Bob Baker, who recently retired as senior associate pastor and

elder at VineLife Community Church near Boulder, and his wife, Carol,

are transplanted West Texans who moved to Colorado with their family

in 1982 to plant a new church in Littleton. They are the parents of four

married children and have 12 grandchildren. In their 44th year of

marriage, the Bakers have been on the front line of marriage and

family ministries for over 35 years.

Bob is currently serving as Director of the Colorado Marriage

Project for the Rocky Mountain Family Council. He and Carol are

regularly “on the road” presenting marriage enrichment workshops

in various venues across the Front Range and beyond.

Both Carol and Bob are graduates of the University of Texas at El Paso, Bob in journalism and Carol in education. After serving as a commanding officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Bob spent three years as a newspaper editor before graduating with honors from law school at Texas Tech University. He then launched a 35-year legal career with a large firm in El Paso, operated his own law firms in Texas, in Denver, and in Broomfield, and served as senior vice-president and general counsel for a large oil and gas firm in Denver. From 1995 through 2005, Bob was engaged in fulltime vocational ministry and now splits his time between law practice and work with the Rocky Mountain Family Council. His law practice focuses on estate planning, small business issues, real estate, and non-profit entities.

A former board member of the Rocky Mountain Family Council, Bob has served on the Colorado Marriage Project since its inception in the mid-1990’s. In 1991, Bob and Carol joined the volunteer leadership team at their church and soon were given freedom to build a marriage and family ministry “from the ground up.”  Over the past 15 years, they have spearheaded the development of a full-service Marriage and Family Ministry, which included a 13-week Premarital Class, small groups focusing on marriage and parenting issues; marriage retreats, marriage mentoring teams, and numerous written materials addressing marriage and parenting issues. 

After starting out as an elementary school teacher, Carol took a 25-year break to raise their four children and then returned to a 10-year stint as an elementary school teacher in various Christian schools in the North Metro area. She is active in leading women’s Bible studies, teaching premarital classes, and in caring for their grandchildren in the Broomfield-Lafayette area.

Bob and Carol Baker Bio

Carol and Bob Baker

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