Jill Harlow – Loveland, Colorado … The leadership team at Campion Academy in Loveland, Colorado, is thrilled to announce Cara Greenfield, a Campion alumnus and experienced school accountant, has accepted the position of vice principal of Finance starting in July following Dean Helm’s retirement.

Greenfield joins us from Fountainview Academy in British Columbia, Canada, where she has worked as the school’s accountant for the past two years. Prior to that, she and her husband served as missionaries in Cambodia for 14 years.

When asked about her interest in the financial position at Campion, Greenfield remarked, “Finances are a necessary tool to any Adventist school. The goal is to use the ‘tool’ so that it can help create the best environment for young people to choose to serve Christ.  That is what makes me excited about joining the team at Campion. I hope to work together with Principal Leeper and his team to do just that.”

Greenfield graduated from Campion Academy in 2001 and her interest in missions was sparked on her academy mission trips to Mexico and San Francisco. After high school, Greenfield shared, “I loved traveling, different cultures, and helping people.  I knew I wanted to be a missionary.” Throughout college, she served on multiple short-term mission trips and went as a student missionary to Guinea, West Africa, for a year.

“Before leaving for Guinea,” she continued, “I had begun dating my husband, Daniel.  I asked him if he would be willing to go as a missionary someday. He gave the right answer, or our relationship wouldn’t have continued. Eventually, we got married, and I finished my bachelor’s degree in nursing at Union College in 2006.  We launched to the mission field in 2007 with Adventist Frontier Missions. We initially went back to Guinea for 9 months and then transitioned to Cambodia where we worked for 14 years.”

While in Cambodia, Greenfield explained, “God gave us a vision to start an Adventist school.  We started out with grades K-2 and each year added a grade. The whole project was not something we did, but only what God did through us. Over and over again, we ran into obstacles and encountered situations we didn’t know how to manage.  But with prayer and a willingness to learn from others and ask advice, when we left the project in 2022, we had grades K-9, a 20,000 square foot school building, a bakery, a farm, and two church plants in place.”

Managing the school in Cambodia initiated a career shift for Greenfield. Seeking to increase her expertise in management, she finished her master’s in business administration in 2018.  “I realized in starting the school that I really enjoyed the entrepreneurial side of it, starting something from scratch and seeing it grow to fruition,” Greenfield reflected. “I learned about every aspect of business from HR to donor relations to management. Most of all, I enjoyed being able to make a difference in the children’s lives by providing them a safe, happy place to learn about Jesus.”

Greenfield will be joining us with her husband Daniel, and their three children. Their two oldest children, Andrew and Autumn, will be graduating from Fountainview Academy in June. Their youngest, Alex, is finishing sixth grade this year.

As a family, they love music and spending time outdoors. In the summer, they enjoy water skiing and other activities at the lake. In her free time, Greenfield shared, “I enjoy gardening, reading, logic puzzles, scuba diving, and spending time with my family.”

—Jill Harlow is the Campion Academy communication director. Photo supplied.