Cathleen Virgalla didn’t know her life would change the day she walked into a Salvation Army soup kitchen looking for help. She found a lot more than food that day and has even attended a Salvation Army leadership seminar to be a leader at her corps in Bristol, Conn. Her children have found a home at the corps too.
There’s no retirement from God’s kingdom. While aging comes with its share of challenges, there is a way to do so gracefully that brings glory to God. Learn how some people have no plans for a rocking chair but instead want to serve God all the days of their lives.
Jonathan Torres knows what it’s like to be hungry and wonder where he’s going to sleep at night. When he wasn’t in a prison cell, he spent most of 2007 to 2011 living on the streets. Today, Torres has come full circle as part of the men’s ministry at the York, Pa., Spanish Temple Corps. He helps minister to homeless people and others in need every Tuesday evening from a Salvation Army canteen.
Charles Moore and his family used to be able to afford housing, but their life changed when his wife, Tiara, suffered a devastating stroke and couldn’t return to work. All the family had to live on was his modest disability check each month. “That’s how we ended up homeless,” Charles says.
The first time she walked into the building, she wasn’t a Salvation Army officer or even a Christian. She’d been invited by Jean Sainteme, who attended church there and had chosen this as the location for the couple’s first date. “My mother was impressed because he did not invite me to a club or to party or to drink. He invited me to church
Christian recording artist Lauren Daigle performed the Christmas songs in a New York City subway station last December with members of the New York Staff Band while two Salvation Army officers—Captain Clifford Douglas and Envoy LeNissa Sukhdeo—rang the bells.
The Salvation Army’s music and arts programs help children (and even some adults) find a place to belong and use their talents to bring glory to God.
Keith Bryant Sr. is known as the singing Salvation Army bell ringer outside the Roche Bros. Supermarket in Westborough, Mass. A Worcester resident, the 60-year-old Bryant has been ringing the bell for 24 years now and mixes in Christmas classics and oldies for his shoppers.
Walt Kehoe once struggled with drugs and alcohol, but now he keeps himself so busy serving, he doesn’t think about his past.
The mere mention of artificial intelligence, or AI, conjures up images of a high-tech, dystopian time when machines mimic humanity and take over the world, but the truth is, many elements of AI have been around for a while.
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