Christopher Bajkiewicz MSN RN CNS-BC

Chris and his wife Lori have served as health-care development missionaries since 1991 with a focus on the poor and marginalized in Latin America.

After a decade as provider and educator in adult critical care in the Midwest, Chris and family moved to northwest Mexico for 8 years of service in community health care and development to the urban and rural Mexican poor.

Focusing on child survival programs, the of training community health workers and promoting missionary health, Chris has published, traveled, outreached and taught throughout the United States and Latin America.

After a move to Chula Vista, CA in 1999, Chris and Lori have continued their concentration on health care development and child survival programs by supporting and training a number of workers throughout Central America, Africa and Asia. Their health care educational tools are now in over 30 countries world-wide.

Chris received a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Eastern Michigan University in 1989, and a dual Masters of Science in Nursing (Education and Clinical Nurse Specialist) in 2008 from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. He is a board-certified Clinical Nurse Specialist by the ANCC.

He is currently aiding an economic development project in northwest Baja Mexico, participating in the development of a Best Practices for Missionary Nursing statement, designing a culturally-focused Diabetes Education effort for Mexican Latinos, and helping to develop curriculum for lay urban community health workers in San Diego.

He is adjunct Clinical faculty with Southwestern College and Azusa Pacific University, and works part-time in Emergency Services with Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista.

Chris and Lori currently attend the Coast Vineyard in LaJolla, CA and the Iglesia Nazareno de San Vicente, Baja Mexico.