Everyone linked to The Salvation Army is invited to contribute to the future of The Salvation Army’s spiritual life by participating in an online survey.
Whether The Salvation Army is your spiritual home or place of worship, your place of work, or if you attend programmes or receive support – your views are needed. If you have any interaction with The Salvation Army, you are encouraged to take part.
‘The spiritual life of our movement and its people matters,’ shares Commissioner Patti Niemand, World Secretary for Spiritual Life Development. ‘This research will help us to understand our strengths and identify areas of needed growth in our spiritual life. Using this information as a guide, The Salvation Army can make better decisions on where to invest resources and provide support, so that we can be a people and a movement moving closer to Jesus.
‘I’m inviting you to join us on this journey. We want to hear from you about your experience of faith and life in The Salvation Army. I encourage you to complete the short, anonymous online survey, which is also an opportunity to pause and reflect on your own walk with Jesus.’
Get involved
Here is how to get involved:
Take part – complete the survey here. Your experience matters – every response helps to create a fuller picture. For those unable to take part online, contact your spiritual life development secretary about focus groups in your territory.
Invite others – reach as many people as possible. Encourage others in your family, your faith community and your network to take part. Share the survey in person, by email or on social media, so everyone has the opportunity to participate.
Continue to pray – pray for every person who will take part, for honesty and openness, and for wisdom and discernment as leaders listen, reflect and act.
Growing and strengthening the spiritual life of The Salvation Army is one of the key priorities of Compass, The Salvation Army’s Global Strategic Framework. The results of this survey will equip the leaders tasked with leading the Spiritual Life workstream in evaluating the overall spiritual life of the international Salvation Army.
The survey is available until Sunday 22 June. Responses are anonymous and will be analysed by the Spiritual Life Development team at International Headquarters. A report of the findings will be shared later in the year.
The online survey is available in the following languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil and Tongan. Further translation is under way.
To take part or learn more about this research, visit sar.my/spirituallife.