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Learn how her mother's illness taught one
woman about the importance of hope and
how it connects us all
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Plumblines
110,435
children from low-
income families
enjoyed fresh air,
exercise and new
friendships last year
at annual Salvation
Army summer camp
programs.
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camps are
staffed by trained
counselors who teach
children new skills
and self-reliance
and who understand
emotional needs and
problems of children
and help them to
mature. Activities
can range from
swimming, hiking,
boating, playing
tennis or basketball
or just relaxing in the
sun and talking with
friends. All campers
attend programs
that entertain while
also teaching the
practical message of
God's love.
72,581
persons registered at
Salvation Army day
camps last year, as
a service to families
who prefer to drop
off and pick up their
children on a daily
basis.
Father and
Son Reunited
TRUE STORIES
I am 54 years old. In March
of last year, my son graduated
from The Salvation Army Adult
Rehabilitation Center (ARC)
in Atlanta, Georgia, having
completed a six-month program
for addiction. That same month
I was in the third month of a six-
month program in the Army ARC
in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Both of us reside in the cities
where we graduated. We are
working full-time jobs and serving
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The Lord and the programs at the
ARC have reunited us through our
love for one another in a way God
intended.
We love our newfound
relationship. We owe our sobriety
and our very lives to God, and
second to the Army's ARC
programs. We found love and
direction within our ARC societies.
The officers in charge loved us
until we could love ourselves and
each other.
We both wish to share that The
Salvation Army's ARCs brought
my son and I together to love
one another for the first time
in many years. The ARCs have
been a tool of the Lord to bring
us our sobriety and our joyous
relationship with our Lord Jesus.
The Chief of the Staff, Commissioner
Andr� Cox,
played a leading role in an
historic day for The Salvation Army in Italy
this spring when he commissioned and
ordained four Salvation Army officers.
The new lieutenants, Luigi and Valentina
Capuano and Luca and Francesca Longo,
are the first officers to be trained and
commissioned in their homeland in 54
years. Officer Commanding Lt. Colonel
Daniel Naud welcomed special guests,
representatives of civic authorities and
other churches to the commissioning
meeting, held in the Methodist Church in
Rome. The visiting leaders were warmly
greeted by Salvationists and friends at
the Army's Rome Corps.
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