Director of Community Camping Programs
Kim grew up in the piney woods of East Texas, calling Crockett and surrounding areas home. She graduated from East Texas Baptist University with a degree in Speech Communication, married her husband Andrew, and moved to Anderson, Texas, in 2009.
Kim worked in outdoor education for Houston ISD until she and her husband welcomed their daughters, Audra (10) and Austen (8). During her time in Houston, Kim started the childcare center at her church while Andrew was the youth pastor and worked construction. Both Kim and her husband are passionate and dedicated to the discipleship of the next generations. They have enjoyed mentoring some of the most amazing teenagers over the years.
Kim and her family are an adventurous group, and they regularly explore the Texas Hill Country.
Assistant Director of Outdoor School
Chris has a B.S. in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M University. He has spent the last half-decade working for various camps and youth programs including Kanakuk, Pine Cove, and Laity Lodge Family and Youth camps. This past year, Chris freelanced as an outdoor education/recreation instructor and facilitator, working for both the Outdoor School and Adventure experiences.
His hobbies include trail running, rock climbing, and paddleboarding. His favorite quote is from Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Chris shared the following comment, “With the new opportunities presented to the Outdoor School for this coming year, I am more than thrilled to jump in and help develop and implement a new era of Outdoor School programs.”
Programs and Activity Coordinator for Adventure Recreation
Barrett is a graduate from Texas A&M University, with a degree in Recreation Park & Tourism Sciences.
He has spent over twelve summers out in the Canyon, with seven of those summers working for the LLYC and LLFC programs.
Barrett is incredibly excited to be working for the H. E. Butt Foundation and specifically for the Outdoor School program. He looks forward to showing the beauty of the Canyon to the many school groups that they serve each year.
Outdoor School Associate
Andrea Lechin recently completed an undergraduate degree in psychology at Texas A&M University. She has loved spending the past three summers working at Laity Lodge Youth Camp as a counselor and later as a work crew boss.
During her time studying abroad in the spring of 2023, Andrea was an intern at YMCA Madrid Community Center teaching Spanish to immigrant women as well as tutoring middle and high school students that recently emigrated to Madrid. Throughout the past two years, she has worked remotely as a coach for Clayful Health, an online, on-demand, text-based coaching platform for kids to find mental health support. Andrea’s work experiences have intentionally been geared toward serving others and, both directly and indirectly, intertwined with mental health. These are passions that she plans to follow closely in the future.
Andrea grew up in Houston with two amazing parents and a little brother who just completed his freshman year at UT Austin. Both her mom and dad are originally from Caracas, Venezuela, so Andrea’s first language was Spanish. She has grown up with her culture very present in the foods her family eats and in the Latin community that surrounds them in Houston.
