Director of Eagle House Ministries, Alan D. Milligan
Rev. Alan Milligan, an approved General Evangelist with the Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, was appointed to this position, June 15, 1986.
One of the requirements in serving as a conference evangelist is that the evangelist must have his/her own not-for-profit corporation. Rev. Milligan’s ministry is incorporated under the title of Eagle House Ministries.
Rev. Milligan, through Eagle House Ministries is ready to offer a wide variety of services, including rallies, revivals, retreats, and town/city wide crusades.
Prior to becoming a General Evangelist, the Rev. Milligan served eleven years as a Pastor and in 1999 has returned to ½ time appointment in the local church.
Rev. Milligan holds a bachelors degree from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY.
Rev Milligan has served many times as evangelist for various revivals and crusades over the years while pastoring local churches.
He feels total commitment to the Lordship of Jesus Christ is the will of God for all mankind.
Rev. Milligan is married to the former Jo Ellen Henderson of Sparta, Illinois. Alan and Jo were both from Sparta. They have six children and six grandchildren.
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Definition of a CONFERENCE EVANGELIST
A fully ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, a conference-approved evangelist is approved and appointed by the Bishop and his cabinet. An evangelist is responsible for raising his own support for his salary, pension, insurance and housing (none of this coming from the conference). He must have his own not-for-profit corporation.
The Corporation
Eagle House Ministries is Rev. Milligan’s not-for-profit corporation. Eagle House Ministries is composed of volunteers, with the exception of a part-time secretary.
Policies
Eagle House Ministries is financed in two ways:
1. Freewill or love offerings received from revivals, seminars and other personal appearances;
2. Private contributions from those interested in and supportive of the ministry of Eagle House Ministries.
PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Rev. Alan D. Milligan
To help you know Alan better and so that you may begin to understand the call God has on his life, we at Eagle House Ministries want to share with you Alan’s background, call, and spiritual growth thus far.
“My early years were filled with turmoil. Alcohol had a hold on my father’s life and for this reason the family was constantly in a state of confusion. There were many, very emotional scenes in those early years. Church attendance for me was also spasmodic although I can remember, “The Old Rugged Cross” being my favorite song in Sunday school at the Sparta United Methodist Church in my hometown.
My interest in church revived, however when I started dating a young girl, who later became my wife. It was during a youth revival at a neighboring United Methodist Church that I went forward, knelt at an altar and found the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, or should I say He found me. It was a glorious conversion experience and at seventeen years of age I knew what Christ’s love could do for a person, even one as confused and torn-up on the inside as I was.
I worked after school and on Saturdays at a local department store and it was after store hours when I was alone, cleaning and locking up, six months after my conversion experience, that God clearly spoke to me and told me He wanted me to be an evangelist. Not having been raised in the church, to me this meant being a pastor. I didn’t really know if I wanted to be a pastor. I spent the next four years running from the call to preach but not really backing down from my Christian commitments.
Jo Ellen and I were married, we both finished college and by then I had accepted the call to preach and had decided to attend Seminary at Asbury.
The years at Asbury and the next eleven years as a local church pastor were good years which helped me more and more to rely on God. He is faithful, is loving, and is a true friend. As Christians, we are never alone in this work, the Holy Spirit is right there every step of the way to encourage and guide and comfort.
In January of 1986 I again felt the call of God on my life to be an evangelist, and I surrendered my life fully to this call. The great love of God compels me to reach out to those who have not yet allowed themselves to be found by Jesus Christ and to those who have been found but are discouraged in their walk with the lord. There is no greater joy to me than to be used by God to see a “new child born into the kingdom” or to see a faltering child renewed and refreshed in his faith."
Eagle House Ministries seeks to encourage us all to wait upon the Lord. God is faithful, He is loving, He will cause us to mount up with wings as Eagles, run and not get weary, walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
Alan is into his twenty-fourth year as a General Evangelist. Four of his six children are married and out of the house. He is currently preaching every Sunday morning at Karnak UMC. He does a lot of ministry in the Johnson County area with the youth and other interdenominational ministries.
One of the requirements in serving as a conference evangelist is that the evangelist must have his/her own not-for-profit corporation. Rev. Milligan’s ministry is incorporated under the title of Eagle House Ministries.
Rev. Milligan, through Eagle House Ministries is ready to offer a wide variety of services, including rallies, revivals, retreats, and town/city wide crusades.
Prior to becoming a General Evangelist, the Rev. Milligan served eleven years as a Pastor and in 1999 has returned to ½ time appointment in the local church.
Rev. Milligan holds a bachelors degree from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY.
Rev Milligan has served many times as evangelist for various revivals and crusades over the years while pastoring local churches.
He feels total commitment to the Lordship of Jesus Christ is the will of God for all mankind.
Rev. Milligan is married to the former Jo Ellen Henderson of Sparta, Illinois. Alan and Jo were both from Sparta. They have six children and six grandchildren.
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Definition of a CONFERENCE EVANGELIST
A fully ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, a conference-approved evangelist is approved and appointed by the Bishop and his cabinet. An evangelist is responsible for raising his own support for his salary, pension, insurance and housing (none of this coming from the conference). He must have his own not-for-profit corporation.
The Corporation
Eagle House Ministries is Rev. Milligan’s not-for-profit corporation. Eagle House Ministries is composed of volunteers, with the exception of a part-time secretary.
Policies
Eagle House Ministries is financed in two ways:
1. Freewill or love offerings received from revivals, seminars and other personal appearances;
2. Private contributions from those interested in and supportive of the ministry of Eagle House Ministries.
PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Rev. Alan D. Milligan
To help you know Alan better and so that you may begin to understand the call God has on his life, we at Eagle House Ministries want to share with you Alan’s background, call, and spiritual growth thus far.
“My early years were filled with turmoil. Alcohol had a hold on my father’s life and for this reason the family was constantly in a state of confusion. There were many, very emotional scenes in those early years. Church attendance for me was also spasmodic although I can remember, “The Old Rugged Cross” being my favorite song in Sunday school at the Sparta United Methodist Church in my hometown.
My interest in church revived, however when I started dating a young girl, who later became my wife. It was during a youth revival at a neighboring United Methodist Church that I went forward, knelt at an altar and found the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, or should I say He found me. It was a glorious conversion experience and at seventeen years of age I knew what Christ’s love could do for a person, even one as confused and torn-up on the inside as I was.
I worked after school and on Saturdays at a local department store and it was after store hours when I was alone, cleaning and locking up, six months after my conversion experience, that God clearly spoke to me and told me He wanted me to be an evangelist. Not having been raised in the church, to me this meant being a pastor. I didn’t really know if I wanted to be a pastor. I spent the next four years running from the call to preach but not really backing down from my Christian commitments.
Jo Ellen and I were married, we both finished college and by then I had accepted the call to preach and had decided to attend Seminary at Asbury.
The years at Asbury and the next eleven years as a local church pastor were good years which helped me more and more to rely on God. He is faithful, is loving, and is a true friend. As Christians, we are never alone in this work, the Holy Spirit is right there every step of the way to encourage and guide and comfort.
In January of 1986 I again felt the call of God on my life to be an evangelist, and I surrendered my life fully to this call. The great love of God compels me to reach out to those who have not yet allowed themselves to be found by Jesus Christ and to those who have been found but are discouraged in their walk with the lord. There is no greater joy to me than to be used by God to see a “new child born into the kingdom” or to see a faltering child renewed and refreshed in his faith."
Eagle House Ministries seeks to encourage us all to wait upon the Lord. God is faithful, He is loving, He will cause us to mount up with wings as Eagles, run and not get weary, walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31
Alan is into his twenty-fourth year as a General Evangelist. Four of his six children are married and out of the house. He is currently preaching every Sunday morning at Karnak UMC. He does a lot of ministry in the Johnson County area with the youth and other interdenominational ministries.
