Pastor Alex Hardt
We trust that as you get to know Pastor Alex, you will recognize that he is a man of God who deeply desires to see people know Jesus.
I am a community focused Pastor with a BS in Business Development, a Master of Divinity with a focus on Family Ministry and Ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church. I am a dad, a husband, and a child of God. I love to hike, rock climb, play games, drink exceptional coffee, volunteer at my kid’s schools, and spend time with family. Twenty years’ experience in the following areas: Planning, developing, and executing innovative programs to serve children, youth, adults, and local communities. Committed to encouraging others, caring for individuals, cultivating leadership, and innovating new ways to share the Gospel while inspiring others to do the same. Forward thinking leader focused on discipleship, strategy, transformational mission opportunities, multiethnic activities, and relational ministries.
For me to take on a senior pastoral role means that I am fulfilling the plans that God has orchestrated for me since I was born. Upon reflection of my childhood through my adulthood, I can now name points in which God’s hand was uniquely upon a situation, experience, or moment that helped to direct me towards God and His plan for my life. As a child, I remember going to church every Sunday. Both of my parents grew up in families where faith was either an afterthought or nonexistent, but when they came to know Christ, as parents of two young children, they desired to make faith a priority within the life of the family. Though I grew up in the church, I would say I knew of Jesus but did not understand who Jesus was until I was in high school. In high school, my church hired a new youth pastor, and through her, I discovered Christ. She genuinely cared for each student and wanted each of us to know who God was. Coming to know Christ in high school changed my whole trajectory.
Upon entering high school, I had planned to pursue a career in Law. I sought mentors who were in that field. I took part in youth and government, speech and debate, and other law orientated activities. Early on, my youth pastor started challenging me to make Christ and church-related activities a priority. As high school continued, my participation in Kingdom orientated activities increased. Those around me (mentors, friends, and family) began to speak to me about the possibility of going into ministry. When I finally accepted the call that God had placed upon my life, I felt released from this false sense of identity.
Initially that call was into student ministry, and I promised God that I would be obedient to that call until he released me of it. Over the course of the last few years, I have felt God revealing a new call to me. And as I have spent time discerning that call, it has become clear to me, my family, and those close to me that God was asking me to pursue a senior leadership role. It is an act of surrender for me to live into this call of leadership. I always imagined I would be in student ministry but have felt God moving me in a new direction and I am being obedient to what he is asking for with palms facing up.
My pursuit of ordained ministry is about me receiving and responding to what God was already doing in my life. It is about me fully acknowledging what God has asked of me; yielding my desires to the Lord and fully committing myself to the call God has placed upon my life. I am fully confident in who Christ is in me and what He is doing through me. I believe God has uniquely wired me to help His sons and daughters encounter Christ through the Word and sacrament and to speak hope into darkness and brokenness. My desire to make God known to people is not of me but God. The Holy Spirit has warmed my heart in a way that is uncontainable and undeniable. I would be a fool to believe I can resist what I already know to be of God
Please see the links below for different opportunities to get to know Pastor Alex better
I am a community focused Pastor with a BS in Business Development, a Master of Divinity with a focus on Family Ministry and Ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church. I am a dad, a husband, and a child of God. I love to hike, rock climb, play games, drink exceptional coffee, volunteer at my kid’s schools, and spend time with family. Twenty years’ experience in the following areas: Planning, developing, and executing innovative programs to serve children, youth, adults, and local communities. Committed to encouraging others, caring for individuals, cultivating leadership, and innovating new ways to share the Gospel while inspiring others to do the same. Forward thinking leader focused on discipleship, strategy, transformational mission opportunities, multiethnic activities, and relational ministries.
For me to take on a senior pastoral role means that I am fulfilling the plans that God has orchestrated for me since I was born. Upon reflection of my childhood through my adulthood, I can now name points in which God’s hand was uniquely upon a situation, experience, or moment that helped to direct me towards God and His plan for my life. As a child, I remember going to church every Sunday. Both of my parents grew up in families where faith was either an afterthought or nonexistent, but when they came to know Christ, as parents of two young children, they desired to make faith a priority within the life of the family. Though I grew up in the church, I would say I knew of Jesus but did not understand who Jesus was until I was in high school. In high school, my church hired a new youth pastor, and through her, I discovered Christ. She genuinely cared for each student and wanted each of us to know who God was. Coming to know Christ in high school changed my whole trajectory.
Upon entering high school, I had planned to pursue a career in Law. I sought mentors who were in that field. I took part in youth and government, speech and debate, and other law orientated activities. Early on, my youth pastor started challenging me to make Christ and church-related activities a priority. As high school continued, my participation in Kingdom orientated activities increased. Those around me (mentors, friends, and family) began to speak to me about the possibility of going into ministry. When I finally accepted the call that God had placed upon my life, I felt released from this false sense of identity.
Initially that call was into student ministry, and I promised God that I would be obedient to that call until he released me of it. Over the course of the last few years, I have felt God revealing a new call to me. And as I have spent time discerning that call, it has become clear to me, my family, and those close to me that God was asking me to pursue a senior leadership role. It is an act of surrender for me to live into this call of leadership. I always imagined I would be in student ministry but have felt God moving me in a new direction and I am being obedient to what he is asking for with palms facing up.
My pursuit of ordained ministry is about me receiving and responding to what God was already doing in my life. It is about me fully acknowledging what God has asked of me; yielding my desires to the Lord and fully committing myself to the call God has placed upon my life. I am fully confident in who Christ is in me and what He is doing through me. I believe God has uniquely wired me to help His sons and daughters encounter Christ through the Word and sacrament and to speak hope into darkness and brokenness. My desire to make God known to people is not of me but God. The Holy Spirit has warmed my heart in a way that is uncontainable and undeniable. I would be a fool to believe I can resist what I already know to be of God
Please see the links below for different opportunities to get to know Pastor Alex better
