Salvation Army
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.5 million, consisting of soldiers, officers and adherents known as Salvationists. Its founders Catherine and William Booth sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs". It is present in 127 countries, running charity shops, operating shelters for the homeless and disaster relief and humanitarian aid to...
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We've taken nearly all of our resources out of ... Florida and are sending them to be deployed from Mobile,
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The Salvation Army was there from day-one, ... They were providing shelter before the storm hit. They had 290 people at a Salvation Army building in New Orleans when the hurricane hit. Monday they were out of food. Thursday they were out of water. Friday they were finally rescued. The (Salvation Army) officer was injured when they were loading people out onto the helicopter.
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Rally for Relief: Oriental's Response to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina
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We are thrilled with the generosity of the Bakersfield community, ... We are grateful to the Condors for inviting us to participate in this event and for the amazing amount of food that we received.
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We'll be providing emergency needs for the first 72 hours,
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With all of the donations going south we expect to be hurt locally, ... A lot of people will say they already gave.
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If we end up with cash, we can actually help the local economy finding the needs and helping the people,
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If this fantasy that somehow we're a military organization bent on the overthrow of Russia -- if that were true -- wouldn't it have shown up after eight years of ministry here?
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Mother Nature had the upper hand in this situation.
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We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.
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We already have three classes of between 20 and 30 people,
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We ask anyone interested to come on a Sunday morning, not to come to church but to meet the bandmaster.
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It's music, right? I'll just play it there, ... I tell you, lots of people say they won't go back, and I think it's because they finally got out of town for the first time.
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The best thing to do is donate funds, ... The problem that exists is there's no where to store any donated materials.