Mark Kaufmann
Director of T Bar M Camp Travis
Mark graduated from the University of "Go-Longhorns" Texas with a major in Speech Communication and minors in Intramurals and Board Games. The camping ministry is special to Mark because he gave his life to the Lord at camp in ninth grade and continued to grow spiritually while working at Kanakuk Kamps in college. After graduating, Mark worked for two years with a college discipleship program called Doulos Ministries in Branson, Missouri where he met his wife.
He married Katie (known for loving Jesus and swimming fast at TCU) in 1993 and joined K-Life Ministries in Ozark, Arkansas. Five years later, T Bar M Camps met Mark and flew the Kaufmann family back to Texas where they belonged! Since 1999 they have poured their hearts into Camp Travis along with their four children … Connor, Corrie, Cooper and Casey!
Anna Fischer
Camp Travis Women's Director
Anna first came to T Bar M in 1991 as a camper. Since the day she was dropped off at her 1st cabin she hasn't been able to leave. Every summer as a camper she dreamed of being a coach. When attending Seattle Pacific University she was able to come each summer and give back to camp what she received as a child. But to her it wasn't enough. After graduating in '02, with a Sociology and Educational Ministry degree, she applied to be on the Timothy Team, a year long discipleship program here at camp. Part of the Timothy Team program is to serve on leadership at camp during the summer. It was then, as she led her first covenant group and discipled her first group of college girls, she knew her calling to camping ministry was confirmed! There was no doubt in her mind that her heart was doing exactly what it loved doing…pouring into the coach's lives. She knew from that moment that her dream was to be a director someday.
Anna took a short break from camp as she was hired to work at Kingwood Country Club. But it didn't take long for God to bring her back to camp. Her dream finally came true and was hired on as our new Camp Travis Women's Director.
Her passion for the Lord and for the ministry at T Bar M is evident. She would be the first to tell you that the Lord changes lives here…her life is an example of one that was! Camp has been her life and she feels so blessed to know it is now her future.