About
Who We Are
We are a church located in Ninilchik, Alaska.
Calvary Baptist Church of Ninilchik, Alaska, began in the mid-1930s as a ministry primarily to the children of the village. Within a short time whole families were attending. In the late 1950s the church moved from the old village to its present location on the Sterling Hwy. across from the Ninilchik General Store. Our purpose is to glorify God and to build up the saints by preaching and teaching the whole Bible which we believe is the revelation of God to man. We are a church that reaches the whole family through services four times a week consisting of Sunday School (9:30 am) for preschoolers through adults; a morning worship service (10:30 am); a Sunday evening service (6 pm, except for the 1st Sunday of the month when we have our dinner fellowship immediately following the morning service); and a Wednesday evening prayer and Bible study time (6 pm). All are welcome.
In 1989, our dear shepherd at that time, Pastor Ron Blough, initiated our reading through a portion of the 66 books of the Bible as a congregation, typically a chapter each Sunday. Since July 2019, our current pastor, Jon Cardwell, usually preaches from the text read (with occasional exceptions).
Jon Cardwell
Jon Cardwell was saved by God’s grace on June 3, 1985 while serving in the military as a deep sea diver in the U.S. Navy. The call to ministry came 8 years later when he was invited to serve the Lord in the Philippine mission field. Jon’s entry into pastoral ministry came another 6 years afterward, when he was invited to serve as pastor of First Filipino Methodist Church in Riverside, California. Although Baptist, Reformed and Covenantal in theology, Jon reluctantly, yet obediently, submitted to the unanimous call to pastor the church. In 2002, Jon answered the call to minister in remote “bush” Alaska as a missionary-pastor, first to the Aleut village of King Cove, and later, to the Yup’ik village of Scammon Bay. Illness forced Jon to leave remote village life, departing Alaska in 2008 and receiving the call to pastor Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama. Although continuing to suffer neurological symptoms from “latent onset diving decompression sickness,” after more than 9 years of ministry in Alabama, Jon has answered the Lord’s call to return to minister in Alaska. As of May 18, 2018, Jon Cardwell is now ministering as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Ninilchik, a native fishing village on the Cook Inlet coast of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
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Calvary Baptist Church
15950 Sterling Highway
Ninilchik, Alaska 99639
(across from Three Bears Alaska)
Service Times
Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Morning Service: 10:30 AM
Evening Service: 6:00 PM
Wednesday Prayer Meeting: 6:00 PM