April 2024 Devotional: Sinful
By Major Beth Desplancke Recently, while stopped at a stoplight I noticed the vehicle’s license plate in front of me. It was a personalized one – people pay extra to […]
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March 2024 Devotional: Christ Truly Understands Our Suffering
By Major Harryette RaihlDivisional Women’s Ministries SecretarySouthern California Division He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Isaiah 53:3 I want to know […]
March 2024 Craft: Mosaic Cross Craft
By Margaret GriecoTerritorial Women’s Ministries Department “That I may know Christ, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings…being conformed to His death.” Philippians 3:10 Beauty […]
March 2024 Bible Study: The Suffering of Jesus
By Major Sybil SmithTorrance, CA Corps Southern California Division OVERVIEW:In this *study we will be looking at the different times throughout Scripture in which Jesus faced suffering in His life. […]
March 2024 Flourish Newsletter
This month we are focusing on flourishing by being deeply rooted in the spiritual discipline of Solidarity in Jesus’ Suffering. In her book, Spiritual Disciplines: Practices That Transform Us, Adele […]
Women Preach Sunday
In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8, 2024), the USA Western Territory held its first annual “Woman Preach Day” on Sunday, March 3. The goal was to have as […]
He Took Our Pain
By Major Beth Desplancke When my oldest son, Ryan, was 7 ½ years old, my mother-in-law, on a Monday morning, took him to the doctor’s office for a drop-in appointment, […]
February 2024 Devotional: Let’s Unplug
By Captain Amelia MottOlympia, WA CorpsNorthwest Division “If my phone dies, I die.” “I was lost this week without my phone, I am not sure how I survived.” “I bet […]
February 2024 Bible Study: Unplugging
By Lt. Makda RodrigueraSeattle White Center, WA CorpsNorthwest Division I remember jokingly saying to someone that I wouldn’t know what to do with myself without my phone. Even though I […]
February 2024 Craft: Napkin Mod Podge Planter
By Captain Hilda ParksRenton, WA CorpsNorthwest Division A great way to unplug is to craft. Here is an easy craft that you can make and enjoy during your “unplugged” times. […]