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Fred & Marie Carlson are passionate about service and travel. Prior to starting SerVacations, they were often looking for ways to incorporate volunteering into their family vacation plans and found it challenging. They could take a mission trip and leave the kids at home. Or they could stay at home with the kids and volunteer during their time off, sacrificing the valuable vacation that they wanted to use to explore new places with the kids.
They found it quite challenging to research and schedule volunteer opportunities while also planning an incredible vacation, and no domestic tour operating companies offered a combination of both in safe, educational, and fun places.
God gave Fred a vision for community-based trips where Volunteering and Vacation Unite!
Marie is a Certified Activities Professional and has over 12 years of experience as an Activities Director in upscale senior living, leading tours and excursions for independent living guests throughout the Tampa Bay area and beyond. She has a passion for building relationships with activities and attractions vendors and exceeding her guests’ customer experience expectations. Prior to that, she was a retail store manager and a youth minister, leading Christian education and youth activities, youth tours, vacation bible school, and mission trips.
Fred "got out" of Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA in Real Estate & Finance, has served on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees, and is a past president of the Georgia Tech Suncoast Alumni Network. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Salvation Army's Tampa Area Command and Georgia Tech's Civil Engineering Advisory Board. Fred and Marie are active in their church and only by the rescuing power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, hope to let their light shine before others, and glorify their Father in heaven. (Matt 5:16)