The Salvation Army 1922

The date of 1929 is a significant one for TSA. It was the year that a leadership crisis arose in International Leadership. It’s not the only crisis in leadership we’ve had, but it was one that was especially serious as The Army was quite young and it placed the Booth family in conflict with the…

Things I miss about AB

The early days of our time in Alberta always had me casting my eyes to the west and the mountains. It is no understatement to say I loved the mountains, in time loved climbing them and hiking the trails. And to be honest, always a bit nervous about surprising a bear along the way. We…

42 years into a life long journey

It was a warm day, rather sunny and blue sky, February 3, 1979 which was the day we were wed 42 years ago. Dad did the ceremony with Bob Ratcliff. Nobody did pre-marital counselling with us – never figured out why that didn’t happen, but here we are celebrating 42 years. It would take too…