SMT Prayer Guide
This month Summer Mission Team members are meeting to ask God to guide and prepare them to minister to people across the Midwest and around the world. Though the teams do not head out until June, they need our prayer support now. Click here for a list of requests to help focus your prayers. | | SMT Stories
Ask any Summer Mission Team (SMT) member about their experience and the first thing they'll tell you is, "It changed my life." This summer the Central Territory is sending teams out across the Midwest and to Peru, Russia, Zimbabwe, Spain and South Africa.
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|  VBS Ideas
Probably the number one outreach event for most children's ministries is the Vacation Bible School (VBS) program. Typically this is a program offered five days during one week in the summer, with a standard VBS curriculum and staffed with volunteers from the congregation.
Is it time for a change? Maybe you're having trouble staffing your VBS. Or, your volunteer staff needs a much-deserved break. Maybe you and your ministry need recharged. You're ready for some fresh new ideas.
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VBS Timeline Click here for a Vacation Bible School preparation timeline.. |  CSB and KCS: United in Music
A weekend of exciting opportunities in Kansas City, Mo., for the Chicago Staff Band (CSB) began with a joint concert with the Kansas City Symphony (KCS) on Saturday evening.
"Opportunities for Army bands to perform with professional orchestras do not come along very often," observed Bandmaster William Himes. "But over the years the CSB has been privileged to perform with the Houston, Wichita, Ravinia and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras, and this present experience with the Kansas City Symphony, under the baton of assistant conductor Damon Gupton, was a real treat from start to finish." Read more... The Salvation Army in Argentina
Argentina is part of The Salvation Army's South America East Territory, along with Uruguay and Paraguay. The work of Ejército de Salvación in Argentina and Uruguay was begun in 1890 by four officers who didn't speak a word of Spanish! The work in Paraguay began 20 years later. Read more... SACEP - Making Dreams Come True
For me, earning a degree seemed like a dream that would never come true. Married right out of high school we entered The Salvation Army's College for Officer Training in Chicago. Soon after and before long I was a mother of three. Being moved about every two and a half years I didn't see how I could start a college degree, let alone finish it. Read more...  ARC Journals - Promoting Change
The new Adult Rehabilitation Center journals provide helpful and insightful questions, suggestions and points to ponder to encourage people in the program to express what they think and feel in order to make positive lifestyle changes. The following is an excerpt from the lesson entitled, The Con Game. Read more...
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