On the Corner
The many games of life by Bob Docter - All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players … (Shakespeare As You Like It) As actors on life’s stage, we all have our entrances and exits, our loves and
“Demythologizing the monsters” month
bodyBuilder by Sharon Robertson, Lt. Colonel - It’s 5 a.m., and I just woke up to discover a myth staring me in the face—Orion, the mighty hunter, dressed in all his starry finery, was hovering just above the skylight in my bedroom.
A lesson in unfailing love
sharperFocus by Lawrence Shiroma, Major - “Not even a sparrow can fall to the ground without your Heavenly Father knowing it” (Matthew 10:29). It was sooner than expected. Though I had been anticipating it for some time, the actual event hit me harder
A remarkable journey home
inProcess by Glen Doss, Major - Eunice Pearson’s enrollment as a soldier of The Salvation Army Murrieta, Calif., corps, at age 91, was an emotional culmination of a long journey home—a journey with a very unusual beginning. “To be given to Eunice when
Elsewhere in the world
Elsewhere in the world by PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG)—In mid-August, a Salvation Army emergency response team flew by military aircraft to the site of an Airlines PNG crash near Kokoda that killed all 13 passengers. Team members supported rescue personnel at both
FrontLines – News briefs of the West
by Sue Schumann Warner - Kudos to Kroc The Nickelodeon Parent’s Pick Award for best theater or theatre group for kids in San Diego, Calif., went to The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center’s Joan B. Kroc Theatre
What is a Kroc Center?
by Sue Schumann Warner - After her death in 2003, Mrs. Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, gave The Salvation Army in the United States a bequest in excess of $1.6 billion dollars for the exclusive purpose of building
Salem Citadel a new name, same mission
Since 1886, when Captain Mary Stillwell opened the Army’s work in Salem, The Salvation Army has been meeting physical and spiritual needs in this mid-Willamette Valley city. Now, while the Salem Citadel Corps has a new name: the Salem Ray and
“A gift that will give and give”
Salem Kroc opens to crowds, fanfare. by Sue Schumann Warner - “This will change our community,” said Salem Mayor Janet Taylor as she addressed the crowd gathered under a huge white tent for the Kroc Center’s dedication ceremony. “Young people will have
South Pacific islands struck by tsunami
Salvation Army responds to disaster in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. An estimated 3,200 people are homeless and over 180 dead after a tsunami struck the South Pacific on Sept. 30, devastating Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. Salvation Army officers and personnel
After the storm
The Salvation Army in the Philippines responds to tropical storm Ketsana. Drowning the Philippines with the worst flood in 40 years, Typhoon Ondoy (tropical storm Ketsana)—with winds over 62 miles per hour and the heaviest rainfall on record—left at least 246