2025 marks 40 years since the first Step (Short Term Experience Programme) team ventured out to Latin America. To help us celebrate all things Step, we’d love to hear from people who have experienced it! So, if you have been part of a Step team, received a Step team, or supported someone on a … Continued
Beth Marshall is originally from Wirral, England. Beth served with Latin Link on a Stride placement in Anápolis, Brazil throughout 2024. She worked at residential children’s home the Instituto (Institute) helping with discipleship and supporting the teenage girls as they prepare for adult life away from the home. Beth recently shared with us about her … Continued
“Professionally I work as a doctor, I have always felt called to do some medical mission work overseas. The bulk of what I will be doing is helping with the medical clinic in a rural town and getting alongside two other doctor’s who will be supervising me. In addition, spending time doing educational workshops … Continued
“Stride has given me the opportunity to go out of my comfort zone, doing things that scare and challenge me, and be part of an amazing host family in a completely different culture. Just about everything’s been different to what I expected, but that just means I have to let go and allow God … Continued
“What I liked about Latin Link being a mature person going on mission, is they found a project that suited me which was brilliant! My placement was tailored for me and my skills caring for babies with HIV/ Aids and Downs Syndrome. It was that time was a treasured time and I made friends … Continued
“I always tell people my time in Mexico was a dream come true. I will look back on that time forever. And it deepened my faith. It stopped me looking at my weaknesses and thinking I can’t do this and that. That I even got there – it was like the impossible happening.” Bhoke … Continued
“We took our six-year-old and ten-year-old — they were impacted in a way that was beyond anything we could imagine, they saw God working, miracles, new cultures, and people. They have a gratitude for life and an understanding of the world that they could not have learned if we had stayed in England. Stride … Continued
“Stride has given me the opportunity to go out of my comfort zone, doing things that scare and challenge me, and be part of an amazing host family in a completely different culture. Just about everything’s been different to what I expected, but that just means I have to let go and allow God … Continued