My brain is freezing up! My brain isn’t wired right.” A cry of frustration from a man who has always been able to express himself and his thoughts with clarity. Many people sometimes have trouble recalling names, dates and places as they age, but this was much worse, with whole blocks of knowledge seemingly erased from memory.

The Lord’s Prayer includes the petition “Give us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11 NRSV). I have usually interpreted “daily bread” as our requirements for physical survival—food, shelter, drink. Our petition, then, is that God would be faithful in providing the basic necessities of life. But on further examination, I have found that this request has a rich background that casts it in a different light.

Last school year, our town of Sydney, N.S., lost three young people to suicide. Vincent Nugent, Justin Newell and Madison Wilson were only 13 years old.

My inbox is a daily reminder of the “tyranny of the urgent” and the lack of personal connection that plagues our society today.

When heavy rainfall battered the southern region of Quebec this May, it caused the worst flooding the area had seen in two decades. As water washed over cities and towns, thousands of people were forced to leave their homes and now face the long process of rebuilding.

In 1988, Jerry Mercer and his wife, Shirley, walked into the Salvation Army church in Conception Bay South, N.L. Mercer heard the beautiful sounds of the brass band and felt as though he’d come home.

In September 2016, Canadian Salvationists April Barthau and Marco Herrera Lopizic embarked on a two-year mission in Papua New Guinea. A nurse and a doctor, they are running The Salvation Army's medical services in Port Moresby. In this blog for Salvationist.ca, April and Marco share their experiences.

When Barb Stewart, program co-ordinator for The Salvation Army in Penticton, B.C., and Clark Taylor, youth pastor at Penticton’s First Baptist Church, met in 2011 to discuss programming for youth, they could not have imagined what God had in store.

Well done, good and faithful soldiers! We’ve passed the halfway mark of The Whole World Mobilising campaign and it has been amazing up to this point. It has been so exciting to see how Salvationists around the world have embraced this initiative and have been getting out there.

"I can’t say what becoming a soldier will do for you,” says Matt Schnaider. “Soldiership is a personal commitment between you and your Saviour. No one can tell you when or why you should become a soldier or what will happen when you do. Only God can tell you that.”