Two new Salvation Army thrift stores opened amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, one in Port Coquitlam, B.C. and the other in Calgary.

As COVID-19 cases hit an all-time high in Ontario, The Salvation Army’s Toronto Grace Health Centre (TGHC), in co-ordination with the Ontario government, has temporarily set up a Specialized Care Centre at the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke.

On November 24, The Salvation Army’s community and family services (CFS) in Mississauga, Ont., delivered Christmas dinners and gifts to 150 seniors, ages 60 and above, who are members of their Forever Young Inside (F.Y.I.) program.

In episode six, Major Heather and Captain Nicholas Samuel of London Citadel offer insight into how their corps is continuing ministry during a pandemic. Welcome to season two of the Salvationist podcast. This new set of episodes will offer insight into how The Salvation Army is adapting as we reopen during the pandemic. For new episodes visit

In episode four, Tracy Fattore, chief risk officer, offers insights on how we have been managing risk during the pandemic. Learn about the process that the territory is using to make decisions about what should be open or stay closed, innovative initiatives in churches and social services, and what the "new normal" will look like going

Welcome to season two of the Salvationist podcast. This new set of episodes will offer insight into how The Salvation Army is adapting as we reopen during the pandemic. In the coming weeks, we have corps officers, youth secretaries, our territorial music secretary and our chief risk officer all talking about how they have pivoted and continued

Welcome to our second season, this new set of episodes will offer insights into how The Salvation Army is adapting as we reopen during the pandemic. In the coming weeks we have corps officers, youth secretaries, our territorial music secretary, our integrated mission secretary and our chief risk officer all talking about how they have pivoted

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.

Spiritual care is central to the mission of The Salvation Army. Four chaplains, from a variety of ministry settings, share how they come alongside others, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed things.

Jeanette Levellie found her joy in the midst of COVID-19.

What if, rather than going back to normal, we used all these quarantine experiences to create a new normal?

I’ve heard people say that this crisis makes us all equal. It does not. We are not. Yes, the virus is indiscriminate and yes, we are all facing the same storms, but this does not equate to a newfound global equality. We are not all in the same boat.

Andrea Petkau's kidney transplant and the birth of her son has helped her look at COVID-19 through clearer eyes.

Due to COVID-19, camps are not able to operate this season. Because this is God’s work and not ours, and God’s time and not ours, we are believing for even greater things, and are trusting that this summer will be more impactful than those before it, even though we cannot do things the way we have done them in the past.