Top Ten Salvation Army Stories in 2020

1. Unprecedented international response to global pandemic surpasses 100 countries including greatly increased frontline social relief, global call to prayer, extensive social media outreach, innovative musical creativity and uninterrupted proclamation of the gospel.

2. Global response to Black Lives Matter movement with public commitments to ethnic equality and diversity by international leaders, positional statement deployment, task force creation and Racial Justice Summit in Chicago, USA.

3. New International Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Response Strategy, Fight for Freedom, launched in September — already a recognized leader in the field, this is the first coordinated global response by The Salvation Army.

4. Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham appointed as World Secretary for Spiritual Life Development — a first.

5. 2 International Positional Statements released, Disabilities and Death Penalty — with The Salvation Amy calling for the end of the death penalty.

6. March 2020 International Leaders Conference in Portugal cancelled and reorganized into November 2020 teleconference format.

7. International Staff Songsters celebrate 40-year anniversary.

8. International Women’s Ministries launch Reimagining strategy, vision statement and call to ‘do a new thing’

9. Royal Family hosts UK Salvation Army leaders and ISB brass ensemble at Windsor Castle to express thanks for Salvation Army pandemic response relief work.

10. Biggest ever Red Kettle launched in Times Square, New York, as part of USA Rescue Christmas seasonal fund-raising strategy.