Evangeline Booth College

08/31/2026

Look around that room, and you will not find just one kind of person. You will find someone who left a career they were good at. Someone walking out years of recovery, one honest day at a time. Someone who came in certain, and someone who almost stayed home, sure, they were too old or too far from perfect to belong. None of them arrived as experts.

They arrived as themselves. And the same call that unsettled each of them is the reason they now stand in the same room, singing to the same God. That is what you will find at a 730 Weekend. Not a mold you have to fit, but a room already holding people who came exactly as they are.

Come and see. 730 Weekend, September 11 through 13.
Registration deadline is today, August 31.

08/26/2026

EBC brings together cadets from completely different worlds, with different cities, countries, backgrounds, and stories of how they got here. Some grew up in The Salvation Army, while others discovered it later, and some felt called immediately, while others wrestled with it for years.

The Salvation Army mission does not erase where you came from; it unites you in where you are going. The community you build here transcends geography, background, and experience.

08/24/2026

Ready is a feeling. Obedience is a decision, and sometimes the decision is small.

The very first word Jesus gave His disciples was not a plan or a title. It was an invitation: follow. He called them to be with Him before He ever sent them out. And in that nearness, walking beside Him, watching how He moved, asking the questions they were afraid to ask, they slowly discovered who they were and what they were made for. Calling was not handed to them in a moment.

It was revealed as they stayed close. That is what a 730 Weekend is built for. Three days in Atlanta to stand near officers and cadets, watch this life up close, and ask everything you have been carrying. You do not examine a call from a distance. You come near, and clarity finds you there.

You do not have to feel ready. You just have to come.
730 Weekend, September 11 through 13.
Registration deadline is August 31.

08/21/2026

If any of these excuses are living rent-free in your mind, we would love to help.

"Too old to study again" ──> cadets arrive at 22 and at 52, and the staff meets you where you are.

"I'm behind on my education" ──> built-in support, from writing help to the AMP program.

"Single, and everyone's married" ──> officers serve faithfully single, and there is no pressure to be otherwise.

"A past I can't undo" ──> this campus is full of people whose past became their calling, not their disqualification.

"My family doesn't understand" ──> we will pray with you, and you will stand with a session that supports you while you figure it out.

Every cadet carried excuses too, and still said yes. The call does not wait for you to feel ready. It waits for you to be willing.

08/19/2026

Green lawns and historic buildings, yes, but what sets EBC apart isn’t what happens inside them. The mission field begins at the front gate, the neighborhood you will serve is right across the street, and cadets step into real ministry from week one. Two years where learning and serving are never separate.

Come walk it for yourself.

08/17/2026

Watch what changes. Same room, same worship, but the person walks in one way and leaves another. That is what happens when honest questions meet God and a community that has been where you are.

The people who came to a 730 Weekend unsure, afraid they were too old or too far from perfect, will tell you the doubt was real. They will also tell you that over three days, this became the room where the transformation began.

Come see what God is forming here.
730 Weekend, September 11 through 13
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Registration deadline is August 31.

08/12/2026

Evangeline Booth College, like you have never seen it. Seventeen acres of magnolia trees, the great green lawn, white rocking chairs on every porch. No filter needed, just the campus the way it actually looks. This is where cadets train to become officers.

08/09/2026

Today marked our first Spiritual Sunday of the year with our Principal, and what a powerful outpouring of the Spirit it was🔥

As we reflected with Major Bell on Ephesians 3, we were reminded that God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask, think, or imagine according to His power at work within us.

We begin this new season together with confidence that God is already at work, shaping hearts, growing faith, and preparing blessings beyond what we can yet see. We look forward with expectation to all that God has in store!

08/08/2026