The following is an article from the Orcutt Pioneer:
Archie Miller, the pastor of the Orcutt Christian Church on Patterson Road, was an institutional and military chaplain for nearly a quarter of a century before moving to Santa Maria.
“Many folks are settling in Orcutt after retiring from ‘wherever’, and so many churches are geared to the forty and younger set,” says Miller. “My approach at the Orcutt Christian Church is not to focus on any particular group, but to specially help those who feel disenfranchised. The average member is in his/her early sixties. We are true to the word of God as we see it, but we accept differences. And most importantly---we stand on love. We have a motto that states, 'In matters of faith, unity; in matters of opinion, liberty; in all things, love.' That motto is also expressed as 'In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity.'"
In conjunction with his pastoral duties, Pastor Miller spends a lot of his time helping folks with computer problems. His wife, Charlene Miller, the Broker at Home Realty, says her husband got into computers in the 1970’s, “…before most people ever thought computers would be a household word, including myself,” she says.
He built his first ham radio as a kid and still stays active in the Disciples Amateur Radio Fellowship. He holds an Amateur Extra Class license, W6ALM, which he earned in 1975. He also enjoys wood working, and is a member of the American Association of Woodturners, and the International Association of Pen Turners.. He hand crafts beautiful wooden pen and pencils.
Miller joined the Marine Corp when he was seventeen and served in Korea. After the war, he received his theology degree from the Cincinnati Bible Seminary, earned a Master's in Pastoral counseling at Pepperdine University, and a Doctorate in religion from Trinity Theological Seminary.
Prior to coming to the Central Coast, Pastor Miller spent twenty years in chaplaincy…eleven of those years as the Chaplain for the USC School of Medicine-Department of Psychiatry. Miller then accepted the invitation to become Director of Pastoral Care for Saint Joseph Catholic Hospital in Orange…the first Protestant in the nation to serve in that position in a Catholic hospital. He has taught in Bible Colleges, Universities; and Community Colleges; and he helped start the Hospice Movement in Southern California.
Pastor Miller is a licensed California Realtor®, and works with his wife, Charlene Miller, the Broker at Home Realty.
Archie and Charlene Miller moved to Santa Maria in 1991, after a ministry in the Monterey and Carmel area.
