Did You Know?

· Operates in 111 countries
· More than 17,000 active and more than 8,700 retired officers, 1,041,461 soldiers, around 100,000 employees and more than 4.5 million volunteers
· Serves more than 35 million people in the U.S. alone
· American composer Charles Ives wrote a piece for vocalist and piano entitled “General William Booth Enters Heaven”
· The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center provides opportunities that facilitate positive, life-changing experiences through: arts, athletics, personal development, spiritual discovery and community service.
· The Salvation Army Museum Basel is a private museum about the Salvation Army
· The three ‘S’s’ best expressed the way in which the Army administered to the ‘down and outs’: first, soup; second, soap; and finally, salvation. Their mission is to bring the whole world under the Christian umbrella