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The Salvation Army is a Christian church and charity organization with a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million. It was founded in 1865 by William and Catherine Booth, and uses military ranks and uniforms for its ministers and officers.
Lyndon Buckingham was commissioned as a Salvation Army officer along with his wife in 1990 in New Zealand. [9] Along with his wife, Buckingham has been appointed to corps (local church centres), divisional (regional oversight), and other territorial headquarters postings in New Zealand and Canada, and held Territorial leadership roles in Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Learn about the training, commissioning, posting and rank structure of Salvation Army officers, who are ordained ministers and leaders of the Christian faith. Find out the requirements, locations and history of officer training colleges around the world.
Church Army is an evangelistic organisation and mission community founded in 1882 in England and now operating internationally. It trains lay evangelists and mission sisters, runs social action and poverty relief projects, and has centres of mission in areas of deprivation.
General Peddle and his wife, Commissioner Rosalie Peddle, were commissioned in 1977 as Salvation Army officers. [1] [3] Since then, General Peddle has held several appointments, including service as a divisional leader in New Zealand and as Chief Secretary in the UK. He led their home territory (Canada and Bermuda) for three years until his ...
Rotoroa Island is a predator-free island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, owned by the Rotoroa Island Trust. It is a conservation project that hosts endangered wildlife such as kiwi, takahē and pāteke, and offers public access for accommodation and museum.
The William Booth Memorial Training College is a building on Aro Street, in Aro Valley, Wellington, New Zealand, which currently houses the School of Practical Philosophy and Meditation. It was completed in 1913, and named after one of the founders of the Salvation Army, William Booth.
Sir Dean Goffin (9 July 1916 – 23 January 1984) was one of New Zealand's first prolific Salvation Army composers who composed not only music for the Army but for non-Army bands as well. He grew up in a musically active Salvation Army family, his father a famous bandmaster and composer of popular marches.