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Steve Hoekstra, pronounced "HOOK straw" is the Team Leader of Resort Church Planting and Director of the Western Colorado Office for the Colorado Baptist Convention in Montrose. He has had many years of service as Minister of Youth, Pastor and Church Planter, but the last several years he has worked with the North American Mission Board as a consultant for ministries and church growth in resort areas of Colorado. He started Alpine Resort Ministries and for 17 years directed the Student Volunteer Ministry Program for the CBC. This program brings about 75 college students each summer to assist churches in ministry.

Steve helped create Recreational Alpine Adventure Trips (RAAT Patrol), the CBC backpacking program. He has directed this program for the past 20 years. RAAT Patrol has six day backpacking expeditions for youth, college students and adults with specialized programs for couples and an all ladies trip.

Born in Denver, he has lived in Colorado except for his college experience. Hobbies include: fishing, skiing, reading, hiking, hunting, buckskinning (reenactments of the Western fur trading era), and just about anything outdoors.

Steve graduated from Loveland High School. He began college at Mesa College in Grand Junction. Being the highly motivated person that he is, he crammed all four years of his undergraduate degree into ten -- supplementing his formal education with large doses of reality. During that time he was a ski instructor, a ranch hand, a heavy equipment operator for Colorado State University, a life guard, and held many other construction related jobs. His undergraduate degree is from Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, AZ. He has done postgraduate studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, but his degree is in "Human Inertia from the Star Fleet Academy on Rigel Four" (just kidding).

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