We’re having a baby!
BODY BUILDER It wasn't planned. It's just one of those spontaneous, serendipitous events that unexpectedly surprise one and bring a great deal of satisfaction into one's life. One wonders, in retrospect, that a wheelbarrow as small as the one in
FOCUS – Enron and all that
My first job when I graduated from college thirty years ago was as a banker. I was pretty good at it, and in the course of two years I was promoted from management trainee to branch accountant to regional head
Stephen Sutter: “I’ve come light years”
IN PROCESS Disoriented and confused, the man, 37, checking into the ARC program, glanced cautiously in at the chapel door, then stepped inside. Spying the cross looming large above the platform, he paused. The cross still engaging his attention, he
On the Corner
BY ROBERT DOCTER - ADVISORY BOARDS Rubber stamps or venture capitalists? I'm still trying to figure out whether the Army is trying to crawl out of the waning decades of the 19th century or leading the pack into the mid-21st century. Our inclination
Caring for our pastors
A day at Disneyland, the "happiest place on earth": $40 A week in the Caribbean, swimming and reading: $1,000 Your first retirement home: $150,000 A satisfied, inspired, passionate-for-God officer: PRICELESS We are soldiers of this current age. We stand firm for God in
Frontlines – News Briefs of the West
"Love one another, oh, love one another. Stand fast together and the devil can do his worst!" Catherine Booth As Salvationists "stand fast together," God touches lives in wonderful ways. Read on for just a few examples
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor Falling in line I have just read Capt. Amy Reardon's column in the June 16, 2002 edition of New Frontier, and wanted to send my word of commendation. She wrote with grace and humor about what is central
Pray for the Estonia mission service team
Lt. Colonels Mervyn and Shirley Morelock are leading a mission service team to Estonia August 19-Sept. 9, 2002. While there, team members will remodel the building containing The Salvation Army's homeless shelter and participate in a teaching ministry. They ask
Roberts enter retirement
Majors Loyd and Vicki Roberts Majors Loyd and Vicki Lee Roberts recently entered honorable retirement, after serving a combined total of 44 years as Salvation Army officers. The couple entered the School for Officers' Training in 1979 from the Idaho Falls Corps,
Sullivans conclude 42 years of ministry
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA After 42 years of active officership, Lt. Colonels Jim and Maud Sullivan have entered the ranks of the honorably retired. Jim and Maud are concluding their service as command leaders of Clark County Nevada, where they have
Dabis given scholarship
FIRST RECIPIENT Erin Dabis BY LETICIA A. SAUNDERS, CAPTAIN - Erin Dabis, a student at Seattle Pacific University, is the first recipient of the new Paul and Kay Rader Scholarship. Awarded for fall 2002, the scholarship enables minority students who are active
A miraculous change in Visalia
BY EZEKIEL GUEVARA, CAPTAIN - When we arrived a year ago at the Visalia Corps, there was absolutely no one here, and the church was about to close with a deficit of $76,000. Knowing how God moves when we are willing