Campcraft Outdoors Field School

Jason has been a lifelong student of the outdoors. Since early childhood, he has spent countless hours venturing, exploring the woods, hunting, fishing, and camping with his family. Jason is the founder and chief instructor of Campcraft Outdoors. He and his staff train others to encounter spiritual growth through outdoor skills training. Jason is an avid writer, appearing regularly in Survivor's Edge Magazine, Backwoods Survival Guide, and Prepper's Survival Guide. He is also a published author, having written The Gospel of Survival, Hiking the Narrow Path, Reasons for the Seasons, and coauthored Bushcraft First Aid and numerous textbook contributions used in schools of ministry worldwide. Jason specializes in modern survival, wilderness, and austere medicine with credentials from The Pathfinder School, Randall's Adventure & Training, NASAR, ASHI, KY Emergency Management, Wilderness Medical Society, and Med-Tact School of Tactical Medicine. He holds black belts in Jujitsu, Kenpo Karate, Hapkido, and Krav Maga and trains in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. As an ordained minister, his over twenty-year career has led him to specialize in outdoor ministry to present survival skills and training through the Biblical Festivals. Jason's degrees are in church ministry, practical theology, outdoor ministry leadership, and biblical archaeology.

Jamie was raised in an outdoor lifestyle. He grew up shooting, hunting, fishing, camping, and trapping at every opportunity, skills many of us never understood until later in life, which Jamie mastered during his childhood. After 20 years as a competitive shooter, he retired after winning an IDPA State title. He continues to teach firearm classes as an NRA instructor. Jamie has studied short and long-term wilderness skills, urban survival, wilderness first aid, herbal medicine, botany, wildcrafting, green woodworking, knapping, blacksmithing, bladesmithing, bowmaking, and trapping. He is passionate about learning, testing, and developing new skills. He enjoys passing on these skills in person or as an instructor at Campcraft Outdoors through youtube, online courses, and more. If Jamie is not working on a new skill or sitting silently in a tree stand watching a game trail, he is probably spending time with his wife of over 20 years and their two kids.

James Gibson is an ABS journeyman knife maker and designer of several knives for the ESEE brand. Born and raised in the Smoky Mountains, James has a passion for the outdoors that led him to learn survival skills in 1976, then knife making in the early 1980s, and later, flintknapping. He’s trained with legendary outdoorsmen such as Tom Brown, Steve Watts, and Mors Kochanski. He holds a 6th-degree black belt in Ninpo Tai-Jutsu under the famed Ninja Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi. James Gibson is an instructor at Randall’s Adventure & Training (ESEE Knives) and owner of Knob Creek Forge in Seymour, Tennessee.