The Salvation Army Kettles

Calgary Kettle Kick Off It’s December.  Officially winter has yet to arrive by the calendar.  But this is Edmonton and winter arrives without any reference to the calendar.   It is also the time of year when Salvation Army Kettles, those red containers, are placed around malls and stores in an effort to raise funds…

New Assignments

Some of you will know we’ve just returned from the first round of Personnel Consultations.  The process runs a bit like this… Personnel forwards a list of officers, those in sequence for a move, in other words those who have been 5, 7, 9 etc… years in their present appointments.  Then in discussion with those…

The Salvation Army comes to the Yukon

There are two rather remarkable photographs, or prints of them more accurately, that hang inside our building in Whitehorse.  One is a record of The Salvation Army in Dawson City during the days of the gold rush.  The other is of a group of Salvationists, men and women, who came to the Yukon through Skagway,…