Millie Dienert Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==As a speaker== Dienert was a popular Bible teacher and speaker at church meetings and conferences around the U.S.<ref name=TPA>{{cite news|title=Millie Dienert — Traveling Messenger|newspaper=[[Tampa Tribune]]|date=February 19, 1972|page=57|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72742749/tampa-tribune-21972/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref><ref name=okie /> When Dienert addressed a Conference, said the ''[[Petoskey News-Review]]'', she could speak without notes for an hour and "hold a thousand women in rapt silence".<ref>{{cite news|title=Crusade Speaker Featured At Boyne Mountain Retreat|newspaper=[[Petoskey News-Review]]|date=September 30, 1982|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/72743146/petoskey-news-review-93082/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{open access}}</ref> Dienert rejected the [[prosperity gospel]] teaching that blessings and well-being are always God's will for the believer, saying, "I have a problem with people making Christian life look so beautiful and great that you have to be one".<ref name=HOU /> Instead, she spoke of life's trials and sorrows that can beset the Christian, often citing her own disappointments, such as her son Ted's divorce from Billy Graham's daughter and then his death at age 52 on her 80th birthday. Recalling her sadness when her husband died after 55 years of marriage, she said, "When you walk lonely and broken-hearted, keeping your right perspective on God is a challenge".<ref name=HOU /> Dienert was the first woman to preside over a [[White House]] Prayer Breakfast, during the [[Nixon Administration]].<ref name=TPA /> She later chaired the prayer committee at the [[First International Congress on World Evangelization]] held in 1974 in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]].<ref name=okie>{{cite news|title=Churchwoman to give talk|newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]]|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2553590/churchwoman-to-give-talk|date=October 26, 1996|access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref> During the [[United States Bicentennial|U.S. Bicentennial in 1976]], she served on the Advisory Group for the [[National Day of Prayer]], along with others such as [[Harold Lindsell]] of ''Christianity Today''.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Day of Prayer: History|publisher=National Day of Prayer Task Force|url=https://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/history|access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page