Grace Baptist Church
3616 Broadwater Avenue
Billings, Montana
406-656-8333
406-672-6361 Pastor's Cell
info@gracebaptistbillings.org
Introducing Rachel Miller
May 23, 2008To Whom It May Concern:
With a sense of urgency I would like to introduce to you for your consideration as a missionary candidate, Rachel Miller. It would only be natural that I would highly recommend her to you since she is my daughter. But I would also highly recommend her as her pastor. Where ever she has labored for the Lord there has been the highest praise for her service, a fact that I know she would only give the glory to the Lord.
This urgent situation came about a month ago when Rachel was invited to a former Soviet Union nation, which must remain unnamed for security reasons, to work with an orphan ministry along side a fundamental Baptist missionary couple. Rachel contacted this couple after hearing about their orphan ministry through a prayer received at our church. . After some emails and phone conversations Rachel was invited to help while another missionary couple returns to the states for furlough in July. This trip will include also survey trips to other fields with open doors, i.e. Moscow & St. Petersburg, and Kiev, Ukraine. She has estimated that this trip will cost approximately $5000.
Rachel trusts the Lord and His servants to supply this need. If you would prayerfully consider supporting Rachel for this short term endeavor, as well as a longer term I would appreciate it. You can send any gifts or support to Grace Baptist Church designated for Rachel Miller.
Allow me now to tell you something about Rachel. She grew up in a preacher/missionary's home and was home educated from the 4th grade through high school. After graduation from high school she worked for Benchmark Printing and learned much about desktop publishing which she later used in her ministry in Russia. A year later in 1995 she went to Moscow, Russia in an apprenticeship student/missionary outreach program that worked with orphans, widows and local churches. What we thought would be a one year trip turned out to be a 10 year missionary experience in Russia.
When the Lord directed to leave the above ministry she returned home and began preparing to return to her beloved Russia. In that process she found she needed to complete 2 years of Bible College in order to qualify for most mission agency's approval. While seeking a school to attend we got a call from my family in need of help caring for my parents in Ohio. With little hesitation, she decided to go and spent the next 15 month as the primary care giver for my parents until the required care became more than she was able to supply. While in Ohio she attended Victory Baptist Church in Coshocton Ohio where Bro. Ralph Johnson is the pastor. Her labor in the music and youth ministry and counseling young ladies was highly praised.
Returning home at Christmas 2006, she came to the prayerful decision that she could no longer meet her grandparents needs and that it was time for her to resume her preparations to return to the mission field. She enrolled in Mountain States Baptist College in Great Falls, MT, a ministry of Fairview Baptist Church where Dr. Richard Dion is the pastor. While in college she maintained here fluency in the Russian language by teaching it and developing her own curriculum and teaching materials. She also used her abilities in piano and flute to teach others and minister at the church. She developed a leadership class on Sunday afternoons to help "bus" kids learn to live godly lives. She graduated on May 16th with an Associate of Science Degree in Biblical studies, a 2 year course which she completed in 1½ years.
Her present goal is to return in a permanent missionary ministry to the Russian speaking orphan children and help churches and pastors carry out their Biblical responsibility to minister to widows and the fatherless, both in the USA and around the world.
For further information, we have a section of our church's website devoted to her ministry. Go to www.gracebaptistbillings.org then click on the menu item "Russia's Children." There you will find letters of recommendation, her video presentation and other materials we will be adding as time goes by.
If you would like to contribute to Rachel's "Reaching Russia's Children" trip, please send it to Grace Baptist Church designated for this project.
Thank you, and with sincere appreciation for your time,
Richard Miller
Pastor, Grace Baptist Church
406-672-6361
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