Lytton Springs ARC and San Diego Kroc Center invite community at Easter Holidays provide ample opportunity for community outreach, which the Lytton Springs, Calif., Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) and the San Diego Kroc Center took advantage of during Easter weekend this past April. In Lytton Springs, 2,000 area residents attended the annual Community Easter [...]
Bucky, along with Major David Ebel, helps a man recover Bucky was training to become an assistance dog when his previous owner struck him, causing Bucky to suffer from severe anxiety attacks. He was then too nervous and frightened to be an assistance dog. Hoping to help rehabilitate him, Escondido Corps Officer Major David Ebel [...]
National Advisory Board meets in San Diego. By Marlene Klotz-Collins Sunny San Diego was the ideal winter backdrop for the January meeting of The Salvation Army’s National Advisory Board (NAB), hosted by the Western Territory and Sierra del Mar Division, under the leadership of Majors Lee and Michele Lescano, divisional leaders. Meetings of the NAB [...]
Giant red kettle is unveiled at a San Diego surfing competition. BY ASHLEE GONCALVES-HELLINSKI and SUZI WOODRUFF LACEY The Salvation Army Sierra del Mar Division unveiled its new 5-ft. tall red kettle at a major surfing competition Thanksgiving weekend in San Diego. Divisional headquarters needed a new red kettle for local events, and they [...]
Hundreds gather at opening of The Salvation Army Pearl E. Rogers Corps Community Center. More than 450 people attended the opening and dedication of The Salvation Army Pearl E. Rogers Corps Community Center in Hemet, Calif., on Oct. 30, where Territorial Commander Commissioner James Knaggs gave the message. Sierra del Mar Divisional Planned [...]
Steve Bireley takes a team-centered approach to territorial responsibility. While touring the first Kroc Center in San Diego, Joan Kroc responded to seeing the space where her granddaughter would be working by quipping, “Great! Only cost me $87 million to get my granddaughter a job.” Steve Bireley, the newly appointed Kroc Community Center coordinator for [...]
Division dedicates Pine Summit Camp and installs divisional leaders. By Suzi Woodruff Lacey Behold the former things have come to pass. Now I declare new things. Before they spring forth, I proclaim them to you” (Isaiah 40:9 NAS). The Salvation Army’s newest camp, Pine Summit, in Big Bear Lake, Calif., Sierra del Mar [...]
NFL pro encourages kids to get out and play. San Diego Chargers football player offensive tackle Marcus McNeill—famous for his tackles on the field—took on a different battle July 22 when he visited The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center to encourage 300 children in the center’s summer day camp to get [...]
Sierra del Mar Divisional Band performs in annual music festival. The Sierra del Mar Divisional Band—led by Divisional Music Director Stephen Yalden—took part in the Southern California Community Band Festival on May 15 in Poway, Calif., for the second year running. The weekend event featured 16 area groups. The Sierra del Mar Divisional Band [...]
By Lisa Van Cleef, Captain A lust for vindication. That’s what Oswald Chambers calls the overriding temptation we have to defend ourselves. So accurate. So tangible. We deeply desire to change people’s perceptions to match our own. To overcome the temptation is to let go of what Brennan Manning calls “the tyranny of the [...]
