2006-03-08T03:10:00.000-08:00

The People of CLW

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

First your camp director -- Joanna and I have been at CLW since 1992. We came from a background in the Coast Guard in the Carolinas and Florida and the Carribean. After that, we served for four years at Camp Horizon in Leesburg FL.

We raised our family at camps -- Josh, Julie and Hannah. All three are a big part of the ministry at CLW.

Hannah has been a counselor and a summer camp cook and Food Service manager. and now serves as Gilead House manager and Girls Week director. She is preparing (as of June 2010) to go to Iraq as a missionary teacher to the Kurdish children at a Christian school, with Servants Group International.

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 also keeps our website up, and he is the camp photographer. He and his wife Leah (who he met at CLW one summer) have a son Micah and three daughters, Abigail, Eva and Gabriella. So there are always little children around here!! Future staff!! and more importantly, future hiking buddies for Joel!!

Julie assists her dad with kitchen and office projects. She is married to Jeremy Widman, and they have a daughter Eden. Jeremy is another key staff member, responsible for maintenance of the grounds.

Andy Reed serves here full-time as Building Project Manager and Maintenance Manager. 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, especially High Trek.

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!!