Uncle Dick and Aunt Betty Stevens

Uncle Dick and Aunt Betty Stevens are the founders of Life for Youth Camp. They were directors until the year 2001, when the mantle was passed to their son and daughter-in-law— Robby and Sherri. Uncle Dick went to be with the Lord on July 18, 2006. Aunt Betty lives here on the grounds and volunteers wherever needed. She still serves on the Board of Directors.

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Robby and Sherri Stevens have been on the staff since 1978. In September of 2001, they were appointed Co-Directors of the camp. They have raised two children, Stephanie and Bobby, who are both on the staff at LFYC.

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Stephanie Stenger is the Retreat Coordinator. She is responsible for booking all of the retreat groups that use the camp's facilities during the fall, winter, and spring months. During the summer, she is the Program Coordinator. She schedules the campers and staff through their week's activities. Stephanie is the daughter of Robby and Sherri.

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Bobby Stevens, Robby and Sherri's son, is in charge of program and activity maintenance. During the summer he is our waterfront supervisor and maintains all of our waterfront and activity equipment. He also leads our C.I.T program, training teenagers to be junior counselors for the summer.

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Tracie Dean joined us in March 2005. Coming all the way from Iowa, Tracie serves as our Food Service Supervisor. She puts together delicious, well balanced meals for campers and retreat guests who are using the facilities. She manages to keep the full time staff happy, as well!

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Regina Petrizzi is our Summer Camp Registrar as well as Personal Assistant to Robby and Sherri. She started as a junior counselor in 1995. Since April of 2005 she has served on the full time staff team.

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Tom Walker

Tom joined our full time staff team in March of 2008. He serves by doing maintenance, lawn care, and making sure the camp looks beautiful. He also keeps our waterslide clean and running.  Tom's family is a blessing to us during the summer.  His wife Donna and three children Tiffany, TC, & Taylor help whenever we need an extra hand.

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Tim joined us in August 2009. He was on our 2008 Summer Staff as Day Camp Director and did a great job. He is a great Mechanic, Lifeguard, Bible Teacher, and Staff Recruiter  His wife Sandy and three children, Leeanna, Jesse, and Brice are all a blessing to us as well. They volunteer many hours mowing, lifeguarding, serving in the kitchen, and taking care of the animals.

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Lance and his family joined us in March of 2009 as our Maintenance Supervisor. Besides keeping the staff busy with work projects he also keeps our SOWER volunteers active with assignments. He has brought a lot of new ideas to help us save money and stay organized. Lance’s wife Sally is on our staff as well. They have two teenagers, Aaron and Molly, that are a tremendous help whenever we call.

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Sally, the other Palma half, joined the team just in time to take over as our Summer 2009 Primary Supervisor. She also is in charge of the Snack Shack  as well as organizes the SOWER women projects. She and her husband, Lance, came all the way from Michigan to join our staff and what a blessing they have proven to be.