James Conrad Miller
August 31st 1928- May 1st 2007
A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the student to be like his teacher
Matthew 10:24,25
James dedicated his life to children. He was a principal and classroom teacher at Floradale Public School and Riverside Public School in Elmira. His hobbies included chair caning, gardening and tree planting. Together Jim and my mom have had over 6000 trees planted on their 10 acre property in Belwood! I would be amiss if I didn’t tell you about his love for classic sports cars. He owned a 1961 green MGA fixed head coupe, a red convertible ’81 Triumph Spitfire roadster and a ‘58 blue Austin Healy Sprite ‘bug eye’ Roadster with right-hand drive, right from the Great of Britain. Every spring, he told me that he will put the battery back in, warm up the engine, check the necessary lubrication, cross his fingers and hope it was ready for a drive on the lazy roads of Belwood! Those cars sure suited him because James Miller was a classy man with a gentle spirit and a true humanitarian.
In more recent years, he served as the treasurer for the Centre Wellington Men For Missions and the Mission Store in Fergus. James had the opportunity to travel to Haiti and became very passionate for the needs of children there. It is here that he has supported Pastor Jack Joazile for a number of years in his ministry to his church as well as a school. James most recent project was a fundraiser dinner that he was involved in towards the medical supplies for the Bethesda Medical Center on the missionary compound in Vaundreuil, Haiti. It always came full circle for him back to the children he loved as he was passionate about child sponsorship through OMS International in Haiti through the Starfish program.
A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the student to be like his teacher
Matthew 10:24,25
James dedicated his life to children. He was a principal and classroom teacher at Floradale Public School and Riverside Public School in Elmira. His hobbies included chair caning, gardening and tree planting. Together Jim and my mom have had over 6000 trees planted on their 10 acre property in Belwood! I would be amiss if I didn’t tell you about his love for classic sports cars. He owned a 1961 green MGA fixed head coupe, a red convertible ’81 Triumph Spitfire roadster and a ‘58 blue Austin Healy Sprite ‘bug eye’ Roadster with right-hand drive, right from the Great of Britain. Every spring, he told me that he will put the battery back in, warm up the engine, check the necessary lubrication, cross his fingers and hope it was ready for a drive on the lazy roads of Belwood! Those cars sure suited him because James Miller was a classy man with a gentle spirit and a true humanitarian.
In more recent years, he served as the treasurer for the Centre Wellington Men For Missions and the Mission Store in Fergus. James had the opportunity to travel to Haiti and became very passionate for the needs of children there. It is here that he has supported Pastor Jack Joazile for a number of years in his ministry to his church as well as a school. James most recent project was a fundraiser dinner that he was involved in towards the medical supplies for the Bethesda Medical Center on the missionary compound in Vaundreuil, Haiti. It always came full circle for him back to the children he loved as he was passionate about child sponsorship through OMS International in Haiti through the Starfish program.
Jim passed away after working the earth in preparation for another planting season, a task he had done every year since his boyhood.
But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life! Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now?It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 The Message
