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Returning love for love
by Robert Mitchell
hen the van pulls into the parking lot of the Bangor, Maine, Citadel Corps (church), the children jump out and run excitedly into the building and down the halls shouting “Mary! Mary!”
They’re looking for Mary MacKay, the young people’s sergeant–major (YPSM). Fifty years ago, she came to the Bangor Corps as a scared victim of sexual abuse, seeking a place of refuge from a cruel world.
Her family—already reeling from the sex abuse allegations—lived in an old farm house in Hudson, Maine when life took an unexpected turn. One night, when someone tried to break in, Mary’s mother, Damaris, quickly moved the family to an unfinished apartment over a barn in Kenduskeag, Maine. Sometime later, they moved to Bangor, where her mother was born and raised and she knew people from The Salvation Army. Her mother had once been involved in the Girl Guards youth program.
“My mother was familiar with the Army programs and some of the people who were still involved,” Mary says. “At the time, she sent me, my sister, and four brothers to The Salvation Army. Out of the six of us who went, I’m the only one it stuck with.
“For me, The Salvation Army became a haven of safety and release. People loved me, people cared about me, and that was something that I had never really had before.” Mary’s family was poor, and she was often teased, such as the day a group of girls threw sticky burdock plants at her as she walked from school to Girl Guards. “I had them in my hair,” Mary recalls. “I had them on W
Photo by Ashley L Conti
—Mary MacKay
my clothes. They made fun of me the whole walk. I was very distraught.”
The YPSM at the time, Lillian Bragg, picked the burdocks off and helped calm Mary once she arrived at The Salvation Army.
“I remember her combing my hair and pulling them out of my hair as I sat in her office crying,” Mary said. “She soothed me and combed every one of those things out of my hair and off my clothes. That’s just one example of the love and the care that was always given to me at The Salvation Army.
“There were many people that invested in my life when I was a young girl at The Salvation Army, and I think that’s one of the things that always stuck with me. In turn, I wanted to invest in the young people involved now.”
GRACE AND A PARKING SPACE Mary has done that for the last 30 years as the YPSM, overseeing all youth programming, including Sunday school and youth groups, and making sure the programs are staffed and that the teachers have supplies and training. She once led Girl Guards and Sunbeams,
including when her own children were in the programs. “I’ve always told the kids, even if only one person came, we would still do the youth programs because they’re important,” Mary says. “If they’re making an effort, then we certainly should be making an effort to be there for them.”
Mary, who has played cornet in the corps band since she was a pre–teen, also occasionally teaches music. “I’m not a teacher so that’s always interesting,” she says. “I teach them what I know.”
Her motivation is quite simple and harkens her back to when she first arrived at the corps.
“Somebody invested in me,” Mary says. “It seems only right to invest in young people. I love kids. I love young people. I’ve taken some into my home. I always want to be there for kids and teenagers and whoever needs the help because people were there for me. It just seems right.”
Mary lived with her corps officers, Paul and Ruth Sweger, during her teen years and that hospitality rubbed off. She has invited several relatives into her home, as well as students from The Salvation Army’s War College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The War College, where student live incarnationally amid drug addicts and prostitutes, holds a special place in Mary’s heart. Several years ago she served a 10–day internship with the students there. She also has attended conferences at the Glen Eyrie Conference Center in Colorado and holiness institutes held in the USA Eastern Territory.
“All of those things shape you and help you to see that having a relationship with Jesus Christ is most important—a relationship where you can talk to Him,” she said. “My kids and the kids that I’ve worked with over the years think it is hysterical that I will pray for parking spots,” Mary said. “I will pray for green lights, I will pray for directions, and they will see those things happen. They’re silly little things, but I think it’s important that we’re constantly connected. The Bible says to pray without ceasing.
“He never leaves us. When we feel alone, He never leaves us. He is always involved in our lives.”
TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS Mary also believes in maintaining a strong devotional life through Bible reading, a daily devotional, church, and fellowship.
“It’s important to continue to maintain my spiritual balance to be the woman God wants me to be,” she said. “Christ means everything to me. I wouldn’t be here without Him. I don’t get through life without Him. I’m here because of Him. I’m here because He loves me unconditionally, no matter what.”
She also understands the importance of being in church regularly.
“It’s nice to have individual worship and things like that, but I think it’s very important to have corporate worship and that we set an example for those young people that we work with all the time to see us in worship and for them to know that’s a natural part of being a Christian,” she said.
Captain Rebecca Kirk, the corps officer in Bangor, said soldiers like Mary are the backbone of the corps. “Maryis such a beautiful example of committed service to the Lord,” Kirk said. “As she has walked through victories and hardships, Mary’s consistent and steadfast faith in who God is, and His love for her, can be seen woven throughout her story. Although she has gone through many seasons of her own life while serving as our YPSM, the love and kindness she gives to the youth who come through our door has never changed. “It is so awesome to know that as officers come and go, there are generations of Salvationist children who have been loved and mentored by a dedicated and compassionate soldier inMary.” Mary also lets everyone know what The Salvation Army is all about. About a decade ago, she remembers one child becoming emotional and upset when someone accidently hit him.
“In his anger, I looked at him and I said, ‘This is a place of safety, a haven of love.’ That student is now a volunteer here at the corps.
“I’ve received many letters from people who are now adults—some of them Salvation Army officers—and others who have families and have written to me and thanked me for my time and my efforts in showing them love. That came easy for me because it was done to me.”
SHE FINDS HEALING Mary has also been able to share her sexual abuse experience with a few young girls who went through similar experiences. Over the years, she has come to forgive her abuser, who threatened to cut out her tongue if she ever told anyone.
“When you’re 7, you believe it,” Mary said. “You do what you’re told because you believe someone may actually do that. You do what you’re told because you’re being threatened all the time.”
While attending a conference at Glen Eyrie, she was asked to write a letter of forgiveness to her accuser. She never gave it to him, but the exercise was therapeutic. “The forgiveness was the hardest thing,” she said. “The Bible says, ‘vengeance is mine saith the Lord.’ You forgive, but you don’t forget. If we don’t forgive, God can’t forgive us.”
Mary, who also is the development assistant at the corps, began working there in 1986 as a part–time secretary for Captain Frank Kirk. Today, Kirk’s son, Jeffrey, is her corps officer. She also was a bookkeeper and program director.
Besides her corps responsibilities, Mary cares for her husband, a former medic in Vietnam who suffers from PTSD and is disabled. Except for a four–year period when they moved to New Hampshire, the couple has lived in Bangor, where they raised four children. The couple has six grandchildren.
Mary also is an advocate for children’s health issues; her son had leukemia when he was 4.
Three decades ago when Mary took over the YPSM job, the woman she succeeded was in her 70s. Mary didn’t anticipate doing the job as long as her predecessor. “I said, ‘I’m not going to be doing this when I’m 70.’ But I’m 68 and I’m still here so, I don’t know,” she said.
A CALL TO: REBUILD, RESTORE, RENEW
“They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations,” Isaiah 61:4. —The Prophet Isaiah predicted that God’s people would finally rise up and become what they were always meant to be—ministers of His grace to all the world.
Finding Life Support
by Hugo Bravo
Brendaliz Arroyo, a social service case worker, welcomes every woman she meets at the Salvation Army’s Greenfield, Mass., Corps. They walk into her office and see a proud mother. Her walls are covered with photos and drawings done by her two children, Arieliz and Isiah’n.
“Some women who talk to me feel so scared that they don’t want to give me their real name or even write it in their file. That’s how much they fear their abuser,” says Arroyo. She understands those fears well. Years ago, Arroyo was in an abusive relationship with “Walter,” the father of her children. It took a public display of violence on his part and an encounter with law enforcement before she could finally leave him. “My life was in a storm from the time I first became pregnant,” says Arroyo. “But the lessons I learned taught me to never stop fighting for myself, and to never stop trusting God.”
PUSHING GUILT Even though Brendaliz’s mother had liked the young man and both their families had known each other for years, her mom did not approve of Brendaliz being pregnant with her first child at 20 years of age. After being forced out of her mother’s home in Springfield, Mass., Brendaliz moved in with her boyfriend and his family.
Within days, Brendaliz discovered Walter had a drinking problem. “I didn’t want to be in the house with him,” she remembers. “I almost didn’t want to have his baby anymore, because it was what was tying me to him.”
But whenever Brendaliz tried to leave, he threatened to take his own life. Having recently lost her father, she could not imagine her child living without a dad too. The thought that she might feel responsible for such an outcome was powerful enough to make her stay. Two years later, she had a second child with Walter.
As time went by, everything seemed to “trigger” him. Verbal and emotional abuse directed toward Brendaliz became physical abuse as he blamed her for the violence in their relationship. “Everything that happened would somehow be my fault,” remembers Brendaliz. “After hearing it so much, even I started to believe it. Maybe it was me, and maybe I was doing something to deserve this.”
A LIVING NIGHTMARE One night, Brendaliz went to bed earlier than usual; she had a medical examination the next morning. Later, Walter entered the room and struck her head with her cell phone. The pain woke her. Now, with eyes wide open, a
new nightmare began.
“He had gone through my phone and accused me of talking to another man he didn’t know,” says Brendaliz.
Walter did know the man; he was in a relationship with a family member of Brendaliz. But Walter didn’t care. He said she had no right to be talking to anyone. “He was making everything be about me again, trying to justify what he was doing,” says Brendaliz.
Walter violently choked Brendaliz until she passed out. When she regained consciousness, she was in their bathroom, and Walter had taken her phone. Seeing that Brendaliz was awake, he locked her inside their bedroom.
“He forgot there was a separate cell phone in there. I called 911 and kept the line open so they could hear us fighting. He didn’t know it was me who had called the cops; he assumed it had been a neighbor,” says Brendaliz. Police arrived, took their children to Brendaliz’s mother’s house, and escorted Brendaliz to the hospital where doctors examined her. Walter followed them to the hospital but security there denied him access to her. The next day, when Brendaliz was discharged, Walter was waiting by the front door of her mother’s house when she and her sister returned.
“I asked my sister to drive me to the police station. I wanted to request an escort back to my mother’s home. I would file charges the next day. But right now, I just needed to rest.” At the police station, Brendaliz waited to speak to someone who would help her. Then she saw Walter walking towards the building. “I could not believe he was doing this. I ran to the desk and told them the man I had warned them about was here. They could not believe it either, until Walter walked in and tried to take me home with him.”
Walter fought the officers as they tried to keep him away from Brendaliz. The breaking point came when he threatened to find the cops when they were on the street and out of uniform. He was arrested and charged with assault and battery, criminal harassment, and witness intimidation.
“Seeing him become physical with the police proved something that I had known for years; if he was willing to with Walter, issues with her health, and her current state of mind. “There are times when I feel that I’m just waiting to slowly die,” she confessed.
“I realized that a lot of the problems I had in my life had come from never having a stable support system,” says Brendaliz. “There was none at home
do this with cops, there was no limit to what he could do to me.” With that realization, Brendaliz finally left Walter.
SALVATION SUPPORT SYSTEM After two years of living in shelters, Brendaliz and her children were able to get Section 8 housing in Greenfield, almost an hour away from Springfield. It was there that they discovered the local Salvation Army corps and its afterschool program.
“The children would come home with snacks and art projects from the program. But I didn’t know that it was being done in the name of God,” says Brendaliz. Captain Scott Peabody, the corps officer, met with Brendaliz and offered to drive the children to church on Sunday. She agreed and came with them.
On New Year’s Day of 2018, a bad reaction from skipping prescribed medication left Brendaliz in a state of shock and paranoia. Without having anyone to turn to, she began to pray for help. “I asked God to show me anything to calm me. Captain Scott’s name popped up in my head,” she said.
She texted the Captain and asked if she could be driven to the corps. There, she spoke to Captains Scott and Karen Peabody about what she had gone through—from her years when I became pregnant or when I was living with Walter. But that support was waiting for me at The Salvation Army.”
SHARING HOPE WITH OTHERS Brendaliz and her children became Salvation Army soldiers and involved themselves in the corps and the community. When she was offered the position of social service case worker by the Captains, they said that her life experience would be an asset in speaking to families who come to the corps needing more than just help with food. “Hearing that from them made me feel good,” says Brendaliz. “I like to know that my life can give others hope, because coming here and being part of The Salvation Army gave me hope too.” Recently, a woman came to the Greenfield Corps food pantry. She recognized Brendaliz immediately. Years ago they had both been in the same shelter. Like Brendaliz, this woman had also escaped a violent relationship. She was now settled with a different partner and had started a family.
The woman said that she often thought of and talked about Brendaliz to all the other women in the shelter. Her stories gave them hope. They know that, if Brendaliz can come out of such a life and be the person she is today, they all can too.
The New Woman excerpted from Red–Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army by Diane Winston 1886–1896
standing–room–only crowd packed the auditorium at The Salvation Army’s National Headquarters. Listeners filled every seat in the orchestra and balconies as latecomers lined the walls and aisles to hear Maud Booth’s address on “The New Woman.”
By 1895, New Yorkers were quite familiar with the New Woman. Her demands for education, economic independence, suffrage, and sexual freedom had been debated in the popular press for almost a decade. On both sides of the Atlantic, supporters praised her bid for autonomy while critics denounced her rejection of marriage, family, and religion—the bulwarks of Victorian society.
That The Salvation Army would have something to say on the subject no doubt struck many New Yorkers as odd, since some considered Army women compromised by their public ministry and their “sensational” methods. Thus, drawn by the currency of the issue and the dubious reputation of the organization, men and women who ordinarily would never attend an Army meeting were seated in the 14th Street auditorium on a late summer Sunday evening. Maud Booth, who shared command of the American Army with her husband, Ballington, was familiar to the general public. The daughter of a genteel English family, she had charmed New York’s business, civic, and social leaders with her beauty, refinement, and properly plummy tones. She A
also appealed to young women seeking meaningful vocations yet unwilling or unable to identify with the New Woman. On this particular evening, Booth had assigned herself a difficult task. In her appearance before the curious crowd she needed to project several different images. As Christian slum worker and Salvationist commander, dignified matron and assertive woman, critic of the media’s New Woman and advocate for the Army’s “born–again” woman, Booth’s performance manifested the Army’s vision of a sacralized society in which polarities were transcended. Further embodying the New Testament faith that in Christ there is no Jew or Gentile, male or female, Maud Booth’s ministry inverted social conventions by instructing single male officers on housekeeping and transforming Hallelujah lassies into women warriors.
Among Booth’s preferred modes of presenting her message was the Chautauqua–style lecture popular in this period. Chautauqua, a retreat in upstate New York, provided Protestant laity with a comfortable compromise between religion and commercial entertainment. For The Salvation Army, seeking to widen its outreach to the middle and upper classes, the Chautauqua format had undeniable appeal, offering an opportunity to speak in a cultural vernacular that mitigated the sensational use of the streets. For Booth, in particular, the use of a familiar medium helped palliate her transgressive message. When the audience, assembled for a religious critique of the New Woman, gazed up at Commander Booth, they saw seated alongside her an all–female platform of officers, band members, cadets, and soldiers.
“This is a woman’s meeting,” Booth told her listeners. “The women are going to do everything here tonight.” She then described a model of womanhood that, while implicitly affirming many of the
New Woman’s aims, explicitly condemned what the media caricatured as the “mannish” female. Calling her ideal the “advanced woman,” Booth enthusiastically supported women’s right to education, athletic exercise, and work. But, most important, this new creature must be a “womanly woman” rooted in the love of home, family, and religion.
In her diatribe against the New Woman, Booth suggested turning her “huge sleeves” into dresses for the poor and tossing her cigarettes, gum, and “realistic” literature into a bonfire. Equally dismissive of the New Woman’s attitude to men, she reasoned that the best cure for those who spoke of “tread[ing men] underfoot” would be to turn them over to “a strong–willed, self–assertive husband.” In conclusion, Booth explained that the truly new woman must be “born–again” since “if any woman be born in Jesus Christ, she is a new creature.” Such women, blessed with “a new heart” as well as “new power” would have a “new influence upon the world.”
The Ballington Booths’ tenure, from 1887 to 1896, marked the Army’s initial acceptance by mainstream American society. During this period Salvationists became involved in the issues of the day, especially poverty relief and the changing role of women. Evolving from a strictly evangelical movement to an organization increasingly involved with social welfare work, the Army reached out to slum dwellers, the homeless, and “fallen women.” While expanding Salvationist outreach to the poor, the Booths also built up an auxiliary organization for men and women who supported the Army’s work but did not wish to be members. As the Booths spread the Army’s message and bolstered its financial support, they employed various strategies, from parlor meetings to Chautauqua lectures, to improve the upper classes’ perception of the movement. Woven into the Army’s efforts to extend its mission was its role in the debate about women’s place in society. One gauge of public opinion on the Army was the secular media’s depiction of Salvationist women. In the early 1800s typical descriptions cast the lassies as coarse, uneducated, and morally lax. With the arrival of Maud Booth and the emergence of other upper–class female officers, a new model of Salvationist womanhood began taking shape. Booth played a singular part in constructing and defining that model for both the Army and the society at large. Whether called the advanced woman, the truly new woman, or the woman warrior, this person combined Victorian womanliness with a sense of mission that empowered her to act boldly in the public sphere.
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Maud Ballington Booth, daughter–in–law of Salvation Army founder, William Booth, gives an address at socialite Alva Belmont's Newport, Rhode Island estate, 1913.
The Gift of Equality
From my earliest childhood memories, I recall a young version of myself lining up toys that I could find in our house—dolls, stuffed animals, and even an Ultimate Warrior action figure in order to play church with them (I have three brothers). I knew then that God had impressed upon me a call to ministry. That call has never wavered. Even in times of challenge and adversity, I have audibly heard the voice of God remind me of who I am and that He chose me.
Ministry is simultaneously difficult and beautiful. Being a woman brings an extra measure of challenge, especially in recent days as some women are being told in particular denominations that their place is not in leadership and that they should “go home” rather than preach. But Scripture does not tell us to go home. In Matthew 28, Jesus commands us all to go to the nations and make disciples. This sounds more like a herald to boldly march forward with the Truth of salvation.
MY CALLING AFFIRMED I am blessed to belong to a church that affirms my call to ministry. I equally share the pulpit at our corps (church) to teach and speak because God has called me to do so. It has never once occurred to me to do anything other than that because doing those things are acts of obedience to my Lord. Throughout its history, The Salvation Army certainly has maintained a woman’s right to do these things and for that, I am grateful.
However, my journey as a woman officer has not been without challenges. Certainly, within the Army’s organizational structure, there are ways that things are typically done. Traditionally, I believe men and women officers take on appointments relative to their gender. I have a tendency to challenge that tradition because, in a moment of vulnerability, I am good at almost none of what is assumed to be a woman officer’s appointment.
Instead, I like math, administration, and fixing problems. I am a good organizer and human resources is something I look forward to handling. I am the business and financial administrator for our corps. I really love business and thrive in that because God has chosen to gift me in those areas. I’m sure other women share similar skill sets.
In my marriage and ministry, my husband and I have taken an egalitarian approach and it has worked well for us. We do what we are gifted by God to do. We thrive when we have been afforded opportunities to function in the roles that
The Gift of Equality
by Captain Amanda Krueger
God has gifted us, rather than assumed roles based upon gender. Scripture supports this idea of using the gifts God gives us individually. In Romans 12, Paul writes about this topic and addresses both his brothers and sisters (12:1) that “we have different gifts. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully (12:6–8). Rather than assign gifts based on a particular gender, He addresses both genders and the command here is to simply use your gifts in service to the Lord, male or female. This idea that we work to our strengths is a biblical one. Yet in my experience, this idea is sometimes missed.
ENDURING THE SETBACKS The Army has recently made a good amount of positive movement in the way of gender equality. However, despite these strides in the right direction to change mindsets regarding officers’ roles based on gender, my journey has often times been difficult. While I have never been told to “go home,” I have been ignored, overlooked, and have had certain assumptions made about what I can and cannot do because I am a woman. In other unintentional moments, a person has questioned my ability to carry out my call to ministry in the fashion that God designed for me. My husband has had similar assumptions imposed upon him for being a man. These words can never be unsaid, but such mindsets can be changed.
The truth is, God formed us, called us, gifted us, and continues to equip and sustain us.
GIVING ALL TO JESUS When confronted with these situations, I want to loudly defend my ministry and my call. The truth is, I don’t need to. They aren’t mine to defend; they are God’s. Everything I am and everything I have all belong to Him.
So, in that realization I rest, both wholly and holy. I offer what I have in service to Him. I know that I honor Him by obeying His call. My character and my competence speak louder than any oral argument. Wholly living for me means offering everything and every gift—even the ones that are frequently ascribed to men—in service to God. My journey has been beautiful in so many ways but also challenging. I am so encouraged to see brighter days on the horizon.
Until then, I will continue to roll up my sleeves and work as I honor God with every step of my journey.
—Captain Amanda Krueger and Captain Alan Krueger are corps officers of the Rome, N.Y., Corps.
by Warren L. Maye Connecting at the Congress
“Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.”
— ACTS 9:15
From June 11–14, The Salvation Army will hold a congress for its members that promises to accommodate over 7,000 people. The multitude of attractions planned for this event in Harrisburg, Pa., will have the potential to be the most dazzling, mesmerizing, and inspiring congress held to date in the northeast. Under the theme “Refocus ‘… and go carry His name,’” attendees will enjoy abundant praise, worship, conversation, and song. Exciting exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, TED–styled talks, and revealing presentations will turn heads as they rubberneck to take it all in.
“We’re coming together as a body of God’s believers to celebrate God’s goodness to us,” said Commissioner William A. Bamford, territorial commander in a promotion video. Skirted–display tables with imaginative backdrops adorned with attractive giveaways will abound. Passersby will stuff them into colorful logoed bags. Their eyes will widen, and their minds will race with ideas to implement in their ministries when they return home. For a century, such events have energized Salvationists throughout the world. These meetings have inspired longtime members and newcomers to pursue ministries and careers in The Salvation Army for the glory of God.
An essential gathering These exciting assemblies are essential as they address frequent feelings of loneliness that many ministers of the gospel experience in the course of serving in their appointments. In their corner of the mission field far from inspiring crowds, they toil daily, sometimes in the face of adversity. Occasionally challenged by meager resources, they nonetheless strive to fulfill the great commission of God. In anticipation of the Congress, they load their vans with congregants and drive many miles to get there in hope that such a grand gathering will infuse them with optimism, heal feelings of disconnectedness, and revive their spirit.
“I’m excited and enthusiastic about what the 2020 Vision Congress will bring to the USA Eastern Territory,” said General Brian Peddle, international leader of the global Salvation Army. He and Commissioner Rosalie Peddle will lead united sessions that will teach Christian leaders how they can work effectively in their communities. To accomplish this, the General and Commissioner Peddle will base their keynote addresses on the book of Acts chapter 9, which features Saul’s conversion to Christianity and his miraculous spiritual transformation into the Apostle Paul. The General and Commissioner Peddle will present a series of five points gleaned from Paul’s transformation — the 5 Rs of revival. (see sidebar)
Innovation in 2020 Among other attractions, the InnoVision Center and OnPoint Talks will highlight the offerings. Envoy Steve Bussey, codirector of the Innovation Department for the Eastern Territory,
THE 5 Rs OF REVIVAL
REVEAL God reveals himself to Saul on the road.
REDIRECT God redirects Saul from his tyrannical mission to a divine one.
RESPOND Saul (now Paul) literally picks himself up in response to God’s call.
REIMAGINE Ananias, who reimagines the possibilities, now sees Paul as a member of the Christian community and God’s messenger of peace, love, and hope.
REVIVE At the Congress finale, which will include the appointment of new Salvation Army officers (pastors), the planners are hoping for a spiritual revival that will impact all in attendance—officers, soldiers, colleagues, families, and friends—so that they may be revived in their spirit and catch a powerful vision for 2020 and beyond.
said, “This isn’t just an exhibit or a show, but is a showcase of innovative ideas that are taking place throughout our territory and are having an impact. They are the means by which we can cross–pollinate those ideas and inspire similar ideas that we can bring back to our local communities.
“So, we’re taking what is already happening informally and making it formal. We’re not a ‘one–trick pony’ in The Salvation Army; we’re filled with great core competencies and there are hundreds of creative experiments taking place that will be part of tomorrow’s culture.”
Bussey acknowledges that some of these innovations may fade but says that’s okay. “Some things just have a temporal impact, but other things are going to be the seedbed that will grow to become a defining factor in what we do tomorrow.”
– Dennis & Fran Halaby
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