Bruce Flaming:
Bruce grew up on a dairy farm west of Monmouth; his family attended the  Mennonite Brethren church in Dallas.  After graduating from Tabor College and Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in KC. MO, he completed his internship-residency program in Portland, OR.  In 1963 he began his family medical and anaesthesia practice in Dallas, OR. where he and his wife Jeanette raised four children.  He became familiar with the beauty and uniqueness of Drift Creek Camp when his children attended summer  camp and he would fish Drift Creek.  Bruce enjoys hiking, biking, gardening and golf.  Since retiring he has developed a strong interest in learning more about nature and developing a Nature Learning Center at DCC.

Louise Gingerich
After graduating from Goshen College and teaching for 3 years Louise chose to be at home with the 4 children. She also helped in the small plant propagation nursery and has a great appreciation of the vast variety of plants available. Although a native of Ohio, she has lived in Oregon for 37 years and fell in love with the area around Drift Creek Camp, attending many events there over the years. She enjoys quilting, reading, gardening and traveling. Louise and her husband attend Zion Mennonite Church.

John Gingerich
John grew up on a small farm near Hubbard, Oregon where many childhood afternoons were spend with brothers and friends in the wooded areas along the creek flowing through the farm. Following graduation from Goshen College and a 3 year term of service, he returned to the same community with his wife and they built a home in a wooded lot where they raised 4 children. The family has made many trips to Drift Creek Camp for summer camps, family reunions, fishing trips & retreats, annual meeting and volunteering. Following retirement from 30+ years of teaching math and serving as technology coordinator he enjoys gardening, road trips and volunteering for church and community projects.

Brenda Hostetler Kauffman
Brenda grew up on an Oregon Christmas tree farm where she spent countless afternoons exploring both on foot and horseback. While she loved the wilderness, she longed to interact with other kids. Drift Creek Camp provided that opportunity and was always the highlight of her childhood summers. As an adult she craved to explore more of the world and traveled to Mexico, worked in Baltimore, Maryland, visited Europe and volunteered at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Later she earned an Education degree from Goshen College. She taught English to speakers of other languages while operating a coffee house with her husband, Tony. After they adopted two children from Nepal, they returned to her family farm and are currently directors of Drift Creek Camp.

Mervin Kropf
Mervin grew up on a grass seed farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley.  His childhood summer camp experience at Drift Creek Camp started a lifelong love of nature and of DCC.  He first worked as summer staff in 1999 and then took on a more permanent role at the camp after graduating from Bible College in 2006.  In his current role as program director he hopes to see expanded nature activities and education at DCC and is excited about working with DCNC to make that happen.  

Ken Snyder
Ken grew up on a small wooded acerage between Canby and Mollala,  attending a small church east of the Zion Mennonite community.  He and  his brothers and friends spend a lot of time roaming the woods and creek valleys, fishing and doing what boys do in those settings.  He worked in his Dad's tire store in Woodburn before going to college at what is now called Western Oregon University with a year at Eastern Mennonite College.  He taught at Western Mennonite School for seven years until1972, then one year at Iowa Mennonite School.  He with his family including two children served as MCC director in Jamaica and then worked for the State of Oregon for 23 years.  Before retiring, he did shorter terms of service with MCC in Laos and Thailand.  After retiring he did short terms of service in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Sumatra, Indonesia.  In the early days of Drift Creek Camp he was active in the music camps held there which performed some ambitious works and later came to camp frequently with family and church groups.  After returning from Zimbabwe in 2003 he became a member of the Drift Creek Camp Board.

Anna Williams
Anna grew up outside of Salem, Oregon and attended Drift Creek Camp from a very young age as the daughter of a board member and occasional camp pastor. She discovered a curiosity for wildlife at a young age, which led her to Oregon State University's zoology program. During high school and college, Anna volunteered at the Humane Society, a veterinary clinic in Corvallis, and the Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. During this time she continued to be involved at Drift Creek as a teen volunteer, then as a counselor and arts and crafts director. Anna deepened her relationship with the camp after moving north and attending Zion Mennonite Church with her husband, Stephen Williams. She is delighted to have joined the Drift Creek Camp Board of Directors in the summer of 2007.  Anna currently works in a Microbiology lab and enjoys skiing, camping, art, design and remodeling her house. 

Jon Yoder
After twenty-three years as a science teacher at North Salem High school Jon is currently the Salem-Keizer School District's Science Program Assistant, coordinating and supporting science programs in the schools. He has been involved in coordinating the Mill Creek project, a restoration and educational project along Mill Creek, and efforts to build the Straub Environmental Learning Center. Jon is also the Secondary Education Coordinator for the Northwest Center for Sustainable Development, which involves conducting teacher institutes and writing educational manuals.