ADVISORY/Salvation Army and Greater Philadelphia Baptist Association Welcome 1,200 Youth Mission Volunteers to Philadelphia.

    News/Assignment Editors
    ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 18)

      --(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Salvation Army

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EVENT:          The Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia and the
                Greater Philadelphia Baptist Association will welcome
                1,200 volunteers from "World Changers," a student
                volunteer initiative of the Southern Baptist
                Convention/North American Mission Board.  The student
                volunteers will participate in dozens of neighborhood
                beautification projects around the city throughout the
                summer as part of a continued neighborhood
                revitalization effort.

                Approximately 200-300 students from "World Changers"
                and other youth volunteer teams will visit
                Philadelphia each week throughout the summer to
                support volunteer projects for The Salvation Army and
                other local churches.

                Rev. Dr. Wilson Goode will visit one of the first
                groups of student volunteers at The Salvation Army's
                Temple Corps Community Center in Philadelphia.  The
                youth volunteers will paint the exterior of the
                community center and the interior of the gymnasium and
                repair the playground for neighborhood children and
                youth residents of the adjoining Red Shield Family
                Shelter.

                The students, from middle school through college, will
                join professional builders, adult chaperons, crew
                leaders, neighborhood residents and church members to
                revitalize these communities through various
                service projects.  The Salvation Army volunteer
                projects throughout the summer will include painting
                apartments in the residences, building community
                gardens, repairing playgrounds, painting fences, and
                organizing block clean-ups.

DATE/TIME:      Tuesday, June 18, 2002
                10:00 a.m.

PLACE:          The Temple Corps
                1340 Brown Street
                Philadelphia, PA 19123

ATTENDEES:      Captain Jorge Diaz, City Coordinator, The Salvation
                 Army
                Rev. Dr. W. Wilson G. Goode, Sr., Senior Advisor of
                 Faith-Based Initiatives, City of Philadelphia
                Steve Sheldon, Interim Director of Missions, Greater
                 Philadelphia Baptist Association

BACKGROUND:     The Salvation Army was founded 135 years ago as a
                religious and social services organization.
                Since that time, the organization has taken a holistic
                approach to working with people, addressing their
                physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs
                without discrimination.
                The Salvation Army provides community supportive
                services, residential shelters, foster care,
                developmental disabilities programs, disaster relief
                services, correctional services programs, child
                development centers, after-school care and Corps
                Community Centers.  For more information, visit
                www.salvationarmyphiladelphia.org

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    CONTACT: The Salvation Army, Philadelphia
             Cheri LaSpada, 215/238-6847
             [e-mail]

    KEYWORD: PENNSYLVANIA
    INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HUMAN RESOURCES ADVISORY
    SOURCE: The Salvation Army