What is Camp Illiana all about?

Camp Illiana is a treasured place where people come to take their next step following Jesus.

Who Are We?

Our Mission

We foster transformative experiences to help people of all ages take their next step following Jesus.

Our Vision

We will become an indispensable partner to all of the families and ministries we serve now and in the future.

Our Churches

We are an association of a large group of supporting Christian Churches in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.

Our Movement

We are committed to restoring the kingdom vision of Jesus. We are a part of the Restoration Movement.

Camp Staff Mantras

  • All In

    And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.

    Mark 12:30

  • Here to Serve

    Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.

    Romans 12:11

  • Make Jesus Famous

    Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,[a] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

    Matthew 28:19-20

Core Illiana Experiences

Worship

We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. We want to trust and follow Him to the glory of God the Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are committed to restoring the kingdom vision of Jesus and the apostles, especially the message of Jesus’ gospel, the method of disciple-making he showed us, and the model of what a community of his disciples, at their best, can become.

Teaching

We believe God gave us the 66 books of the Bible to be received as the inspired, authoritative, and infallible Word of God for salvation and life. The documents of scripture come to us as diverse literary and historical writings. Despite their complexities, they can be understood, trusted, and followed. We want to do the hard work of wrestling to understand scripture in order to obey God.

Small Groups

We trust that God is gracious and forgives the errors of those with genuine faith in his Son, but our desire is to be faithful in all things. Our focus is disciple-making, which is both reaching lost people (evangelism) and bringing people to maturity (sanctification). We seek to be a movement of disciple-making leaders who make disciples and other disciple-makers.

Next Steps

We believe following Jesus means we trust and follow Him as both Savior and Lord. We express our faith by repenting from sin, confessing His name, and receiving baptism by immersion in water. Baptism, as an expression of faith, is for the remission of sins. We uphold baptism as the normative means of entry into the life of discipleship. We celebrate next steps of baptism and moments of rededication to our King Jesus.

Our Partners