Bachelor of Community Services: Salvation Army Community Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Salvation Army community organization, examining its core functions, objectives, practices, and funding sources. The Salvation Army's purpose is to support and strengthen families and communities, providing various services based on available resources and programs, with a mission to preach the gospel and meet human needs without discrimination. The report explores the organization's use of a military hierarchy, its focus on Christian conversion, and its provision of volunteer services, disaster relief, and anti-trafficking initiatives. It outlines the Salvation Army's objectives, including equipping communities for productive lives, fostering social justice, and promoting resource exchange between the church and the community. The report also details the Salvation Army's fundamental processes, such as worship services, and its core beliefs based on 11 doctrines. Finally, it identifies the resources and funding sources, including government bodies and networks, that support the organization's targeted populations, as well as the Salvation Army's integral relationship with the government and its role in mediating social policy.

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Salvation Army community organization
The functioning purpose
The Salvation Army community organization provides services to support and strengthen
families and the community. Depending on the available financial resources and social programs
it provides different services in different areas. Its mission is to preach the gospel and meeting
human needs without discrimination (Garland and Darcy, 2009). The organizational use of
military hierarchy and its members refer to themselves as soldiers. One of its many purposes is to
convert people to Christianity and establishing churches. They provide volunteer services by
helping the poor. Personal and corporate contributions fund its programs through donations to
provide disaster relief and stop human trafficking. It promotes the importance of family values
in its social and evangelical contribution to the community.
Through its social service, it ensures all families have an opportunity to experience
quality community life to reduce the gap between the rich and the people who live in poverty.
(Considine (2013) examines the problems the young people go through such and provide support
to the homeless as well as fight physical and sexual abuse they experience. It fosters care and
gives guidance to adolescents and children who are unable to live in their families. In the past, it
provided short-term services such as giving out food. Currently, it emphasizes on the long-term

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support by seeking to fight unemployment. The community organization manages the refuge for
children and women who leave their homes due to domestic violence. It provides personal
support and accommodation to the refugees. The organization is prepared to take care of those
with additional difficulties such as alcohol and drug-related problems. Its purpose is to eradicate
poverty and provide care to those who are struggling. It educates the public on how to reduce
injustice. The organizational also rehabilitate those who are affected by addiction.
Objectives of the organization
The main objective of the organization is to equip, develop and grow the community to
live productive lives. It also aims at assisting its members to make connections between the
world and their community experiences focusing on issues of social justices. To meet its goals it
provides the community with leadership experiences and employment opportunities. It also aims
at promoting the exchange of resources between the church of the Salvation Army and the
community (McKinley, 2010). It seeks to bring the community and church together to meet the
community needs; share resources educate men and women to become agents of change.
Salvation Army (2015) states that the organization aims at helping the community realize
their abilities and potentials and provide them with the required tools. It also seeks to develop a
community with committed and caring individuals who understand their community. The
organization also aims at utilizing community resources and promoting positive values to the
community of self-fulfillment to enhance a sense of social belongingness. It also seeks to arouse
people to work to improve the welfare of their community and to motivate them to participate in
the developing programs in their community. Salvation Army community service organization
aims at launching reforms in the community to eradicate evil practices. Another objective is to

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abolish individual differences and develop a common interest in the progress of the community.
It also aims at creating a ground for planning and action. Another objective is to change the style
and pattern of the community by giving directions according to the changing lifestyle. It ensures
equality by ensuring equal chances in health, education and in other services (Drucker, 2012).
The fundamental goal of the association is to prepare, create and develop the network to live
profitable lives. It likewise goes for helping its individuals to make associations between the
world and their locale encounters concentrating on issues of social judges. To meet its objectives
it gives the network authority encounters and business openings. It additionally goes for
advancing the trading of assets between the congregation of the Salvation Armed force and the
network (Salvation Army, 2015). It also aims at providing support to children by removing
financial hurdles to enable them to pursue academic studies.
The fundamental processes and practices of the Salvation Army service provider
Salvation Army has a high profile and therefore it has social practices. The Salvation
Army practices are spiritually based. They are purposed at sharing Jesus Christ Gospel to people.
The practices and fundamental processes include,
Worship
In every week, the Salvation Army church services present the message of Christ. The
elements of services have a variety of communication of the Bible message. The message is
passed through music, reading the Bible, acting drama or personal experiences. Families
participate in church activities as a way of worship practice.
Beliefs

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The Salvation Army has 11 doctrines of beliefs. They base their beliefs and teachings on
those doctrines. They are explained and expounds in the hard book of doctrines for Salvation
Army church (Garland and Darcy, 2009). They believe in old and New Testament inspiration of
God. They believe that there is only one God, the father, the son and the Holy Ghost. They
believe that God created one person who was innocent. It is their disobedience to God that they
lost their purity and became sinners.
Practices
Some of the practices that Salvation Army church practice are sacraments. Unlike other
Christian churches, the Salvation Army does not follow sacraments for baptism and communion.
It believes in inward grace for sacraments. It observes Christian festivals of Easter, Pentecost and
charisma. Salvation Army emphasize for the Christian festivals varies from country to another.
Resources and funding from which government body and networks have for the targeted
population in Salvation Army
Salvation Army has an integral relationship with the government. This was manifested in
the employment policy established in the year 1998/2007. It is focused on bringing the market
discourse for reconstruction of the consumers. Salvation Army studies religious connection with
government (Sandall et al, 2009). They mediate with the government concerning the neoliberal
consumerism and competition. The study focuses on shedding the lights on processes affecting
the faith in nonprofit organizations. The organization working together with the Salvation Army
for funding support increases their chances of becoming agents of the government. They are
guided by the policy under new management principles (Collier, 2018). The Salvation Army
plays a major role in making sure that the job network is created. It has attempted to mediate

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organization tension and social policy which arises from independence organizations. It reveals
that the government is the creator of quasi-market.

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