General Brian Peddle Updates Salvationists and Friends on COVID-19

The international leader of The Salvation Army released a video encouraging people to ‘step up’ at this unprecedented time.

GENERAL Brian Peddle, international leader of The Salvation Army, has today released a video message to Salvationists and friends, encouraging them to ‘step up’ at this unprecedented time of global fear caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The General has also encouraged the sharing of this video message, online and in corps (churches) and other Salvation Army centres. It can be viewed and downloaded from Vimeo at the link below.

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