Salvation army

Salvation army: history: The salvation army was found by William booth and Catherine booth in 1865, William accepted an invitation to conduct evangelistic in the east end of London. The terrible conditions experienced by the workers, inspired William and Catherine to focus on the poor people. This was called the submerged tenth society. The focused on helping people with mental or physical problems. They also helped lots of hungry children So then how did the salvation army come to new Zealand? In 1878 they decided to go world wide, and in 1880's they sent two  The two officers, Captain George Pollard and Lieutenant Edward Wright, brought three Australian Salvationists. Between them they established The Salvation Army in New Zealand.  In a small period of time the salivation army had opened 21 places all around New Zealand and became a big part of this country.

Salvation army What were about: Since 1883 the salvation army has helped over 120,000 family's with poverty. When a family is in poverty  it means they are in need of money, and cannot pay any household bills, have not go enough food for the family and are in dept. This means they could be in potential danger because they do not have the necessities to live. Family's like this need our help. Imagine kids not getting a birthday present or not having food in the fridge. Imagine starving yourself because their is nothing in the pantry that you can just grab.  You may think that these family's need to work, don't get me wrong, most of them do but some family's physically cant because of a mental or disabled problem. People get judged the wrong way and the only way they are able to get money is from the government wadge, this is not enough for them and only gets them a small meal a day depending on how big the family is.  Family's like these need our help and by dona...