Curt Miller
Edgewood,NM
Summary
Experienced leader with 45 years of success in spiritual leadership for growing churches. Skilled in developing integrated long-term plans to guide educational and spiritual formation ministries. Expertise in organizational management, program administration, and community outreach, ready to contribute to a growing organization.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Founding Pastor
East Mountain Cowboy Church
Edgewood, NM
Feb2019 - Current
- Managed all aspects of ministry.
- Responded to crisis situations to offer support, prayer, and counseling.
- Reached out to unchurched, new residents or inactive church members.
- Supported church in fostering growth through new fundraising initiatives and congregation development.
- Approved and administered church budget with $350,000.00 in yearly expenditures.
- Led outreach initiatives to reach out to unchurched, inactive or new residents in community.
- Supervised staff of 6 to serve 300 attenders.
- Grew church attendance from 12 to 300 in five years in a rural community in addition to several hundred weekly online views.
- Worked with church leaders, staff, and ministry teams to achieve growth of church and to foster positive community impact.
- Demonstrated effective leadership to church, including managing daily operations, developing and administering annual budget, and promoting compassionate pastoral care to members and public.
- Improved operations and functions of church committees by clarifying objectives and empowering other committee members to take responsibility.
- Carried out church mission by planning and leading worship services, writing sermons and working with church leaders.
- Led church in purchase of 60 acres valued at 3.4 million.
- Raised $150,000.00 to build a full operational rodeo arena, appraised at $400,000.00
- Le church to the cash purchaase of a 15,000 sq ft building in addition to a 1.5 million loan for construction of facility and land development.
Founding Pastor
Valencia County Cowboy Church
Los Lunas, NM
09.2016 - 09.2018
- Worked with church leaders, staff and ministry teams to achieve growth of church and to foster positive community impact.
- Managed all aspects of ministry.
- Carried out church mission by planning and leading worship services, writing sermons and working with church leaders.
- Visited, counseled and prayed with church members to provide pastoral care.
- Demonstrated effective leadership to church, including managing daily operations, developing and administering annual budget and promoting compassionate pastoral care to members and public.
- Reached out to unchurched, new residents or inactive church members.
- Led outreach initiatives to reach out to unchurched, inactive or new residents in community.
- Liaised with church staff and ministry discuss church growth objectives.
- Guided staff and volunteers in administering education, youth, social action, fellowship and pastoral care ministry programs.
- Managed church leadership to the acquisition of 10 acres of land donated to the church.
- Intiated intial building development through securing architectural firm, and contractors.
Education
Master of Arts - Biblical Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary
Ext. Tampa FL / Trinity College05.1991
Bachelor of Arts - Theology/Communication
Southwest Baptist University
Bolivar, MO12.1979
Skills
- Preaching
- Inspirational leadership
- Organizational leadership
- Biblical stewardship
- Gospel-driven
- Leadership development
- Working collaboratively
- Decision-making
- Relationship building
- Crisis management
- Preparing weekly sermons
- Discipleship
- Mission-oriented
Additional Information
- 6 years experience in corporate consulting and training with small and start up companies to Fortune 100 and Federal Government organizations.
- 2 years as Executive Director of Partnership Development with INJOY Stewardship Services, A John Maxwell Company. Speaker at stewardship and leadership conferences.
- 6 years experience as Founder and CEO of 2 charter schools.
- 13 years of ministry experience serving as youth pastor in small to large churches.
- 4 years as Hospice Chaplain
Timeline
Founding Pastor
Valencia County Cowboy Church
09.2016 - 09.2018
Founding Pastor
East Mountain Cowboy Church
Feb2019 - Current
Master of Arts - Biblical Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Arts - Theology/Communication
Southwest Baptist University
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