BY WARREN L. MAYE
Lt. Colonel David B. Davis has an infectious smile and a kind demeanor that's easy to embrace. Those admirable qualities are great assets in his new appointment. In February of 2021, he became the Salvation Army’s National Social Services & Public [...]
BY WARREN L. MAYE
Breathtaking is the word that describes the view from One World Observatory, 102 stories above Manhattan Island atop of One World Trade Center. Formerly known as the Freedom Tower, it stands next to the memorial that marks the site of the World Trade [...]
BY RETTA BLANEY
Under the elevated train in a North Philadelphia neighborhood known for violent crime, drug dealing, and street prostitution, the first floor of a small row house serves as a refuge. Women who experience exploitation and [...]
BY HUGO BRAVO
The summer of 2022 marks the second year that Camp Wonderland in Sharon, Ma., has been open since the COVID lockdowns. It offered fun and affordable vacation activities for families that now face inflated food and fuel prices. “This was a huge thing [...]
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
The Salvation Army Kids’ Café began at the Manchester, N.H., Citadel in 1994 as a place where 80–100 children and teens could find a warm meal each evening. The program has grown over the years to an attendance of [...]
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
They sit in the pew next to you every Sunday. You chat with them in the foyer after services. They’re just like you except they may quietly suffer from depression, anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar and eating disorders, or [...]
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, […]
