1. Place Faith & Friends or Edge for Kids in mailboxes in your neighbourhood or introduce the magazines personally door-to-door. Include an invitation to a corps event.

2. With permission, place magazine copies in public waiting areas of medical, government and business buildings. Ask motels in the area to place in rooms.

3. Take Faith & Friends to work; leave copies in the lunch or break room.

4. Hold a literature Sunday in the corps to promote Army publications and our website http://www.salvationist.ca. Challenge corps members to take out subscriptions of Faith & Friends for family members.

5. Give copies of Salvationist to non-Army clergy in your community. Let them know what the Army is doing!

6. Take copies along when visiting people in hospitals and nursing homes. Edge for Kids will brighten the day for any child, especially when confined to a hospital room!

7. Start a community business route or prison visitation ministry using Faith & Friends as a tool to spark conversations and open doors of witness.

8. Give subscriptions to Army publications as birthday, anniversary or Christmas gifts. A gift card can be sent in your name. Contact the editorial department (416-422-6112) for details.

9. Give a copy of Salvationist to your local member of parliament, house of assembly member or city councillor. Send a copy to the mayor's office.

10. Hold a backyard or parking lot barbecue with a stall promoting corps programs; hand out free copies of Faith & Friends.

11. Distribute copies at local fairs, exhibitions and outdoor festivals.

12. Include Salvationist with thank-you letters for financial donations to your corps.

13. Make copies of Salvationist available to the up-and-coming leaders of your corps.

14. Using a portable billboard or lawn sign, invite passers-by inside the hall to receive a free copy of Faith & Friends. Engage them in conversation and use opportunities for witness that may develop.

15. Encourage your Sunday school children to give Edge for Kids to school friends.

16. Place copies of Faith & Friends in shopping bags at thrift stores and in food hampers at family services offices.

17. Make Edge for Kids available in waiting areas of family services offices.

18. Encourage corps members to purchase subscriptions of Army magazines for your local library.

19. Include article highlights, from the monthly electronic update, Keep Connected, in the corps bulletin or weekly announcements.

20. Include a copy of Salvationist in every corps bulletin. Better still, have greeters hand them out as they welcome each person to the worship service.