“I didn’t know you were a church”
The Salvation Army came to be because churches in Victorian England would not accept the homeless, drunks and prostitutes that William Booth believed most needed to hear the Gospel - The message of God's love and hope for a better life. William's solution to this was to take this message to the streets in the form of preaching and social service: "Soup, Soap and Salvation."
The Salvation Army has been a part of Spokane's community since 1891. We meet together regularly on Sundays for worship and community at our community center. There are also activities that take place throughout the week, many of which are at our community center.
Our Vision
Our vision is to passionately share God's love with all and see lives transformed into followers of Jesus.
Our Values
We, as body of spirit-filled believers in Christ, envision a corps that, through evangelism and worship, will deliver the message of the love of Jesus Christ in a fresh, relevant and contemporary manner. We will continually strive to improve our worship by drawing and benefiting from available information, technology and methods. Desiring to reach all people, we will maintain an expression of worship that is seeker sensitive.
We will nurture spiritual growth in our corps family through the development of small groups. Following the example of Jesus Christ, we will encourage compassionate concern between one another. We will provide our corps members with opportunities for service and personal ministry. We will strive to improve the level of financial, facility and personal stewardship in our congregation. We will effectively build a comprehensive discipleship program.
In our Social Service ministry, we will continue to maximize our resources and take advantage of all possible opportunities to reach out in our community. We will demonstrate our spiritual compassion for people by emphasizing the integration between our community outreach programs and our corps family.
Empowered by God with the expectation of corps growth, we will become a "planting" church. Our corps will model the process of identifying lay leaders for "planting" purposes in our community. We will keep abreast of what is happening around us so that we can successfully network with and be a spiritual leader in the Christian community of our city.