Following the shooting at a church service in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which 26 people were killed, The Salvation Army dispatched officers and staff from nearby San Antonio. The team was able to provide much-needed practical, emotional and spiritual support to the community, which was rocked by the sudden and violent loss of life.

I’m pregnant with hope right now. Which is weird. Because, well, things aren’t so good on a global scale. On the way to a conference recently, I had a frank conversation with my Uber driver. She’s not so hopeful. She talked about the horror of the shooting in Las Vegas and the hopelessness she felt about the American political system and the results of global warming on the world, and lamented the fact that she chose to bring children into this god-forsaken place. But all the time she was sharing, as I listened to her pain, what I felt was hope. Which is weird. Why am I feeling hope at a time that seems so perilous and hopeless? And that’s when it hit me.

In Embu, mere hours from Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, an elderly woman and her son rake a maize field, where one stalk of corn remains in-husk following their harvest. On the same property, chickens roam free among the tiered fields where women collect tea into wicker baskets, and rows of coffee trees find shade under a canopy of banana leaves.

Please remember in prayer the Messengers of the Gospel and the Messengers of Compassion as they take up their winter assignments.

The Salvation Army’s Chief of the Staff (Commissioner Brian Peddle) and World Secretary for Women’s Ministries (Commissioner Rosalie Peddle) brought encouragement to Salvationists and friends who joined them in worship in Australia.

For Brian Burstein, life was good. He was married with a son, owned a house and had a great job. The future seemed full of promise. But all of this came crashing down when he seriously injured his back one day at work. Overnight, everything changed.

All of the 59 Salvation Army territories and commands from around the world will be represented at the International Conference of Leaders taking place from November 4-11, 2017.

The Reformation was a reforming of the Christian church. It was about getting to the heart of what the Christian good news is.

When hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida on September 10, it was one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the state. Four days later, the Canada and Bermuda Territory deployed 10 members of its emergency disaster services personnel to lead an incident command team in Miami.

In May 2016, Heather Ryan and her family were among the 80,000 residents who fled Fort McMurray, Alta., following a devastating fire known as “The Beast.” Heather was among 1,500 people whose journey led her to a Salvation Army thrift store, where she found not only assistance but a new kind of home.