I recently spent time with some Salvation Army folks and was impressed with their commitment to serve the poor... something many Christian orgs don't do. Their founder was known to make the statement that he and the Army wanted to put a screen or net over the mouth of the sewers in his town to catch, help and give hope to the poorest of the poor... that is a mission worth talking about and getting involved with! They also were way a head of the current thrift-store movement and have helped countless people over their long history... Remember the next time you are tempted to think of the SA as people dressed in odd suits only doing the Santa Claus thing at Christmas...that they are way more involved with the real Gospel than we might think...