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February
Women’s Auxiliaries
The USA South’s auxiliaries and advisory boards wo
Along with highlighting the
Birmingham Advisory Board,
area commander Major Bob
Parker wanted immediate past
chairman Jim Gorrie to be featured. Gorrie has led the capital
campaign to raise over $11
million of the $15 million goal
before the campaign even went
public. A 10-year Birmingham
board veteran, Gorrie is also a
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Birmingham, Alabama,
Advisory Board
Florence, Alabama,
Women’s Auxiliary
One of the premiere events of the Florence, Alabama, community is the annual Empty Bowl Luncheon – organized by the Shoals
(Florence) Women’s Auxiliary. The 12-year-old event has raised a
cumulative amount of nearly half a million dollars. Empty Bowls,
a registered trade name, promotes hunger awareness and money
is raised through ticket sales, shops and a silent auction. “Guests
enjoy soups and breads provided by more than 60 local restaurants
and bakeries. Either a handmade ceramic bowl or cross is given
to each guest to keep as a reminder of the meal’s purpose,” said
Susanne Wadsworth, auxiliary president. Major Sharon Raymer,
women’s ministries director, said the women are the “most hardworking and dedicated group of Salvation Army volunteers that I
know.”
Top: Advisory Board members get into the
spirit of the season, ringing bells with their
families.
Bottom: Joanne Jefferies and Jane Shirley
selling tickets to the Empty Bowl Luncheon
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Northwest Arkansas
Women’s Auxiliary
Central Oklahoma
Advisory Board
Left: Ladies on the Northwest Arkansas
Women’s Auxiliary baked cookies for a
recent event.
Right: Advisory board member Ryan
Frace helps out in the Salvation Army
food pantry.
Georgia
Metro Atlanta
Women’s Auxiliary
Rome Advisory Board
Left: Ladies on the Metro Atlanta Women’s Auxiliary stuffed stockings at Christmas for kids at the Boys and Girls Clubs
in Atlanta.
Right: (L-R) Captain Douglas McClure,
David Hunter (lifetime advisory board
member) and Mark Kozera (board chairman) at the Holiday Can-A-Thon.
Florida
The Northwest
Arkansas Auxiliary is a brand
new auxiliary, yet
divisional commander Major
Steve Morris calls
them a “group of
go-getters” with a
strong desire to do
things right. They
host a booth at the
style items, ask
friends and family for donations
for the cause and
spend hours refurbishing furniture
and collectibles to
sell. In 2015, the
ladies doubled
their 2014 proceeds,
raising $10,885. The
auxiliary’s goals
at this event are to
raise funds, bring
about awareness
annual Northwest of the treasures at
Arkansas Boutique Family Stores and
Show, helping sort inform the comitems in the Family munity about what
Store warehouses
their donations and
to find “boutique” purchases support.
The
Central
Oklahoma
Area
Command
recently
conducted
a capital
campaign
to build the new Center of Hope. The
Central Oklahoma Advisory Board
was instrumental in that and is active
in the Benevon model of raising the
community’s awareness of The Salvation Army. The model involves hosting
tours of the Center of Hope weekly,
where board members invite friends to
tour and those friends later attend what
they know as an “ask” event, where
funds are raised for the Army.
The Rome, Georgia, Advisory Board
has advanced the Army mission for
128 years, and has in the last few years,
seen a sharp increase in board member
involvement. The board also recently
facilitated the first Advisory Board and
Women’s Auxiliary Retreat. Chairman
Mark Kozera’s leadership helped the
board acquire a kettle chairman that
reduced the workload of the officers
and staff, get volunteers to serve 770
hours of kettle service and implement a
development committee to establish the
365 shelter campaign.
The Metro Atlanta
Women’s Auxiliary is
very active and wellrounded in its service –
everything from serving
ARC beneficiaries to
area command. Yet they
envision more – they will
soon organize events for
Haven ATL and expand
their reach in other areas.
Major Casey Cunningham, women’s ministries
project coordinator for
Atlanta Area Command, said, “The
truly amazing and humbling factor of
this auxiliary is its prayer power.” She
added that auxiliary president Dawn
Menear has been integral and fo