OUR HISTORY

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH

Victory Baptist Church, like most Baptist churches began as an area fellowship of Grace Baptist Church, Amakom in early 1980.

It happened that during this period, members of Grace Baptist who were living in and around Ayigya, Bomso and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), grew enough to form an area fellowship. The fellowship later moved to Ghana National Academy, and finally to “Sudan Interior Mission” house. Our main aim as a group was to get ourselves together for fellowship, prayer and bible study. With time, friends and visitors joined our meetings.

By 1983, our number had increased considerably and the need was felt to begin a church. At this time, Grace Baptist which was under the leadership of Rev Dr J A Boadi and Rev Dr Adams, decided to turn our fellowship into a preaching station.

Just at the time the fellowship became a preaching station, one Rev Dr James Barron, then a lecturer at the Grace Baptist Theological Seminary, Abuakwa, who later became the pastor of the church came to rent a building at Bomso and was prepared to offer his big hall for worship services. We therefore moved from Sudan Interior Mission house to Rev Barron’s rented premises.

On the 1st April, 1983, our first worship service was held. Not very long, Baptist student from the KNUST joined us during our worship services. Membership continued to increase and the need to look for a plot of land to put up a church building arose. Rev Barron and the leadership of the church begun the search and one was located at Ayigya, opposite KNUST and with the help of the Ghana Baptist Convention and Ghana Baptist Mission, we purchased it.

With the convention- mission split, Rev Barron resigned as pastor of the church and it meant we had to find another place of worship. This led us to request for two classrooms at Technology Secondary school (TSS). At TSS, the name Bomso Baptist was changed to Victory Baptist Church.

The church in conjunction with Grace Baptist engaged the services of Rev G S Mallet who was then a lecturer at Ghana Baptist Seminary on part time basis. He later resigned his lectureship at the seminary to be the full time pastor. Victory Baptist church was finally organized on the 14th day of August 1994.