Birchwood Camp is searching for Volunteers to serve as Camp Counselors!

Counselors guide children and youth through their time at Camp– you will make a lasting impact on a child’s life and will create wonderful memories of your own. We need many caring, enthusiatic adults to serve as counselors; we have a low adult-child ratio, sometimes as low as 5 campers to 1 adult. That means we need lots of counselors so that lots of kids will be able to come to camp. Please consider serving in this very important position and give children the experience of building community at Birchwood Camp.

ALSO… we welcome youth between the ages of 16 and 18 as Counselors in Training (or CITs) to counsel at our elementary camps during the summer. If you are interested serving as a CIT, check out our Counselor in Training Program.  CITs make energetic and exciting counselors, and they build great friendships and memories as well!

IMPORTANT: As a thank you for volunteering with us, all counselors will receive half-off camp fees for their child. CITs receive half-off camp fees for their own camp.

If you are interested in Counseling:

If you are interested in volunteering please submit a volunteer application by clicking here. You will be asked to create an account in our system and then you will be taken through the online application.

All counselors must re-apply each year to make sure their information is current.

NEW IN 2012: All counselors must attend one pre-camp training meeting!

If you’ve been a counselor before, you know that each Sunday before camp starts we cram in too much planning and training. We are going to remedy that and take care of some of the mandatory training ahead of time, at these pre-meetings.  That way, when you arrive the day before camp starts, the counselors & deans can just spend their time planning and preparing for the week– physically, mentally and spiritually. Pre-meetings are set for the following days:

• Wednesday, May 23, 5:30-7:30pm at Anchor Park UMC in Anchorage (youth room)
• Friday, June 1, 4:00-6:00pm at Birchwood Camp

Questions? Call us at 907- 688-2734, send us an email, or find us on Facebook