Product Description
This volume has been prepared in order to provide the corps officer in the United States with a clearer definition and conception of his role. It is intended to provide helpful guidelines toward the leadership and management of the wide variety of services rendered by corps in the U.S.A. territories.
The essential conception of the corps officer's role remains the same. Presented herein is a reinterpretation in the light of changed and changing situations in the United States and the effect of these changes on the direction and character of the corps ministry. This volume also seeks to provide unified perspective, for the greatly increased complexity of the corps officer's role in the United States necessitates a unified approach to that role if its essential purpose is to be maintained.
Three chapter divisions are designed to provide a logical and coherent approach to the role. Chapter I deals with the corps. The nature and mission of the corps define the basic context of the corps officer's role. Chapter II deals with the corps officer's mission and responsibility. Chapter III deals with the corps officer's role, outlining the means by which he carriers out his mission and explaining how these relate to his purpose.
This boo, a presentation of principles and guidelines, provides a conceptual framework within which the corps officer can work. It is not designed to answer every question or solve every problem confronting him, but does provide a basic description of his role.
The Salvation Army corps in the United States possess and added dimension of service potential which broadens their opportunities to server people and which requires and extension of the traditional designation of "corps." U.S.A. corps are concerned with and actively involved in meeting community needs of many kinds. Army facilities serve as a focal point of service to all people of the community. The traditional term "corps" has, there fore, been extended to "corps-community center" which term will be used in these guidelines in most instances when referring to the corps. Officer personnel will continue to be referred to as "corps officers" or "commanding officer" as the case may be.
The term "corps-community center" is not intended to change the traditional designation of "corps," but simply to point up the broad, functional and service aspects of its program. It is more definitive than denominational.
