Victory Bible Church Chalks 25 • Sets Up Mutual Fund, Others

By Samuel Boadi
THE LAUNCH of Victory Bible Church International’s 25th anniversary made history at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra at the weekend when its founder and Presiding Bishop, Rev. Nii Apiakai Tackie-Yarboi, dedicated the ceremony to the birthing of a mutual fund that will take care of members’ financial needs.
“The church has started a mutual fund called Victory Gold Club. This club is to make available financial resources to church members to run their businesses and meet other needs,” Rev Tackie-Yarboi emphasised.
According to him, the church which has in the last 25 years planted over 75 local and twenty-five foreign churches in addition to establishing a scholarship scheme to take care of its members’ educational needs, is bent on setting up a university college that will train cutting edge leaders who will contribute to the growth and development of Ghana and the rest of the world.
Additionally, Rev Tackie-Yarboi comments: “The church also, has a scheme that is taking care of widows and orphans. The victory care, which operates from the UK donated to the Tsunami and recently Haiti victims and have programmes for prison inmates in various correctional centres in the boroughs we find our churches.”
The church founder continued that the church will continue to share the good news and spread to other continents of the world.
“We will want the church to be more visible and relevant particularly in identifying projects that we can undertake to help make greater impact on the lives of people.”
On June 2, 1985, the church began as a small group known as Jesus People Outreach Centre at Kokomlemle with 62 people, 4 founding pastors and seven founding deacons. The pastors included the founder, Clement Amankwa Asihene, Elijah Patrick Saforo and Emmanuel Ackun.
Rev John Adotey, president of the Apostolic Church of Ghana and chairman of the Ghana Pentecostal Council (GPC), in a goodwill message, expressed gratitude to God for raising people for His Kingdom through Victory Bible Church International and its able leaders.
Advising church leaders to demonstrate exemplary leadership qualities and shun retreating into the trenches of evil, Rev Adotey also urged Christians to apply the teachings of the Bible in their encounter with people in their communities, workplaces and also in the nuclear family setting.
He appealed to them to allow Christ to be known through good acts instead of immoral ones.
Other ministers of the gospel who graced the occasion were Rev Charles Agyin-Asare of the Word Miracle Church International and Rev Joyce Aryee of Salt and Light Ministries.