New Wine, New Wineskins

Steve Baker

Steve Baker is a family physician who founded New Heights Clinic in 1996. New Heights Clinic is a church-based clinic for people with no health insurance that teaches physicians-, and nurses-in-training how to share Christ’s love through health care. Steve takes med students with him on regular trips to the remote areas of Papua, Indonesia, where since 1999 he has been working with Indonesian physician Dr Julius Surjadi and the tribal church to set up a community health program. Steve also works as a faculty with a UW-affiliated clinic in town teaching family medicine residents. Steve lives with his wife, son & daughter in a home community in Vancouver, WA.