Camp & Retreat Ministries Staff

We are spread out from the rugged Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho to the rugged Pacific Coast but we are united as your Camp & Retreat Ministry Staff!

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    Executive Director

    Lisa Jean began work in this Conference in 1998, as the Director of Suttle Lake. She made the move to the Executive Director’s position in April, 1999.

    Prior to this she served as Conference Director of Camp and Retreat Ministries in the Wyoming Conference, and a site Director in the Central Pennsylvania and New York Conferences. She is an ordained pastor who has served churches in New Britain and New Haven, CT, Newark Valley and Chenango Bridge, NY, and has even developed new congregations as part of the camp’s ministries in communities in Weikert, PA and Sisters, OR.

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    Camp Registrar

    Geneva has camping in her blood. She was raised in the camping program starting with her attendance at Sawtooth family camp when she was 5 months old. Her father was involved on the site committees of all of the Oregon-Idaho camps and often took Geneva along. During summers out of college, she worked as a cook at Sawtooth and Magruder.

    As Camp Registrar for the Oregon-Idaho Conference, she enjoys helping campers get to camp. She is also a church musician and the mother of 3 children who all love to attend camp.

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    Camping Office Assistant

    Susan joined the camping office staff after retiring from teaching at the International High School in Eugene. She works part-time in the camping office, updating this web site and maintaining the volunteer and donor databases, and assisting the registrar with phone calls. Susan was a camp counselor at Suttle Lake in 1965 and always felt she’d get back to working with camping someday!

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    Alton L. Collins Retreat Center Director

    Todd is a well known supporter of Camp & Retreat Ministries, having most recently chaired the Camp and Retreat Ministry Team and the capital campaign study committee, and prior to that, the Council of Advocates, the Western Jurisdiction Camp Network, and the Suttle Lake Site Team.  He and his family are excited to take the reigns at Alton L Collins.

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    Camp Latgawa Directors

    It is a great delight to announce that after consultations with the Camp Latgawa site ministry team reviewing candidates for the Latgawa director position, we will be welcoming back Eva LaBonty and Greg Clensy to be the Directors at Camp Latgawa. Greg and Eva have been working in the office and kitchen at the Alton L Collins Retreat Center during this past year. Their friends in southern Oregon will be glad to have them back!

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    Camp Magruder Director

    Steve comes to Camp Magruder with more than thirty years of camp staff experience, including seventeen years of service as a camp director.  Steve and his wife Melinda are both excited to be returning to the Pacific Northwest where they will be closer to family and they are looking forward to raising their three children, Sean (10), Seth (8), and Kara (5) at Camp Magruder.

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    Camp Sawtooth Director

    Dave and his wife, Karen, have been managing Camp Sawtooth since 1972. Since Sawtooth Camp is only open in the summer season (although we’re pondering the feasability of winter snow camps there), Dave spends most of the year at his home in Caldwell, Idaho where he is a retired Middle School Assistant Principal and Athletic Director.

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    Suttle Lake Camp Director

    Jane and her husband, Daniel, enjoy serving at Suttle Lake Camp, and exploring the beauty of the surrounding wilderness. They first moved to Suttle Lake in 2000 after serving at Camp Indianola (a United Methodist Camp on the Puget Sound). Jane comes to camping with a background in education and experience in youth ministry. Daniel first started in camping ministry as summer kitchen staff at Silver Creek YMCA Camp. They are the proud parents of two sons, Conner and Kellen.

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    Wallowa Lake Camp Operation Managers

    David and Ingrid Cook retired several years ago from being the Directors at Alton L Collins Retreat Center and have joined the staff at Wallowa Lake Camp as Operations Managers.

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    Day Camp Director

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    Program Director, Alton L. Collins Retreat Center

    Program director for Alton L Collins Retreat Center