PURPOSE STATEMENT

The Salvation Army Harrisburg Capital City Region listens actively: Respectfully to our clients and collaboratively with our partners, in order to respond to community needs as they change. We celebrate diversity and are inclusive of all persons and views.

TSA Harrisburg nourishes: With meals, with food from the choice pantry, and with nutrition information for healthy lives.

TSA Harrisburg helps: With basic needs, life skills and employment so that each individual can move from dependence to stability or self-sufficiency.

TSA Harrisburg educates: From pre-K through young adulthood to maturity, both for our clients and our staff. We use nutrition creatively to teach math, science and to improve the health of children and their families. Our goal is to strengthen the resilience of individuals – and through them, their families and communities – to meet the opportunities and challenges of life.

TSA Harrisburg worships: Motivated by our love of God, TSA Harrisburg is committed to serving the whole person, in body, mind and spirit without discrimination.

TSA Harrisburg’s Worship and Service Center will be a central location for visible worship and human services, and will be a focus for organizational identity, donor support and as a safe and neutral community resource.

AS A CHURCH WE BELIEVE

• that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they, only, constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.
• that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.
• that there are three persons in the Godhead - the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, undivided in essence and coequal in power and glory.
• that the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.
• that our first parents were created in a state of innocence, but by their disobedience they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.
• that the Lord Jesus Christ has by His suffering and death made an atonement for the whole world so that whosever believeth in Him may be saved.
• that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation.
• that we are justified by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and that he that believeth hath the witness in himself.
• that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.
• that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• in the immortality of the soul, in the resurrection of the body, in the general judgement at the end of the world, in the eternal happiness of the righteous, and in the endless punishment of the wicked.