He's never seen anyone's head spin as in "The Exorcist," but Pastor Bob Cordeiro said he has witnessed some crazy things while performing "deliverances." Recently, says he saw a demon fly out of a women and across the room.

A self-described spiritual warrior, Cordeiro began life as a pastor in 2000 in prison ministries across the state. He and his wife Lisa founded Wareham's River of Life Ministries in January 2012. They rented space in the Methodist Meeting House on Main Street before moving to 65 Redbrook Road a year ago.

"The Church is here to help the community," he said. "We can only do it through God."

Although he only recently began performing deliverances, Cordeiro says he knew it was his destiny. He was "delivered" in 1997 after dealing drugs and battling substance abuse for 27 years on the streets of New Bedford.

"After being set free and knowing it worked, I waited until God told me it was time," said Cordeiro.

He studied online at the International School of Exorcism in Arizona under the tutelage of Bob Larson, a radio evangelist who has been performing exorcisms for more than 30 years.

Cordeiro said he spent a year in training, at first doing deliverances over the phone. At the end of his studies, he traveled to New York to perform his first hands-on exorcism.

"There was some violent stuff going on — it was something to see," he said.

But Cordeiro said that, for the most part, the deliverances aren't chaotic, violent events. He said he provides inner healing through God to people who are spiritually wounded.

"People pack in their emotions and we bring healing to them," he said.

He said he has seen countless people come in broken only to be set free after going through deliverance sessions. He tells of one woman who had been struggling with substance abuse for more than 50 years. After trying everything, Cordeiro says she was set free after going to deliverance sessions.

"It's amazing to see a woman who was in bondage for 50 years going back to school and holding down a job," he said.

According to Cordeiro, the deliverance process involves answering a questionnaire that develops someone's "spiritual profile," and includes questions about any abuse or traumatic events that may have occurred in someone's past.

If Cordeiro determines that someone needs inner healing, or has demons that need exorcising, he holds deliverance sessions with the individual, praying and reading scripture. He requests a donation to the church for the sessions, but leaves the amount up to the individual.

At present, Cordeiro is doing deliverances at his church three times a week -- and on10 to 12 phone from all over the country. Once recent deliverance was over the phone from Trinidad.

Cordeiro said a lot of local people come to the church, but he has people traveling to him from Cape Cod, New Hampshire and even Maine.

"Some pastors in the area think I'm nuts, " he added.

Anyone who is skeptical, or interested in having some of their own demons exorcised, can see Cordeiro in action at a public deliverance session at his church on Oct. 24 and 25.

"We're excited," said Cordeiro. "We need more people in Wareham to get free."