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During Dan's seminary training, he developed an interest in camp ministry, and became involved with [[Lake Geneva Youth Camp, Lake Geneva, WI|Lake Geneva Youth Camp]] in [[Wisconsin]], in the summer of 1957 where he served as a counselor and a speaker. This is also where he met [[Martha Maria Carrera Smith|Martha Maria Carrera]] of Chicago, [[Illinois]]. They married on Aug. 9, 1958 of [[Illinois|Chicago|Illinois]]. Within Dan's first year teaching at Emmaus, he and Martha welcomed and lost their first baby, at six weeks, Danny, to bronchial pneumonia. Subsequently, Martha was invited to join the work at Emmaus alongside her husband.
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