Childhood Obesity – What Can Families Do?
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. As kids get ready to go back to school, it’s also a good time to develop better eating habits to avoid unwanted weight gain.
A Taste of the Army
Lieutenant Melissa Bonet, pastor at The Salvation Army Ridgewood Citadel in Queens, N.Y., talks about her former career in pastry design, and why being “God—fearing” is a different mindset from “fearing God.”
Pastors of Witch City
When Major Richard Sanchez got the news that he and his wife, Major Lolita Sanchez, would be the next officers to serve as pastors at The Salvation Army in North Shore, he couldn’t help but feel excited.
David Cornish
Every time David Cornish walks from his home to The Salvation Army church in Willimantic, Conn., he crosses a footbridge - a popular spot for hiking, but for David, it’s a reminder of the city’s poverty.
Hope and Grace
Katina Polemenako, a social worker at The Salvation Army North Shore Corps in Salem, Mass., talks about the role prayer plays in social work, how the Army honored her late mother, and why her love of both country and community are inextricably linked.
Flor Chamorro
Flor Chamorro served her local community in Ecuador, the country of her birth, years before she ever stepped into a Salvation Army church.
A Path Forward
"My body has been broken, through addiction and other ways. I have committed crimes and lost years in jail. The book of Revelation would call me “lukewarm water,” only good for being spat out. If I had been alive 100 years ago, I would have been one of the guys in town who had ruined his life, was shunned from society, and not allowed to enter any church. You would have seen me on the steps of The Salvation Army, calling out to William Booth for help."
God in Control
BY CINDY WALTON, as told to Hugo Bravo
"There’s a phrase that says, “Boys: Less drama than girls, but harder to keep alive.” Ben Walton, my son, has proved those words to be right all his life. When my son was growing up, he was always that boy who was somehow getting hurt. So, when I got a call last July that something had happened to him while he was out bike riding, my first thought was, “Of course it did.”
Ada Jarrett
When Ada Jarrett was a child, she was introduced to The Salvation Army by a friend whose family attended the Army’s church in Pottstown, Pa. They were involved in many aspects of the ministry, and Ada became involved too. "Over the years, some members of my family stopped coming, but I stayed. The Salvation Army became my church,” says Jarrett, now 84.
A Leader in ‘The Jungle’
Lieutenant Ismael Ortiz, commanding officer at The Salvation Army Corps Community Center in Wilkes–Barre, Pa., talks about finding God in jail; a vehicle that started a ministry; and leadership skills that came from the streets, but thrived in the Church.
