The Salvation Army bell ringers bring out the red kettles each Christmas typically to raise money but this year they’ve taken on a new role. They’re also accepting prayer requests now.
They say the Salvation Army has seen an unprecedented need in the community this year and they’ve had a lot people ask them to pray for them.
It started earlier this fall when the Salvation Army put a prayer request box in their building and received hundreds of requests.
“I was shocked by the need and the intensity of the prayer requests,” Captain Kyle Smith with the Salvation Army said.
A lot of folks don’t realize that the Salvation Army is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church.