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• Salvation Army is a church....?

 • Salvation Army officers are ordained ministers/Pastors?

 • Salvation Army operates in 111 countries in world wide......?

 • Salvation Army was founded in 1865 by William Booth, a former Methodist Minister.....?

 • Salvation Army is a vital spiritual force with an accute social conscience.....

 • 125 Years ago "The Christian Mission" become "The Salvation Army" (1878-2003).

• The red Christmas kettle debuted in San Francisco in 1891 in the guise of a crab pot. A depression had thrown many out of work, including hundreds of seamen and longshoremen. The campaign proved so successful that by 1900 it was imitated nationwide.

 • Movie actors Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Mae West, and Joan Crawford have all appeared in movies with Army characters.

• The Salvation Army operates a Missing Persons Program, which provided service to more than 209,000 people last year.

 • The red shield dates from 1896 and serves as the trademark for the Army’s social services.

 • Known for their brass band music, The Salvation Army has approximately 2,500 brass bands worldwide.

 • Since the 1920’s, a Salvation Army brass band from Southern California has marched in the Rose Bowl Parade.

 • The phrase “on the wagon” was coined by men and women receiving the services of The Salvation Army. Former National Commander Evangeline Booth – founder William Booth’s daughter – drove a hay wagon through the streets of New York to encourage alcoholics on board for a ride back to The Salvation Army. Hence, alcoholics in recovery were said to be “on the wagon.”

 • The Salvation Army led in the formation of the USO – United Services Organization. The USO operates service units, which serve members of the armed forces abroad.

 • “Strawberry Fields Forever” in the Beatles 1966 song by that name, is John Lennon’s nostalgic reference to a Salvation Army orphanage called Strawberry Field in Woolton, England. Lennon is said to have played with childhood friends in the trees behind the orphanage when he was a boy.

• The first Salvation Army band was formed in 1882 by accident. Charles Frye and his sons offered their services as bodyguards for Salvation Army street preachers. They
began playing music on their brass instruments to give them something to do while they protected the officers, and soon after quit their family business to lead the Army’s
music department.

• Every minute of the day, some one is cared for by the Salvation Army

• Salvation Army was at the front lines of World War II, offering comfort and pastoral guidance to troops.

 • General Shaw Clifton is the present and 9th UK-born international leader of The Salvation Army....

 • General Paul A. Rader was the first American-born international leader of The Salvation Army.

 • Salvation Army emergency/disaster services assisted 2.6 million disaster survivors and relief workers last year.

• The American flag which flew in front of the demolished World Trade Center was a gift from The Salvation Army?

• Salvation Army red shield is among the top ten logos in the world (2005)....

• Australian Salvation Army officer Major Brian Watters has been elected to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for a five-year term commencing in March 2005.

 • Heinrich Schmidt, bandmaster of the German Staff Band of The Salvation Army, has been awarded the highest order of recognition for a German citizen, the Cross of Merit. (2005)

 • More than 4.3 million volunteers assisted The Salvation Army last year.

 • Salvation Army operates a Missing Persons Program, which provided service to more than 75,000 people last year.

 • Salvation Army assists over 20 million people with social service casework projects each year.

 • The Chronicle of Philanthropy has ranked The Salvation Army as the Number 1 charity in the United States for eight consecutive years.

• Peter Drucker called The Salvation Army "by far the most effective organization in the U.S.," in Forbes magazine.

• The red shield dates from 1896 and serves as the trademark for the Army's social services.

• Known for their brass band music, The Salvation Army has approximately 2,500 brass bands worldwide.

• Salvation Army led in the formation of the USO – United Services Organization. The USO operates service units, which serve members of the armed forces abroad.

• In 1920 great celebrations were held in Tokyo to honour those who had been the greatest benefactors of japan. A roll of honour, carrying the names of the 'illustrious,' was prepared and inserted in the History of the Nation. Only five European names were included : those of an English poet who had written much on Japan, the editor of the English daily newspaper, which had done much to further the country's interests, a military officer who had given invaluable help in creating the modern Japanese army-and those of Colonel Henry Bullard (Salvation Army officer) and Charles Duce, for their fearless agitation which is considered to have been one of the most important events in the history of Japan.

 • At the end of the second world war the Colonel Edwin Sheard, who - had meanwhile been appointed to other' Salvation Army work in India, went back to the Andamans to find out how the colony had fared during the Japanese occupation. With manifest pride the Sergeant-Major, who had been Sheard's first convert, brought out the Army flag which he had preserved at the risk of his life from the invaders. The Colonel was strongly tempted to beg the flag from him-but refrained, and a few months later that same flag covered the faithful Sergeant-Major's coffin on his promotion to Glory. Today Colonel and Mrs. Sheard live in a modest terrace house on the outskirts of Blackpool. But in his end is his beginning, for the motive which prompted him to leave his native town more than forty years ago now sustain him in an active retirement.

CREST

CRESTSUN - the fire of the Holy Spirit

CROSS - where Jesus died

"S" - salvation for everyone

SWORDS - warfare for God and souls

SEVEN SHOTS - gospel truths

CROWN OF GLORY - which God will give to all his soldiers who are faithful to the end

THE MOTTO - blood and fire (is the same as written on our flag) – the blood of Jesus and fire of the Holy Spirit

DID YOU KNOW WHAT IS RED SHIELDShield

A symbol developed to separately identify a wide range of Army social and emergency services. It has become the most recognizable of The Salvation Army's symbols.

 

DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ARMY FLAG

The Army FlagRED stands for the blood of Jesus.
(…blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin 1John 1:7b NIV);

the BLUE border stands for the holiness, or purity of God in what we should be as his followers.
(…just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." 1 Peter 1:15-16 NIV)

the YELLOW sun and the centre of our flag stands for the fire of the Holy Spirit.
(They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit… Acts 2:3-4 NIV).

 

DID YOU KNOW THE MERCY SEATMercy Seat

This is sometimes called the Penitent's Form by older Salvationists. It is sometimes a bench, but often nowadays takes the form of an altar and may be called such. It provides a place of prayer in Salvation Army churches, at which people can kneel and ask God’s forgiveness for their sins and pray for others.