The Salvation Army is grateful to the Government of Canada for its ongoing commitment to ensure Canadian households have access to safe, nutritious and culturally diverse food during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is room for some gentle humour, as these anecdotes illustrate.

Angila Holden and her four grandchildren raised money to provide milk for The Salvation Army’s community and family services in Listowel, Ont.

There are five stages in a classic model of grief that we can link to COVID-19.

COVID-19 has helped Juliane Martin grow closer to God.

Lorraine Blue decided to help The Salvation Army during COVID-19 by donating food and other supplies to the organization.

When COVID-19 took the world by storm, the more than 130,000 Salvation Army volunteers continued serving on the front lines to bring necessities and hope to the most vulnerable across the Canada and Bermuda Territory.

Over these past months, we have watched our world, our communities, our families and The Salvation Army respond to the new realities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. May this be remembered as the season when we, in bold faith, embraced the God-given international vision for The Salvation Army and created the much-needed new playbook for the present and the emerging future.

If non-believers are out in the community wearing masks to protect the medically vulnerable and be good neighbours, why wouldn’t those of us who profess faith in God—a faith that calls us to love our fellow man?

While we may all be facing the same storm, many are riding this out in vastly different boats—our homes. For some, those homes are not safe spaces.