11 Facts About Millie Dienert

Millie Dienert was born in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Miriam and Theodore Elsner.

Millie Dienert's father was a traveling evangelist and as a child she felt neglected and blamed God for her parents' absence.

Millie Dienert subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia School of the Bible.

Millie Dienert was a popular Bible teacher and speaker at church meetings and conferences around the US When Millie 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".

Millie 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".

Millie Dienert was the first woman to preside over a White House Prayer Breakfast, during the Nixon Administration.

Millie Dienert later chaired the prayer committee at the First International Congress on World Evangelization held in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Millie Dienert was named Churchwoman of the Year in 1990 by Religious Heritage of America.

Millie Dienert wrote the introduction to the 1980 book, The prayer that teaches to pray.

When her husband died in 1993, Millie Dienert succeeded him as president of Walter Bennett, although she was at the time.

Millie Dienert died on August 24,2015, at the age of 97.