The Home Front is an ongoing series where we highlight the mission and ministry taking place around our territory. We will visit each Canadian province and territory, as well as Bermuda, and celebrate the innovation and impact the Army is having in corps, social services and youth ministry. This month, we visit New Brunswick.

Jason Sabourin was running out of excuses to be a Christian.

“The book is aspirational—more spiritual than self-help, more realistic than motivational, and more ambitious than personal growth.” 

Every summer across the Canada and Bermuda Territory, young people devote their time to working at camp. It’s a place for fun and friendship, but it’s also where kids, teens and staff alike can encounter Jesus, sometimes for the first time. Many of the people who engage in this ministry started as campers themselves, returning year after year to

In the first part of this new series introducing Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount, He opens with a surprising way to gain a huge reward.

How do we teach them to engage politically, without losing sight of eternity? 

When a woman spotted her lost bicycle in the front display window of a Salvation Army thrift store, staff and clients rallied to help reunite her with it.

"The Salvation Army is committed to being a constant presence, offering not just physical support, but also a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on, and a reminder that no one is alone in this," says national commander.

As he retires from the Canadian Staff Band, John Lam encourages all Salvationists to embrace the uniqueness of the Army’s musical culture.

Like Jesus’ original followers, believers today are sent into the world to be his witnesses (see Luke 24:48; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8). I pray that The Salvation Army will never lose or abandon a sense of urgency in living its mission. Let’s always speak to people about Jesus, the joy of our salvation and the peace that comes from knowing him