May 12thCamps with Meaning Announces Summer Leadership Team
Camps with Meaning has announced the leadership team for spring and summer camps this year.
Associate Program Director Nadya Langelotz is excited for this team of young adults and for the camp season in general. “It feels like we are encountering a shift toward growth, to which we can all raise a Hallelujah!” she says. “Staff numbers are strong, and camper numbers continue to grow from the last number of years as well, with many weeks reaching capacity early on in the registration season.”
(Photo is Summer Staff 2025. Click to enlarge)
Summer leadership roles include program directors, Bible instructors, and inclusion coordinators (assisting campers with special needs) at both Camp Koinonia and Camp Assiniboia, as well as activity- and program-specific coordinators based either at Assiniboia or working at both camps:
Summer Program Directors: Jewels Enns and Caleb Friesen Epp (Assiniboia); Jeane Bergen and Ivan Bergen (Koinonia)
Bible Instructors: Katja MacGregor (Assiniboia); Keira Peters (Koinonia)
Inclusion Coordinators: Adalynne Pahl (Assiniboia); Ella Grijalva (Koinonia)
Activity and Staff Support Coordinator: Sara Sawatzky (Assiniboia)
Farm Coordinator: Astrid Franz-Warkentin (Assiniboia)
Teen Volunteer Director: Nate Hastings-Fuhr (Assiniboia)
Servant Leader in Training Directors: Isaiah Koslowsky-Wiebe and Avery Sawatzky
Recognizing that this is a tremendous opportunity for personal growth and leadership development for these young adults, Nadya reflects on her aspirations for the team this summer. “I hope that through their work and learning this summer they would
come to know the Anabaptist faith as a tool for change and hope in a world that feels overwhelmingly despairing,” she says. “I want them to sense the Spirit as a transformative presence, and Jesus as an example for the ways we work for justice. I want the things we emphasize as core to our family of faith—Community, Jesus and Justice—to feel inspiring, fun, and radical.”
The Bible curriculum developed for this year is called, “People of the Project: Everyday Faith.” The curriculum explores people who are examples of a faith that is not without doubt and difficulty, but also accessible and available for everyone.
This shapes Nadya’s prayers for the summer camp program as a whole. “My hope is that campers, staff, and volunteers leave our sites with even the smallest ideas of how to hold faith more consistently outside of camp,” she says. “I want campers and staff to develop habits of faith that they can draw on which will sustain them for the work of justice and love in their communities and beyond. This is the ‘project’ we want to emphasize and empower this year.”
Pray for the Camps summer leadership team as they train for their roles in early May and then serve in their roles through the summer—consider praying for them by name, and using Nadya’s aspirations and prayers above as a guide. If you’d like to give to support Camps with Meaning, see www.mennochurch.mb.ca/giving; to support staff sponsorships, helping pay summer staff, make a note of that with your payment.