“Our question was, how can we help people feel connected—not only with us as staff, but with their friends?” says Park. “That connection to community is really important, so we started experimenting with different ways to keep in touch and move our activities online.”

The novel Jacob's Bell, about a Salvation Army bell-ringer reminds us how important the work of The Salvation Army is at Christmastime and all through the year.

The Christmas after giving birth to her first child, Salvation Army Officer Captain Laura Van Schaick began to wrestle with the traditional Christmas story.

Let us ask ourselves what we can do, especially in a year that may be one of the most difficult Christmas seasons in recent memory, to bring light to the darkness.

“We are able to experience the peace of God in the storms of life and share that peace with others," says General Brian Peddle in his Christmas message.

In Singapore, Captains Leonard Heng and Peck Ee Wong were familiar with The Salvation Army as a charitable organization, but not as a church. In 2006, they moved to Canada, where they eventually became officers, and in 2016, they returned to Singapore as international personnel. Today, Captain Heng is the training principal and Captain Wong is the integrated training officer at the School for Officer Training (SFOT). Features editor Giselle Randall spoke to Captain Wong to learn about their lives and ministry in Singapore.

Season two of the Salvationist podcast features a diverse group of guests from The Salvation Army, to unpack how ministry units and corps are safely continuing ministry across the territory.

To keep her son’s memory alive, Cheryl Davies participates in The Salvation Army's Angel Giving Tree Program, so that other children have a joyful Christmas 

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by other members of the Royal Family, has thanked The Salvation Army for its frontline work during the pandemic.

Commissioner Floyd Tidd, territorial commander of the Canada and Bermuda Territory, shares a message of hope for the Christmas season.