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OUR VISION, MISSION AND GROWTH

In 1998, Pastor Fowler outlined a plan for Victory Missionary Baptist Church, which included a clear VISION for our church. The VISION and the MISSION statement were developed in order to achieve these goals.

VISION - We trust God to develop our church to be:

  1. A church with dynamic, electrifying corporate praise and worship.
  2. A church that accurately disseminates the WORD of GOD.
  3. A church that is active in producing civic and social change.
  4. A church that provides stimulation for the physical and recreational needs of the congregation and the community

MISSION - Our church is, first of all, to know God for ourselves.

We are then committed to obeying His command to go therefore into all nations, teaching whatsoever God commands and making disciples, and baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We therefore seek to know him and make him known.

During the same year Pastor Fowler helped the congregation adopt its VISION; he began to move the church from its patriarchal style.

Within a year, the church began to flourish under the leadership of Pastor Fowler. Membership grew more than 200 percent from the previous years. Contributions grew by more than 85 percent during the same period. And other changes, although some slower, continued taking place throughout 1999.

To help support the growing needs of the congregation, the church hired a full-time custodian, full-time business administrator, and a full-time administrative assistant to Pastor Fowler. Victory Missionary Baptist Church was “A Church on the Move.”

YEAR 2K

The remainder of the year was invested in reconditioning several areas of the church, including workspaces for the pastor and growing staff. At the same time, it founded a fellowship with a church from Maryland. Fifty members, along with the pastor, traveled to develop a spiritual relationship with members of this other congregation. All of this help prepare for a banner year in 2000 or “Year 2K. “

“The Church Where the Lord is Lifted and the Word is Learned.”

This new motto prompted a redesign of everything from stationery to the Sunday bulletin. The church published its first color events calendar. It upgraded the computer system to include Page 25 Victory Missionary Baptist Church 50th Anniversary workstations for all staff members with email addresses and the ability to communicate with each other through a sophisticated server system.

Pastor Fowler also introduced Year 2K goals and objectives designed to provide direction for continued growth and development of the church. These goals included:

  1. To develop intentional evangelism
  2. To move the congregation from membership to discipleship
  3. To secure a very strong community presence
  4. To mobilize and strengthen giving patterns
  5. To shore up the organization to run efficiently
  6. To become a user-friendly church campus
  7. To intensify intimacy as a congregation and individual intimacy with God
  8. To perfect intentional mission efforts abroad and at home

From these goals, the Auxiliaries Leaders became V.A.U.L.T. Leaders which stands for: Victory Advanced Unique Leadership Team. Each had their own chairperson and was coming together on occasion to share what the various ministries were doing and the current focus and direction of the church. To promote a sense of togetherness and the realization of the need to function as a united leadership team. V.A.U.L.T. was created. The name and the message delivered during the meeting made it clear we are a team, given the privilege to collectively and individually ensure that the membership is informed and inspired to be part of the mission, vision, focus and activities of Victory. Many members of the congregation recognized Year 2K as the year that the church began to realize the message in its VISION. To achieve success as promised in the VISION, God granted the congregation property that had never been available before.

The church purchased the Hughes properties located on the corner of Jackson and F streets, continuing east to paved parking on Jackson and E streets. The church was blessed to purchase the property immediately west of the church that the congregation had desired for more than 30 years.

Such acquisitions ensured that the congregation could manage the entire block where it is located. These acquisitions were historic Gifts from God.