About
About Serve Camp
Serve Camp exists to inspire & empower young people to make life happen! It’s a unique, hands-on experience where young people can discover for themselves the power of love to bring life. It’s a camp driven by the life & message of Jesus who we consider to be the greatest example of a life maker. Like Jesus, you could say we have a ridiculous passion to make the lives of people and our communities better.
Serve Camp is built around love projects. Love projects are community service projects designed to meet the needs of a person, family, community, and/or organizations helping others. Through a variety of love projects, young people are exposed to the power of finding common ground with people and loving them at their point of need. Most importantly, young people learn through experience that absolute humility (self-denial) leads to absolute love, which produces immeasurable life. It’s about getting our hands dirty (figuratively and literally) loving other people. It’s about being inspired and empowered to dream of a life as life-making servant leaders. It’s about choosing giving over getting, sacrifice over entertainment, and love over selfishness. Serve Camp isn’t about “I” but others.
Frankly, as you can see, Serve Camp is not your “typical” summer camp. Yeah, we have a blast but it’s so much bigger. It’s a summer experience that we have seen become a movement in young people. We have seen how young people’s first hand experience with the power of love to make life happen has changed and inspired them to live and think differently about themselves, others, and their life.
This is why we say, Serve Camp is the best, most life-giving camp. Beyond the thousands of young people’s lives that have been changed, we’ve been recognized as among the best summer camps by parents in Northern Virginia, our first location, for three consecutive years. We’ve even been recognized on the floor of Congress (we even got a fancy plaque for it!). We want you to experience this for yourself firsthand, so join us this summer!
About the Directors
Sal & Jamie D’Agostino
Executive Director & Founders
With a love for young people and a vision to inspire & empower young people to make life happen, Sal & Jamie (34 weeks pregnant with her 4th child – see pic) D’Agostino began Serve Camp with 17 teens in their Leesburg, VA living room in 2010. Now entering our 15th year, Serve Camp has grown beyond our wildest imagination. It has been an incredible joy to us and our family to watch Serve Camp grow, see young people transformed, and witness the next generation of life-making servant leaders emerge. 2026 marks a new phase of vision expansion. Having seen the transformative power of Serve Camp over the years, we are eager for even more young people to experience the love that leads to life and for more communities to feel that impact.
Melissa Wareham
Loudoun Director
I am proud to say I was one of the 17 campers to experience the humble beginnings of Serve Camp in Sal & Jamie’s living room! And since that first week, I have not missed a single day of camp! Serve Camp has had a profound impact on my life. From being a camper, to serving on staff, and now having the privilege to lead our program, I have seen countless lives changed (including my own!) through love projects, opportunities for empowerment, and just having fun together. It is a great joy to be able to provide this opportunity for young people in Loudoun and to serve alongside our incredible team. I am thrilled for the future of Serve Camp and I know we’re just getting started!