Michael Vincent Winne
Minister ID: 134504-47615 View Ordination Certificate
Michael lives in Oregon and was ordained by American Marriage Ministries on April 26th, 2012.
I was an agnostic/Atheist from age 9 to age 50, I had survived electrician at age 3, survived drowning at age 9 by swimming 8 1/2 hours from the middle of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville Florida, The boating accident took my fathers life, and I blamed God for not saving his life... I didn't understand that God might have needed a sailor and he called my father home to him. for years I was plagued with guilt, shame, and remorse, I turned heavily to drugs and alcohol. I have survived 5 suicide attempts at different ages from 30 to 50, until a finial suicide attempt March 24th 2012, one more attempt where this time, i did die, I flat-lined 5 times, 1st at my apartment, next in the ambulance on way to the hospital, next in the E.R. and 2 times in I.C.U. where I woke up 3 days later on life support and my first thoughts weren't YEAH I'm Alive, it was... 'Damn, I'm still here, WHY'? A little blue hair nurse had been assigned to watch over me, when she saw I was awake and I pulled the breathing tube from out of my own throat, she said 'Oh, someone is watching over you', I said 'Who? F.B.I? C.IA? Medford P.D?, Jack net? Who'? and she said that it was 'God had watched over you and that he has a special purpose for you' I didn't want to hear that, BUT, she was right all along, God was and is doing for me, that which I can not do myself, I found my higher power in the rooms of AA & NA. Since 2011 till the present day. I no longer desire to take my own life. I spent a week and a half in I.C.U, then a week in two North, psy's unit, then a 14 days commitment at the Roseburg V.A. Flight deck, a locked ward for troubled vet's with mental illnesses, at a V. A . Hospital in Roseburg, Oregon I was asking God 'Why'? What had you brought me back from the dead for'? It was when I got a copy of the bible, read it and and a Big Book from Alcoholics Anonymous that's when I had my 1st 'Spiritual awaking'. When I returned home I found that my landlord had evicted me on the 1st of April, 2012 and it was now the 9th of April, I didn't care, I was still alive and HAPPY to be alive, but now I homeless for the next 3 years, but still clean and sober, going to A.A.and living on the streets, I just didn't drink and or use NO MATTER WHAT!, the next change of events brought me to believe in God, our father, that he still had designs for me. I decided to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, 8 months into the A.A. program and My life took off, I now have a place, I've had it almost 5 years now, I pay my bills on time, I trust God, Clean House, and help others to the best of my abilities, and I don't have to do it perfectly, just have to be willing to do whatever it takes to serve my God and to be of Maximum service to God and my fellow men and women. for As of October 21, 2018, I'm on my way to being clean and sober and if I stay sober one day at a time I will have 5 years on October 21, 2023 how do I do this? One day at a time. Michael V. Winne Minister ID 134504
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