John Harold Sherk (20 December 1903 – 28 February 1974) was a Canadian Mennonite minister, educator, and advocate of Christian pacifism.
His father, John Hubert Sherk, was a local farmer and deacon near Centreville,[4] which at the time was in Waterloo Township and had not been annexed by the city of Kitchener.
[6] He was part of the first wave of Pennsylvania Dutch settlers who purchased plots in the German Company Tract.
[7] As the first secretary of the Conference of Historic Peace Churches (formed in 1940 in Ontario), Sherk negotiated frequently with the Canadian federal government.
[8] From the late 1950s to 1969, in Washington, D.C. Sherk was the executive secretary of the National Service Board for Religious Objectors, representing the peace interests of the Mennonites to the American federal government.