The men constructed barracks, which included a chapel on the lower floor.  The general director of the units in CPS 24 lived there and all the records were located in offices there as well. 

A farm and community school provided training and inspiration for men seeking to live in Mennonite communities.  Unit members took courses on practical farming as well as on the ideals of Christian rural community.  Ralph Beechy, a public school principal in Ohio and a director of the Terry, Montana camp, led the school which enrolled twenty-eight men from some eight branches of the Mennonite Church.  The school used Mennonite leaders and Soil Conservation staff as lecturers, and their lectures were later published in a book Farm and Community School.

The Christian workers’ school opened during November 1944 to train men in more effective lay leadership in local churches.  J. Robert Kreider served as its director. 

Virginia Stalter Kreider served as matron-dietician at the camp for fifteen months, the only woman serving the thirty-five men.  Occasionally she spoke in the evening church services at the camp and served as “a contact person in building relationships with local churches.   . . . The experience taught that a witness for peace is costly and unpopular with people who do not understand the peace position.  . . .In my work at the camp I learned to know the view points and practices of the broader church from conservative to liberal.  I became well acquainted with the Amish who worked in the camp kitchen.  I found some of them quite thoughtful and well read.  I would no longer stereotype the Amish.” (“Detour. . .Main Highway”: Our CPS Stories pp. 91-92)

Ruth Brunk Stolzfus, later recalled her experiences at the camp in A Way was Opened: A Memoir.