The People of CLW

CLW people are special!! we are a team, a family, and a bunch of wacky people!!

First our director -- Joel has been at CLW with his wife Joanna and family since 1992. He came from a background in the Coast Guard in the Carolinas and Florida and the carribean. After that, he and Joanna served for four years at Camp Horizon in Leesburg FL.

Joel and Joanna raised their family at camps -- Josh, Julie and Hannah. All three are a big part of the ministry at CLW. Hannah and Julie have served as counselors, leaders of the CIT program and kitchen crew chiefs, and Hannah went on to be a summer camp cook and Food Service manager. Julie assists her dad with camper registration and office projects.

Josh is a full-time staff member at CLW. He is our Program Director, so he keeps the activities rolling....retreats, summer camps, soccer league, you name it. He and his wife Leah (who he met at CLW one summer) have a son Micah and a daughter Abigail. So there are always little children around here!! Future staff!! and more importantly, future hiking buddies for Joel!!

Jeremy Widman is another key staff member, responsible for maintenance of the camp buildings and grounds. He is the one who keeps people involved as volunteers, painting, repairing, making improvements around the camp. He is a big help with the program activities and food service during the retreat season.

Then there's our summer staff. They are special people too!! We love to get lots of young people involved here every summer. Most of them are former campers, who are now giving back to others what they benefitted from as teens. They go through an intensive leadership training program called CIT, for at least two summers, learning to be counselors, kitchen staff, and program leaders. As they move into college years they help train the new CIT staff, and take charge of the kitchen crew, worship team and activity teams.

We also look forward each week of summer to the adult volunteers who join us as counselors and cooks, shoppers and maintenance workers during their vacation time. They are always a blessing and they get to experience first-hand what the kids from their churches are so excited about when they talk about camp!!