Aimee was baptized when she was 13, but didn’t understand what her relationship with the Lord was supposed to be after that. She spent most of her time looking to please others and not God. It wasn’t until after college while she was studying abroad and someone questioned her faith that God convicted her of the need to start living her life for Him.

Aimee and John met shortly after and became best friends. John had been raised Catholic and it wasn’t until he began attending church with Aimee that he understood God’s desire to have a relationship with Him.

John and Aimee were married in 1994 and in the summer of 1995 Aimee went on her first mission trip to Mexico. Aimee had received her B.A. in Spanish and was excited to use the gifts God had given her to minister to the children there. After arriving at the airport the Mexican pastor immediately asked her if she had ever thought about using her gifts to become involved in ministry. He had no idea that before the trip God had been placing that burden on her heart. It was then that God planted a seed that would lead her to Casa Aleluya ten years later.

A month before her scheduled departure for Guatemala many spiritual attacks came against Aimee, including severe sciatic pain recurrent from past surgeries. After a lot of time spent in prayer, the Lord healed her from her pain.

Aimee knew after only a few days at Casa Aleluya that the Lord was calling her to serve Him there. When she returned home at almost midnight she immediately began to tell John what she felt the Lord had laid on her heart. Two weeks later her sciatic pain returned but more severely. After praying for weeks that the Lord would heal her with no relief, she asked God to help her endure the pain. A couple of weeks later the orthopedic surgeon she had been seeing told her she had a disk herniation that was so large it may heal itself. She and John continued to pray for healing and slowly the pain left.

It was during these months that John and Aimee spent a lot of time praying that the Lord’s desires would become their desires. John took his first trip to Casa Aleluya with Aimee in November 2005. He returned to the US before Aimee and first called to tell her he felt they were to serve there in some capacity but not necessarily full-time. Two days later, he called again to say that during his devotional that day the Holy Spirit had spoken to him. He knew that God’s desire was for them to be at Casa Aleluya. John realized that he had become consumed by his work and that God was asking him to give this up to go Guatemala. The pressure and burdens of living for others was gone and an immediate peace came about him.

In April of 2006 the Millers took their daughters to visit Casa Aleluya and God again confirmed His desire for their family to move to Guatemala. They arrived in August 2007 and consider it a tremendous blessing to be able to serve in God’s ministry at Casa.