Greetings from the International Personnel Office. Thank you for your ongoing support of our personnel serving outside of their home territory.
We are so pleased to have been able to send further reinforcements for the mission of The Salvation Army around the world. Majors Kelly and Paul Rideout arrived in Tanzania in October 2024, Jahred and Jessica Warkentin landed in Bangladesh just in time for Easter 2025 and Majors Donna and Royal Senter will be leaving on July 24th to serve in Grand Bahama as Corps Officers of the Freeport Corps.
This brings our total to 23 officers and 3 lay personnel serving internationally!
Lieutenants April Barthau and Marco Herrera-Lopizic have received a new international appointment which will have them moving with their three children from Papua New Guinea to the UK after a well-deserved furlough in Canada. Lt-Colonel Sandra Stokes is moving from IHQ to be the Territorial Commander in Denmark and the Faroes Islands Territory.
It is with heavy hearts that we invite you also to remember in prayer Colonel Wendy Swan and her children, Jason and Brianna, as together they grieve as a family the sudden Promotion to Glory on July 15, 2025 of a loving husband and father, Colonel Ian Swan.
The needs are great, and we are deeply grateful for our colleagues with hearts willing to take this step of faith and move to foreign cultures with all the unique challenges this entails.
We ask for your prayers as well for those who are returning for appointments in Canada: Majors Brenda and David Allen; Captains Chad and Lisa Cole with Ginny and Connor; and Captains Vilma Ramos and Ricaurte Velasquez.
Below you will find the latest updates, thank you notes, prayer requests, ending with an updated mailing address list of those serving internationally.
What is it Like to be a Missionary with The Salvation Army?
Compared to being an independent missionary like I was before, being with The Army and having things like the flights paid for, no need to spend all of furlough fundraising, and having not just my one church praying for me, but a whole territory is an unbelievable blessing. (Not to mention all the other riches like getting to work directly with my own denomination!) I don’t take it for granted. Thanks for your role in allowing me to do this work that is so dear to me, in a way that is so helpful to me too! –Alyshia Van Kannel
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