Moore Street Basketball Tournament players join hands in prayer before the games begin in Portland, OR
Preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination
Dear Friends,
As we reflect on 2022 we are reminded of the stages of a caterpillar in a cocoon and how it reaches an eventual stage of a colorful, beautiful butterfly ready to take flight.
Although we continued to feel the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic with partial reopening, we gradually began to gather again in a real, palpable way. We are thankful for the technologies that kept us connected during a challenging time. We are ever more grateful and we celebrate that a screen is no longer so prevalent in our communications and the pandemic is no longer part of everyone’s everyday life.
We are especially thankful for the continued support of donors like you. None of the important work we do here at The Salvation Army would be possible without the individuals and organizations who partner with us to provide food, shelter, clothing, gifts, and hope to those in our community who need it the most. Some of our amazing programs and services are highlighted here – from our summer camps (Camp Kuratli, OR and Camp Pinewood, ID) returning after a two-year hiatus, to fully reopening the After School Programs in Coos Bay, OR and Nampa, ID.
Looking back on a year of hope and coming together again, we are reminded of the scripture in Isaiah 43:18-19 New King James Version:
“Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
God bless you,
Majors Nancy and Raymond Dihle Divisional Leaders, The Cascade Division
Salvation Army Officers help volunteers shop for Christmas toys at Fred Meyer.
Fred Meyer employees display the top desired toys during the KGWGreatToyDrive.
954,319
117,444 172,710
149,414
59,080 Nights of Lodging: Transportation Provided: 5,223
156,593
2021 BALANCE FORWARD REVENUE OVER EXPENSES $9,648,121 $876,189
ACCUMULATED SURPLUS $10,524,310
An Idaho Falls basketball team organizes donations for the first “Big Big Give Away,” which served 523 individuals with warm weather clothing for the cold weather.
A Clackamas, OR volunteer runs a game for students during the Back-to-School Carnival. 254 families attended and were provided free haircuts, manicures, and face painting in addition to school supplies.
Cascade Divisional Band plays Christmas Carols while families enjoy ice skating during the Portland Metro Kettle Kick Off at Lloyd Center.
Newport Corps volunteer raises funds to support her community during the annual Kettle Bell Ringing Drive.
Volunteers prepare for the Roseburg VA Veterans food box distribution in November 2022 in partnership with the Center for Development and Civic Engagement.
A Portland Police Commander helps distribute much-needed school supplies at the Moore Street Corps Backto-School Community Resource Fair that attracted hundreds of local families.
Major Thomas Stambaugh welcomes adorable canine helpers - a group of therapy dogs that assist each month at the Boise Booth Center.
Lifeguards at the Salem Kroc Center throw pumpkins into the pool as part of its Harvest Pool Party.
They share their favorite memories of 2022
As the new Portland Tabernacle Corps officers we feel overwhelmingly blessed by the way our staff, corps, and community have come together to support the work in Clackamas County. With the help of our local partners, we provide weekly food boxes as well as a place to gather in worship.”
- Lieutenants David & Sarah Culley
“My utmost desire in life is to serve all. This position as Divisional Program Officer fits like a glove because I get to apply my leadership skills, and especially my love for people.”
- Captain Ivan Landeros
“Since joining the Gresham Corps as Officers we really enjoyed the annual ‘Shop with a Cop’ event. Kids in our community were offered a $100 Fred Meyer gift card and the unique opportunity to shop with local police and sheriff department officers. It was a complete hit!”
- Captains Caleb & Iliana Montes
Rebecca Arnold was on track to complete high school in her hometown of Marsing, Idaho, and go on to college.
Late in her junior year, however, life took an unexpected turn. She was pregnant. Although she wanted to leave school right away, her mother convinced her to finish that year, leaving her just one year shy of her diploma. She gave birth to her son, Deklyn, in December 2018, at age 17.
Arnold didn’t want to wait to get her diploma. She began working on her GED and passed the English test, but afterward she said she psyched herself out. The GED route wasn’t working for her. Then, she heard about Cardinal Academy from a friend who found it on Facebook.
Located on The Salvation Army Booth Campus in Boise, Idaho, Cardinal Academy is a cost-free charter school for pregnant and parenting young people—women and men—ages 14 to 21. The Salvation Army Booth Program for Young Parents partners with the school, providing wrap-around services, including on-site childcare; personalized support and counseling; free breakfast and lunch; food pantry; prenatal, parenting and life skills classes; and an incentive store. The store stocks items parents might need and accepts payment with “Booth bucks,” which students earn by showing up for class and participating in group exercises.
According to the CDC, about 50 percent of teen mothers earn a high school diploma by age 22. The Salvation Army has a long history of helping women in difficult circumstances. In Boise, it has served young parents for more than 100 years, in its earliest years with the Booth Memorial Hospital for young parents. The program has evolved over time to meet current needs.
“We had so much help between the staff and The Salvation Army…and the teachers were very understanding—they weren’t just teachers,” she said. “They were there to support you and push you and [let you] know you’re not alone.”
“The Salvation Army is there for them. There’s always help. There’s always hope.”
Gresham families and officers at the “Shop with a Cop” event.
“We need good people to do good things every day,” Hudson said, as reported by the Herald and News. “As people of faith we should be leading the way to help with the marginalized, to help them with their acceptance…People today need hope and we must love people as they are…Let’s do something good together.”
“We are the largest pantry in Klamath County,” Leighton said. “We also serve several Northern California communities, due to the long distance for them to obtain assistance in their own state.”
Today The Salvation Army in Klamath County is “doing good” as a service centeroperating within the Cascade Division’s Service Extension Department. The center runs a shopping-style food pantry three days a week. From June through September, it holds a produce giveaway every Friday, reaching 150 to 300 people with more than 300,000 pounds of fruit and vegetables, according to Service Center Coordinator Debi Leighton. Additionally, the center provides bus passes, rent and utility assistance, camp opportunities for children, and Christmas food boxes and children’s toys.
The Salvation Army first settled in Klamath Falls in 1921, maintaining a corps until 2005, when it closed the corps but continued its social services and thrift store. During its years as a service center, it’s moved several times, but Leighton said it has finally found its “forever home.”
The Salvation Army in Klamath Falls (Oregon), held its 100-year anniversary celebration May 21 at the local Harbor Isles Golf Course. A substantial group of volunteers, providers, staff and board members gathered under a large tent for the festivities, which included music by a Salvation Army brass band ensemble. Retired USA national leaders, Commissioners David and Sharron Hudson, participated- recalling their time there as corps officers from 1976–1980, in their first appointment as Salvation Army officers.
After Sharron Hudson prayed for the celebration and for the Klamath Falls community, David Hudson spoke. “As we drove back to Klamath Falls, we were overwhelmed with nostalgia,” Hudson said, according to the Klamath Falls Herald and News.
Leighton herself has a long history with the Klamath Falls Salvation Army—40 years. During the celebration, Cascade Divisional Commander Major Nancy Dihle recognized Leighton for her years of dedicated service. Volunteers and board members also received acknowledgement during the event.
“Our family has been fortunate to find The Salvation Army School’s Out program for our boys. They love the program. The staff is caring and friendly. The facility is always organizing field trips and activities to keep our boys active. We love it!!”
fun and engagment to our kids who need it most
The Nampa Corps’ School’s Out Club is an after-school program that reopened in 2021 after temporary closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It currently serves kids from Kindergarten to 8th grade (ages from five to 14), Monday through Friday.
“We’re open from the time school busses drop children off at our facility (roughly 3 p.m.) until 6:30 p.m. each day,” noted Sarah Buck, School’s Out Club Director. “We also pick up at two nearby schools that do not offer transportation to our facility.”
The Nampa School’s Out Club remains open when the schools have holidaysincluding Spring, Christmas, and Thanksgiving breaks.
The after school program focuses on social snd emotional learning through scheduled gym activities and tabletop games led by staff each day. Our students are required to read 20 minutes, Monday – Thursday. Each child receives an afternoon snack.
The local Nampa Public Library comes once a month to do a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) project with all the kids. Additionally, most of our after-school children participate in our Troops program- similar to boy and girl scouts- as well once a week.
The Coos Bay Corps After School Program began in the early 1980s after the original gym was built. Mostly, it was an open-gym concept. Kids from the neighborhood would come and shoot hoops and hang out in a safe and supervised place.
Over the years, it has transitioned from an open-gym program to a Funky Friday Night, to a free-style After School Program. For the past nine years, the After School Program has become structured to run four days a week. While it focused on children grades K-6th, opportunities for older children to engage as helpers are also available.
The After School Program is open Monday-Thursday from 2:45 p.m.-4:45 p.m. The program provides a nutritious snack, homework help, organized gym games, daily crafts and various electives. Programming includes days dedicated to music, gymnastics/cheer, and mixed martial arts.
With 56 children enrolled, this program is making a big difference in the lives of the children, teen helpers, families, and the staff involved. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the After School Program had limited enrollment but was able to remain open to help serve the families of front-line workers.
“Our After School Program is extremely beneficial to this community. We believe it is our duty and honor to help shape and mold these children one life at a time. Many of the children that have attended our after school program in the past 40 years, are now productive citizens in their own communities.”
Roseburg, OR volunteers prepare frozen donations to be temporarily moved to the local Umpqua freezers while their food bank freezer is repaired. A small freezer was left on site and restocked daily to allow distribution of food while the freezer was repaired.
Smiles all around as Portland Trailblazer Alumni, mascot Blaze and Crystal Thornton from The Fish Radio pose for the annual Celebrity Bell Ringing Day in Downtown Portland, OR.
Salem, OR volunteers hand out medals to participants at the finish line of the annual Kroc Walk 5K Fundraiser in May.
Idaho Falls, ID Social Services Assistant Johnnie Chacon and Captain John Birks sort donations to restock the Self Choice Food Pantry.
Camp Kuratli staff prepare to welcome over 1,500 campers from around the State of Oregon to enjoy the beauty of the wilderness in Boring, OR.
Majors Stambaugh pose with Jean Johnson, a “Booth Baby” born in the 1920s at the Boise, ID Booth Memorial Hospital for Young Parents.
Captain Peter Pemberton leads prayer at Veterans & Family Center Groundbreaking Ceremony on Sept. 12. Dignitaries included Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty and Beaverton Interim Chief of Police Stacy Jepson.
Captain Joseph McBride and the Grants Pass Kiwanis Club celebrate after assembling 140 Thanksgiving food boxes.
Story originally reported on KMTR, an NBC affiliate
Coos Bay, OR — Nearly three years after the roof collapsed on their previous gym, which was over 60 years old, the doors have finally re-opened for youth fitness and fun at the Salvation Army Coos Bay Corps.
Salvation Army’s Major Steven Bradley tells us not only are staff elated, but the children are especially thrilled to have a new place to play.
Nearby youth paid visits to the Salvation Army throughout the summer keeping a close check on when the gym would be open.
“One of our staff actually let them see it, and they wanted to come in so bad, but they couldn’t. So it was a great relief to them.”
Bradley says it’s a necessary complement to their educational after school youth programming that was missed over the last years.
“It just deteriorated,” Bradley said. “It was all wood, and the original gymnasium like many buildings in this area was built on sand, and so it just was not strong enough.”
It’s now back and better thanks to Yorke & Curtis construction with a cement foundation, temperaturecontrolled air system, bleachers, and a wi-fi operable scoreboard.
The Salvation Army is also moving ahead with additional capital campaign efforts for the renovation of the adjacent corps building at the site that has substantial roof and structural damage.
“It’s so exciting to see their faces,” Bradley said. “When we first opened last week, the first day to see the eyes popping in the children as they came into the gymnasium. It’s like they’d never seen anything like this before.”
And while Bradley says they replaced the gym through insurance, other renovations depend on community donations. That plan includes kitchen renovation as well as updates to some of the site’s classrooms, offices and bathrooms.
“I get referrals from the police department, fire department, schools, even librarians—calls for different situations,” Neal said. “It might be individuals who are camped out or who are about to get evicted. So the focus of this is dual: trying to pull some out of homelessness and prevent homelessness as well.”
Now that she’s come to know The Salvation Army Spear plans to pay it forward. She said she probably never would have contacted a church for help.
By Karen Gleason
Story originally reported in Caring Magazine
“I never thought I’d be on this side of things, and needing help,” said Lee Spear, who became homeless in December 2021. Even without a house or an apartment to call home, she said she was lucky—she still had her car, where she was living with her dog. But unlike some individuals who remain unhoused for years, Spear was able to move into an apartment by the following summer. She credits The Salvation Army Cascade Mobile Outreach Ministry with making this possible.
In November 2021, the Cascade Division launched its grant-funded Mobile Outreach Ministry with a 15-passenger van, aiming to help prevent and end homelessness in the more rural, underserved communities outside Portland, Oregon—the Tri-County area of Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah counties.
The Mobile Ministry van operates as a mobile office for outreach and case management services, including housing retention, outreach and engagement, basic needs—food, shower, laundry—intensive case management, health care navigation, and housing navigation and tenancy support.
“But every time I have walked away from any kind of contact with The Salvation Army, I have realized that my shoulders weren’t up around my ears,” she said. “I did not ever feel like I was going to be pounced on by someone— asked for something in return. I don’t think many people realize there’s that kind of unconditional welcome.”
“I try to focus on doing good, on caring work and showing people kindness,” Neal said. “What’s important is the planting of seeds and getting people and kids in the church and praying over them, sharing the gospel with them. When Christ comes into their life, that’s when the real change takes place. That’s the driving force of this.”
Major Bob Lloyd helps serve meals at the Mobile Outreach Ministry BBQ.
