The Salvation Army Family & Community Services empowers people to live healthy, safe and contributing lives. We meet people in their crisis, help them achieve stability, and move them on to self-sufficiency by utilizing their own gifts and abilities. Through our outreach efforts, we find vulnerable seniors from the community and connect them to a population of volunteers that assist the senior wit
h friendly visiting, telecommunications & light house duty for the senior so that they can maintain quality of life standards and independence. By partnering seniors and their caregivers with volunteers from churches and community groups, The Salvation Army Family & Community Services' Two Are Better than One program empowers seniors to live healthy, safe and contributing lives. Whether it is help around the house, occasional work projects, or simply bringing community, isolated and vulnerable seniors are able to stay in their homes longer and more safely. They simply need a little help. It is Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 that provides our guiding philosophy:
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
