The General’s Christmas Message 2024

I had the privilege earlier this year of attending the Testify Congress in the Salvation Army’s USA Western Territory. There were many highlights that weekend, but what stood out for me were the amazing stories of transformation. Men and women whose lives had been radically transformed when they encountered God’s love for them in the […]
Colonels Richard and Ann Borrett – EET Christmas Greeting 2024

I realised this year, as I was putting up this thorn carving nativity set, that I have been doing this for about 50 years. Every Christmas putting this nativity set up either in my office or at home, it has been very precious to me over the years and it has been a reminder of […]
The Scout movement is growing in Ukraine Division during the war

Ivan Berezkin interviews Kostiantyn Shvab, Ukraine Division Leader, about Ukraine Division Scout Camp “No Darkness”, which was held this summer from June 24 to June 29. “Scout movement of the Ukraine Division is a general educational movement for youth and children. The scouting movement is a highly effective way of forming a personality, correct and […]
The Salvation Army provided assistance to the residents of Saltivka, the district of Kharkiv that suffers the most destruction

The city of Kharkiv has been constantly bombarded since the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite all the hardship living is Kharkiv, people continue residing here. The Salvation Army local corps officers responded to the local community needs with humanitarian aid available. Saltivka, area of Kharkiv, is the most destroyed area […]
I believe that there is a great future for our country and for the Salvation Army in Ukraine

I never thought that I would live through a war. Me and my family, of course. But that’s what happened. On February 24, 2022, I was already in Ukraine, after I had spent holidays with my children in Poland. I remember the first few days when the war started. It is hard to imagine that […]
We make our significant contribution to the cause of serving God and people

I started attending Kropyvnytskyi Corps, Ukraine Division, from October 1997. On March 15th, 1998, I was enrolled as a soldier of Kropyvnytskyi Corps. Now I am a corps sergeant major. Like many people, I could not even think that war would come to Ukraine. But at dawn on February 24, 2022, we were awakened by […]
There is the light in me – it prompts me to do everything that depends on me

The war caught me unprepared. I cannot say that I did not know that the war could start. My mind told me that war was inevitable, but my heart continued to believe that it could be avoided. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers who gathered near the borders of my Motherland with full weapons, with jet […]
There is still a threat of death over us today, but am not afraid, as I know that God holds us in his hand

Well before 24 February, all my colleagues and acquaintances, from Ukraine and abroad who are confident in politics and are connected to different authorities, were saying that the war is going to start in Ukraine. My friends from different parts of the world tried to convince me to take my family abroad. But we decided […]