About us

Our mission:

Clarkston Christian Fellowship’s mission as a church is simple:

As a church to glorify Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and to fulfill all of His commands to the best of our abilities by fully relying on the Holy Scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit.
To equip our church body, members and visitors to be willing and able to glorify Jesus Christ and to follow all of His commands to the best of their individual abilities by fully relying on the Holy Scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit.

Our faith:

Clarkston Christian Fellowship Statement of Faith

We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritive Word of God that is inerrant in the original writings.
We believe there is only one God, eternally existent in three Persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the 100% deity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that He, by His own choice, became fully man, thereby needed to completely depend on the Holy Spirit to fulfill the Gospel Promise.
We believe in His Virgin Birth, in His sinless blood and in His miracles.
We believe in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood and in His bodily Resurrection back to life.
We believe in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in His Power and Glory.
We believe that the lost and sinful man must be saved, and that man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling in the Christian is the only way mankind can be enabled to a Godly life.
We believe in the Resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved. That those who believe in the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ are saved unto the Resurrection of life (to be present with God for all eternity). And that those who do not believe in the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ are resurrected to eternal damnation (being forever void of God’s presence and love).
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ through fellowship with one another.

our pastor:

Nathan Rutledge

406-223-1147
nrrutledge@protonmail.com

About Clarkston Christian Fellowship

Clarkston Christian Fellowship (CCF) began in 2017 as a remote location home church of Calvary Chapel, Bozeman. Several members lived in Clarkston and instead of driving to Bozeman, they decided to live stream the sermons into a private home. This home served perfectly for the gatherings because it has a private roller rink above the shop. And since they were meeting in a roller rink, they joking called themselves, The Holy Rollers of Calvary Chapel.

Since that humble beginning, we have grown into our own church that hopes to serve the Clarkston Community. CCF beliefs are that of the traditional Holy Bible Based Christian Church. And although we closely mirror the theology of the Calvary Chapel Churches, we do have a few minor distinctions. You can see our Theology Statement, Statement of Faith and our Mission Statement on this website. Naturally, as any Christian Church should be doing, we welcome members of the Clarkston Community to come and join us.

In 2020, Pastor Nathan (Nate) Rutledge, volunteered to lead a Bible Study here. By January of 2022, this still informal but growing church body asked Nathan to become their full time, volunteer Pastor. In 2023, Pastor Nathan, his wife, Angie, and their children sold their house in Southern Broadwater County and moved to Clarkston to better serve the Lord, CCF and the community of Clarkston. Since that time, CCF has formally and legally incorporated into a Not-for-Profit Entity, which we now call, Clarkston Christian Fellowship.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, CCF’s sermons are taught in a very orderly fashion. CCF teachings of the Bible are taught in an ongoing, Word by Word, Verse by Verse, Chapter by Chapter and Book by Book manner. By teaching in this manner, you get all of the Holy Bible’s teachings, and much less of someone’s opinions that are usually heard in topical sermons.

Fellowship is a very large part of our Church’s traditions and goals. Our average service may range from 15-60 people. But no matter how many shows up, afterwards we always have, and what has grown be, a great potluck lunch that most people stay for. This time is usually spent conversing, teasing and bantering with each other, or playing cards, board games, corn hole, etc., until at least 2, 3 or 4 PM, not that anyone has to stay.

CCF is also blessed to have lots of young family members with lots of kids. And the kids, being kids, love this time too because the roller rink has spacious areas for playing. And for the record, I think we have great coffee too, or as I call it, Christian Crack (we all have addictions now don’t we)!

Speaking of the roller rink, meeting there has led to a rumor or two about us in Clarkston we can giggle about. One is that CCF is a strange church because our services are not held in a conventional church building. As a home church, we obviously do not have a conventional church building, with signs, etc. And we feel we’re in good and faithful company because the Book of Acts is filled with home churches. Another rumor we heard is that CCF has a strange ritual or taking off our shoes before heading upstairs to the roller rink. Well, we do that, and I confess many of us leave slippers there too. But it is not a ritual; nor is it strange, it’s simply doing what Christians should be doing, and respecting the owner’s property because gravel, rocks and dirt play havoc on a roller rink floor.

As a Church, our primary mission is to serve the Lord, and our community’s needs. As an outreach, CCF offers Biblical Counseling to the community. No membership is required. We want to serve the Lord, and we are blessed to help in your struggles today, knowing you may be helping any one of us in our struggles tomorrow.

The truth is, CCF is not any stranger beyond the strangeness of any church’s own individual member’s unique strangeness. And we’d love to have you and yours join us, adding your own unique strangeness to ours, all are welcome. As Solomon concluded in the Book of Ecclesiastics, eat, drink and be merry in the Lord, so please, join us for the Word of God, and stay for the potluck too. And no, you don’t have to bring anything for the potluck.

Services are every Sunday at10:45 AM to about Noon, 8570 Lazy Elk Road. Parking is at the backside of the shop, where Lazy Elk ends, and Big Davis begins. You should see the church sign there, but sometimes we forget to put it out. The roller rink is on the second floor and the entry door between the house and the shop. For people who have difficulty climbing stairs, we have a chair lift to help you get upstairs. For further information, please contact either,

Nathan Rutledge, Pastor 406-223-1147 or

Angie Rutledge, 406-223-1314 or

Vince Vaccaro, Sec/Treasurer, 406-439-0091 or

Dani Vaccaro, 406-570-8068

Thanks, and be Blessed.