It started with a dream. Back in 1983, before leaving the Navy, I had the opportunity to work a at a summer day camp in Oxnard California. What amazed me was the fact I could not only interact and affect the lives of children but I just loved the concept of playing and teaching children as a way to talk with them about Jesus. Years later someone asked me the question “If time, money, education and any other resource was not a barrier what would I do?” My comment then, as it is now, is to build an organization where relationships and Jesus would be intertwined.

At Pacific Camps we meet children’s needs in tangible and practical ways. That dream has been transformed into Pacific Camps and Family Resources. Our mission has changed very little, although there have been changes in the programming, staffing, budgets, and locations. We are here to “Build individual relationships with children so they and their families come to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ”. Through the years some things have not changed;