What We Believe

Why we're here

What We Believe

The heart of why the Fishcamp exists, and an open table for whoever pulls up a deck chair.

Before the Fishcamp was a place to fish, it was a place to be still.

For nearly forty years our family has set a table on the Ninilchik River and waited to see who God would send up the road. Some come to chase salmon. Some come worn thin and looking for rest. Some aren’t sure why they came at all. However you arrive, you arrive welcome.

Pull up a deck chair or roll a log on over. Come as you are, and leave feeling refreshed and renewed. There is no clock at the Lodge, and there is room at this table for you, wherever you happen to be standing with God today. The table is open.

That’s the whole reason we keep doing this. The fishing is the invitation. The week is the gift. But underneath it all, the Fishcamp has always been a ministry first, a quiet corner of His great backyard where a person can be still, be loved, and meet the Creator who made all of it.

What we hope for every guest

We desire that each person interacting with the Fishcamp ministry will:

  • Come to know and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ
  • Grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ
  • Establish the priorities of prayer, Bible study, and fellowship while being in community with a local church
  • Devote their lives in service to the cause of Jesus Christ both at home and abroad

We carry that hope for our youth, for the adults who come through, and for the Alaskan friends and vendors we work alongside all season long. Nobody is required to share it to be welcome here, but it’s the love we can’t help passing along.

Our statement of faith

This is the ground we stand on, in case you ever want to know where the deck chair is anchored.

  1. We believe in the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired by God, inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

  2. We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.

  4. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed.

  5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

  6. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension to Heaven, in His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate.

  7. We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal, pre-millennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

  8. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and, thereby, become children of God.

  9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost.

  10. We believe in the great commission which our Lord has given to His Church to evangelize the world, and that this evangelization is the great mission of the Church.

So pull up a deck chair. Let the Ninilchik River rumble along. Be still in Alaska, the table is open, and you are welcome at it.

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