Donations
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to St. Dorothy's Rest. We accept designated and undesignated gifts.
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Why give to St. Dorothy’s Rest?
Your generosity is an investment in so many good things:
- • The St. Dorothy’s Rest Campership Fund ensures that all kids can attend camp regardless of financial circumstances
- • Advertised policy that no child will be prevented from attending camp for financial reasons
- • Two weeks of Health Camps for Bay Area hospitals, free of charge to families, is fully supported by donations, grants and operating budget (cost is $70,000)
- • Camp & Retreat rates are held low by the work of the Annual Appeal
- • Support for a variety of camp programs at St. Dorothy’s Rest
- • Art and craft supplies and a free St. Dorothy’s Rest t-shirt for each camper
- • Campers bring no money to camp; everything is provided
- • Camp equipment and supplies provided for camper activities
- • Staff training programs and lifeguard training for camp staff
- • The ability to continue to offer top salaries to our high school & college age staff so they can afford to spend their summers with us
- • Salary increases each year and rising costs of medical benefits
- • Repairs and upgrades to all camp facilities and equipment
- • Hiring of additional year-round support & program staff
- • Maintenance and safety checks of all facilities and vehicles
- • Ability to communicate to the diocese and market all St. Dorothy’s Rest programs
- • Increased funds for renovations as we expand camp facilities and programs to serve more people and further the mission of the Church
Your contributions to St. Dorothy’s Rest Episcopal Camp & Retreat Center are tax deductible. We invite you to make a contribution today.
To do so by mail, please send to:
St. Dorothy’s Rest Episcopal Camp & Retreat Center
PO BOX B
Camp Meeker, CA 95419
Comments about St. Dorothy's Rest from Bishop Marc Andrus following a recent visit.
After a long, anticipated wait, I finally got to visit St. Dorothy's Rest, and during a most important part of their yearly rhythm of life. I have to believe that now is the time when I could have and needed to visit and begin to understand this unique, important part of our Diocesan family.
In addition to the church summer camps that St. Dorothy's runs, quite parallel to those at the Bishop's Ranch (it should be noted that both camping programs are fully subscribed), you might say that the heart of St. Dorothy's is the medical camping programs. In one session, children who either have cancer, or have siblings with cancer, are the campers, and in the second, children who have received transplants are the campers.
Everyone involved in these camps is so evidently full of grace: the campers, the counselors, the nursing staff, the camp administrators, cooks and maintenance staff. I was surrounded, enveloped, floored by the compassion and grace that abounded at St. Dorothy's.
Let me simply sum it up by recounting the morning gathering today: Campers and counselors all standing in a circle, holding onto each other, asked by our chaplain, the Rev. Chip Barker-Larrimore, to name one thing for which each of us is grateful. When two tiny boys, at different points in the circle said, "Scientists," my heart was pierced, but when perhaps the smallest child said, simply, "Life," I was not sure I could trust myself to walk, in all truth. To see so clearly, to say it with such simple honesty, at such a young age, tutored by loss and pain, and also by love - I was overwhelmed.
So, I'll try to be as simple as that little boy. I'm grateful for the graceful human beings at St. Dorothy's and for the hospitality they showed me in allowing me to visit. I will be doing all I can to forward the ministry of this sublime place in the future.
Bishop Marc Andrus
2008 Donors
A redwood forest provides a magnificent backdrop for St. Dorothy’s Rest, as the majestic trees lend an aura of serenity to all of camp and instill in guests and campers an appreciation of nature. Retreat guests and campers are welcomed into a rich historical tradition at the oldest continually-operating summer camp in California, sleeping in historic buildings from the Arts-and-Crafts movement of the early 1900s.
