristics, self-motivation, positive self-esteem, and a clear sense of identity as Salvation Army officers. d) To provide teaching in scriptural truth and academic instruction with a view to bringing cadets to an acceptable level of academic achievement, providing a foundation of understanding and tools for learning. e) To provide practical experience to develop the skills necessary for effective work as Salvation Army officers.
3. This programme should produce Salvation Army officers who:
* Know God - evidenced by holiness of heart, purity of life, prayer, witness, service, sacrifice, nobility of character and quality of living.
* Know themselves - their strengths and how to direct them; their weaknesses and how to overcome them; their potentials and how to develop them.
* Know their mission - understanding the implications of God’s call to officership; understanding the nature and mission of The Salvation Army; understanding their commitment to The Salvation Army and their place within it; sharing the burden of the world’s sin and suffering; desiring above self, comfort, recognition and all else, the glory of God and the salvation of the world.
