Caring Magazine

☝️Caring Magazine is your real-life guide on living to make a difference, in both sweeping and "day to day" strokes. ⁠ ⁠ We believe good starts with you because you're not just here, you're here to live out a story only you can. ✨️⁠ ⁠ 🙏So join us and discover how you can make an impact right where you are. ⁠ 🔗Read our latest print issue here:  https://lnkd.in/gwrJ-P8U #DoGood #LoveBeyond

☝️We’re back with our final highlight episode from the 2024 Testify Congress.⁠  ⁠ Yes, last month, in Pasadena, California, The Salvation Army from around the Western Territory joined for an event focused on teaching, training and motivating Salvationists to tell the story of Jesus more often and to more people. 🙏⁠  ⁠ And The Salvation Army’s international leaders, General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham, traveled from London to be part of it all.⁠  ⁠ 💬 You've heard the General speak from this event a couple times now—in Episode 193 and 197. ⁠ ⁠ Today, we bring you his final appearance of the Congress before some 3,000 attendees at the Pasadena Convention Center Civic Auditorium. This is his public charge to the new lieutenants. ⁠  ⁠ ✨️Over the weekend, the Defenders of Justice session of cadets were commissioned as Salvation Army officers, or pastors, and in this meeting were given their very first ministry assignment. In fact, they don't find out the location until they are standing on stage! ⁠ ⁠ And this is the battle cry, if you will, for each one of them from The Salvation Army's international leader. ⁠  ⁠ 🎧️Listen in here and be encouraged in your eagerness to serve, too: https://lnkd.in/gH6dzsY9 #DoGoodersPodcast #TestifyCongress #TellTheWorld

👋 Meet 72-year-old Howard Novich, a volunteer at The Salvation Army Albuquerque (New Mexico Corps). ⁠ ⁠ Not only does Novich act as liaison between the corps and Silvercrest Senior Residence, he also assists young volunteers with disabilities, serves as Corps Sargent Major, teaches Sunday school and more. ⁠🙏⁠ ⁠ "I may have arthritis, but I keep going," Novich said. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read more about Novich and his impact with The Salvation Army Southwest Division here: https://lnkd.in/gEAeqs4N #VolunteerSpotlight #DoGood #LoveBeyond

"What if writing (and rewriting) the moral of the story is the bravest, most expansive thing you can do?" writes Ally Fallon in her latest book, "Write Your Story." 📕⁠ ⁠ ☝️For Fallon, morals aren't reductive or limiting. ⁠ ⁠ Instead, they provide a foundational lens for the rest of our narratives. And we can choose what we want that lens to be. 🙏⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read how Fallon rewrote the moral of her story to find a more positive lens here: https://lnkd.in/gh7VwGUY #DoGood #LoveBeyond

☝️“When you come through a program like ours, we're going to help you develop a lot of different things.⁠ ⁠ We're trying to heal with wrap-around services, from housing, to life skills to financial literacy, so even though it's a culinary program, we're wrapping all these services around learning how to cook.” ❤️⁠ ⁠ 💬 Chef Timothy Tucker, Culinary Arts Program Director for The Salvation Army's Culinary Training Academy in San Francisco⁠ ⁠ 🔗Learn more about how The Salvation Army provides employment training across the Western U.S. here: https://lnkd.in/gNJjUx5z #DoGood #LoveBeyond

We are so excited to share our latest issue with you all!

☝️Hayleigh Smith, a design student at Santa Monica College in California, said she, "pretty much only thrifts."⁠ ⁠ It's one of the reasons she resonated with "Transformed Treasures," a design competition hosted by the college and The Salvation Army. ✨️⁠ ⁠ 👖Students transformed end-of-life denim into fresh designs, supporting Salvation Army rehabilitation programs and efforts to give the fashion industry a sustainable overhaul. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read how here: https://lnkd.in/gbYUqPSU #DoGood #TransformedTreasures #SecondChances #ShopSecondHand #Thrifting

☝️We’re back with more highlights from the 2024 Testify Congress.⁠ ⁠ Last month, in Pasadena, California, The Salvation Army from around the Western Territory joined for an event focused on teaching, training and motivating Salvationists to tell the story of Jesus more often and to more people. 🙏⁠ ⁠ And the sessions featured, you guessed it, testimonies from programs and ministries of The Salvation Army across the West. ⁠ ⁠ ✨️Today, we’re sharing two:⁠ ⁠ First, you'll hear from Monte Mansfield, a one-time professional athlete whose life was forever altered by substance abuse. Eventually, he found The Salvation Army through the Adult Rehabilitation Center program. ⁠ ⁠ Then, Sthephania Mihilii, who moved to the U.S. from Mexico in second grade when her single mom married. She rebelled in her teenage years and then became a lifeguard at a Salvation Army Kroc Center. ⁠ ⁠ 📣So allow us to introduce to you today, Monte Mansfield and Sthephania Mihilii.⁠ ⁠ 🎧️Listen in here: https://lnkd.in/gHdGtsUw #DoGoodersPodcast #TestifyCongress #ShareYourStory

☝️We’re back with more highlights from the 2024 Testify Congress.⁠ ⁠ Last month, in Pasadena, California, The Salvation Army from around the Western Territory joined for an event focused on teaching, training and motivating Salvationists to tell the story of Jesus more often and to more people. 🙏⁠ ⁠ And The Salvation Army’s international leaders, General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham, traveled from London to be part of it all.⁠ ⁠ ✨️You may remember the General from episode 178, where we chatted about why your testimony matters (and how to use it for good). And in Episode 193, we shared his message from the first main session of the Congress with some 3,000 attendees at the Pasadena Convention Center Civic Auditorium.⁠ ⁠ Today, we bring you his preaching from the third main session, focused on holy living.⁠ ⁠ 🎧️Listen in and be encouraged to embrace your identity in Christ here: https://lnkd.in/gD92UJpw #DoGoodersPodcast #TestifyCongress #DoGood

🙏“I let it go when I left the driveway that day…⁠ ⁠ I didn't sleep that night, because I really was thinking, ‘What's the next move here? What is the next thing we're gonna have to do?’⁠ ⁠ Going to the different sites that were open, it made a difference because people were seeing me…and they knew that we were alive, that we survived. It was good to see a lot of different people. ❤️⁠ ⁠ They always ask, ‘How are you doing?’ I try not to ask that question anymore, because, I mean, I already know how they're doing. I’d rather open up with another question, and it helps them to open up and talk about what's going on, how are they feeling…And a lot of people have learned that they're not alone.” ⁠ ⁠ 💬 Envoy Kevin Nagasaki, Lahaina Lighthouse (Hawaii) Corps ⁠ ⁠ 🔗Learn more about Envoy Nagasaki and The Salvation Army Hawaiian & Pacific Islands Division's response to the 2023 Maui fires here: https://lnkd.in/g3ATsD8W #LoveBeyondDisaster #DoGood #MauiStrong