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Staff Member Profiles
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Leecroft Clarke

Leecroft Clarke
Name:
Leecroft Clarke
Position:
Team Leader, Chautauqua Lake Region Men of Integrity
Church Affiliation:
Healing Word Ministries of Jamestown, The Church of God (Tennessee)
Jamestown, NY
Contact Information
Mailing Address
1006 West 3rd Street
Jamestown, NY 14701
Email Address
Vita:
Rev. Clarke is one of the original members of The Better Place Board. He left that position in 2008 to become the Team Leader of the Chautauqua Lake Region Men of Integrity, a ministry of The Better Place. – He earned a B.S. in engineering from the Stevens Institute of technology in Hoboken, NJ and an M.BA. from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Since 2,000 he has been employed as the "Independent After-Market Sales Manager" for the Jamestown office of TitanX Engine Cooling. He has been a member of the Healing Word Ministries Church (formerly called Abundant Life Church of God) in Jamestown for that same period of time. Rev. Clarke now serves as pastor of this congregation. He is a licensed ordained clergy with the Church of God (TN). - He is also the proud father of one child, a daughter. And he has been married to Rosemarie since 2007.
Favorite Scripture:
Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hope for The Better Place

For all those who come to The Better Place, that they will come to a place to rest and be ministered to, restored and renewed to complete the task assigned to them by the Lord.

Roy L. Miller

Name
Roy L. Miller
Position
Organizing Director
Church Affiliation
Park U. Methodist
Sinclairville, NY
Contact Information
Mailing Address
3373 Fluvanna Townline Rd.
Jamestown, NY 14701-9011
Email Address
Phone
Home: 716-488-9918
Work: 716-488-9918
Vita:
Dr. Miller served as a senior pastor for 22 years and then as a District Superintendent for the United Methodist Church before taking a step of faith and founding The Better Place in 2003. He graduated from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) with a B.S. in Business Administration before earning a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from Drew University School of Theology. - He is a frequent speaker in retreat and conference settings as well as in churches on Sunday mornings. - He is married to Valerie (since 1973). Together they have three children and five grandchildren. - He enjoys gardening, hiking, biking, running, reading and playing with his grandchildren.
Favorite Scripture:
Jeremiah 17:14-16 - Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. They keep saying to me "Where is the word of the Lord?" Let it now be fulfilled! I have not run away from being your shepherd. (NIV)
Hope for The Better Place

God's word is true! God said, "If my people ... will pray and seek my face... I will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14). When God's people do his word, he fulfills it. On those rare occasions when God's people have done what 2 Chronicles 7:14 calls them to do, God had shown the extent of his healing. Individuals are healed of physical infirmity, but also economies are healed, relationships are healed, attitudes are healed and governments are healed. When God heals the land he does not leave anything out. -- Jesus prayed for those who would believe in him that they all would be one even as he and God the Father are one; then, he said, the world will believe that God's Messiah has come. (John 17:20-21). The Church has yet to experience this oneness for which Jesus prayed.

My hope for The Better Place is that God will use it mightily to wake up faith in God's people and, thus, in the Church to the end that the promises expressed in these two scriptures will be realized. The first promise will initially be realized in the immediate area where The Better Place campus is located and then throughout the states it serves (New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Ontario). The promise of the second scripture is literally a promise for the entire world. I hope The Better Place will be a big part of its being realized.