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The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, [3] consisting of soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as ...
Upon her death in 2003, Kroc bequeathed $1.5 billion (equivalent to $3 billion in 2023) to The Salvation Army solely for the purpose of establishing centers of opportunity, education, recreation and inspiration throughout the United States to be known as "Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers". [3] [4] [5]
An allegorical map included in In Darkest England, illustrating Booth's proposed scheme for salvation of the poor, including three forms of colony: city, farm, and across the sea. In Darkest England and the Way Out is an 1890 book written by William Booth in which Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army , proposed a number of social reforms to ...
Hattersley, Roy (1999), Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army, Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-85161-2; Railton, George Scott (1912), The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, George H. Doran; Sandall, Robert (1947), The History of the Salvation Army Vol.1 1865–78, Thomas Nelson
William Booth College on Champion Park, Denmark Hill in the London Borough of Southwark, is the headquarters of The Salvation Army leadership and officer training which delivers education and training programmes for the United Kingdom. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the college is a memorial to William Booth.
The Salvation Army U.S.A. Western Territory; Salvation Army Act 1931; Salvation Army Act 1963; Salvation Army Act 1980; Salvation Army Boys Adventure Corps; Salvation Army corps; Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers; Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network; Salvation Army Vision Network; The Salvation Army, Canada; Chief of the Staff of ...
The organization was founded in 1882 by Thomas E. Moore as a splinter group from The Salvation Army in response to financial disagreements between Moore and Salvation Army founder William Booth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1885 the organization officially adopted a charter as the Salvation Army of America , but in 1913 it was renamed American Rescue Workers ...
A Salvation Army corps is a local church organization [1] and physical place of worship in The Salvation Army. Like the Christian term "church" a corps includes both the physical building and the body of members who attend at the building. [ 2 ]