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The Team
Camp Marshall staff & Commission
James Gartner
Camp Director
After growing up in the Midwest, James made the move to Montana in 2018. He enjoyed a summer at Camp Marshall as the Documentarian/Media Director before joining the staff at Holy Spirit in Missoula in 2020. He joined the Diocesan staff as Camp Director in 2024 and still enjoys writing, photography, video, and spending time in the mountains.
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The Rev. Sadie Koppleberger
Director of Formation
Fr. Sadie was ordained in 2022 and serves as the rector of Christ Church in Kalispell in addition to her diocesen responsibilities. She grew up in Iowa and holds a BFA from Iowa State University (Go Cyclones!), a Masters in Theology from the University of Glasgow, and an MDiv from Seminary of the Southwest. Fr. Sadie shares a beautiful, chaotic life with her husband, Elliott and their three children who are always adventure ready.
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Tom Carlson
Camp Commission President
I was baptized and confirmed in Montana, but accepted Jesus as my Savior at Camp.
While attending college, I worked at Camp several years.
I met my wife Kris in the MSU College of Nursing, and we married in 87. After a few years and many adventures we moved home to Montana with a two week old baby. Another beautiful girl came three years later. Both girls, Jasmine and Camas were baptized at Christ Church Kalispell, and have participated and worked at Camp Marshall.
Kris and I are retired now and live on our homestead in the Flathead. Our latest joy is our first grandchild who with his mother live with us.
John Bertram
Camp Commission Vice President
For the last 14 years he and his family have enjoyed spending time at camp every summer at Family and Junior Middler camps, and parish, vestry and quilting retreats. He was very excited to get certified as a camp sailing instructor last summer. John works as an architectural designer for cooperate events around the world and locally as a architectural designer and draftsmen.
Beth Demmons
Lay Member
Three years ago, Beth was asked to help with Grace Camp and she has been hooked ever since. Beth and her family have enjoyed spending time at Camp Marshall during youth and family camp.
Beth is a licensed clinical social worker and provides counseling services to Carroll College students. She comes to the counseling world with over 24 years of military service as a retired Air Force officer. She and her husband hail from Montana but they didn’t meet until they both were stationed in South Korea in 1994. They married, travelled the world and are blessed with five children. They are happy to be living in Montana again near family and friends.
Beth and her family are members of St Stephen’s in Helena where she is active in the Sunday School Program.
Noelle Kent
Lay Member
I was able to attend Camp Marshall from the time I was 10 years old. Camp gave me opportunities in various youth activities. As a high schooler, I attended youth conventions and Happenings around the state. My senior year of high school I was able to be on the Youth Board, which was a group of high schoolers from
around the state that would gather several times a year to organize the various events for the state youth program. After I graduated high school, I was able to be a waterfront director at Camp Marshall. Several years later I was able to volunteer to be a counselor at Camp Marshall.
Today, I am a wife and a mother to four who have all attended Camp Marshall. My husband and
I organize a church fundraiser every year at St. Luke's to
raise funds for Grace Camp.
My heart and my faith was secured in the love and compassion of my experiences at Camp
Marshall. I have lifelong friends from camp. We have our faith in God's love and understanding
and we came by that through love, friendship and prayer together at Camp Marshall. I have a
passion for and belief in what Camp Marshall brings to the youth of Montana.
Carol Sisk
Lay Member
Carol grew up in Montana - skiing, riding horses, and loving the week every summer at Camp Marshall. While working toward a BS in nursing, she spent several summers as the camp nurse.......licensing requirements were a bit looser back then! The alumni weekend has provided a yearly get together with her lifelong camp friends from those college years.
Employment for 30 years consisted of hospital work as an RN, and for the last 10 years as a Nurse Practitioner in an Internal Medicine clinic. She was able to be an “official” camp nurse for 4 of the more recent Grace Camps, and this is a role that has been as much a blessing for her, as it has hopefully been for the campers.
Married for 44 years to Bob, they still live at the foot of the Bridger mountains with their young dog, Sandy. And they continue to feel blessed by, and find fulfillment in their children - a daughter and her husband, and son and his wife and children.
Dr. Maggie Stockwell
Lay Member
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Jess Wilkerson
Lay Member
The Rev. Stephen Day
Ordained Member
I grew up going to Episcopal Church Camp in West Virginia and served three summers there as a counselor. Later, I worked four years as Diocesan Youth and Young Adult Minister in West Virginia, which included helping to run summer programs at camp. I also spent two years as a Young Adult Service Corps missionary in Dodoma, Tanzania.​
The Rev. Steve DeHart
Ordained Member
Steve is a Deacon in our Diocese. He is long time Montana resident, loves Camp Marshall, and recently served as our Grace Camp chaplain. Deacon Steve has spent his entire life working with families and youth of all ages as a licensed mental health therapist, a drug and alcohol counselor, and an educator in both middle and high school settings.
The Rev. Charlie Knuth
Ordained Member
While Charlie never attended summer camp growing up, he’s worked on the staff of an Episcopal Service Corp program, as a youth minister/community organizer at a church in metro Boston, and as a case manager at a homeless youth shelter in Salt Lake. He is married to the Rev’d Mikayla Dunfee, the former program director of Camp Galilee in Tahoe.​
