Every summer over 9,000 teenagers and adults travel 30 miles south of Wilmington to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell, a coastal retreat and conference center. The campers come to “Caswell”, where they encounter God in a real way as they are surrounded by an environment that seeks to show them that God loves them right where they are.  They meet new friends, experience the beauty of God’s creation, and find out that worship is about more than Sunday mornings. Caswell is a community and ministry training ground for all the college students who come to work and live for the summer season.
Caswell offers a variety of summer ministry opportunities in several work areas. Spending a summer at Caswell is more than life on the beach. It’s also engaging in true Christian servant-hood while experiencing the joys and challenges of living in community with more than 70 other staff members.
Specific Job areas include:
• Cafeteria (15 positions)
• Housekeeping Supervisors (8 positions)
• Housekeeping Assistants (2 positions)
• Lifeguards (9 positions) +
• Guest Services (4 positions) 
• Recreation (5 positions)
• Retail Services (7 positions) *
• Camp Seabreeze (8 positions)
• Coastal Explorers (4 positions)
• Grounds Crew (1 position)
• Warehouse (3 positions)
KEY LEADERSHIP - Key Leadership positions require former staff experience
• Women’s Staff Counselor (1 position)
• Men’s Staff Counselor (1 position)
• Worship Leader (1 position)
• Event’s Coordinator (1 position)

+ = appropriate certification required   * = Prior experience a plus
For more information, write or call: North Carolina Baptist Assembly 100 Caswell Beach Road Oak Island, NC 28465 (910) 278-9501
http://www.fortcaswell.com/ (just follow the Summer Staff links)

We launched our new website on the weekend of November 8-9.  We discovered a problem with our new online Summer Staff Application and References forms.  If you filled out an application online between November 7 to 19 please call the Fort Caswell office and speak with Brian Hemphill or Aaron Hinton to make sure that we received your application or reference form.  If you are interested in being a part of our Summer Staff team in 2009 you can apply with our online application form.  Then ask those who will provide a reference for you to fill out our online reference form.  Let us know if we can assist in anyway.

Please note that we are no longer accepting applications for 2010.

Dear Caswell Summer Staff Alumni Friends,

Hello everyone!  My name is Laurie Bass Varley and I worked on Summer Staff at the NC Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell from 1987-1994.  Those were absolutely the best summers of my life.

I was recently at Caswell volunteering and found some wonderful nautical framed pictures that were on sale super cheap at a Southport seafood restaurant which was changing ownership.  I thought the prints would look perfect in the Staff House Lounge.  After talking with Mr. Holbrook, Director of Caswell, the follow items were obtained….seven nautical prints (framed and matted), four wooden crab pots, and six pylons.  The restaurant owner donated two large fish nets, wooden buoys, a cool sea captain wooden sign and three additional pylons.  I was bargaining big time!!!

All of the prints and decorative accents have been placed in the staff house lounge.  It looks like a totally different place!  If you’re like me, I have so many great memories of living in the Staff House, having fun making friends, sharing a room with 8 other girls, and even having Sunday School and devotions in the Staff House Lounge. Brian Hemphill, former Summer Staffer and Caswell full-time staff member, mentioned to me that the Staff House Lounge is also in need of new furniture…and boy is he right!!  Currently, there is a not-so-pretty pink loveseat and several mish-matched colored chairs.

I am mailing this letter to the Summer Staff Alumni, asking for YOUR help in updating the Staff House Lounge furnishings.  We’ve been very successful so far, but the summer staffers still need your support to address their needs.  Please mail your gift as soon as possible, but no later than July 15th so the work of Summer Staff 2008 can benefit from your support.

Thank you in advance for your consideration!!  I look forward to hearing from you.  If everyone participates (at the giving level which is right for you) our goal of providing MUCH needed Staff House Lounge furnishings can be met!!

Any amount is appreciated!!  Please send your check directly to me, I then will send everything to Caswell.  Please make your check out to “NC Baptist Assembly”.  Caswell will mail each donor a receipt for their donation.  Remember we hope to have our goal met by July 15, 2008!  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

Many thanks and Caswell blessings to you,

Laurie Bass Varley
1217 Donna Drive
Shelby, NC 28152
Email: 
Home phone:  704-484-2163

PS – Please mark your calendar for Caswell’s Summer Staff Reunion to be celebrated July 17-19, 2009.  Additional info will be mailed out in the near future.  We hope YOU can come!!!  Check us out at the Fort Caswell Alumni page.

On the southern coast of North Carolina, the wide Cape Fear River empties into the Atlantic Ocean.  Here just off shore on the eastern tip of Oak Island, are the ruins of historic Fort Caswell.  Originally built in the 1830’s and later used during the Civil War to defend Confederate positions on the North Carolina coast, Fort Caswell also served as a training ground for World War I soldiers, a spa for vacationers in the 1930’s, and as an inland patrol communications base during World War II.

Since 1946, when the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina bought the property from the Federal Government, Caswell has served as a place of peace, offering North Carolina Baptists and many others a refuge of quiet reflection and relaxation.  Each summer, thousands of youth visit the Assembly camp, and during the Spring and Fall, groups of all ages come for retreats, conferences and meetings.