Mark Baker

Portrait of Mark Baker

Associate Professor of Mission and Theology

559-452-1768
mbaker@mbseminary.edu
http://www.mbseminary.edu/baker

Education

B. A. in Christian Education and Social Science from Wheaton College. M.A. in Biblical Studies from New College for Advanced Christian Studies, Berkeley, CA. Ph.D. in Theology and Ethics from Duke University. Present Position 1999-

Background

Mark Baker is grateful that he has been mentored and discipled by professors and people he worked with in ministry, and grateful that he now has the opportunity to mentor students at Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary where he began teaching in 1999. Many summers spent as a counselor at a Christian camp made a significant contribution to his leadership development. After graduating from Wheaton College in 1979 he taught four years at a bi-lingual high school in Tegucigalpa Honduras where he coordinated a youth ministry program. He then served as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for three years in Syracuse N.Y. In 1989 he and his wife Lynn went to Honduras as missionaries. They worked with the Honduran equivalent of InterVarsity and co-operated with various Christian community development projects. Mark also taught part-time at a Bible institute. Mark and Lynn had been attracted to Anabaptism through reading, life experience and interaction with various Anabaptist believers. In 1992 when they moved to Durham N.C., for Mark to study theology at Duke University, they joined a Mennonite Church. In 1996 they returned to Honduras. Among other activities Mark taught at the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary. For a number of years Mark has been deeply involved with a church in a poor neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, walking with them as they seek to follow Jesus. He learned a great deal in the process, and received as he gave. His first book is a product of his conversations with these people. He remains actively involved with this church and other mission activities in Honduras through annual visits. Mark and his wife Lynn have two daughters, Julia and Christie.

Books and Articles

Courses

Global Christian Theologies
Contemporary Theology
Discipleship and Ethics
Galatians
History of World Mission
Missionary Anthropology
Short Term Missions
Theological Understandings of Jesus
Theology for Integration
Biblical Theology of Mission and Evangelism

At Your Service

All MB Biblical Seminary faculty members are available for preaching and are prepared to lead a seminar on calling out leaders for training and ministry. Mark Baker will consider teaching classes or seminars on topics in addition to those listed here, please contact him for more information. Mark Baker specializes in the following topics:

The Cross: Images of Salvation for Today
Galatians
Escaping Consumerism
Anabaptism