Victory exists to honor God and establish Christ-centered, Spirit-empowered, socially responsible churches and campus ministries in every nation. Or as we like to put it, we want to simply HONOR GOD and MAKE DISCIPLES.
Victory is one church that meets in multiple locations in Metro Manila and has planted churches in various provinces across the Philippines. Know the Victory location nearest you, or listen to our podcasts for free.
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In June of 1984, Rice Broocks, Al Manamtam, and Steve & Deborah Murrell led a team of sixty-five American university students on a one-month summer mission trip in Manila’s University Belt. After two weeks of evangelistic meetings at the Girl Scout Auditorium, the new church moved into the basement of the Tandem Theater on Recto Avenue. At that time, the congregation consisted of about 150 high school and university students.
By 1986, the U-Belt congregation spread to Makati, then to Tuguegarao, Dagupan, Baguio, Los Baños, and other Philippine cities and abroad. Victory has sent Filipino campus ministers and church planters to serve as cross-cultural missionaries in Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Guam, India, Latvia, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. Besides these long-term missionaries, numerous short-term evangelism and medical teams have been sent to more than a dozen nations.
In March of 1994, Rice Broocks, Phil Bonasso, and Steve Murrell met in Manila, Philippines to explore ways to cooperate in church planting. This meeting resulted in the birthing of Every Nation Churches and Ministries, with Victory as one of the founding member churches.
That original group of 150 students in Manila’s U-Belt has grown to more than fifty thousand students, professionals, and families, who now worship in fifteen different venues around Metro Manila. Victory has also equipped and empowered over 3,500 small group discipleship leaders who meet weekly in coffee shops, homes, offices, and shopping malls all over the city for Bible study, prayer, and fellowship.
Much of Victory’s growth and health can be attributed to these volunteers’ passion to live a life that honors God and makes disciples.
Check out our Victory@25 Magazine published on our twenty-fifth anniversary.
Victory is a member of Every Nation Churches and Ministries family of churches and ministries, a worldwide movement of churches. As a member church, we subscribe to the Every Nation mission:
socially responsible churches
and campus ministries in every nation
Our mission describes why we exist, what we do, how we build, and where we go.
1. Why? To honor God.
Our starting point is the honor of God. Our goal is the honor of God. Our motive is the honor of God. The chief end of Victory is to “honor Him and enjoy Him forever.” This is foundational for understanding why we do what we do. It is all about Him, not us.
2. What? To establish churches and campus ministries.
We are a church that is called to plant new churches and campus ministries that reach every major high school and college campus and every major city in the Philippines.
Every Nation churches and campus ministries are to be centered on Jesus Christ, not for any man, doctrine, or experience to take center stage.
17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
Colossians 1:17, 18
Every Nation churches and campus ministries welcome and celebrate the presence and power of the Holy Spirit to empower us to live lives that honor God and become effective witnesses to our community.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
• Socially Responsible
Every Nation churches and campus ministries are to demonstrate Christ to the community and culture that they’re in.
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
“He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ “
• Every nation
19“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
Everything we do at Victory is built around our four core values.
1. Engage culture and community
Because lost people are valuable to God, we must intentionally and strategically engage on culture and communities.
1Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. 2But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3Then Jesus told them this parable: 4“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ 7I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
2. Establish biblical foundations
Because foundations are essential for spiritual growth, we must establish solid biblical foundations at the start of our spiritual journey.
24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
3. Equip believers to minister
Because every member is called to be a minister, we must equip all believers in basic ministry skills. God’s word is the ultimate equipping tool.
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
4. Empower believers to make disciples
Because Jesus expect all disciples to make disciples, we must not only equip them, but also empower them to make disciples.
19“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19, 20
We adopt the following Statement of Faith, as agreed upon by the National Association of Evangelicals:
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
- We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
- We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
- We believe in the baptism with the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of spiritual gifts.
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We also embrace and adopt the Nicene Creed of AD325 and Chalcedon Creed of AD451.