BY ROBERT MITCHELL
Massood still tears up when he recounts last year’s harrowing struggle to get his family out of Afghanistan and into the United States.
“It is very emotional to leave your home country,” he says with profound sadness.
Massood worked with U.S. and [...]
BY WARREN L. MAYE
“Daddy, do I have Type 1 Diabetes because of original sin?”
With this innocent but informed question, the 2–year–old daughter of business entrepreneur Erick Goss helped him realize the depth to which children [...]
BY HUGO BRAVO
“You can’t just give a homeless person an apartment with a bed and say, ‘case closed.’ I have met people who received help and even a place to live, but were back on the streets in a few months,” Perks says. “They needed the tools to rebuild their lives, reestablish [...]
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
In 2019, The Salvation Army Old Orchard Beach Camp Meetings were in full swing, but Benji Sawyer was drunk again.
He crashed his bike into a curb and took a nasty fall in the center of town, resulting in a gash on his face. He was so intoxicated, […]
BY ROBERT MITCHELL, HUGO BRAVO, & WARREN L. MAYE
Emceeing the Pier Ministry all week was the colorful Samuel Baptista, who sported a purple–sequin jacket and passionately connected with the audience of vacationers.
“I love coming here to the Pier [...]
BY ROBERT MITCHELL, HUGO BRAVO & WARREN L. MAYE
An evening thunderstorm delayed “Family Fun Night” at the OOB Camp Meetings on Monday, but the rain failed to dampen the enthusiasm as “Extreme Balloon Man” entertained children and adults alike in the Pavilion [...]
BY WARREN L. MAYE, ROBERT MITCHELL & HUGO BRAVO
On Sunday morning, Commissioner William A. Bamford III, territorial commander, welcomed people back to the Seaside Pavilion after having enjoyed a wonderful time there on Saturday.
Then he quickly focused on the meeting’s theme [...]
Captain Oleg in Warsaw by Hugo Bravo “The number of refugees coming from Ukraine to Poland is said to be in the millions,” says Captain Oleg Samoilenko, officer at [...]
BY WARREN L. MAYE & HUGO BRAVO
Old Orchard Beach Camp meetings got off to a blazing start on Saturday July 23, 2022, under the theme “TOGETHER–Nothing Shall Separate Us.”
These were the first official meetings [...]
BY WARREN L. MAYE
Daunting has been the task to find scientific treatments and strategies to combat the problems people face who struggle to maintain their mental health. Perhaps one day, a breakthrough in medicine will occur. But until then, The Salvation Army [...]
