Salvation Army Kroc Center

Specialties

Amenities include, but are not limited to: Fitness Gym, Fitness Classes, Basketball Gym, Swimming Pool, Rock Wall, Child Watch Services, Event/​Conference Rooms, Educational Classrooms, Music Classes, and Worship Services.

The Suisun City Kroc Center provides a welcoming safe haven through inspiration, affordability, and outreach. We are innovative. We adapt. We embrace opportunities to transform families and our diverse community in Body, Mind, and Soul.

History

Established in 2012.

In 1998, Joan Kroc, widow of McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc, donated $ 90 million to The Salvation Army to build a comprehensive community center in San Diego, California. Her wish was to create a center, supported in part by the community, where families would be exposed to different people, activities and arts that would otherwise be beyond their reach.

When Joan Kroc died in 2003, she left $ 1.5 billion, much of her estate, to The Salvation Army, by far the largest charitable gift ever given to the Army, and the largest single gift given to any charity at one time. The initial disbursements of this bequest began in January 2005. The gift had by then grown to $ 1.8 billion and was split evenly among the four Army Territories. The money was designated to build a series of state-​of-​the-​art Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers nationwide patterned after the San Diego center.

On May 26, 2012 the 65,000 square foot Suisun City Kroc Center opened, and became the 26^th Kroc Center nationwide.

Meet the Manager

Captain Jonathan and Vickie H.

Manager

Captains Jonathan and Vickie Harvey have been Salvation Army officers for 6 years — however their experience as leaders within this international organization spans more than two decades.

In 2001, the Captains felt a strong calling to Salvation Army Officership. As they prepared to enter The Salvation Army’s College for Officer Training, they provided leadership to a Corps in Farmington, NM, which at the time was without an officer to run it.

While in Farmington, Captain Jonathan Harvey received the distinction of Rotarian of the Year and shortly after Man of the Year. Jonathan and Vickie also founded a program called «The Underground» in Farmington, a nightclub style setting for teens which to this day provides a safe haven to hundreds of young people every week, many of which ultimately turn from a life of drugs and alcohol because of the program.