Unexpectedly laid off from her job and now experiencing some medical issues, Tawny Vittner turned to the Salvation Army food bank in Prince George, B.C., for help. "I know I can come here. There’s always something for me,” she says.
How a Salvation Army halfway house in Toronto helps ex-offenders reintegrate into the community after incarceration.
This is how an Army survives. This is how we pass on Salvationism to the next generation. This is how we continue to take back the dark every single day of our Salvationist life.
Lieutenant Dion Durdle is the corps officer at Sydney Community Church, N.S.
Sometimes new beginnings arise from unexpected endings.
We may never know when the seasons of hardship will come, but when they do, we can be certain that God is not far, growth is possible and that his gift of peace is at hand.
The parable of the woman at the well shows that, although Jesus knows everything about our past, He still loves and esteems us. He wants to change us from the inside out and give us His living water that will cleanse us of our past sins. And when others see the change in us, they’ll be thirsty for Jesus, too!
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.—Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund
Lt-Col Roxanne Jennings shares her thoughts on the theme of covenant.
Jenea Melanson-Gomez is the manager of transitional housing for The Salvation Army in Vancouver.
