The Tall Timber Team
Aaron Fishburn - Executive Director
Favorite Camp Food: Harry’s Banana Cream Pie Favorite Camp Activity: YILT worship on the beach
Aaron Fishburn grew up at Tall Timber Ranch, jumping in wherever needed from a young age. After graduating from Whitworth University with a degree in Theology and minor in Music, he married Beth, a singer/songwriter and fellow Whitworth grad who had also enjoyed Tall Timber as a kid. Together, they enjoy making music together and have two great kids. Aside from a childhood immersed in camp ministry, Aaron brings his energy and experience as a youth director, carpenter, and property manager, into his role as Executive Director.
He prayerfully strives for Tall Timber to be a place where people may gather and grow closer to God and one another.
What makes camp special to you?
To me, it acts as a thin space. A place where the distance between Heaven and earth just seems to be closer.
Maggie Jorgenson - Program Director
Favorite Camp Food: Cheesy Buns Favorite Camp Activity: Campfires at the Beach
Maggie is from Wenatchee and grew up coming to Tall Timber for summer camps, YILT, youth groups, and school. I have such fun memories here of friends, God, mountains and music!
What makes camp special to you?
All the memories and more to come!
The Tall Timber Board
Jim Deal
Board President jim@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: BBQ lunch Favorite Camp Activity: Singing around the Campfire!
I grew up in Wenatchee, and began attending Tall Timber in elementary school. I gave my life to Christ there during my second summer at camp. After high school, I attended and graduated from Whitworth College & Princeton Seminary. I then served churches in Ellensburg, Idaho, and now East Wenatchee as a Presbyterian pastor, always involved in camp ministry. I am married with three sons, and two grandsons.
What makes Camp special to you?
The majestic mountains, and the opportunity to retreat, disconnecting in order to reconnect with God, and other people.
Kat Barrett
Board Vice President - President Elect kat@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: Pesto Cheesy Buns Favorite Camp Activity: Campfire Songs
Kat has been a dedicated supporter of Tall Timber for years, serving as a camper, summer staff, volunteer, and now board member. She is currently a high school band director in Eastern Washington. Kat’s husband, Kyle, and their son, Noah, are also active in camp life, helping out wherever they can. Deeply committed to camping ministry, Kat believes in its transformative power, fostering a deeper connection to faith through outdoor experiences.
What makes Camp special to you?
The people. You can feel God's love most powerfully in the ministry of hospitality. There is no greater Love than to lay down one's life for another.
Josh Weldy
Board Treasurer josh@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: Breakfast and Coffee Favorite Camp Activity: Campfire
Josh lives in East Wenatchee with his wife of nearly 30 years. They have two adult sons in their 20s, both recently married, who also call Wenatchee home. He work as a CFO in the tree fruit industry of eastern Washington. In his free time, Josh enjoys running, hiking, backpacking, peak-bagging, reading, cross-word puzzling, and spending quality time with my family
What makes Camp special to you?
As a Jr. and Sr. High camper in the 1980s, I was captivated by the beauty of God's creation at Tall Timber and deeply moved by the love for Jesus that camp staff and counselors so genuinely displayed. These experiences profoundly shaped my faith and left an enduring impact on my life.
Kate West
Board Member kate@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: Lucille's Cheesy Buns! Favorite Camp Activity: Too many to name!
What makes Camp special to you?
A lifetime of memories and the friendships that have come out of that for nearly 50 years.
David Lucas
Board Member davidl@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: Coffee Favorite Camp activity: Campfire
Being retired I enjoy volunteering with several nonprofit organizations. Helping groups and organizations create policy and process to help strengthen their growth is where I find the most personal value and interest.
What makes Camp special to you?
Tall Timber is a place where it is easy to see the beauty God has created in his creation. The welcoming and inclusive nature of people here is a direct reflection of God working in the world.
Dave Vogee
Board Member
Favorite Camp Food: Lucille’s Turkey Gravy and Mashed Potatoes
Favorite Camp activity: Worship
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dave grew up going to summer camp. At 18, he moved to his childhood camp in the redwood forest for two years while attending college. When he moved to Washington to go to Pacific Lutheran University and then Central Washington University, he met Stan and Becky and they recruited him and his girlfriend Laura, later to be his wife of 37 years, to be on staff in 1986. Since then, Dave has served in many capacities at Tall Timber including Adventure Camp Dean, Worship Leader, Speaker, and of course his favorite, YILT for almost 20 years. As he nears the end of a 32+ year career as a public school teacher, and with 4 children, all adults, Dave is looking forward to having more time to dedicate to ministry with high school students and young adults at Tall Timber.
What makes Camp special to you?
The setting at Tall Timber makes it easy to talk about the reality and majesty of God. It is a place where it is easy to experience His grace and truth.
Allison Lewis
Board Member Allison@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: The famous TT cheesy buns
Favorite Camp activity: Worship and testimonies at campfire
Allison grew up in Wenatchee, coming up to camp all through school and into college to counsel and experience. She spent two years at Whitworth, transferred to U.W. where she graduated with an art degree, met and married her husband Dan. They have lived for the last 20 years in Cashmere and have 4 kids, middle school through college age. Allison loves gathering with other creatives, baking, worshipping in the mountains, hiking and traveling with her family and too many things to mention! She is in love with Jesus and can't wait to see what's next for Tall Timber
What makes Camp special to you?
Every memory made of encountering God's nearness, seeing His love move in a moment that creates eternal impact, and His powerful beauty evident everywhere in the unique setting of TT.
Jason Gamble
Board Member jason@talltimber.org
Favorite Camp Food: Cheesy Buns of course!
Favorite Camp activity: Camp Work Retreats
My name is Jason Gamble and I’m 47 years young. I have been married for the last 26 yrs to my beautiful Wife Elizabeth and we have two children Madeleine (23) and Aidan (19) who spent their summers at Tall Timber. I’m a Native Washingtonian having lived and attended churches around the state. I have served as an Elder and President at Snohomish First Presbyterian Church where my wife and I currently worship and are members. I love music and the outdoors spending as much time possible hunting, fishing, boating, surfing, singing, and attending live performances.
What makes Camp special to you?
Tall Timber is special to me because of the role it has played in my faith journey along with my wife and our two children. Finding a church family and community to raise our children was extremely important to the both of us. Snohomish First Presbyterian church provided that foundation for us to raise our children and Tall Timber was one of the major ministries that the church supported. There are countless memoires at Tall Timber for all of us of family retreats, men’s retreats, women’s retreats, and kid summer camps that help us grow closer to God and together as a family. Our daughter even served on staff one summer as the Director of Music and will be getting married in the meadow by the Napeequa River. Serving on the Tall Timber board is a small way that I can give back to a place that has given so much to me and my family.
