Salvation Army Street Ministry Serves up Soup and Friendship

Each week there are new faces at the Army’s street ministry van just outside of Montreal’s Verdun metro station. And beyond soup, sandwiches, sweets and coffee, visitors are finding friendship.

“People at frightening levels of poverty have come to trust The Salvation Army,” says Nancy Mercier, case worker with the Army.

Often related to difficulties they face because of issues such as  chronic illness, disease, loneliness, unemployment and drug abuse, visitors are sharing private thoughts and feelings about situations most of us could never imagine.

If The  Salvation Army cannot completely eradicate poverty, it tries by all the means it has to alleviate hunger and to calm emotional pain. Through programs such as the Street Ministry, the Army comes to the aid of people who no longer have enough physical or spiritual resources to go on.

Thanks to the donations it receives, the Quebec Salvation Army can pursue its mission to ensure dignity to all and help thousands of disadvantaged people in the Montreal area and elsewhere in Quebec.