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Last week Nicole and I had the opportunity to go to Canadian Baptist Ministry’s STEP Symposium, which was held at Bonavanture Baptist Church in Calgary. STEP (Serving Training Energizing Partnerships) has been a ministry of CBM for the last 11 years. In the program, Canadian churches are invited into three year partnerships with a country in which CBM serves.
Blythwood’s first experience with STEP was from 2006 to 2009. During that time, we sent two mission teams to Bolivia – a country with which Blythwood has had a long association through missionaries and “missionary kids”. We’re currently in the middle of our second STEP commitment with Weston Park Baptist, with whom we travelled to Bolivia in August of last year.
This meeting was a great chance to hear from CBM about how the STEP program is going, what their vision for the future is, and how it might be made better. It was also a great chance to hear from churches around Canada (16 were represented) who have been STEP partners, and to share what the experience has meant. We spoke about how both experiences with STEP have made Blythwood more missional in its outlook – how we seek to know what it means to serve God wherever we are and whatever we’re doing – both individually and as a community of faith.

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