PASTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
· Senior Pastor:
Joe Miller
“Pastor
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Joseph Emerson Miller
2710 North Madison, Tacoma WA 98407
Telephone: 253.380.2800
Office Telephone: 253.759.3539 Email: joemiller@masonchurch.org
Pastor of the Mason United Methodist
Church in North
Tacoma since 1999, Joe Miller has been in pastoral ministry for
nearly 46 years. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army
in April 1971 he retired from active duty as a chaplain in May 1995 at the
rank of Colonel. He was the Manager of Sponsorship Support with World Vision
during 1996-99 during which time he also served as pastor to the
English-speaking congregation at First
Korean United
Methodist Church
in Tacoma.
Joe was pastor of the Farrville (Indiana) United Church of Christ during
1964-67 while he was a student at Taylor
University. After one
year on the youth ministry staff at the Wilmore (Kentucky) Methodist Church
(1967-68) and following his ordination, he was pastor of the Russellville
(Ohio) United Methodist Charge from 1968-73. In 1973 he became the Assistant
to the President of Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky.
Over a period of twenty-four years Joe served as an Army Chaplain in Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
Korea, New
York City, Oklahoma, Kansas, Germany
and Virginia.
In addition to graduating from the Army Command and General Staff College
(1983) and the Army War College
(1992), Joe’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in
Philosophy from Taylor University in Indiana
(1967) and a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky (1971). He is
a Princeton Theological Seminary Fellow in Pastoral Leadership Development
(1990) and has done further studies in behavioral psychology with the University of Minnesota and the Menninger Clinic. He
has also served as adjunct faculty in philosophy and ethics for the University of Maryland. Joe is currently working
toward a Doctor of Ministry degree at Faith Evangelical Seminary in Tacoma.
A certified Myers-Briggs Personality Type Inventory trainer, Joe has
utilized that instrument in conducting organizational effectiveness, team
building, and marriage seminars in military, corporate, church, university
and other settings. Joe is also a certified leadership and management trainer
through the Zenger-Miller consulting firm.
His son, Joe, is a partner in the Baker and Daniels Law Firm in Indianapolis where he
and his wife, Lisa, reside with their children: Grace, Sophia and Josiah. His
daughter, Susan, is an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State
University, has co-authored and
co-edited books in her field and is married to the published author, Stacey
Cochran, who also teaches at NC State in Raleigh where they reside with their son,
Samuel. Joe also has two daughters, Emma and Abby, who are middle school
students in Tacoma.
Joe’s wife, Kathleen Campbell, is a fifth generation United
Methodist minister. Graduating from the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City she served
as the Registrar and Financial Aid Director of that institution for five
years. She has served as a pastor in United Methodist churches in Kansas and Washington.
A graduate of the University
of Puget Sound she has
served in the Registrar’s office of that institution since 1996. She is
the mother of two teenagers, Isaac and Hannah.
Joe is a licensed private pilot and lists his other hobbies as
motorcycling, rebuilding old cars, reading of history and current events,
golf, and playing guitar and banjo.
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