In July 1865 a man named William Booth spoke to the small amount of people gathered on a hot day in the slums of London. This was the prospects of an army. Thirteen years later, that same person had attracted a band of fighters that, with the stroke of a pen, became an army.

Today, the Salvation Army is known all over the world. Its religious and social service activities have given hope to millions of men and women in more than 96 nations.

William Booth brought together The Salvation Army. He started his ministerial career in 1852 but that was never what he had really wanted to do in life. W. Booth was a great man who wanted to make a difference.

The leaders of the church disagreed with Booths prospects. They preferred traditional methods, so as a res

In 1865, William Booth was invited to hold a series of evangelistic meetings in the East End of London. He began in July in a tent set up in a Quaker graveyard. These meetings were greatly successful and proved to be a proper beginning. They ended his wanderings as an itinerant evangelist, and began his career and renown as the leader of a group of dedicated people to fight for under-privileged men and women.

The Salvation Army's purpose is to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world on two levels: Spiritual and Social. Salvationists all share the beliefs of most mainline Christian Churches.

Since then a network of 800 Salvation Army centres caring for spiritual and social welfare has been established.

The Salvation Army came to Australia when two Christian mission converts met in the Pirie Street Wesleyan church in Adelaide and decided to continue Salvation Army activities by holding an open meeting in the Botanic Park there in September 1880. They wrote to William Booth requesting officer leadership and when the first officers, Captain and Mrs Thomas Sutherland, arrived in February 1881 they were met by an enthusiastic group of "home grown Aussie" Salvationists.

In Booth's congregation there were prostitutes, criminals, gamblers, and drunks. He told stories of hope and salvation. His aim was to lead them to Christ so he could lead them to a church for further s

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