| Victory Metro Manila | |
| Location | 32nd Street corner University Parkway, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Denomination | Evangelical Christian |
| Membership | 34,000 (2008) |
| Website | www.victory.org.ph |
| History | |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Megachurch |
| Functional status | Active |
| Style | Modern |
| Clergy | |
| Senior pastor(s) | Rev. Steve Murrell |
Victory Metro Manila (VCF, simply called as Victory) is a non-denominational Evangelical church based in the Philippines and a founding member of the Every Nation Churches and Ministries, a worldwide movement of churches. Its mission statement is "to honor God and advance His kingdom through church planting, campus ministry, and world missions" or simply to "Honor God. Make Disciples."[1]
As of 2008, more than 34,000 people attend the worship services in Victory in Metro Manila alone.[2] The national office of Victory is located at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City.
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Victory is one church with fifteen locations in Metro Manila and has planted fifty-nine other churches in various provinces [3] in the Philippines. It is a member of Every Nation Churches and Ministries, the Philippine Missions Association,[4] and the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches [5].
Steve Murrell is the founding pastor of Victory Metro Manila, and serves as the president of the Every Nation family of churches and ministries [6].
In 1984, under Maranatha Campus Ministries, Rice Broocks, Al Manamtam, Steve Murrell, his wife Deborah Murrell, and their team of sixty-five students went to Manila for one month of outreach and evangelism. This birthed Victory Metro Manila. The initial outreach led to a congregation of 150 primarily college students, with expansion to more sites in Manila, and around the country. Filipino campus ministers and church planters then served as cross-cultural missionaries to more than a dozen nations in Asia, Europe, and Africa.[7]
Maranatha Campus Ministries was then dissolved in 1989 following controversy over the group's methods, including allegations of cultlike tactics.[8][9][10][11][12] This dissolution was supported by Rice Broocks, Steve Murrell, and Phil Bonasso who were former campus ministers of Maranatha.[13] After this, Victory became an independent ministry.
In 1994, Broocks, Murrell, and Bonasso formed Morning Star International as an umbrella organization for their ministries. At its July 2004 conference, Morning Star announced that it was changing its name to Every Nation.
On July 26, 2009, Victory celebrated its 25th Anniversary of founding church, it was held at then Araneta Coliseum.
As part of Every Nation Churches and Ministries, Victory embraces the Statement of Faith agreed in the National Association of Evangelicals. The church also believes and accepts the Nicene Creed and Chalcedonian Creed (better known as Creed of Chalcedon). [14]
For its part, Every Nation has publicly renounced Maranatha's more controversial teachings and "unequivocally rejects" the "controlling discipleship, authoritarian leadership, and theological mysticism" prevalent in Maranatha.[13] In a 2006 "Leader Letter", Murrell stated that in accordance with its "Discipleship Policy", Every Nation does not allow any teachings or practices that are "controlling, coercive, or intrusive, or that violate biblical principles (or) the priesthood of the believer ..."[13]
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