Joe Maddon, manager of the 2008 American League champion Tampa Bay Rays, sees baseball as his business and people as his passion. He loves to cook and serve at Salvation Army centers. A committed pray—er, he doesn't pray to win but to have 'strength and courage to do the right things.'

If you visit this Salvation Army corps in Nashville, you won't hear a sermon. But you will have an opportunity to hear testimonies—and maybe even give one yourself.

Born in 2000 in the Salvation Army's USA Eastern Territory, the Territorial Arts Ministry (TAM) Bureau is turning 10. Director Carol Jaudes says that the experience has been 'more than all we asked or imagined.'

'Bruce' and 'Betty' Keobounhom lead a Salvation Army corps in Rockford, Ill. Their saga, however, begins in Laos and Thailand, where they were both once Buddhists.

That means 'beyond happy.' Despite the daily challenges of working in a children's home with some troubled boys, that's what Rachel Thieme writes in her blog about being on mission in Mazatlán, Mexico.