TEEN YEARS:

Before I turned 12 years of age I was smoking, then time went on and I started drinking. By the time I reached about 14 I was doing drugs, stealing, drinking, smoking and everything else that went with that lifestyle.

I can remember by the time I turned 16 years of age I was waking up in the middle of the night with my stomach in knots craving for a drink . As time went on it got worst! I became a thief in order to support my sinful habits.

BAD TRIP, THEN GRADE TWELVE:

September came and I started grade 12, my last year of high school and I really didn’t have any plans for a career. I thought I’d work with my father in the family business and go from there to nowhere. I didn’t have much ambition in life, just drugs, alcohol and parties.

One Saturday night I left my house for another night on the town but I had no money. All I had was enough for a pack of cigarettes. So I went to the party area. Someone gave me some pills they called Christmas trees, someone else gave me some magic mushrooms and I found myself a couple bottles of beer. After a little while it all start to work. It sent me on a real bad trip. That night I seen little green men, the machines were chasing me in the arcade and I thought, I was going to die. So I jumped in car with a friend and they drove me around for a long time. Then I decided I wanted to become a Christian. So we went to Mrs. Quinlans place and she prayed with me. That night in September although I started it with a bad trip an drugs, God met me and saved me at the end of the trip.

The next morning I got up and realized what I did so I decided I wouldn’t tell anyone. Before I got out of the house that morning, my friend Byron came and told my family about my salvation. I was so upset because I was going to pretend it didn’t happen.

TRYING MY BEST:

Will now my family knew all about it so I thought I’ll do my best and try to serve the Lord. Will a few hours past and it wasn’t long before my sinful desires had to be satisfied. I kept putting it of. By October 21 (my birthday), I was beside myself because I had cravings that weren’t getting satisfied. I fell flat on my face and had a drink, as well as some cigarettes. I also dabbled at everything else. That double lifestyle went on for a little while.

In March, we had special services with Evangelist Ivan Randell, those two weeks God touched my life in a miraclous way. I seen a lot of my friends saved and set free from sin during those special services God moved like I never experienced before.

CALL TO MINISTRY:

It was during those services God called me to ministry. I’ll never forget it as long as I live. As I laid there on the floor God showed me, myself, standing before a pulpit. Between me and the pulpit there was a big wall of fire. On the other side of the fire was a huge black hole with people in it, crying out for help. People of all nationalities. That night I said yes to God, but there was only one problem, I was a very shy and nervous person. A little while after I applied for Bible College, I got accepted, and left for college the following September.

BIBLE COLLEGE YEARS:

During the time I spent here, Satan continued to try to drag me down. He threw all my old habits in my face all the time. During the years there I did well. My marks were good with some help, I received good grades on my term papers with some help and I attended school all the time, unless I had to work. To sum it up I graduated and got my diploma and today I’m glad I had the experience to attend college, but I’m sad to say that I ended up turning my back on God completely, after I finish bible college.

RUNNING FROM GOD:

I wasn’t even out of the city of Edmonton before I started to party again. I had gotten worst than ever before. My life consisted of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, stealing, dealing a little drugs and whatever you can think of with a lifestyle like I was living. There is one thing I thank God for and that is I’ve never killed any one.

Although I made such a mess of my life and I became a disaster. My family never gave up on me. Even when I got in trouble with the law they stuck by me!.

I was working with my Dad in the family business. I was getting an excellent pay cheque that was always wasted in drugs and parties. Because of the money I was making there was no problem for me to get whatever credit card I applied for. My plans were to max all my credit cards to the limit and commit suicide.

One night after I checked in at a hotel my card got rejected. I had only enough left on it to go to a cheap motel. So after causing a big scene I left and went to the motel. While laying there in bed I was caused to look in the night table draw. When I looked I found myself a Gideon Bible. That night when I opened it to a Psalms I read that God will follow me and He will never forsake me.

STARTING MY WALK BACK TO GOD:

That night I was cause to think back to the March month in grade 12 when God called me to do a work for him. I’ll never forget that night in that cheap motel! Anyhow the next morning my soul was a little troubled but I soon fixed it with a drink.

As I headed back home to my little town I became worst then I ever did. I was under deep conviction. Something I hadn’t felt for a long time. Time passed and I started dating a Christian lady. During this time I attended church with her. I started to be convicted more than ever.

I remember one night leaving my place under deep conviction and driving to a near by town where a great man of God was preaching. As I drove towards that church I seen such a glow of the Holy Spirit up on it. The Spirit drew me to the service. As I walked in they were singing, “Because He Lives” I was so convicted but still I didn’t accept Christ.

Time went on and I went back to Edmonton for my sister’s wedding. I spent a month there and all I did was partied. Got deeper involved than I ever was in sin. After the wedding I headed back to Newfoundland

SUICIDAL, BUT GOD FOUND ME:

By this time all I wanted to do was take my own life. So on May 15, 1988 I left my house about 8:00 p.m. and left my suicide note in my bedroom on my bed. I had plan to go to the Trans. Canada Highway and have a head on collision with another car. As I was driving I ended up taking a turn that lead me to a Church camp called Camp Emmanuel where they were having a prayer conference with Evangelist Max Solbrekken.

All I did was drive around that big place they were using for camp meetings. As I drove around that night I thought, when the children of Israel walked around the walls of Jericho 7 times, the walls came down. So I went on driving, then I pulled up in front of that place and walked in.. That night God met me there. I remember Pastor Solbrekken saying that God is calling a young man back to him. He told me I had planned to not live another day but God wants me to know this was my night. He said he was going to count to ten and he wanted to see me at the alter before he finished. I ran to the alter, when I got there my pastor, Terry Snow, my brother, David, Pastor Ivan Randell and Pastor Foster were there with me.

POSSESSED BUT DELIVERED:

As I knelt there I felt nothing. Everything, left me and I didn’t want, what God was offering me. I stood up to leave but Pastor Snow ask me if he could pray before I left. So as he did I fell to the floor. Before long I was feeling really weird. I started to tremble and scream when Evangelist Max Solbrekken seen this. He started to come against the powers of hell and the forces of Satan and rebuke it. After much persisting prayer along with all the other pastors I was set free from the powers of hell and the demons that had me possessed for years.

As I was set free it was like cotton unwinding from a spindle and it came from the pit of my stomach and out of my mouth. I stood up that night like a bird set free from its cage. Everything looked so clean! Even the dirt. Even the darkness outside was shining. I went home that night a free man. That night I went to bed and had the best night sleep I had for a long, long time!

COMPLETELY FREE:

I was free! I started telling people and they could see that I was a different person. Again that night when God set me free, He reminded me of my call to ministry. That night I promised God I would do exactly what He as called me to do in ministry.

God open up doors for me to share my testimony of how He changed and cleansed me from a life of sin. He took all my shyness and nervousness away.! God open up places for me to do music ministry as well as share from His word.

A SPIRITUAL FAMILY:

After a couple of months of serving Jesus a close friend of mine passed away. When this happened a family in my home church pulled me in under their ”spiritual wing”. They helped me in a very special way. For two years they helped and disciple me in the ways of God. I learned how to pray, kneeling by the sofa in their living room. Daisy, asked me to pray out loud one night but I told her I never did that before. So she wrote me one and I read it. That was a start of a prayer life that have stayed with me through my Christian life. After a while I think sometimes her and her husband Doug would be sorry they got me started because when I would pray it was hard for me to know when to stop. There were times when I finished praying, Daisy would be the only one awake. Doug and their two children would be sound to sleep. Since then I’ve been able to be a little shorter when praying.

FELL IN LOVE:

A couple of years with this great family and I fell in love with a beautiful lady from another town. We both met each other at church and loved God. It wasn’t long before we were engaged, then married.

A little while into our marriage things started to go bad. So much so that the lady I loved and gave my entire life to left me,divorced me, and married again.

Although this sent me through a very deep valley I stayed true to God. It took about 3 years to get over and be healed from this hurt in my life but God was with me all the time and brought me through it with victory!

MOVED TO TORONTO, ONTARIO:

I moved to Toronto a couple years after my divorce and started a new life. I had a job at Canada’s Wonderland and after six months God open a door to go to work at Christian Center Church. It was a job I didn’t want! I didn’t want to clean toilets for a living. I was use to retail, banking and supervising. So I definitely didn’t want to be cleaning up after someone else! So as much as I didn’t want to do this I knew I had to. So I said yes I would take the job.

Little did I realize that this was going to be more than a job but it became a ministry. I had so many opportunities to share one on one, the gospel of Jesus Christ with the different nationalities of this world.

MUSIC MINISTRY:

After being on the staff about 2 years God gradually open the door for music ministry. I started to sing on the worship team and then once in a while I sang a solo at church.

One night I came in contact with a singer that was visiting our church at a concert. We became friends and then eventually, I was helping him at his concerts. It wasn’t long before he realized I had a interest in music ministry. Then I started to minister as God open the doors.

After a while I met Chris. This guy has a studio and God worked it out so I could record several albums of my own songs. I thank God for an opportunity to record the songs that He as given me. It is an opportunity for me to share my life in song.

Then God provided me with guys to travel with, as a band and do ministry together.



THE DEAN MILLEY BAND:

God as blessed me with some great musicians. When some of them can’t make it He always supplies back-up.

To see people feel and experience Gods touch upon their life is such a blessing. When people come up to us and say how God as bless them through the music its worth everything we spend and sacrifice.

Although Satan put up such a fight for my soul, God was the winner!!. Because Jesus is always the winner!!. Though Christ, we can do all things.

THE DEAN MILLEY MINISTRIES:


This ministry was started in March, 1997. Everything we do is volunteer ministry. We do not charge for Gods work because we believe that God will supply all our needs. We are always so blessed and ministry expenses are always covered. God always comes through!! Don’t loose hope because God is with you! He will never let you down! Keep the Faith! Keep your trust in Jesus! No matter where you are God is there with you.

The theme verse of my life is found in Philippians 3:13-14, and 4:13, “Forgetting those things which are in the past and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press toward the goal to win the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus... “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.

I thank God for setting me free from the prison of sin and giving me complete freedom in Christ!.



MISSIONARY/ EVANGELIST

During the first part of 1999 I felt as if God was leading me in a different direction. I started to feel a burden for missions.

I will never forget the night I was standing around the altar and God spoke to me through a Spanish minister. He told me that God was going to use me to minister to the Spanish nations. By August 1999 I was on my way to Guatemala, Central America.

It was an experience That I will never forget. God saved and set so many people free from the power of hell and destruction.

Since 1999 I have had the opportunity to travel to Guatemala, Central America on five other ministry trips. In all of those trips God done so many miracles and saved so many people. In those services God works through the word of Knowledge and so many of the spiritual gifts are in ministry as will.


COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL

We have a beautiful opportunity to minister with Compassion International in Guatemala.

I always get opportunities to visit with my sponsor child, Kevin. Its such a beautiful experience. To be able to take him out and spend time with him. Usually I get an opportunity to minister at his church and spend time with him that way as will.

The first visit in Guatemala God saved Kevin’s Mom and Dad and set them free from sin. Now their married and enjoying life.

Compassion International is a GREAT organization and if anyone can afford to help a child overseas call them up and let them know. Their toll free number is 1-800-563-KIDS(5437).

During the months of August, September, and October 2001 I was in Guatemala on a short term missions trip and God really did so many wonderful things in people’s lives like I have never seen before.

One night after we were finishing up a crusade I received a call from Peru, Southamerica.


PERU YOUTH MINISTRY


On the other end of the line was a Pastor inviting me to come for ministry. I asked him how long he wanted me and he said 3 years. I told him I would pray about it and when I went back to Canada I would call him back.

When I returned to Canada in October there was a message waiting for me ,informing me that the church in Peru wanted me to come for a week to see if I would be interested in this ministry position.

So a week after I returned to Canada I was on my way back across South America to Peru.

When I got on the plane to fly to Peru I felt as if I was going home. I felt so much peace it was unbelievable.

After being there for a week I felt as if I should stay another week. The church agreed to this decision. When the two weeks was over I informed them I would take the 3 year ministry position that was available to me.

This youth group had very few. After a month we had a group of 110. God was so faithful !!!

Its so beautiful to see the lives of young people touched and changed by the power of God.!!!


MISSIONS MINISTRY SUPPORT

God as been so good! I’ve been to Guatemala 6 times since 1999 and I’ve been to Peru Twice. Every trip that I’ve taken as been paid for . That’s not including 5 trips to my home to raise ministry support in Newfoundland since 1999. Everyone of those trips were all paid for and God blessed this ministry in such a wonderful way.

Every time there’s an opportunity to go anywhere to minister God always provides the finances.

I remember times when I have been on my way to the airport and did not have money to pay for the ticket but before I got there someone found me and said God spoke to them to give me some support for my trip. Its always the amount I need. I remember another time I was leaving for a missions trip and everything was taken care of beside some spending money. I was leaving work and locking the doors and a person pulled up in front of the store and said God told them to bless me before I went . I was on my way to the airport but at the last minute God took care of it.

So many stories I could tell .

I spent two months in Newfoundland before I came to Peru and God did so many wonderful things. My faith was really tested. I didn’t get an opportunity to minister until the last three weeks before I left for Peru.

I needed to raise 500 Canadain a month and about 1000 Canadian for the ticket and set up for first when I got there. The week before I left I needed another 1000 . God spoke to my heart to ask a businessman I do not think I ever spoke to. I went to see him and the next day he had 1000 for me. All the praise and glory is given to Jesus. He holds the wealth of the world in the palm of His hands and He always works things out when a person is in His divine will. It may be at the last minute but God knows what He is doing. God is never to early and He is never too Late !!!


CONCLUSION:

Make Christ first place in your life! He can take what looks impossible and make it possible! He did it for me and he can do it for you!. When things go up side down and you think there is no hope. Get alone with God and tell him all about it. He will definitely get you through!!

The same God who as done it for me can do the same for you. No one is more special than anyone else with God. He can do anything!

I have proven it !!! He can do the same for you today.




You can Contact me at the following numbers:

In Peru, South America:( Country Code 011-511) –365-1558.

Canada: 1-709-261-2346 Deborah Noseworthy- Ministry Administrator

Guatemala, Central America: ( Country code 011-502) 601-3429
Maribel Orellana Ministry Administrator and Translator

My E-mail
southamerica88@yahoo.ca