Year round Staff

Pastor Wayne R. Shelor, Executive Director

Anita Smallin, Program Director

Vikki Shelor, Communications Director (part time)

Rev. Wayne R. Shelor is the Executive Director at Caroline Furnace Lutheran Camp and Retreat Center. Pastor Wayne joined the camp in June of 2000 after serving at Salem Lutheran Church, Mt. Sidney, St. Mark Lutheran Church, Yorktown and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Lexington.

Pastor Wayne is a native Virginian, born in Christiansburg and attended St. Mark Lutheran Church, Willis.  He received his BA in Religious Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC in May of 1986.  

Pastor Wayne met his wife Vikki at a Lutheran leadership retreat in January of 1981 at Camp Kinard in South Carolina (and now they both work at a Lutheran camp, hummm). They now make their home at Caroline Furnace, with their three children, Jake, Josh and Becca (when she's home from college).

Anita Smallin is now serving as the Program Director at Caroline Furnace.  This comes after YEARS of being a camper, counselor or staff member every summer since 1989!  She has served in congregations in Baltimore, MD, Minneapolis, MN and Great Falls, VA in youth ministry before heading off to camp.   She attended Luther College (Decorah, IA) and studied Music and Religion. In 2008, she graduated from Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN) with an MA in Children, Youth and Family Ministry. 

Outside of work, Anita enjoys singing, playing guitar, cuddling with her collie Jack, and brushing up on her American Sign Language skills.

Random fun facts about Anita include her fascination with the connection between the church and social media (complete dissertation available for the brave) and a love of rubber ducks.

Anita will be joining our staff at the end ofMay

Vikki Shelor is a Navy junior and she grew up in Texas, California and Alexandria, Virginia. She and Pastor Wayne married in the summer of 1983 at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Charlottesville, VA.

Vikki holds of Bachelor of Science from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia with specialties in Marketing and Managment Information Science. She works part time at camp as the Communication Director. She is responsible for this website, camp publications, newletters, advertisementing, promotional displays, in camp displays, office purchasing, camp photos and summer camp registrar. During the summer camp season, Vikki runs the camp store and registration.

In addition to participating in the ministry at Caroline Furnace, Vikki and Wayne enjoy spending time with their three children, Becca, a freshman at Valparaiso University in Indiana, and sons, Jake and Josh who are freshman at Central High School in Woodstock, Virginia.

 

Bobbi Shuler started working with Caroline Furnace a few years ago as a contracted bookkeeper. When she decided it was time to leave the bookkeeping company, we asked if she would come an join to Caroline Furnace family. She now works one day a week, keeping up with our books, learning our data system and helping to keep the office humming along.

Bobbi is a native of the Shenandoah Valley, she grew up in Front Royal and now resides in Stanley, just beyond the Luray area. Bobbi and her family live next to her husband's poultry farm.

Gardening and baseball are two of Bobbi's favorite things, especially cheering on her son Cody, who plays for the Page County High School JV team. She also enjoys spending time with her granddaughter Lillie and daughter Ashley. Bobbi also loves to read and go to auctions.