Seth Miller

     I began serving in ministry at oneChurch in Clarksville, Tennessee after I left active duty in the U.S. Army in late 2017. I served as the student pastor, as well as director of Guest Services and Social Media Director, during my time there. God called my wife and I to Missouri in June of 2020 to help a church in my hometown. 

     After serving as the Next Steps pastor and Next Gen team director at Calvary Church in Fredericktown, Missouri, for 2.5 years, we believe God called us to take a break from ministry. During that break, I taught the Advanced Intelligence courses for the U.S. Army in Fayetteville, North Carolina. We have been back in Clarksville, Tennessee, since February 2024. I am serving back with oneChurch now as the Teaching & Small Groups Pastor.

     After trying for over 10 years, and serving as foster parents, God blessed us with a bio-child in May of 2024. Part of God’s call to come back to Clarksville was due to being closer to family (two hours away), but also to return for friends and former foster children.  However, since being back it seems that we have less help here than we thought we would. So, we are praying and asking God to bring us closer to family who will help.  We have family in Southeast Missouri and the Nashville(Franklin) area.

oneChurch – Clarksville, TN

Teaching & Small Groups Pastor

February 2024 – Present

• Discipled/Mentored/Coached current and incoming small group leaders.
  
   
• Responsible for creating, maintaining, and implementing leadership development pipeline (some churches call this their growth track).
  
  
   
• Responsible for helping prepare the yearly strategic sermon calendar
  
   
• Responsible for teaching 30% of Sunday sermons
  
   
• Served as lead in development of Leadership Pipeline (Next Step & Leader Step)
  
   
• Served with my wife as leader of the Young Adults Small group
  • We also lead a couple’s group.
  • Both of which meet in our home throughout the week.
    
     

Calvary Church - Fredericktown MO

Next Steps Pastor / Director of NextGen Ministry Team

June 2020- September 2022

• Responsible for moving all ministries, from 0-35 years away from being “Silos” and towards a unified strategy and curriculum.
  • Ensuring key milestones that built up a foundation that helped the next in line age ministry continue to build on rather than separate approaches (Silos)
• Led our Student Ministry (Middle & High School) Wednesday during my first year until we were able to hire a full-time student pastor
  • During that time, I planned and facilitated a ministry style change from just a service, to more of a small group focused ministry.
    
     
  • Recruited and discipled 28 first time small group leaders (SGL)
    • 16 more recruited and discipled since then under ministry specific SGL training
      
       
  • Included the traditional Wednesday elements of organizing music through worship as well teaching a sermon
    • I moved away from one communicator and focused on a communication team and developing communicators
      • I believe this helped foster growth in people who were scared to use their gifts for God, or hadn’t been given an opportunity yet
      • A teaching team also helps the students learn how to hear from God from more than just one person.
        
        
         
• Created, planned, and implemented Adult small groups, we call Life Groups, for the first time in the 44-year history of this church (1978).
  • Led a life group of adults older than me for 8 months that would go on to become our first leaders
    
     
  • These leaders launched 8 life groups with over 100 people joining
    
     
  • Plans to launch an additional 5 in August of 2022
    • Helped create and cast vision for all leaders to have first be in a group so they have been led, and that fruit is evident in their life before allowing them to lead a group.
      
       
• Created, implemented, and currently facilitate our church wide growth track that leads to spiritual gift understanding, help in finding a team to serve on, and membership (Called “Next Steps”)
  
  
  • Ensured routine vision casting and church language began to include the importance of next steps in following Christ
    
     
  • Have helped 96 people come through since January of 2021
    
     
• Upon arriving, developed and implemented the first ever weekly staff meeting
  
  
  • Began to try and shift church metrics away from attendance numbers as a sign of overall health
    • We began to ask two questions
      • Who did you help take a next step? (Our role in discipling others)
      • Where did you see life change? (What has God been doing in others)
        
        
         
• Prepared and taught sermons 30 times on Sunday mornings.
  • I believe teaching is a spiritual gift I am currently strong in 
    and consider myself a teacher more than a preacher.
    
     

• Helped implement a strategic plan for weekly messages
  • Developed a long-term sermon calendar (Tried for a year) 
    
     
• Met with Next Gen team to lead them in discipleship and vision casting for ministry.

oneChurch – Clarksville, TN

Student Pastor / Guest Services Director / Social Media Director

September 2017 – June 2020

• Responsible for planning and facilitating Middle and High School student mid-week service of worship-message-small groups.
  
   
• Primary communicator for student environments
  • Recruited and developed a team of 5 communicators
    
     
• Responsible for recruiting and training adult small group leaders from within church body.
  
   
• Responsible for planning out yearly sermon calendar, quarterly events, and year summer camps
  
   
• Casting vision and leading through self-example that small group leaders show up in the lives of students more than on Sunday and Wednesdays.
  
   
• Trained group leaders to partner with parents and focused on the importance of parents being the primary disciplers of their children. 
  
   
• Prioritized ministry growth through authentic relationships with students more than one day a week.
  • Led to friends inviting friends without a need for reminders to do so and/or outreach events to be necessary
    • Average attendance went from 35 a week at my start to 87 prior to COVID-19 pandemic

Other Experience

Army Foundry Platform 09/2022 – 02/2024

Advanced Operations Course – All Source (AOC-AS) Instructor and Developer

• Created, developed and instructed an advanced 3-weeklong course (AOC-AS) for U.S Army Intelligence soldiers. Soldiers who attended varied in rank from E-6 to O-3.
• Creates, develops, and instructs the U.S. Army’s most premiere intelligence ATTRS course, Advanced Operations Course / All-Source (AOC-AS). AOC-AS is the U.S. Army’s only available course for training intelligence soldiers on current pacing and acute threats concerning multi-domain operations within the Competition Continuum in a join fight.

• Instructor for first three ever iterations of AOC-AS, serving as the primary instructor and subject matter expert in Competition Continuum TTPs, Instruments of National power, and the modernization and challenges of our current pacing threat, the People’s Republic of China, as well as it’s influence and tactics in Asia & world. (INDOPACOM)
• Primary Instructor and Developer for Competition Continuum, Pacing Threat Instruments of National Power, and Pacing Threat Modernization & Challenges instruction blocks for the AOCs of SIGINT and GEOINT.
• Works in close coordination with Instructional Systems Designers to create courses that effectively educates the maximum number of people in a logical manner.
• Manages Blackboard and other Virtual Points of Presence. Plans and coordinates course delivery platforms.

(January 2018- Present Army National Guard January 2018- Present

Title:  FUSION Team Intelligence Analyst / New Analyst Trainer 

• Spent one month working on a joint force team and the NSA in 2016 in efforts to counter Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
• Served as senior enlisted analyst on the FUSION Team of two separate national guar units. Worked on ensuring information and products were QA-QC’d and delivered to lower echelon units in time to maximize mission effectiveness. Both in Asymmetrical and Conventional warfare settings.
• Served as trainer for new analysts as they arrived at unit ensuring that they were more than product producers. I developed and provided in-depth onboarding that allowed analysts the space and ability to grow/improve their critical thinking as well as unit SOP familiarization with each product. 

(May 2013 – January 2018) U.S. Army 1st BCT 101st AirborneDivision Ft.Campbell, KY 

Title: Brigade Senior Intelligence Analyst / Special Topics Analyst / Senior Analyst Trainer 

• Chosen above peers and leaders to establish positive relationships and create an intelligence sharing network with outside organizations and entities, such as SOCCENT J2, SOCAF J2, USARAF J2, and AFRICOM J2. 
  • Resulted in 28 intelligence soldiers providing forward support with Analytical Control Elements (ACE) in Europe. 

• Aided in the stand-up of a Brigade Intelligence Live Environment Training (BILET) mission and selected above peers and leaders for the role of Senior Analyst and Senior Analyst Trainer. 
  • Resulted in over 60 trained junior analysts who produced and briefed 65 Weekly Intelligence Updates to the Brigade Commander and Staff during O&I.
• Conducted complex predictive analysis on the state and future on the 2017 Food Insecurity Crisis throughout Africa to identify first and second order effects and possible opportunities Violent Extremist Organizations (VEOs) may attempt to capitalize on.
• Led over 15 junior analysts in the research and production of PEMSII and Threat Network for 30 countries in Africa.  Resulted in over 700 soldiers being provided in-depth briefs on countries prior to their forward deployment to train Host Nation forces to participate in UN missions such as MINUSMA, MINUSCA, MONUSCO and AMISOM.
• Consistently selected by the Brigade Chief Intelligence officer to spear head training and real-world mission MA and full IPB prior in support of Brigade JRTC missions and a Brigade deployment to Afghanistan.
• Knowledgeable on Chemicals Weapons used in CENTCOM AO due to past support provided to SOCCENT as well as completion of the DoD’s 80-hour CBRN Defense Course.

Title: 24-Hour Brigade Intelligence Reachback Cell (BRIC) Senior Threat & Political Analyst

• Conducted over 1,800 hours of Multi-INT Fusion as the BRIC Senior Threat Network & Political analyst in support of over 800 forward deployed soldiers and TAAC-South J2 in Kandahar, Afghanistan
  • Resulted in the production of 9 White Papers, 31 weekly INTSUMs, over 80 link diagram entities built and published on Palantir and DCGS-A MFWS TED.
• Attended daily Intel Synch via VTC led by TAAC-South J2 in Kandahar Afghanistan to establish a cohesive and complex understanding on the intelligence picture and threat network array

• Manna University – Bachelor of Arts in Christian Leadership 
• Cochise College – Associate Degree in Intelligence Operations- 
• All-Source Intelligence Analyst Qualification Course – Fort Huachuca, AZ – 
• High School Diploma- Fredericktown High School – Fredericktown, Missouri