Steve Bainbridge

Grace Community Church, Grassie, Ontario
Lead Church Planter
Grassie Ontario
Grace Community Church, Grassie
June 26
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About My Family

Prior to entering full-time pastoral ministry, I served as a street evangelist, a missionary and a law enforcement officer. After completing my undergraduate degree in theology in 2015, I retired from law enforcement to pastor a rural church in northern Ontario, where I was examined and ordained in 2016.

I completed a Master of Divinity at Tyndale Seminary in 2023 and am currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry at The Master’s Seminary, with anticipated completion in 2027. I now serve as the lead Overseer Pastor of Grace Community Church, a church plant in Grassie, Ontario.

From the earliest days of my ministry, my focus has been to lead believers to “Behold Your God.” My wife, Christine, and I live in the Niagara Region and have four grown children. Christine faithfully supports our family and serves in women’s ministry as time allows.

About My Church Plant

My ministry is shaped by a clear ecclesiology that prioritizes the local church as God’s primary means for displaying His glory and advancing the gospel. My mission is to faithfully teach and preach the Scriptures, form intentional discipleship pathways that ground believers in sound doctrine and joyful obedience and to strengthen the church’s witness through local evangelism, missions and church planting. I labour to see healthy churches established and equipped so that ordinary believers are mature, sent and mobilized for the work of gospel ministry—local and beyond.

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