Mustang Island Summer Staff Application

Are you interested in applying for a staff position for Mustang Island Family Camp?  What a wonderful way to spend the summer!  Beach time, surfing, music, delicious meals, great digs, fun families, and of course,  worship and Christian community.  You must be at least 20 years of age or have completed your first year of college. 

2012 Summer Paid Staff Application

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2012 Mustang Island Family Camp Summer Staff

by Johnson Jeffers, Program Director

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about this summer, and one of the many reasons is because of the amazing staff that will be serving the families down on the Island.  We have several new staff members to welcome to the Family Camp team this summer, but all are familiar with this great Diocese.

Moriah is not the only maroon-and-white wearing, “Gig ‘em”-yelling staff member this summer.  Emily Paschal is a sophomore at TX A&M as well, and will be joining us down at the Island for her first summer, too.  However, Emily is no stranger to the Diocese.  She is from San Antonio and a member at St. David’s Episcopal Church.  She participates in Sigma Phi Lambda, a Christian sorority at TX A&M.

Our second new staff member, Meredith Rogers, hails from San Antonio as well, and is a member at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.  She is currently a senior at Texas Tech University where she is the President of Canterbury, an Episcopal college ministry organization, and a part-time youth minister at a church in Lubbock.

Allie Melancon will be serving as the teacher this year.  Some might remember her from when she previously “lived the dream”, being on staff at Family Camp during the summer of 2010.  She is a graduate of University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, where she presently resides.  After working at Family Camp during the summer of 2010, she was accepted to a 10-month graduate apprenticeship through Wheaton College in Illinois in an outdoor adventure leadership program at the college’s affiliate camp called Honey Rock in Wisconsin.  Currently, Allie is a College Ministry Intern for the Diocese along with assisting First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio with their college ministry work.  We are blessed to have her in the diocese and on staff this summer.

Through Allie’s experiences with young adults and college students, we are piloting a discipleship program for the summer staff at Mustang Island Family Camp.  This new program will follow an eight-week guide to incarnational community based on the book The Tangible Kingdom written by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay.  Coupled with community outreach and personal growth activities, this program will allow the staff to reflect on what it means to be called as a follower of Jesus Christ with hope that it will give them a chance to be fed spiritually so that they may serve our brothers and sisters that come through the doors of Mustang Island Conference Center this summer.

Diocese of West Texas Interns 

Davis Brown is a sophomore Environmental Chemistry major at Sewanee from Atlanta, Georgia.  He is a member of the Varsity lacrosse team and has served as a lacrosse coach for Atlanta Youth Lacrosse, teaching the basic skills of the sport to children 7 to 16 years of age.  He is an active member of Campus Crusade for Christ at Sewanee.  Davis is thrilled to becoming to Texas and working with the diocese this summer.

The Gulf Coast environment of Mustang Island will seem like home to the second intern coming to Mustang Island.  Brelyn Yuratich is a sophomore and has grown up in Gulf Shores, Alabama located right on the Gulf of Mexico.  Brelyn is studying Ecology and Biodiversity at Sewanee and has a passion for environmental conservation and education.  She is an active member of the University’s residential sustainability program called Sustain Sewanee.

Texas Hill Country Intern - Andrew Walters, from Madison, Alabama, is a senior Ecology and Biodiversity major at Sewanee.  During his four years, Andrew was a linebacker on the Sewanee football team and a member of the Student Alumni Leadership Council.  Last summer, he worked at the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs, Mississippi where he did everything from trail maintenance to consulting with private landowners on watershed conservation.  

We have one native Texan out of the four interns. Ben Haggerty is from Austin, TX and is a junior Natural Resources major with a concentration in water studies.  Ben’s previous work as an intern with the City of Austin Watershed Protection Department last summer is telling of his passion for water management and conservation, which is extremely important in this day and age, especially here in Texas.