.photo by Duane Romanell

Beyond the Dropbox

Ask your average person on the street and they'll know of The Salvation Army for its thrift stores, it's Red Kettles at Christmas or perhaps even for memories of wartime donut girls. Mention of our modern day Army as a church or even as its own denomination usually catches people off guard. And yet, beyond our thrift store dropboxes there lies an aggressive history of social activism often overlooked or even ignored by our modern day church.

The primitive Army sought out social justice regardless of political stance or unpopularity, but simply because it was in line with the heart of God; The heart that has an expressed bias for the poor, the needy and the oppressed. So too, the "new" Primitives seek to address social injustice as we approach the global end-time harvest.

This list of campaigns - the "seven deadly sins" against humanity - as with most of the information regarding them, has been taken from the book Be a HERO: The Battle for Mercy and Social Justice by Wesley Campbell and Stephen Court. Additional resources may also be found at http://www.beahero.org.