Victory Church Of Christ Ministries began as a result of God’s call upon my life following several dreams and visions. I can still recall some of my struggles with God as He tried to convince me to preach the gospel.

One such an occasion was when the Lord asked me to share the gospel with a certain lady and her family near Kololo. I was reluctant. I remember asking the Lord; “How can I do it, I am shy”. One day the lady travelled to Rwanda. Then the Lord spoke clearly to my heart He said, what if that lady dies during her safari? Do you know that you will be responsible if she died without hearing the gospel?” This question had a serious impact on me. I desperately prayed for the Lord to keep her safe and bring her back. I promised the Lord that I would visit the lady and share with her the gospel. When the lady came back from Rwanda, I went boldly to her home and shared with them the love of Christ. She gave her life to God together with her two children. The Lord also instructed me to write down short evangelistic messages whose subject He would give me and have them distributed to people. After initially complaining that I didn’t have money for having the pamphlets printed, I accepted and the Lord gave me the first message to write. That was the beginning of my written evangelistic messages. I remember it was on a Monday. On Friday, an old friend visited me and told me he had just passed by to see me. He was carrying an electronic type writer. As he was leaving he suddenly decided to give me the type writer, wondering whether I would find use  for it. That was God. This man did not know that I needed it for beginning my assignment. It served me well for a time. It was after this experience that I began to share the gospel on the streets and lead people to Christ. From that point, I knew there was no turning back for me. I was committed to  the preaching of the gospel. Then I had a very clear dream in which I saw myself planting a Church in Luzira, reaching out to the prisons quarters and into jails with the message of the gospel. This dream did not excite me because I was interested in remaining and serving in Rural Evangelical Church Bukoto. That was my local church. I now know that my reluctance was the result of being attached to a number of friends whom I did not want to leave by going away to Luzira.

About this time, I was also looking for a house to rent near the Church but I could not find any.  Instead I had a dream that I rented a nice housing unit in Luzira in a location I knew very well. From my knowledge of that area, there were no housing units in that place that looked like the ones I saw in the dream. Then my uncle from Luzira rang me and told me that he had found a house that I would  have loved  to rent if I saw it. I asked him where the house was and he described the very location I saw in the dream. So when I went there, I found that the housing units I knew were renovated and transformed into nice self contained units of two bedrooms. To cut a long story short, I rented the house moved to Luzira and began ministry there. We began a fellowship in Luzira prison barracks in 1999. When the building we were using was taken over by the prison training school, we had no option but to take the fellowship out of the Prison quarters into my living room. A week before we moved out of the prison training school building, one visiting Christian in her testimony during our last Sunday service at the prison school said that she had a dream that our fellowship moved out into another place. When we where worshiping in my living room, we then remembered that testimony and realized that the description fitted my home. That is how I came to be with a group of eight people in my hands looking to me as their pastor. I thought this responsibility was going to be too much for me to bear. I was challenged and I was not happy with my new position. I complained to God. “Lord, why are you making me a pastor? You called me as an evangelist, why now a pastor? God is good. I heard Him speak back to me softly, ignoring the attitude I showed. He said: “ I want you to build a foundation  for the work which I have called you to do by establishing a praying church that  will back up evangelistic out-reach to the nations.”

After one month of fellowship from my living room every Friday and Sunday, I had a dream that I found a place in Luzira where we planted the church. In that dream, that building had a mango tree in front and a nursery school behind. Shortly after the dream, one brother who was a property broker came and told me that he had found a place we could rent for church. I went to look at it and told him that the place was not the one I saw in the dream. So I told him to search for another place. The next time he came and took me to look at the place he had found, it was the place I saw in the dream. We prayed for God to give us three months rent. A day after, one brother I had blessed through prayer met me on the way. He was very happy to see me; he pulled out money from his pocket and gave me saying “Pastor let this money help you in ministry”. It was enough to cover the three months rent we needed. Two days after finding where to plant the church, we moved. I will never forget another day when the Lord appeared to me in a vision and spoke saying: “I am sending you to the Nations”. From that time, I realized that the Lord has given me a great privilege of serving him together with His people through VCCM. This is the greatest privilege a man could ever receive. Overtime God has given me visions of various evangelistic missions to our local communities and to other nations. All these have left me in no doubt about my responsibility as an evangelist/pastor and our responsibility as a church. Perhaps one big thing that the Lord did for me that greatly helped me in those difficult years of ministry was to give me a great helper, my wife Rose whom I married one year before VCCM begun.

The Vision the Lord has given us as VCCM is: “Reaching Nations (people) for Christ”. Our mission (purpose) is: To bring people to Jesus Christ and have them delivered, transformed and empowered through the message of the gospel to lead a loving, fruitful and victorious life to the glory of God. That means every member of Victory Church of Christ Ministries must be made into a disciple to reach out and bring others to Christ. The process of making disciples will continue. Prayer and fasting will be an established discipline in the lives of members of VCCM to enable us remain connected with the Lord and empowered. VCCM will allow God to develop to the full, the five-fold ministry in order for the church to be fully equipped for the work of ministry.

To God be the glory!

George Oduch

(Senior Pastor/Ex. Director VCCM)

The Way Forward

2011-2021 will be crucial years for VCCM. We shall extent our outreach within the city and country and also internationally. Television and Radio will be instrumental in this outreach. Nevertheless the key focus in the ministry will be “Making Disciples”. That is, the empowerement   of those who have believed into being people whose focus is to win souls and influence their sphere in society with the values of the kingdom of God. All that will be in fulfillment of the Ministry Vision of “Reaching Nations For Christ” (Matt 28:18-20).

Over the years, God begun showing me in visions the kind of home church we are  to build. It was without doubt a mega church. Other people including visiting ministers who had no knowledge of what God had spoken to me, also begun to see and tell us what God had revealed to them about the mega church.

Finally through a dream God, showed me leading Prayer in a 500,000 seater mega church during a Sunday service. It was an awful sight. In fact when I came out of that dream I could not speak about it for some time because it seemed incredible for it to be implemented. I had never thought of a mega church before I received these revelations. My Idea for church was that of a few hundred people. As time went by, I realized that- this is what God wants. A Church from where he will raise up an army of missionaries and soul winners to the nations. This really is his project. I also realize that God is planning ahead for Kampala city and Uganda and we are part of that plan. Of course the first thing that was scaring for me was the magnitude of the resources required for such a project. Truly, it is God who can do this work and with Him all things are possible.

I know that God has given us the privilege to become vessels and witnesses to what He will do in this great mega church project. Every God given vision is bigger than the bearer. That is why I am asking faithful men and women whom God has divinely appointed to  join hands with us and support this project to the glory of God. It is comforting to remember that every vision has a provision and so there is no cause to worry but what has to be done is for us to plan for this project and let people know about it. That is why I have been sharing this vision with VCCM members, partners and friends. The journey to the mega church will have two main stages:

1. Mobilisation of funds and Purchase of land: This is expected to be completed by 2013. The land we have found is to cost 1 billion Uganda shillings.

2. Building.

Building is expected to commence by 2014.

God has also made it clear to us that he will cause his people to give freely and willingly for the mega church  according to what they can afford just like it happened in the building of the tabnacle by Moses.

We are told in Exodus 25:1-2 that: “… the Lord spoke unto Moses saying speak to the children of Israel that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.”

After this commandment the people obeyed and we are told that: “the children of Israel brought a willing offering to the Lord every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses” (Exodus 35:29).

Exodus 36:5-6 actually tells us that the people brought more than enough until Moses had to make some announcement to stop them. I believe that this is how God will acquire  resources for  the mega church.

We want to thank all the members of VCCM, partners, friends, church leaders, political leaders and the general public for all the support tthey gave to enable the ministry  reach this far. We want to recognize the contribution of government for creating a conducive environment for input from the religious sector. We want to especially thank Prof. Washington and Prof. Lucia Omondi  from Nairobi Kenya who  are here to represent our friends. They have been a great support to this ministry.  May you take part in this journey by becoming a vessel that God will use in fulfilling this great vision. God bless you abundantly.

George Oduch

(Senior pastor).