Gwyneth Woods is the community and family services director in Listowel, Ont. Tell us a little about your family and early years. My parents immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland a few years before I was born and later became Salvation Army officers. We moved around a lot and and I didn’t have extended family in the country, so making new

As an officers’ kid, David Boone grew up in a home with Christ at the forefront. He always had a strong faith. But it wasn’t until a serious health crisis left him hospitalized for more than nine months, his family fearing every day for his life, that he witnessed the divine power of prayer. In moments of desperation, David’s wife, Sandra, and

What are the shifting dynamics in social services work? And why is it important to define love in this way, using agape as the archetype for our understanding? 

Creating entry points to faith through art, music, nature and spiritual practices from within the Christian tradition.

God meets the manifestation of pure evil represented by a physical cross, with all its brutality, with the redeeming love that conquers evil, sin and, yes, death itself.

Exploring the days of Holy Week.

In the late 19th century, General William Booth, co-Founder of The Salvation Army, put forward a scheme to help aspiring British emigrants find new homes in Canada. By 1914, the Army had helped bring more than 100,000 people to Canada, a total that eventually rose to an estimated 250,000. Leaflets (above) advertising lectures by Salvation Army

The Home Front is an ongoing series where we highlight the mission and ministry taking place around our territory. This month, we are featuring Bermuda.

The heat hit first; thick, unrelenting, the kind that makes the horizon shimmer. From the window of the small plane banking toward Kenya’s Turkana region, the landscape below looked scorched and strangely still. As we slipped beneath the cloud cover, the truth sharpened into view; drought had carved its signature into the landscape. As we

Aux-Captain Matthew Pittman is the corps officer at Robert’s Arm-Pilley’s Island, N.L. This article has been adapted from the Salvationist podcast. Listen to the full interview: Tell us about your early years. I grew up in a town called Pilley’s Island in Newfoundland and Labrador. The current population is a little less than 300. My