She was raised in Haiti within the Haitian Catholic community, she was given the nickname "Michou or/and Mouch" by her mom and sister as a child. As a 15 year old teenager in Haiti, Pastor Micheline Philias converted and attended the Baptist Eben Ezer Church of Port de Paix, Haiti; eventually joining a singing choir made up of young evangelicals and later joined the Pentecostal faith. In 1972, she married and had 4 children, Paulna, Nancy, Debbie and Mitchell Philias.                                                                  

   In 1974, Pastor Micheline Philias emigrated to Miami, Florida, where she attended the Crossland Christian Bible College, International Seminary of Plymouth,  Jacksonville Theological Seminary.

 In 1990, Pastor Micheline Philias moved to Orlando, Florida. In February 1991, she founded the Church of God Hospital of Faith (l’Eglise de Dieu l’Hopital par la Foi, Inc.).  Pastor Micheline Philias held the church's first worship service with only 10 people in attendance at 5075 Silver Star Road in Orlando Florida. In 1994, she was ordained pastor.
 In one church service, Pastor Micheline Philias stated: “I used to work in a factory, and after 5 years a new supervisor was given me hard time. One day, I could not take any more mistreatments, I left the factory and it did not take me long to work as an office secretary in a paralegal office. This is how quick God had ever worked in my life. I won’t ever finish thanking Him”. 

“God was using me as a conduit for divine healing powers, and I began holding faith healing services in our Hospital of Faith.  Since then, we hold "Miracle Services" on Friday Night Supplications (Cri de Minuit in French), Wednesday morning Fasting Service (Mercredi de Jeûne), Sunday school morning service, Youth Ministry Sunday afternoon, and Sunday Night Services, streaming live over the internet”. Pastor Micheline Philias  
 During the year of 1995, Pastor Micheline Philias launched “le Chemin de la Vérité et la Vie” (The way of the truth and life) a 1 hour TV Show that airs clips on Télé Créole, and “Prayer Request” radio talk show called Rendez-vous de la Prière (Prayer Rendezvous) on “la Voix Evangélique d’Orlando”, for 3 hours, 4 times a week; co-hosted by Mrs. Vania Théodore, Ms. Icelande Charles, and Mrs. Venite Delassaint.

Ministry and theology

Pastor Micheline Philias is recognized as a Christian healing evangelist, Bible teacher, a mentor for abused woman, and a counselor. The Church of God Hospital of Faith "Miracle Services" on Friday Night Supplications (Cri de Minuit in French), Wednesday morning Fasting Service (Mercredi de Jeûne) is one of Orlando most-visited Christian services, seen also streaming on the internet.   Pastor Micheline Philias conducts regular "Miracle Services" included: revival prayers, and faith healing fasting prayer events held in different major churches in Orlando and throughout Florida.
Pastor Micheline Philias' teachings are Evangelical, accepting the validity of theHoly Spirit, and based on the word of God of Faith in the original church. She does believe on prosperity. Some practices that Pastor Micheline Philias teaches would be thought unusual in mainstream Christianity, but biblical. For Example, the use of hankerchief and holy oil.

Criticism

By far, the most controversial aspect of Pastor Micheline Philias' ministry is her "anointing" way, a special power given to her by God to heal the sick and to prophesy to ordinary means. In Pastor Micheline Philias' Miracle Services, attendees of evil spirits had been casting out, attendees with depression, handicap children, and severe physical injuries  had been healing in the name of Jesus. A few skeptical Haitians couldn’t believe that God would use a woman to do such a work. They insisted that “women are to be subservient to men; if not in general, at least in the ministry of the church. It’s like a form of male exclusives”. To present their case, Skeptical leaders in Orlando used passages in the bible that clearly limit or forbid female involvement in certain aspects of God’s ministry. However, Pastor Micheline Philias recognized the cultural application and then make application that spans time and culture. An example of this is Paul’s insistence, in 1 Corinthians 11, that women wear head coverings because it is proper to pray God. Skeptical leaders purposely ignored that in the ancient time, the popular religion of Corinth involved female temple prostitution. The prostitutes had a particular look based on head coverings and hair style. Also, Paul was reminding the Christian women that while they had liberty in Christ, they were not to exercise their liberty if it meant looking like the temple prostitutes.
 Pastor Micheline Philias insisted that the correct teaching from the Bible is always misapplied by male sexists. In Galatians 3:28 which says: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Still, Skeptical sexists insisted this passage is about of salvation, where in 1 Corinthians 11 Paul wrote about how women are to pray or prophesy in church.
 Pastor Micheline Philias  insisted that: “Only sexist Church leaders would love to see women restricted from teaching authoritatively over men”;  In  1 Corinthians 12 v 4-11 Paul wrote:
 “4There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.  7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.”
Also in Acts 2 v 17:
17" In the last days, God says,
      I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
   Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
      your young men will see visions,
      your old men will dream dreams”.

These days, many skeptical believers are now Pastor Micheline Philias' most outspoken defenders and allies. Pastor Micheline Philias' ministry continues to grow from criticisms in Orlando, and winning praise from fellow Pastors in the United States and abroad.

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