History
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 gave birth to 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. It is a member of Every Nation Churches and Ministries.
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.
Maranatha Campus Ministries was then dissolved in 1989 following controversy over the group's methods, including allegations of cult-like tactics. This dissolution was supported by Rice Broocks, Steve Murrell, and Phil Bonasso who were former campus ministers of Maranatha. 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. Today, Victory is a member of the Philippine Missions Association Philippine Missions Association Member Ministries and the Philippine Council of Evangelical 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.
Steve Murrell is the founding pastor of Victory Metro Manila, and serves as the president of the Every Nation family of churches and ministries.
On July 26, 2009, Victory celebrated its 25th founding anniversary at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
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