Victory (church)

Victory Christian Fellowship of the Philippines was started by missionaries Steve and Deborah Murrell, who came to the Philippines in 1984 together with Every Nation Churches co-founder Rice Broocks and 65 other American university students on a one-month summer mission trip.^[1] Since 1984, Victory has grown until it presently has churches in 60 Philippine cities.^[2]

In 2015, Victory's Metro Manila church had 15 congregations, all with multiple services and locations, and many offering more than one language (English).^[3] The church has multiple locations and holds 94 services every weekend, each of them led by live preaching, training Filipinos to reach their cities, the nation, and the world.^[4] Over 10,000 leaders conduct small weekly discipleship groups.^[5] In 2015, Victory reported 80,000 members in Manila.^[6][7]

Victory Worship is the contemporary worship music band of Victory. In 2014, Victory Worship released its first live worship album, Radical Love.^[8][9] It and its 2015 follow-up, Rise Heart, were certified Gold by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry, Inc. (PARI).^[10] On March 25, 2017, the group released Awit ng Bayan, its first full Filipino-language single; and on June 1, 2017, the single Safe was released to radio and on digital formats.^[11]

As a member church of Every Nation Churches, Victory adheres to the statement of faith of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches.

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