PASTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Joe Miller 
Joe Miller has entered his 45th year in pastoral ministry. He retired from active duty as an Army chaplain in May 1995 at the rank of Colonel. He then served as 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. 2009 is his eleventh year as pastor of Mason United Methodist Church.
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 1968-1973 prior to becoming 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 civilian 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 an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy for the University of Maryland.
Joe has two growing daughters in Tacoma, Emma Joy and Abby Evangeline. He is a licensed private pilot and lists his other hobbies as reading, motorcycling, rebuilding old cars, Civil War history, golf, and playing guitar and banjo.
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