Fight for Good series: Grace vs. discipline
Poverty is an everyday battle. People experiencing poverty are not without hope – their lives are just harder than they should be. But, The Salvation Army is helping to make their lives a little easier, thanks to your gifts of time and money. The Fight for Good series aims to show how by following individuals through one of their daily poverty battles. Here is one such example.
Grace vs. discipline
A local police officer escorted a young woman named Kim into our office after pulling her over a few minutes before. Instead of giving her a ticket, he’d chosen to bring her to a place he could trust – The Salvation Army.
The officer had recognized Kim from when he used to perform community policing at her school. He told our social worker that she was a good kid who’d just made some bad choices. Kim hugged the police officer, and both began to cry.
After the police officer left, the social worker gave Kim a bag filled with food and emergency supplies, and she spoke to Kim about available housing and counseling programs.
Join the Fight for Good
Thankfully, there’s an Army – made up of people just like you – that seeks to start seeing the poverty that has always existed around them.
If you desire to do something good, to further a cause you care about, to join the battle against poverty – here are three simple ways to join us in the fight for good:
- Donate at a red kettle or online. Fight poverty one dollar and one coin at a time by giving each time you pass a red kettle (later this month), or support your local Salvation Army through an online donation.
- Become a volunteer bell ringer. Join the fight against poverty by giving your time as a red kettle bell ringer. Kettles with volunteer ringers raise double the amount of funds that support our poverty-fighting programs.
- Recruit your own army. The fight for good needs soldiers. Recruit others to join the fight for good by setting up a fundraiser and sharing your passion for helping others on RedKettleReason.org.
The scenario described above is about a real person helped by The Salvation Army Northern Division. Names were changed to protect the individual’s privacy.