About Us

Our vision is to offer every child in Texas who has endured abuse and neglect the hope and healing found in Jesus Christ, within a safe, nurturing, and loving environment. We believe that every child deserves to experience the transformative power of God’s love and grace, regardless of their past hardships.
Our mission is to serve as a refuge, offering hope and restoration to children who have suffered abuse and neglect. We aim to provide Christ-centered hospitality not only to these children but to all age groups, fostering a space of peace, comfort, and renewal.

By creating an environment free from the pressures of the world, we seek to help individuals experience God’s presence, healing, and love in a way that equips them for a brighter future.

We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, are inspired of God. The Scriptures are the infallible Work of God, His revelation of Himself to all of creation, and the authoritative rule of faith and conduct for mankind.

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His victorious and atoning death through His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return to power and glory.

We believe in baptism by immersion as taught in the New Testament. Therefore, all who repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Savior should seek to be baptized.

After serving at Lone Tree Bible Ranch, God opened the door for us to work at CCLW. In October of 1998, we jumped into full-time camp ministry. In our first few months we vision casted an ambitious 2-, 5-, and 10-year plan for camp. We started out with a summer staff of only 7, serving about 80 campers per week. Those 120hr workweeks were grueling yet fulfilling. As the years ticked by Lisa served “part-time” at camp while finishing her math degree. Through God’s faithfulness, camp grew to 175 campers a week and we were able to remodel cabins and construct new buildings at camp. Church participation slowly began to wane. Little did we know that God was shepherding us through some lean, hard years. In hindsight, we can testify that He was stretching and preparing us, and camp, for a change in ministry. In 2012, Our Father’s Children took over ownership of the property and Camp Akiva was born!

We changed from serving a small group of churches to sharing God’s love with abused and neglected kids and serving hundreds of churches. We have been able to grow the camp facilities by leaps and bounds. Lisa was able to join this camp ministry full time. Now we get to work side by side in construction projects, hosting retreats year-round, and serving 200-300 campers every week in the summer.

Looking back, we can still remember instances from being campers at CCLW that are pivotal in our walk with Christ. It’s fun to see God’s plan come to fruition: “the 10-year plan that has taken 25+ years”. He is so amazing and faithful, allowing us to accomplish so much more than we could ever have imagined.