Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters

The following year, Snowbird offered its first seven weeks of summer camp with a staff of six, in addition to six retreat weekends. Camp attendance advanced to more than 600 students that year. The next several years brought about many additional facility and recreational changes, including Snowbird’s first kitchen, bathhouses, additional housing, the 3-man Swing and a variety of other recreation. As Snowbird developed throughout the years, the organization’s leaders saw fit to establish specific ministry programs in order to meet the ever-growing needs of its publics. Today those ministries take the form of Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters camps and retreats, the Outdoor Leadership and Discipleship School, founded in 2002, and Snowbird Missions and Outreach, founded in 2005. Over the years, Snowbird has grown from a 50-person to a 470-person housing capacity. Its year-round discipleship weekends and 10 weeks of summer camp serve nearly 8,000 annually. Snowbird now operates with a 50-member year-time staff, more than a dozen of which serve through a year-round apprentice program created to disciple men and women in their early adult years. During the summer season, Snowbird hires an additional 100 college-age adults to serve as small group leaders and recreational staff, as well as nearly 20 high school students to train under the Servant Team program.