Executive Director – Andrew Dreger
My wife Sarah and I are the proud parents of 3 boys who keep us busy, humble and smiling…Most of the time! It was a bit surreal to have them attend LPC as campers for the first time in 2021!
I have served at Lone Prairie Camp every year since 2002 in a wide variety of roles including CLT, Support Staff, Maintenance, Cabin Leader, Boat Driver, “Special Projects” and Program Director. Throughout all my other commitments, the ministry of Lone Prairie Camp has captured my being again and again. I accepted the role of Camp Director in 2012 and consider it a huge honour to serve in this position.
I have been actively involved at Ellerslie Road Baptist Church since High School and have assisted in various capacities including youth sponsoring, teaching Sunday School and ushering. Between my first and second years of university, I had the privilege of serving street children with ACTION Zambia and ACTION Uganda and then graduated from the University of Alberta in 2010 with a Bachelor in Engineering Physics. Since then, I have completed my Masters of Divinity degree through The Canadian Baptist Seminary (CBS, part of ACTS) and continue to pursue formal education.
My husband Andrew and I met at LPC in Summer 2008 while I was serving as one of the summer speakers. We have had the privilege of growing our family at LPC and now have 3 boys who can’t help but call LPC and the LPC community home.
I am so grateful to be a part of Lone Prairie Camp again this year. God has been a faithful Provider and Shepherd, throughout the off-season and into the summer! I attend Good Shepherd Chinese Lutheran Church weekly and have just started teaching at an elementary school in Edmonton. This is my sixth full summer at LPC and I am excited to see what God has in store for us.
I am hyped to be at Lone Prairie Camp this summer! I love camp because of the stories that take place here, which I get to be in! A lot of them are stupid funny, a few I remember with great pride, and almost all of them are about God meeting us. He meets campers for the first time and he meets older staff for the hundredth time, this time a little more fully. I find it overwhelmingly worth it to be able to witness these stories, and I recount them often. At camp we anticipate and expect God to show up and change lives. Because he does. Every day. Most days it’s me. A lady I met at church once prayed that God would ‘bless my socks off’. I am glad she did, because at camp that is a well answered prayer.
This is my tenth summer at LPC and I’ve never been more excited to serve as the camp nurse this year! I was recently baptized at Starlight/Ellerslie Road Baptist Church, but I’ve known God’s love since the day I was born. What I love about camp is the growth and intentionality that takes place here, though it’s the amount of fond memories and shared laughs that bring me back each summer. Worshipping God with song at a campfire surrounded by nature with so many voices is a hard feeling to beat! After camp ends, I’ll be heading into my third year of nursing at the UofA.
God has been so faithful over the past year, and I’m incredibly thankful to be back at Lone Prairie Camp! This summer, I’ll be serving as the Recreation Director before beginning the Respiratory Therapy program at SAIT this fall. I love spending time with my family, playing soccer, painting, being outdoors, and taking my dog on adventures. It is such a privilege to serve alongside an amazing staff team and help create a place where campers can have fun, build friendships, and grow in their relationship with Christ. I can’t wait to see all that God has in store this summer!
I am a 18 year old high school and bible school graduate and I am enrolled physics at UofA this upcoming year. I love to play soccer bike and snowboard. I attend St. Johns the Evangelist and have gone there since I was born. Lone Prairie Camp has been a large part of my life as I have been going since the first year of squirt camp. Lone Prairie Camp has always been an amazing place for me to go and make friends or to grow in my relationship with God. This year I hope to make camp as great for the campers as it was for me so that they can have as life changing of an experience as I have had.
I have been going to LPC since I was very young, I have met Jesus there and he has taught me so much about what it means to live a life of faith. The community of believers at LPC is such a blessing. I am so excited for the ways Jesus will use me this summer, as I am molded more to his image and can better serve those around me.
I have just graduated from high school and I am studying to become a teacher in the future. I attend Lansdowne Community Baptist Church and have always been surrounded by a Christian community, but I feel that LPC is a distinct environment even so. I’m very passionate about serving Lone Prairie Camp, and it is the highlight of my year! I have made so many friends and memories here, and I am excited for more.I hope that this summer will grow me spiritually and that I will abide in Him in this upcoming first year of university!
I am eighteen years old, and I just finished my first year of university at Trinity Western University. At school, I attend Christ Covenant Church in Langley, BC. At home, I have the privilege of worshipping with my family in our newly planted church, Kings Covenant Church. I have served at camp for four years, and this will be my second summer as a cabin leader. I love doing leadership at LPC because I can serve God in a way that is meaningful to campers, and I get to teach the word of God.
Over the last 3 years I’ve been a camper, volunteer and CLT at LPC. It has been such an incredible and life changing experience getting to experience and witness God working in both the staff and campers lives each summer. I’ve been attending Lansdowne Community Baptist Church and this is where I first discovered my love for serving in worship and children’s ministries. LPC has been such a huge component of my spiritual journey and I excited to contribute to this ministry and serve as a cabin leader this year. Looking forward to sharing about and experiencing God’s love, grace and mercy with everyone!
I’m a student at the University of Alberta, going into my third year of biochemistry this fall. My home church is Edmonton Christian Community Church, where I’ve been involved in the children’s ministry, and I also help with a children’s Bible study at Starlight Church. This will be my second year as a full-time cabin leader, and I’m really looking forward to the summer and all the kids coming out to camp.
I just finished my second year at the University of Toronto double majoring in Psychology and Chemistry. In Toronto I attend a church called Grace Toronto, but Edmonton is my hometown and my home church is Ellerslie Road Baptist Church. I love LPC and I love Jesus and my greatest hope and excitement is that this year I can share my love for Jesus with all these campers who will be coming through the camp this summer.
I have just finished my first year of university, and plan to continue in the University of Toronto next year as a second year majoring in Math and Physics. I attend Grace Toronto Church. Last year I worked as the Office Admin at camp, as well as cabin leading for a week. I am sure it will challenging, but I also have faith that God will see me through this process that I am sure will be fruitful.
I graduated from Lillian Osborne High School this year, and I plan to attend a Capernwray Bible school in Sweden in the fall. I’ve attended Lansdowne Community Baptist Church my whole life, where I discovered my passion for serving in both worship and children’s ministries. My eight years at Lone Prairie Camp have been filled with transformative experiences and conversations that have shaped my faith, and I’m excited to see how God will work at LPC this summer!