Staff Portal
Hello and welcome to the Staff Portal. If you are reading this, you have been selected to serve this summer at Lamoka Baptist Camp and you have officially accepted the offer to join our staff. We are excited to work with you, and cannot wait to see what God will do through you this summer. We know that God is going to use you to glorify Him and to make His name known. Our theme this summer is “LEVEL UP.” Our program and activities will all include 8-bit and retro game elements, while our chapels will focus on asking big questions and growing closer to our big God!
Whether this is your first or fifth year on staff, your journey starts here in the Staff Portal.
The tabs below contain everything you need to know OR to do before arriving for training week at the end of June. Please read & do EVERYTHING on the “Staff Orientation” tab, view (on a desktop/laptop) your assigned position and coordinator on the “Staff List” tab, fill out all the forms in the remaining tabs (ONLY counselors need to fill out the Counselor Biography Form), and read any portions of the materials you are required to read on the “Staff Resources” tab (the Staff Orientation tab will tell you what, if anything, you need to read based upon your position this Summer).
Please contact your direct supervisor/coordinator anytime if you have any questions. Their names and emails are on the Staff List tab. If you cannot get a hold of them, you can email me directly at camp@lamoka.com.
Dr. Greg Howard
Camp Director
Information & Forms
STAFF ORIENTATION
So, you have been hired to work at Lamoka Baptist Camp in 2026. . . Congratulations! If you have never worked at Lamoka before, you may be asking yourself, “OK, what next.? That is why this portal exists: to tell you the next steps you should be taking before Staff Training Week in June. Please read all the information below to see what you need to do and know before arriving on campus for staff Training Week. All the information in this section is required reading for all staff. If you have any other questions, your coordinators (supervisors) will contact you shortly to introduce themselves, and at that time you may ask them any and all of your questions. If your coordinator does not contact you before the end of March, please contact them using the email or phone number of your coordinator found on the Staff & Contact List tab.
NEXT STEPS:
1. FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE MINISTRY: If you have never been to our camp or campus before, don’t fret! We will be giving you a full campus tour and going over everything you will need to know to serve at Lamoka during Staff Training Week. If you have never been to Lamoka before, please familiarize yourself with our ministry by visiting our About Us Pages (found under the MORE menu option on the main menu of the website). On these pages you will find a campus map, answers to frequently asked questions, pictures, etc.
2. REQUIRED FORMS: ALL staff must fill out the Staff Medical Form & the Ministry Preparation Assessment Form before Staff Training Week. Both forms can be found on the Staff Forms tab. If you are under 18 you will need your parents to help you complete the Medical Form, because they must sign the form before it is submitted. Furthermore, If you are being paid this summer, you must also complete and submit a W4 before arriving for Staff Training Week. A link to a W4 can be found on the Staff Resources tab. If you are unsure whether you are being paid this summer, check out our Summer Positions Page or contact us anytime. You can fill out the W4 on PDF software and submit it digitally or you can print your own and send it in via mail to PO BOX 70 Tyrone NY 14887. If you are under 18, whether you are being paid OR not, you need to bring WORKING PAPERS with you. These can be gotten at your public school or town office building – in NY. We need these on file even for volunteers.
3. STAFF RESOURCES: Our training resources for this year can be found on the Staff Resource Tab below. We will cover these when you arrive for Training Week. However, Counselors and Coordinators are required to read all of the provided resources before arriving for Training Week. NOTE: If the year of a particular resource is not the current year, please wait until it is updated before reading it, because this will be an older version of the resource. This is a lot of reading, so please start nice and early. We will cover most of this information during Training Week, but it is important that you read everything. If you are not a Counselor or Coordinator, you do NOT need to read these resources.
4. STAFF TRAINING WEEK: Our staff training week runs from June 22-27 in 2026. All staff are required to attend this week. Please be moved into your assigned cabin by 8:45am and in the chapel no later than 9:00am on June 22nd. We know that some of you will have regence exams during that week. This happens every few years. Don’t panic. Please contact your coordinator when you know your regence schedule to work out the details with her. If you have a few regence exams that week, you may of course leave and come back. Training Week cabin assignments will be posted on the main office door and will be posted below a few weeks before the week begins. Please be rested and ready to go (spiritually and physically) when you arrive.
CLICK HERE FOR 2026 Training Week Cabin Assignments
5. SUMMER WEEKS: Each week begins on Monday morning with an ALL staff meeting in the chapel at 8:00 am. Please show up on time with your staff shirt and name tag on. All staff are expected to work ALL 7 weeks this summer. If you cannot work all 7 weeks, because of a family vacation or another commitment, please inform your coordinator or supervisor when they reach out to you in the Spring. If you are unable to work a certain amount of weeks, you may not be able to work this summer, because we firmly believe that you will not grow as much or as effectively as you can, if you are not there for a minimal amount of time. Each week ends with a required, all-staff meeting at 10:00am on Saturday morning. You will be done and ready to leave campus around 10:30am. Your weekends are your own, but please use them wisely (e.g. laundry, rest, spending time with family, being active in your local church, etc).
STAFF LIST
Staff List Details: Green boxes in the schedule columns indicate which weeks you are scheduled to work. If your schedule is wrong, CONTACT your supervisor or the office ASAP. If there are no green boxes, please contact your supervisor to tell them which weeks you cannot work. Staff are expected to work a minimum of 5 weeks (exceptions are possible), but are encouraged to work all 8. You must have either an “n/a” or “yes” in both the Working Papers and W4 column before training week, but we encourage you to get both of these in/completed as early as possible. If one or both are blank when you arrive for training week, you may not be allowed to work at camp this Summer.
Abbreviation Key: “(H)” Head; “(C)” Coordinator (task area supervisors); “(LG)” Lifegaurd; “(JR)” Junior Lifegaurd; "(M) Manager; “(BD)” Boat Dock
**All assignments are subject to change at the discretion of the director and/or leadership. The staff list below is customized for viewing on a laptop/desktop and may not work or scroll properly on a mobile device.
STAFF FORMS
*Click on a form below to complete it. Notice that the last form in this list is required only for Counselors.
MINISTRY PREPARATION ASSESSMENT
*All staff must fill out this form.
STAFF MEDICAL FORM
*All Staff must complete this form.
COUNSELOR BIOGRAPHY FORM
*Only counselors must complete this form.
STAFF RESOURCES
*Click on the resource below to access or download the PDF. If a link for a resource below has last year’s date on it, it will be updated by early Spring. Please do not read a resource until it has the correct year upon it (note: sometimes the year on the PDF is from a previous year, but as long as the year on the link below is current, it is updated).
NEW 2026 Updated Activity Plan