First Baptist ChurchSTEP Teams

200720082011

Team Members

MELBA

LESLIE

JON

SAMGORDON

Pre-Trip Potluck

Pre-Trip Potluck

Commissioning Service

3 day

trip

Our Team is Fighting Chagas Disease*Bringing Health and Healing to Families

• Silent killer among the poor in Bolivia.

• It is transmitted by the Vinchuca insect, which

thrives in adobe walls and thatched roofs.

• Parasite enters the victim’s bloodstream quietly

destroying their internal organs.

• With simple home renovations, infection can be

prevented.

• However, the costs for medical care and

construction supplies are far beyond the means of

the people most affected.

Sebastian & Angela’s home2011 recipient of the FBC/STEPChagas prevention renovations

*they have 8 children and have recently sold their small rural plot and moved to the town

FBC was the first to renovate a house in

the Chagas Project

Our TEAM works construction from 8:30 to 6:30

The work at this altitude is HARD

At ANY altitude it looks hard!!!

The house is done and relationships are built

The house is done and relationships are built

BEFORE

The house is done and relationships are built

AFTER

MEETING WITH MEDICALSTUDENTS FROM

BRAZIL

Our team becomes teachers

& worship leaders

Our team are teachers & worship leaders

Spiritual Formation Class

Training Centre First

Baptist Edmonton

helped build

Canadian Baptist Norman Dabbs & 7 Bolivian Baptist were murdered here in

1949

The Homecoming

Our journey continues…..

Who Will Serve Next?