FCS
Serving Sportsmen Since 1988
Welcome to The Fellowship of Christian Sportsmen (FCS) website! We hope you’ll find we’re what you’re hunting for!
Events (Includes Events Policies, Information on FCS Events, and the 2023 Calendar of Events)
How to Join FCS / How to Renew Your Membership
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FCS is a 366-member (including 105 supporting members (current with their dues)), non-denominational, non-political, family-friendly hunting, fishing, sports shooting, and related activities club established in Austin, Texas. We are non-profit but are not an IRS Section 501(c)(3) religious organization (we have not applied for tax-exempt status because our gross receipts do not exceed $5,000 annually). We are the area’s longest-running Christian-based hunting, fishing, and sports shooting club.
We remain based in the Austin area and serve sportsmen by offering affordable quality hunting, fishing, sports shooting, and related fellowship opportunities in God’s creation across the state year-round, encouraging people to establish and maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, encouraging people to serve God and others, and encouraging people to fellowship in a local body of believers that teaches the Bible is without errors. We love to fish and strive to be fishers of men.
FCS membership, church membership, and being a Christian are not required to participate in FCS events or join FCS; however, FCS members and guests must uphold the FCS Rules of Conduct while on FCS events. For events where we limit the number of people we can take, we have an Event Hierarchy (pecking order) – supporting members (current in their dues) are given top priority. Of course, we appreciate it when people join FCS, as that helps us meet our expenses, including our $1,000,000 liability insurance policy.
FCS Events
Our 2023 events include:
A Chartered Bay Fishing Trip- A Chartered Hybrid, Striped, and White Bass Fishing Trip
- A FCS Family Celebration Banquet
- A Guided Teal Hunt
- A Guided Upland Bird (Chukar and Quail) Hunt
- A Self-guided Teal Hunt
- A Student Instructor/Student Sporting Clays Shoot
- An FCS Officers Meeting
- Chartered Largemouth Bass Fishing Trips
- FCS Meetings/Dinners
- FCS Sporting Clays Shoots
- Guided Duck Hunts
- Ministry Events (Dinners)
- Self-chartered Bay Fishing Trips
- Self-chartered Freshwater Fishing Trips
- Self-guided/chartered Blasts and Casts (Duck Hunts and Fishing trips)
- Self-guided Duck Hunts
- Semi-guided Dove Hunts
- Semi-guided Hog Hunts
- Sporting Clays Tournaments
Meetings, dinners, and sporting clays shoots last around 2 1/2 hours, and hunting and fishing trips last from a half-day to four days.
We work hard to succeed, but do not offer a guaranteed harvest for our hunts or fishing trips.
We try to balance expensive and inexpensive events. Through many years of experience, we have found that inexpensive guided hunting and chartered fishing trips often result in poor harvests (as the saying goes, you get what you pay for) and in frustrated participants who don’t return. We prefer to pay a standard landowner/outfitter/guide rate for a better chance of success.
Additional expenses often include tips, game cleaning fees (for those who wish to have their game cleaned by the guide), shared boat launch or state or county park entrance fees, shared gas (both vehicle and boat), shared toll road fees, shared lodging expenses, shared bait expenses, and food.
We know that not everyone can afford guided/chartered and semi-guided events; therefore, we offer self-guided/chartered events (without guide fees and tips and game cleaning fees) (although we still share boat launch or park entrance fees, gas (both vehicle and boat), toll road fees, lodging expenses, and bait expenses and everyone pays for their food). Of course, for our self-guided/chartered events, we usually don’t do as well as we do on our guided or chartered events, as guides are on the water up to 262 days a year (if they are off on weekends), and we’re not on the water more than 24 days a year, generally speaking. Our equipment is also not as good as the typical guide’s, as their equipment is top of the line.
FCS Email Distribution List
We distribute regular emails on imminent FCS events, FCS news, and sportsmen’s topics (e.g., TPWD communications, DU and CCA banquets, charity sporting clays shoots, sportsmen’s gear sales, etc.). Contact info@fcs-texas.org to be added to our ‘Future Members’ Google Group (distribution list). Being in that group is the best way to find out about imminent events. There is no charge, and unsubscribing is easy by simply responding to one of FCS president Randy Rowley’s emails with “Unsubscribe.”
Website Policies:
- Apps, Website Enhancements (a New Website, Bug Fixes, Enhancements, Website Redesign, etc.), Promotions, Website Optimization Campaigns (SEO), etc. Policy
- Becoming a Registered User Policy
- Buying Email Lists Policy
- Guests Articles and Links Submission Policy
Emphasized Information
Additional Information and Questions
See our “About Us” web page, contact info@fcs-texas.org, or call Randy Rowley at 512-922-2484.
FCS News
FCS President Randy Rowley is offering his book, “Pursuing God’s Way: Meeting God In His Creation” (which includes 40 stories/devotionals, many from FCS hunting, fishing, and sports shooting events), at a discount to FCS supporting members. Click here if you want a signed book. Randy asks FCS members who buy his book on Amazon to please write an Amazon review after reading it.
