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Camp Ajawah offers swimming, swimming classes, canoeing, rowboating, sailing, motorboating, ping-pong, foosball, chess, and use of a climbing wall. Campers also play soccer, football, softball, and ultimate frisbee, and spend time in the Craft Shop making dream catchers, lanyards, friendship bracelets, and tie-dye T-shirts.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
• Schedule: Summer features two, 2-week dedicated sessions for boys, and two, 2-week dedicated sessions for girls.
Since its founding in 1922, Camp Ajawah has operated with a rustic camping experience where campers sleep in open-air platform tents on their own bed and mattress under a mosquito net, with outhouse-style restrooms nearby that have running water for handwashing and general hygiene and centrally located outdoor showers. Main Camp includes Headquarters, the Mess Hall, the Infirmary, the Craft Shop, the Trading Post, and the Lodge, along with a basketball hoop, a volleyball/badminton net, tetherball, and a large grassy field called the Flats surrounded by forest. The lake has a sandy, sloping bottom, and the dock provides access to the shallows and the diving platforms, and beach staff instructs campers in canoeing, rowboating, sailing, and motorboating, with qualified campers allowed to take canoes, rowboats, and sailboats out by themselves. The Trading Post sells candy and useful items such as batteries, stamps, bug spray, and toothpaste, and the basement of the Mess Hall serves as a storm shelter. Camp Ajawah emphasizes active and personal interaction by removing television, computers, and cell phones from camp lifestyle, and the staff is largely raised from former campers, including some who have been at camp since they were seven years old.
The infirmary is staffed by a live-in health care provider who is on duty 24 hours a day, and the Medical Director is Dr. Linda Peitzman, M.D. The leadership team includes Girls Camp Director Mindy Meier, Boys Camp Director Paul Blakely, Boys Camp Director Emeritus Dave Moore (1936–2025), Assistant Camp Directors Rocky (Girls), Dr. Eric D. Berg, PhD (Boys), Bryce Anderson (Boys), and Preston Grant (Boys), along with Ajawah Naturalist Bob Fulton, Camp Registrar Julie Neville, and Camp Caretaker Jeremy Xiong. The 2026 Board of Directors consists of Dave Bell, Sammy Cozine, Ruth Deckenbach, Matthew Lasley, Duncan Leighton, Megan MacFarlane, Donna Plotz, Michele Rapp, Martha Schermer, Joe Swift, Casey Trittipo, Tanya Van der Haegen, Tou Vang, and Tou Chao Vang, with ex officio members Rev. Mindy Meier, Paul Blakely, Jeff Hill (Treasurer), Doug Van Valkenburg (Secretary), Julie Neville (Registrar), Jeremy Xiong (Caretaker), and Rev. Alexandra Jacob (WPC Staff). Mindy Meier is a Presbyterian pastor and North Dakota farmer who attended North Dakota State University and earned a Master of Divinity degree at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, and Paul Blakely received a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Minnesota–Duluth and has worked as a senior software engineer in Los Angeles, California. The camp’s mission states that it values the place and the spirit that is Ajawah in the role of nurturing the growth of whole and happy people, strives to build positive self-esteem, self-confidence and independence through wilderness experience while gaining knowledge and appreciation of the out-of-doors, promotes fun, friendship and cooperation while respecting differences within a diverse community, and believes in developing a relationship with a God who teaches how to love and be loved.
Camp Ajawah is c/o Westminster Presbyterian Church for off-season mail, and Dave Moore has devoted countless hours to Boy Scout Troop 100, a troop for Hmong scouts that he founded in 1983, and served as Scoutmaster of Troop 33 from 1965 to 2010.
Last updated July 26, 2026.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
• Schedule: Summer features two, 2-week dedicated sessions for boys, and two, 2-week dedicated sessions for girls.
Since its founding in 1922, Camp Ajawah has operated with a rustic camping experience where campers sleep in open-air platform tents on their own bed and mattress under a mosquito net, with outhouse-style restrooms nearby that have running water for handwashing and general hygiene and centrally located outdoor showers. Main Camp includes Headquarters, the Mess Hall, the Infirmary, the Craft Shop, the Trading Post, and the Lodge, along with a basketball hoop, a volleyball/badminton net, tetherball, and a large grassy field called the Flats surrounded by forest. The lake has a sandy, sloping bottom, and the dock provides access to the shallows and the diving platforms, and beach staff instructs campers in canoeing, rowboating, sailing, and motorboating, with qualified campers allowed to take canoes, rowboats, and sailboats out by themselves. The Trading Post sells candy and useful items such as batteries, stamps, bug spray, and toothpaste, and the basement of the Mess Hall serves as a storm shelter. Camp Ajawah emphasizes active and personal interaction by removing television, computers, and cell phones from camp lifestyle, and the staff is largely raised from former campers, including some who have been at camp since they were seven years old.
The infirmary is staffed by a live-in health care provider who is on duty 24 hours a day, and the Medical Director is Dr. Linda Peitzman, M.D. The leadership team includes Girls Camp Director Mindy Meier, Boys Camp Director Paul Blakely, Boys Camp Director Emeritus Dave Moore (1936–2025), Assistant Camp Directors Rocky (Girls), Dr. Eric D. Berg, PhD (Boys), Bryce Anderson (Boys), and Preston Grant (Boys), along with Ajawah Naturalist Bob Fulton, Camp Registrar Julie Neville, and Camp Caretaker Jeremy Xiong. The 2026 Board of Directors consists of Dave Bell, Sammy Cozine, Ruth Deckenbach, Matthew Lasley, Duncan Leighton, Megan MacFarlane, Donna Plotz, Michele Rapp, Martha Schermer, Joe Swift, Casey Trittipo, Tanya Van der Haegen, Tou Vang, and Tou Chao Vang, with ex officio members Rev. Mindy Meier, Paul Blakely, Jeff Hill (Treasurer), Doug Van Valkenburg (Secretary), Julie Neville (Registrar), Jeremy Xiong (Caretaker), and Rev. Alexandra Jacob (WPC Staff). Mindy Meier is a Presbyterian pastor and North Dakota farmer who attended North Dakota State University and earned a Master of Divinity degree at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, and Paul Blakely received a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Minnesota–Duluth and has worked as a senior software engineer in Los Angeles, California. The camp’s mission states that it values the place and the spirit that is Ajawah in the role of nurturing the growth of whole and happy people, strives to build positive self-esteem, self-confidence and independence through wilderness experience while gaining knowledge and appreciation of the out-of-doors, promotes fun, friendship and cooperation while respecting differences within a diverse community, and believes in developing a relationship with a God who teaches how to love and be loved.
Camp Ajawah is c/o Westminster Presbyterian Church for off-season mail, and Dave Moore has devoted countless hours to Boy Scout Troop 100, a troop for Hmong scouts that he founded in 1983, and served as Scoutmaster of Troop 33 from 1965 to 2010.
Last updated July 26, 2026.
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