Spiritual Formation & Mission
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. Mark 12:30-31
At ECF, it is our intention to continually become a people who are growing in our understanding of and participation in God’s mission, and in spiritual formation.
In order to faithfully join God in blessing all people, and in His redemption of all things, we must be on a journey of transformation, increasingly becoming like Jesus.
We think of mission and formation as the dual rails of the track down which we wish to travel.
Our goal is to equip and enable those who wish to follow in the way of Jesus to participate in the world in ways that faithfully present and advance the mission of God to bless the whole world.
We are a work in progress.
Bob Baumann
Pastor
Vision & Values
We seek to be on a journey of spiritual transformation
To increasingly become like Jesus
To equip and enable those who wish to follow the way of Jesus.
To join God’s mission in blessing all people
We Believe
Eastwood Christian Fellowship is a member of the North American Baptist Conference of churches, and as such we adhere to the statement of faith of the conference.
A “statement of faith” is probably never perfect nor complete and, like all communication, it is subject to interpretation and emphasis of application. However, this is the “home” we dwell in while having an open hearted and generous view of other traditions. The NAB history is one of working together to extend a witness to the Kingdom of God rather than being one primarily of confessional identity and we embrace this posture. We also recite the Apostles Creed from time to time, as one way of keeping us grounded in the tradition and history of the faith.
Our Story
Eastwood Christian Fellowship came about when two congregations merged in 1998. Eastwood Baptist Church was founded in 1962 as a German language congregation (originally Salem Baptisten Gemeinde) in our present location on Ross Avenue in Kitchener. Waterloo Christian Fellowship was a non-denominational church plant started in 1990 that met in a renovated bank in Waterloo. God brought these two groups together into one, and despite considerable differences, a unified congregation emerged and continued on this path ever since.