Salvos in Australia - The Beginning

The Army's southern hemisphere work began in Australia in 1880 when Edward Saunders and John Gore led the first Salvation Army meeting from the back of a greengrocer's cart in Adelaide's Botanic Garden.

When Gore said, "If there's a man here who hasn't had a square meal today, let him come home to tea with me," little did he realise that within a century, The Salvation Army would be feeding hundreds of thousands of Australians, New Zealanders and Pacific Islanders a year.

Church seeks help to map its history

Mmmm... but we're not inviting them home for tea anymore, are we?