Meet Darrin Miller

It’s interesting to think about… Growing up I was not really great at doing anything. I wasn’t overly interested in sports and dropped out of athletics in high school. I was an ok student that made A’s and B’s but didn’t apply myself or take it seriously, and I was never really invested in any skill or trade, I just hopped around from job to job. It was difficult to understand what direction I was going in or what I was going to do with my life especially since I was facing several criminal charges as a young adult.

But in the midst of all my scattered sense of direction, God begin to call my heart. It didn’t make sense at first, but when God began to use me and I experienced the Holy Spirit come upon me, I knew I had finally found what I was supposed to do. When you have a calling like that and and realize that God is able and willing to use you, I’m not sure how anyone wouldn’t just abandon everything else to follow Jesus.

So that’s what I did. I gave up any idea of a career, I gave up my original college goals (I was going to school to be a chemical engineer at first), and I gave up my dream to be a professional fighter, all in a moment, and all for the chance to serve Jesus and to see what God would do through me.

Ever since He called and I answered, it has been a wild ride but He has come through time after time and He has shown me that He can take someone with nothing, no skills, no future, and no understanding, and use him as an instrument to change someone else’s life forever.

I really just believed that if I ran hard after Jesus and submitted to His word and to His calling on my life, anything He asked me to do, no matter how crazy, that He would provide for it. And some of those things have been pretty crazy! But He has never let me down. So, I just keep going. Serving Jesus is the blood in my veins and the air in my lungs, as long as I know He’s leading, I will work as long and as hard as necessary to fulfill the mission He’s given me, because when you walk in your calling, it’s not work, it’s joy, even it’s difficult at times.

When I started Faithful Fishers in 2016, it was a local ministry. The goal was to equip the local body of Christ to serve their church and community in a greater way. We offered training for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. I preached at different churches, planted several home churches, and launched many new ministries (college ministry, outreach ministries, youth ministries, etc).

Shortly after, we started a new chapter of Faithful Fishers in Corpus Christi and expanded our Bible School (the Living Word Bible School) to an online platform. As of now, Faithful Fishers is planting Bible Schools in 12 nations and raising up leaders to be pastors, missionaries, ministry leaders, etc.

Domestically, Faithful Fishers is working in three Texas cities Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Kerrville. However, our online Bible School has students from all around the country in addition to our international locations.

Today, Faithful Fishers offers a 1-year ministry internship to help people get trained and find their vision for ministry and is also looking to expand its church planting network and online Bible School enrollment.

Our vision is to create an ever-growing network of spiritually healthy churches and leaders who pursue the Great Commission together.

We work with churches often and have a lot of resources and opportunities for churches and Christian groups looking to be trained for evangelism, discipleship, and church planting methods or who want to get involved in short-term or long-term missions.

For someone like me who seeks to serve the Lord, the three most important qualities have been developing a strong prayer and study life, being bold enough to obey the call, and choosing to please God over pleasing man.

I think it all starts with prayer and the Word. I often tell people, the only difference between you and some great man of faith (whoever comes to mind) is the amount of time they’ve spent seeking the Lord.

Everything in my life is rooted in my desire to know and obey God’s word. Nothing else matters outside of that. In God’s word we learn to hear His voice, understand His will, and find His “way” of doing/being. And it’s only through constant prayer and petition that we learn to understand His word and His will, and only through prayer does God open doors that no man can open so we can continue to walk forward in His calling.

It’s also in prayer and reading of God’s word that we find the boldness we need to be obedient and step forth in faith. There are so many promises and so many examples of faith that constantly remind us about God’s faithfulness and power towards those who fear Him.

Finally, anyone who seeks to live a godly life will suffer persecution. Following Jesus puts you at odds with a lot of people… even other Christians! Anyone who desires to follow Jesus will constantly be faced with the choice to please man and be accepted by man or to please God and be rejected by their fellow man. The desire to know the Lord and be pleasing to Him has to be so great that you are willing to suffer and lose relationships for His name sake. Only then can someone really follow Jesus as far as He wants to take them.

I’m always looking to partner and collaborate, whether that is with a church, organization, or an individual. Anyway we can work together to advance God’s Kingdom, I am open to it.

We have partnered with churches and leaders of many denominations to teach and train the body, to put on events, and to reach the lost for Jesus. It is also part of our mission to help others experience the fullness of God’s calling through Biblical teaching, coaching, and community, and so we often bring people into our work or join other people’s work just to see Christ glorified and other leaders built up.

If anyone has a hunger to serve Jesus, and the desire to plan and work for His kingdom, we probably find a way to partner.