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ELKHART, Ind. — Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary president Marlin E. Miller, hailed for fostering MC/GC unity, died of a heart attack at his home Nov. 3. He was 55. | ELKHART, Ind. — Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary president Marlin E. Miller, hailed for fostering MC/GC unity, died of a heart attack at his home Nov. 3. He was 55. | ||
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■ A memorial service for Marlin Miller, president of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., who died Nov. 3, will be held Sunday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. at Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton. Organizers are inviting all AMBS supporters and friends of Miller’s family. | ■ A memorial service for Marlin Miller, president of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., who died Nov. 3, will be held Sunday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. at Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton. Organizers are inviting all AMBS supporters and friends of Miller’s family. | ||
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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 10 Nov 1994 p. 1
text of obituary:
ELKHART, Ind. — Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary president Marlin E. Miller, hailed for fostering MC/GC unity, died of a heart attack at his home Nov. 3. He was 55.
Among the significant accomplishments of Miller’s 20 years at AMBS was his role in the joining of Goshen Biblical Seminary and Mennonite Biblical Seminary into Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary last year.
GBS, the Mennonite Church seminary; and MBS, the General Conference Mennonite Church seminary; previously shared facilities and faculty as Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries.
“He played an important role in the theological direction of the Mennonite church, specifically in integration," said George R. Brunk III, dean of Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Va., and a member of the MC/GC Integration Exploration Committee. “I think that he was one of the most creative theological minds in this generation of North American Mennonites."
Miller became GBS president in 1975 and continued in that role when was named MBS president in 1990. He then assumed the presidency of AMBS when the seminaries merged in 1993.
The funeral was held Nov. 7 at College Mennonite Church in Goshen with Duane Beck, pastor of Belmont Mennonite Church, officiating. Miller was a member of Belmont. Almost 1,000 people attended the funeral.
“Now is not the time to die, Marlin," Beck said in his meditation. “We cannot take Marlin’s place. No one can do that. The way we live now is that we each take our place in the kingdom with our gifts, our passion, our call from God, and we share that with each other.”
AMBS dean Gayle Gerber Koontz, who has been named acting president, said: “We give
■ See AMBS, page 2
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 17 Nov 1994 p. 12
Birth date: 1939
text of obituary
■ A memorial service for Marlin Miller, president of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., who died Nov. 3, will be held Sunday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. at Bethel College Mennonite Church, North Newton. Organizers are inviting all AMBS supporters and friends of Miller’s family.