by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 24, 2022 | Stories
Every morning at 6:02 a.m., my alarm pierces through the quiet of my bedroom and rouses me from another night of much-needed rest. While it always takes me a moment to transition out of slumber, I quickly find myself making a mental inventory of all that awaits me...
by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 19, 2022 | Stories
Combine innovative music and arts instruction with high-octane corps day camp activities and you have “Project Create,” a five-week smorgasbord for kids that is adding to the corps numbers and public awareness of the Army’s presence in the community. It has also...
by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 11, 2022 | Stories
Ken Brown is the manager of two Salvation Army Family Stores in Greensboro, North Carolina—and it is accepted that the main purpose of such stores across the territory is to provide funds to benefit the corps. These Greensboro stores, the main one located close to...
by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 11, 2022 | Stories
My father was born in 1928. By the time I came into the world in 1956 and became aware of some of his practices in 1963, he regularly enjoyed coffee with cream and sugar. A fair amount of sugar in each cup. One of the duties tasked to my sister and I was preparing...
by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 5, 2022 | Stories
I was wrong. Four years ago, I wrote that the biggest barrier to discipleship was busyness, but it’s not true now, and honestly, it doesn’t look like it was true then either. At the time, I quoted from Barna’s recently published “The State of Discipleship” study in...
by Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee | Oct 4, 2022 | Stories
Some years ago a young woman officer wrote the colonel in command of a European territory telling him she meant to resign if she could not get souls saved. But she did not resign. A pastor, famous for the revivals which swept his churches and...
