Pastors


Roy Miller

Pastor Miller and his family came to Lincoln and the Faith OPC in August of `93. Roy met his wife Janet while both were students at Tennessee Temple College in Chattanooga TN. They were married in November of 1974 and have been blessed with four children, and now, five grandchildren.

A third generation native of Philadelphia's northeastern suburbs, he did his undergraduate work at several colleges including Tennessee Temple and Philadelphia College of Bible before receiving his B.A. from the University of the State of New York in 1984. In 1987 he received the M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary. He has finished all classes for the D.Min. from Knox Theological Seminary, and is working on his Project/Paper to complete the degree.

Roy's pastoral experience includes landmarks of God's illumination of His Word to Roy. The first charge was the Colfax Baptist Church (American Baptist) in Chanute, Kansas from October of `78 to October of `80. "Even though I really loved those people, it became clear to me that I could no longer work in a denomination where evangelical Christianity was a minority theology."

The Bethel Community Church in rural Fort Scott, Kansas was his next pastorate. "Here is where a struggle for understanding the Bible climaxed for me. For years I had been working through the dispensational baptistic theology that I had been taught in church and at school, and was slowly moving to the Reformed position, mostly because of debates with several close friends. In time, I began to see several key Biblical Doctrines that have forced me to become Reformed." These are:

The result was that in July of 1984 Roy and his family became members of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Caney, KS, and then moved to Jackson, Mississippi to complete his ministrial education.

While in seminary, Roy served the Lauderdale Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Lauderdale, MS, and prior to coming to Lincoln, was pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Caney, KS.

Reflecting on seminary Roy said, "R.C. Sproul was a very entertaining and enlightening professor, but what I really wanted from seminary was a firm grounding in Hermeneutics and Hebrew. Between Dr. Richard Pratt and Dr. Willem Van Gemeren, I acquired most of what I had hoped to learn, as well as the tools to learn more. The most moving idea I encountered however, was in my first semester, when Dr. McClellen pointed out that one did not need to be a presbyterian in order to be a member of a presbyterian church. It was mind expanding to learn that the only members of a presbyterian church who had to be presbyterian were the deacons, elders and ministers! Here was a church where the only membership requirements were to be born again and baptized, and everything else will come along in God's good time!"

Asked to describe his philosophy of ministry, Roy replied, "There are four key issues for me. First, that all glory must go to God. What I would like to see, and to some degree have seen, is God work in such a way that no one can say that `this' was done by Roy, or programs, or any other work or plan of man. It's been awesome to see God at work in Faith in the last few years, as He has grown His church. Second, that the primary work of a minister of the Word of God is to study the Word so that he can be "a workman who has no need to be ashamed" and to teach and preach that Word to the sheep that God has given to him. Third, that `be ye holy as I am holy' is not an option for any Christian, and is the goal of the Christian life. Finally, that we build an awareness that Christians live in Covenant. Covenant with God, covenant with our family members, covenant with each other in society, and, of course, in covenant with the Covenant Community, which is Christ's body: the Church."

Roy's interests are varied. He loves to hunt (and reloads his own .308 ammunition), hike, camp (he has been the ScoutMaster of Faith's Troop 31), do wood working and wood carving (and has the scars to prove it), and has a collection of "classic" computers.

Not surprisingly, since his B.A. was in History and Philosophy, Roy reads and collects books on history, especially church and military history.



Mark Harrington

Mark was born in Ft. Worth, TX the second son of an Air Force officer. After completing his B.S. from Wheaton, and his M.S. from Michigan, he married his wife Sheri in 1976. Mark earned the M.A.R. and the M.Div. degrees from Westminster Seminary in Philadelpia, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New York and New England of the OPC in May of 1983.

Mark pastored the Grace OPC in Fall River Mass from 1983 to 1987, and served on the Staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship from 1987 to 1991 here in Lincoln. He was called by Faith OPC as an Evangelist and works as Staff for the Horizon's International on the UNL campus.

Mark and Sheri have three sons, Seth, Luke and Thaddeus, as well a daughter, Tamar. Seth is a practicing attorney in Iowa, Luke is a student at UNL, Tamar is an anthropology student at Grinnell College and Thad is a high school senior and one of the Evangelism Explosion trainees.

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