A charity or a church?

Here’s the sign on our new building at Bellshill Salvation Army

Did you manage to make out what it says? It says “Church and Community Centre”.

I’ve heard it said a number of times, “I didn’t realise the Salvation Army is a church as well as a charity”. Hopefully our new sign will help remind everyone that yes, the Salvation Army is  a registered charity working in the community to help other, but that we are also a church.

So in answer to the question in the title of this blog post, the answer is both – The Salvation Army is a charity and a church.