Hippie Mom, Hippie Life
80’s Alaska was fun
Phil Fischer was born in April 1974 in a cement room at Sheppard Air Force Base located off Highway 287, in Wichita Falls, Texas.
His mother did not have health insurance and back in the late 70’s, if you did not have means, air bases would provide medical care free of charge, even childbirth.
Immediately after he was born, his mom hitchhiked to the Arctic Circle and for the next 15 years they continually moved around living in small towns and villages of Alaska, and the Yukon territories learning to survive the best way that they knew how.
Growing up alone in the wilderness of Canada’s rugged Yukon Territories and Alaska was rough and living in the wilderness required you to work to live, so Phil dropped out of 8th grade to work on fishing boats and other jobs to support his mother. Phil eventually settled in Eagle River, Alaska before moving to the lower 48
Wilderness upbringing
Phil and his mom spent most of his young life traveling all over the Northwest territories, Alaska and the Yukon living amongst several other families who had chosen to homestead in the wilderness during the 60’s and 70’s.
Everyone in the family had work to do and the lifestyle allowed them to live along rivers during the summers, and move to small villages and towns during the winters.
Around April word would get out of a new location for the summer.
Strange destiny
Because of his upbringing in close proximity to native villages, Phil is respected by many natives throughout Canada and Alaska and has made lifelong friends working with natives on fishing boats in Southeast Alaska.
The work was hard and oftentimes lasted 15 hours per day in cold temperatures further riddled by hard seas. By 16, Phil had earned his way into the position of first mate on some of Bristol Bay’s most successful crabbing crews, long before this career was dramatized by Discovery channel’s “Deadliest Catch”
Two winters in a cabin
For three years as a teenager, Phil would winter alone in several cabins he used in and out of Alaska and the Yukon. This particular cabin is only 220 SF and still sits there today off the Alaskan Highway.
The pacific northwest
Discovering a new talent as a songwriter, Phil began working as a ghostwriter during the 1990s composing over 400 songs, many of which were sold to record labels and were recorded by well known artists.
In the mid 90’s Phil discovered the dot com industry and started a tech firm out of his garage that now has small offices in NYC, LA, and Portland. His firm has worked on and or built the first versions of several apps and software solutions consumers use today.
Spreading the word
“New Believer”, Phil’s only Christian album was recorded in the summer of 2014 is a ballad of songs he wrote specifically for overseas listeners about the trials and tribulations of being a son of light in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. The CD is available at Christian Life-way nationwide, but some songs are free of charge here.
Phil loves to spread the gospel in the most difficult areas of the world. The video of Phil performing on the streets of Pakistan a week after feeling the Holy Spirit for the first time (different from getting saved) is inspirational as well as a sermon delivered on the Jordanian Palestinian border in 2021.
Transition
From a small wilderness town to spreading the Gospel first in Seattle and around the world the transition has been a long one with several obstacles and trials that seemed impossible to survive.
Phil eventually moved to Seattle fulltime in 2000 and found happiness when he met a beautiful young woman from Bellevue, Washington who led him to Christ in November of 2001.
Jesus Life
In November of 2003 Phil was married, and today he lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife Jamael and their three children.
Phil can be heard every Thursday night at 7:30PM PST at Jesuslives.com.