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Camp Dixie is a Summer  Camp and Retreat Center near Elberta, Alabama. Camp Dixie is situated on approximately 8 acres of land, has beachfront on Perdido bay and offers a variety of outdoor activities to its users. Camp Dixie is open year-round for retreat rentals, and has June and July summer camp for children from 4-18 years of age. You can contact Camp Dixie the following ways:

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Director- Marty Miller    

Marty started as director at Camp Dixie in January of 2006, but his experience in working in outdoor ministry goes back several years, when he was a summer camp counselor at Camp Omega in Southern Minnesota. He also spent a summer as a counselor at Camp Pioneer near Buffalo, New York, and a summer as the summer program director at Camp Lakeview in Indiana. After that, Marty worked for a year with the Geek Squad (yeah, that Geek Squad). When he worked for it, it was a small Minneapolis-based business, which has since been bought by and become a huge part of Best Buy.

     After working at Geek Squad fixing computers for a while, Marty missed camping, and decided to return to outdoor ministry. First as the Special Assistant to the Director at Camp Omega, and then as the program director there. He was the program director for 4 years before returning to computer repair for a little more "time away" from outdoor ministry.

     However after choosing to do an outdoor ministry application rather than a Best Buy supervisor application, Marty was contacted about the Director's position at Camp Dixie. He and his wife Kim enjoy spending time at the beach, sailing, kayaking, catching crab, and all the other fun activities that make Camp Dixie such a wonderful place.

The following is from a flyer found in the camp office, the flyer is from the early 60's, and it has a bit of background information about the camp. These days the camp is incorporated, but the five congregations that formed the Azalea Zone still are the congregations that have members on the Camp Dixie Board of Directors.

"Have you ever heard of Camp Dixie? Have you ever visited the Camp on beautiful Perdido Bay? Do you know who operates the camp; how it is supported; what the future plans are? Would you know how to find the camp?

We've been told that many area Lutherans simply do not know. Maybe we are at fault; maybe we've taken too much for granted. So may we tell you?

Camp Dixie is owned and operated by the Azalea Zone of the Southern District Lutheran Layman's League - a group of local leagues along the Gulf cost from Mobile to Pensacola. But it isn't restricted to LLL Use - in fat it's a project adopted by the Azalea Zone only to be of service to local Lutheran congregations and their parish organizations. Perhaps you would like to know the history of the camp.

In 1949 Mr. Alfred Neuman offered the DIXIE District Walther League a 200'x400' tract of land on Palmetto creek for development as a Lutheran Youth Camp. The offer was considered at the Walther League Convention in Pensacola, July 16-18 1949 but declined for lack of funds and capable administrators.

Not wanting our church to miss this opportunity for camping facilities, the Azalea Zone LLL adopted Camp Dixie as a project during their Fall Rally, Sept 25, 1949. A five member Board of Trustees having authority to develop and administer the Camp was appointed April 16, 1950. The Board soon realized that the camp site was too small for long range development. While investigating the purchase of adjoining property, the board was offered the gift of a 5 acre tract with 300' frontage directly on Perdido Bay. The Fall Rally of the Azalea Zone at Mobile, Sept 14, 1952 heartily approved of this gift by Mr. G. R. Wood and the revised plans of the Board of Trustees. During the summer of 1960 a 60' by 100' lodge was erected at the cost of $20,000. With a view to the future needs of our youth and the church in general, the Zone approved the purchase of and additional 3 acres on May 21, 1961 at a cost of $3000. During the past year bunk rooms have been added to the Lodge, furniture installed in the counselor's rooms and additional kitchen facilities added.

Do you wonder why Camp Dixie has been developing slowly? As usual - lack of funds. It's entire cost and support comes from a few local Layman's Leagues and congregations plus the proceeds from occasional chicken fries and Bar-B-Q dinners served at Camp Dixie by the Azalea Zone members working together as a unit.

Won't you visit Camp Dixie at your first opportunity? See its wonderful potential; support it with your gifts and prayers."

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