Mark Diller Harder, MDiv
Adjunct Professor
About Mark
For more than 30 years, Mark has been a pastor and leader within the Mennonite Church. He served as a Student and Young Adult Minister for Mennonite Church Eastern Canada for 11 years. He also has served as a pastor at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church and First Mennonite Church (both in Kitchener, Ontario), and he is currently pastor at St. Jacobs (Ontario) Mennonite Church. He has served on various church committees and boards, such as the Bi-National Worship Council, Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and Menno Singers.
Mark has a passion for working with youth and young adults and for making faith meaningful in our world. He has supervised several youth or young adult pastoral interns and mentored several first-time pastors.
He also has a passion for worship and congregational song and frequently leads workshops and music in larger conference worship settings. He has been a trip and spiritual guide on several spirituality canoe trips, including with intercultural pastors.
Mark鈥檚 hope is that students can integrate ordinary living and everyday experiences with spirituality and faith in ways that make sense and are authentic in our world today.
Course
CHM546 Faith Formation and Spirituality: Young and Young Adults
Publications
- Pastoral response to plenary paper: 鈥淐hrist, Canon and Confession: The Bible and the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, by Gordon Zerbe,鈥� at Confession of Faith 10 Years Later, AMBS, June 2006
- Canadian Mennonite feature article: 鈥淏ible 101: Loving the Language of Scripture,鈥� Sept. 3, 2007
- Canadian Mennonite article: 鈥溾�楾orn from Home鈥� hits close to home,鈥� Aug. 14, 2013
- Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology article: 鈥淧ractices that help us take on the hard conversations,鈥� Spring 2016
- Leader magazine article: 鈥淧addling Together: Intercultural pastors鈥� canoe trips,鈥� Spring 2023
- Rejoice magazine devotionals