Marion Celebrates

Yesterday the Corps had a stall at the Marion Celebrates Festival. We advertised The Salvation Army, promoted Corps programmes, invited people to Easter celebrations, sold fair trade coffee and chocolate and CD's from the training college. Thousands of people were in attendance and saw that The Salvation Army continues to be a relevant and active part of Marion City. One council worker, upon seeing Brad, Angela, Craig and Catherine said that it was so good to see The Salvation Army looking so young! Hundreds of people came to our stall, and dozens took brochures about our programmes. We even sold a little bit of chocolate. The interaction with the community was brilliant. As we sat, late afternoon, talking to Paulo and Lilly, a local couple, it was gratifying to think that in one day we'd had so many conversations with members of our community. We even seem to have picked up another service group for the Red Shield Appeal!