Fr. Matthew Mirabile entered Youth With A Mission in 1983 and served on staff in Amsterdam after completing a Discipleship Training School in Heidebeek, Netherlands. He then completed the Amsterdam School of Missions with an Assoc. Degree in Cultural Studies. He served as a DTS and outreach leader and evangelist, and regularly preached in open air services in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, East and West Africa and Hong Kong. In 1993 he joined the Charismatic Episcopal Church and was ordained to the deaconate. He started his first church in June 1993. In 1995 he entered St. Michael's Seminary and completed it in 2001. Because he had an active parish he was ordained to the priesthood in December of 1995. He took a sabbatical to study and care for his family in 1997. He started Church of the Holy Martyrs in 2003 with a few others which now numbers over 40 active parishioners. He recently began studies again working towards a Masters in Professional Counseling and is planning on opening the Center for the Cure of Souls.