What happens when a good person does something that seems unforgivable? That’s the question Tom King’s family faced on an early morning last fall as Tom was dying in a hospital room in Akron, Ohio, after he was hit on his motorcycle by a pickup truck. Would they respond in anger? Or with mercy?
As a woman living in Iran, Zara was persecuted and prevented from working or pursuing higher education. Fleeing the troubles in her homeland, she arrived at The Salvation Army’s Florence Booth House in 2022. " I didn’t know anything about The Salvation Army, but now that I do, I think it is very good and supportive," she says.
Behind the Wall, owned by Andrew Russell, works closely with The Salvation Army’s housing and outreach teams to address homelessness across the city by creating stable, subsidized housing opportunities. This collaboration has created a brighter future for more than 150 previously unhoused individuals, helping them transition into safe, reliable housing while offering a fresh start to life.
The Salvation Army food bank in St. George’s, Bermuda, is supporting Grace and her family to ensure they have everything they need food-wise. “Food was scarce when relying on a fixed income that only arrives once a month,” Grace shares. “Without The Salvation Army, my family would have gone without the necessary food.”
A new mural flanking the doors to the chapel at The Salvation Army’s Weetamah church in Winnipeg welcome visitors and make the entrance more welcoming. It acknowledge the land on which the building sits, honours the people who visit the building and shares the teachings with everyone who enters.
“We felt it was a great opportunity to visually acknowledge the place in which we worship and create community and the connection to all people who come through the building," says Captain Ian Scott, the Salvation Army pastor at Weetamah when the mural was commissioned.
Recently, The Salvation Army in Corner Brook, N.L., received a large donation of moose meat, allowing them to serve more than 1,000 meals to clients at their soup kitchen. The donation was made possible by local hunters who have brought moose meat to The Salvation Army for the past 17 years. “They like what The Salvation Army does in the community,” says Major Brian Wheeler, pastor at the Army’s Corner Brook Community Church.
Karate Kid: Legends, in theatres now, is a martial-arts drama film and the sixth movie in the Karate Kid franchise.
When asked where he would be without Harbour Light, David Williams replies, simply, “I don’t think I’d be alive, to be honest.“I have been able to use the tools that I was equipped with at Harbour Light and stay clean one day at a time.
Lilo & Stitch, in theatres this month, is a live action/CGI remake of Disney’s 2002 animated film of the same name.
When Sunnyside Produce Ltd., a family-run greenhouse that grows 34 hectares of bell, mini and other specialty peppers in Surreyand Delta, B.C., were reviewing their annual giving options, they had an idea. “Every year, we make donations to different organizations, and we know The Salvation Army does a lot of good work locally,” says Corne Moerman,a fourth-generation grower. “Last year, we got to talking about setting up a program where we ship a pallet per week, which we’ve been doing for a few months now.”Since last May, Sunnyside Produce Ltd. has shipped more than 200 kilograms of bell peppers a week to Salvation Army ministry units across British Columbia, totalling more than 3,000 kilograms.
