Providence Alumni

It is with sadness and rejoicing that we share of Audrey B Harder’s passing on June 16, 2026 at the age of 91!

*Not to be confused with the Audrey Harder who worked as Administrative Assistant for over 45 years - most of them as Executive Administrative Assistant to the past 4 or 5 Presidents!*

Audrey graduated from Providence Theological Seminary in 1990 with her M.A. in Biblical Counselling. She was immediately hired as Professor of Counselling working along side Steve Masterson and Don Sawatzky for the next 10 years.

She left Providence in 1999 and moved to Ontario to be near her daughter and her family. She moved in to their home there the same day her first grandson was born.

She was predeceased by her husband John in 2024.

The words for her 1990 graduation were:
“My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace. Not even blessing, but Himself, my God: “Tis His to lead me there, not mine but His. At any cost dear Lord, by any road! “I want to know Christ...let me live up to what I have already attained.” Phil. 3:10a,16

It is with sadness and rejoicing that we share of Audrey B Harder's passing on June 16, 2026.
*Not to be confused with the Audrey Harder who has worked at Providence the last 44 years as an Administrative Assistant - the majority as Executive Administrative Assistant to the President and past 4 or 5 Presidents*

Audrey graduated from Providence Theological Seminary in 1990 with her M.A. in Biblical Counselling. She was immediately hired as Professor of Counselling working along side Steve Masterson and Don Sawatzky for the next 10 years.

She left Providence in 1999 and moved to Ontario to be near her daughter and her family. She moved in to their home there the same day her first grandson was born.

She was predeceased by her husband John in 2024.

The words for her 1990 graduation were:
"My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace. Not even blessing, but Himself, my God: "Tis His to lead me there, not mine but His. At any cost dear Lord, by any road! "I want to know Christ...let me live up to what I have already attained." Phil. 3:10a,16

For alumni who attended Prov UC in the years of 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 and didn’t get their yearbook, and would like one - please email [email protected].

We will work on how to get it to you.

Throw Back Thursday:

Bergen Hall - Then and Now

1) Bergen Hall front Entrance
2) Bergen Hall
3) Bergen Hall on Fire (June 1, 2019)
4) Bergen Hall on Fire
5) Area where Bergen Hall was (today) Notice two evergreens survived.

Congratulations to our Providence Down Town Masters Graduation class of 2026 which happened on April 22, 2026!
This class was the final graduating class which happened over 4 days in our largest graduation in Providence history.

Included here are MA Education Leadership, MA TESOL, and Master of Management degrees from FA25 and WI26.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understand; but submit to Him and He will guide your paths. Ps. 3:5-6

Congratulations to our Associate of Arts in Business Prov Down Town April 21, 2026 Grads.
These photos are Cohorts: Fall 25-2, Winter 26-1 & Winter 26-2 grads.

"Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Phil: 1:6

Ismail Hussein, himself an International student coming to Canada from Tanziania and graduating with a BA in Business Administration, 2013, was the guest speaker addressing all three of our Prov Down Town graduations on Apr 20, 21, & 22.

Read about our graduating student's reflections https://buff.ly/27PNrZO

Congratulations to our Prov Downtown graduates.
These groups graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in Business April 20, 2026.
From Cohorts: Summer 25-1, Summer 25-2 & Fall 25-1 grads

“Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6, NIV)