Last Meeting of 2020

Los Angeles, the California South Division appointed Majors Osei Stewart as its new General Secretary for Los Angeles Metro Coordination and Community Development and General Secretary for Los Angeles Metro – Program, respectively. Major Stewart has been an officer for 22 years—all in the Western Territory. They have a decade of experience at the grassroots level of The Salvation Army mission as corps officers and have been serving at the divisional level for 12 years. 

Major Osei Stewart was the lead officer of the area’s Incident Command team during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic. He supervised two major Los Angeles-based drive-through feeding events as part of the Army’s greater emergency disaster response in Southern California that has provided more than 4 million meals as well as shelter for close to 700 people experiencing homelessness via local hotels through Project Roomkey.

As the leaders of LA Metro, Major Osei and Lynn Stewart will be responsible for some of the most high-profile and substantial social service programs in the Western Territory, including the Bell Shelter, the largest homeless shelter West of the Mississippi, and the Zahn Shelter, the only emergency family shelter in the City of LA. They will also be at the helm of flagship community centers, like the Siemon Family Youth and Community in South Los Angeles and the Red Shield Youth and Community Center in downtown’s Pico-Union District, where thousands of families and at-risk youth find educational support, a safe and nurturing environment to grow through sports and art and a loving staff to encourage them and help them build better futures.