Salvation Army: Church or Agency?

 

Excerpt from a WHNT story:

At a meeting Tuesday, the council unanimously approved more than $169,000 in emergency solutions grants that will be divided and distributed to the Community Action Agency, Safeplace, and the Salvation Army of the Shoals.

The funds are being given through a program with the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

“Our issue with homelessness cannot be fixed with a single meal, or a doctor’s appointment, or gas; it takes coordination between all the agencies,” City Council President Dick Jordan said.

Jordan said the funds can be used for outreach, homelessness prevention, and rapid re-housing.

There's so much wrong here that it's almost laughable:

1. Can the Salvationists not make up their mind if they're a church or an agency?

2. Tricky Dick needs to learn when to use "between" and when to use "among."

3. "All the agencies?" Really, Dick?  Didn't you leave out quite a few that you simply just don't like?

4. How is the "outreach" to work? Does an agent approach a disheveled man walking into a hardware store and proceed to ask him if he's homeless or merely working on the plumbing under his house?

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