Sunday 22 September 2019 has been designated as The Salvation Army’s international Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking. This is an annual day of worship, prayer and action surrounding the problem of human trafficking. Salvation Army corps (churches)
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. The answer will depend on how much the person answering knows about the organization. One would say: “It is my favourite store!” – with reference to our thrift stores. Another would say “They help the poor!”. A third may
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. The Salvation Army’s international mission statement declares that our mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and‘to meet human needs in his name without discrimination’ (1). In the general’s ‘Call to Inclusion’, we are again
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. I do not need to spend many minutes reading messages and comments on social media before I start to wonder if some people have forgotten what respect means. However, today my question refers to the
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. At the end of June, I will go to Norway and be part of the congress. This will be a ‘different’ congress, and I look forward to it. In particular, I look forward to the
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. ABBA put music to the statement “The winner takes it all!”. Sometimes it feels like that, and from a secular perspective, it seems to be an established truth. There is also empiric evidence confirming that a
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. Hjørdis was not my ‘aunt’ in terms of being a relative. All the same, the children who attended the nursery-class at the Sunday school in Stavanger in the late 1950s called her ‘aunt Hjørdis’. I don’t know
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. When General Brian Peddle calls The Salvation Army to‘confidence in the gospel’(1), it could also be a call to all believers in the Christian Church. Paul’s credo confirms the power of the gospel: For I
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen.The last ten weeks I have focused on the call to ‘Be Ready’, which is the first part of General Brian Peddle’s ‘Call to Mission’ (1). Today I start with the call to ‘Be
Words by Colonel Jostein Nielsen. When I was a cadet in the “Overcomers Session” 1974-76 in London, the campaign “For God’s sake CARE” had still a strong focus in the profiling of The Salvation Army. In 2019, almost 45 years later The
