Lonnie Yoder

Prof-Pastoral Care/Counseling, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Eastern Mennonite University

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1991
M.Div., Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, 1976
B.A., Drake University, 1972

Lonnie Yoder is a native of a rural Mennonite community in southeast Iowa where he lived for most of the first forty years of his life. He served as youth minister and assistant pastor in his home congregation, East Union Mennonite Church, for twelve years. He married Teresa Boshart in 1980 and they are the parents of two daughters, Shannon and Nicole. After completing doctoral studies at the University of Iowa, Yoder has served as a professor at Eastern Mennonite since 1991.