THE SALVATION ARMY WESTERN TERRITORY’S 11 CAMPS
What do you remember about your first time at camp? The first time was when I was 7 years old. I think that was 2012. I was very nervous. I was really scared. The morning I got to the corps, I was really excited because I was like, ‘OK, this is my first time really being away from family and everything.’ But when we got on the bus and started getting closer, I started getting really nervous. Back then, when I was nervous, I didn’t know how to control my anxiousness. So I would tend to act up. I just remember being really hyper for the whole time, just jumping around and talking to everybody.
CAMP GIFFORD
Loon Lake, Washington
CAMP ARNOLD
Eatonville, Washington
CAMP KURATLI Boring, Oregon
So you kept going every summer after that first one? Yes, I would go every summer. When I was 7 and 8, I would go maybe two or three times, like three to four weeks. And then, once I got older, I started going every single week. I used to hunt for corps going to camp. I live in LA, and so sometimes I would go to Inglewood and then I end up all the way in Whittier just to go to camp. I would try to find corps that would take me to camp every week.
CAMP DEL ORO
Nevada City, California
CAMP REDWOOD GLEN Scott’s Valley, California
CAMP PINE SUMMIT Big Bear, California
CAMP LAWRENCE DALEY Calabasas, California
CAMP HOMELANI Waialua, Hawaii
CAMP HIGH PEAK
Estes Park, Colorado
CAMP PONDEROSA Heber, Arizona
CAMP KING’S LAKE Wasilla, Alaska
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CARING 2023
What is something you love about camp? I liked how it became so familiar to me. I call it my zen zone because when I go to camp, I never really think of everything that goes on at home and all the stress and all the problems and everything that I have to deal with…At camp, my main focus is camp. That’s the only thing I can think of, is what I have to do at camp, and it’s not too much. It’s never stressful; it’s always a peace. It’s always been a safe space for me, a second home. It’s really a place where you can just figure out so much. The atmosphere, it just helps you. When you’re around everybody who believes in God or trying to find God, it’s just something where you can all relate to the same thing. So it just helps you build a community, especially as a staff member. You guys are all there for two months, almost three months, and you are just all working toward the