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.
“Christ is everything to me,” Mark says. “He’s my Siri, He’s my Google, and my GPS through life. I lived my life in [spiritual] darkness and in dark places. Now I choose to live my life in the light of God’s grace.
Anna and I couldn’t have been more different beyond our love of journalism and dedication to our chosen field. I grew up in a conservative family in the Midwest and became a born-again Christian at a young age. Anna hailed from the Northeast and was proud of both her liberalism and her Jewish faith. It’s fair to say we didn’t agree on much outside of the newsroom we shared every day, just a few desks apart. I had been at the newspaper for almost a decade when she came on board. I found out later there was some concern that we would clash.
Long before she performed “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” in front of worldwide audiences with Hillsong United, singer Taya Smith-Gaukrodger took part in community worship nights that sometimes met at a tiny Salvation Army church in her hometown of Goonellabah, Australia. “What was really special is it was held in a poorer part of the community, and I just loved getting to see The Salvation Army be right at the center of getting to help people,”Taya recalls. “What’s really cool is I can still picture the cross in that church and you could see it from many different vantage points in the community. I loved that experience.
Darnell Nixon received grace from both a judge and Christ on his way to being the man of God he is today. He spent his time in prison finding God. Now 61, he is the founder and leader of the basketball program at the Manhattan Citadel, a Salvation Army corps in Harlem, N.Y.
The Salvation Army is meeting a major housing need in Buffalo, while creating opportunities to share God’s love.
The city of Pittsburgh is home to almost 450 bridges. Known as the “City of Bridges,” Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers. So, it seems appropriate that The Salvation Army’s Pittsburgh Temple would be trying to build bridges to the church from its popular new choice food pantry, which opened last year.
“I think God is taking a moral stance that leads to Him caring for the poor and to remind us of our moral responsibility to care for the poor. It’s not just us giving them things when they need it, it’s about treating people as equals. When we treat people as equals, we want them to have the same privileges that we have. We don’t want them suffering from poverty. It’s about paying attention to the slaves rather than the wealthy.”
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