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Steve and Debbie Baker

40 years of Ministry with The Church of the Nazarene 1977-2017 Steve and Debbie Baker have invested their lives in pursuing their missionary call. Their first assignment after finishing their seminary studies at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City (1977), was the planting of a new church in Northwest Ohio. Five years later they were appointed as global missionaries (1982) to the jungles of Peru to work with the Aguaruna Indians. They later went on to pioneer a new district in southern Peru.

Next, they served as Mission Director in Colombia, and the Field Strategy Coordinator for Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. They returned to the States because of Debbie's health, but that did not stop them from living out their call. They started an African American Church in southern Georgia. They moved to Alabama and directed the District's Spanish work where they transitioned a church from white to black. Steve and Debbie and their three boys moved to California in 1996. They became the District Missionaries to the Hispanic work of the Central California District. The work grew from 1998 to 2008 from 3 Spanish works to over 30 Spanish works on the district.

May 1, 2008 the Bakers received a new assignment to Northern Mexico as global missionaries and began directing the Border Initiative. The Border Initiative had the goal of planting new churches on both sides of the 2,000 plus miles of border between Mexico and the USA. They gave opportunity to many volunteer missionaries to help in the work on the border.

May 1, 2008 the Bakers received a new assignment in Northern Mexico, and began directing the Border Initiative. The Border Initiative has goals of planting new churches on both sides of the 2,000 plus miles of border between Mexico and the USA. They continue to give opportunity to volunteer missionaries to help in the work.   

Steve and Debbie have three sons. Rex is the senior pastor in Oregon at the Nazarene Church in Grants Pass. He and his wife, Kristina, have three children: Luke 13, Eli 11, & Jayda 7. Kelvin, our second son, is a family therapist in Sacramento, California, and his wife, Dorie, is a High School counselor. They have two children: Ethan 5, & Emma 2. Their third son, Nelson, will be married to Sophie on September 2, 2017. He holds a degree as a professional photographer. He presently is serving on staff as "worship pastor" for the Dinuba Church of the Nazarene in California where he has served 4 years.  

Steve is a 1974 Graduate of Olivet. He received his Masters of Divinity Degree at the Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1977. Debbie is a 1974 graduate of Point Loma University. She later completed her Masters in Counseling at University of LaVerne, in Calif. They both received their call to missions as children. They are both ordained elders. Debbie is the oldest daughter of Nazarene missionaries Elmer and Dorothy Nelson. Debbie grew up in the Republic of Panama. The Nelsons first arrived in Panama in 1955 under Home Missions. Elmer worked on the Panama Canal until appointed as global missionaries to the Republic of Panama where they pioneered the work in 1962.

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