The salvation army @ 153 years in the world and in nigeria @ 98 years

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The salvation army is a international movement of an evangelical part of the universal christian church. It's message is based on the bible, it's mission is to preach the gospel of jesus christ to the whole world and to meet human needs in his name without descrimination.
The salvation army was founded by minister william booth a one time methodist reform church in 2nd July 1865 but note that it was first known as the christian mission and an incident about their charitable and humanitarian work brought william booth, and his son brownwell booth and together and they came up with the phrase with volunteer army" but William booth replaced the phrase with salvation and it was called the salvation army and that was how the name " the salvation army was brought out in the year 1878.
In Nigeria it was brought into nigeria by Lieutenants colonel George H Scouter in Lagos in the year 1920.
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The crest symbol
The crown speaks of Gods reward for his faithful people.
The sun around the crest the light and fire of the holy spirit
The s stand for salvation from sin
The cross of Jesus standing in the crest and the salvationist faith.
The swords is to fight against sin
The seven dot on the circle is the truth of the Gospel
The blood and fire meaning the blood of Jesus shed on the cross to save all people and the fire of the holy spirit which purifies believers
The crest was designed by captain willian ebdon in the year 1878
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The flag was designed by our army mother Catherine booth in the year 1880 (symbol : army's war against sin & social evil)
The Logan heart to God, hand to man later change in (21 Nov 2008 meaning doing the most good.)
The salvation army operate in 129 countries in world
The uniform was in year 1878.
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I am proud to be a salvationist, I am happy to celebrate the founders day in suleja corp
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Thanking for reading

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