While it is important to acknowledge the love between you and your significant other, there is no greater love than the love God has for me and for you.

God’s design was for us to do family in our churches. 

(Above) Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd, territorial leaders, visit a Salvation Army community development project for vulnerable women in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, along with Lt-Col Brenda Murray, director of international development, and Cpt Heidi Bradbury In the days leading up to the Olympic Games last summer, the International Olympic

Jesus can do amazing things when we give him our puny little offerings—when we give him our “nothing.” In his hands, “nothing” can become “something.”

Everything we do as the church should have the call to “make disciples” at its core.

As Christians, we live in the middle of the story, between creation and redemption, waiting for the day when all is made right. Jesus inaugurated the kingdom, but it is not yet fully here. Until then, we live in the tension of an unfolding mystery, trusting God with the unknown.

What if, in 2022, we chose to be more patient, loving, forgiving, kind and compassionate?

People are still in need of the hope offered through the gift of God incarnate. We are invited to respond to their cries with the encouraging words of his goodness and light, so that we, too, can play a part in illuminating the darkness.

We do not need to buy all the things, cook a gourmet meal or lead the perfect Christmas Eve service to prove our worth.

The Salvation Army was created to reach those who wouldn’t normally be welcomed.