Our Mission
Our Church
How we started
Victory Church was born from a vision to see souls come to the kingdom of God and a faith that anything is possible with God. Victory Church began that first service with 6 people on Pentecost Sunday of 2001; Church started at exactly 2pm on June 3rd with Pastor & Sister Castleberry and their children (Lacie, Ethan and Camille) dressed just as if they were going to a "normal" church service. Lacie played the keyboard, Sister Castleberry sang and Camille played the tambourine. Our first "saint" was a nineteen-year-old college student; our second was an eight-year-old girl. Undaunted by size or age, the meeting in their living room grew to the point that within one months time a new location was found in an office complex.
How we grew
After a year and a half in the office building, God opened the door for Victory Church to move to a bigger building in a strip center located directly behind Wal-Mart. From this location, with greater visibility and exposure Victory Church continued to grow. We grew to about 20 in the office building, and then we grew to 50 in the strip center. During this time period we purchased land and built a "Church-in-a-Day" on Highway 30 South. On March 18th of 2005 at 7am about 300 men from all over Texas converged upon 13107 State Hwy 30 and by 3am of March 19th the building was complete. On March 20th we held our first service in that building with the Air Conditioning systems running, water flowing and the beautiful sounds of praise and worship emanating from the new sound system.
Where we are now
Now three years later, the vision hasn't changed at all but with an adjustment here and there the journey continues. A few of the many quotes that you will hear from the pulpit and now from the pews is "If you will do your best, God will do the rest", "I believe God can do anything" and "God is good, all the time", just to name a few. Every one of these statements are absolutely true. The children have grown up (they are now 21, 20 and 14), after we built the new sanctuary we added on to that six months later and a year later we added a new Education wing.
Two years ago we built another sanctuary that will seat about 350 people, converting all of our old facilities into the "Education building", there have been many more great people added to the church and with each one as a missionary we are getting closer to upgrading our "Vision". As God blesses us we will continue to give Him the glory. With College Station at a crossroads to the world (Texas A&M is one of the largest Universities in North America) with nearly 50,000 students of which a good many are from outside the United States we have the opportunity to reach into every culture from around the world and with great plans for the future it is our desire to do just that.
Where we will be soon
Victory Church will be the greatest church in all of the Brazos Valley. We intend to continue to feed the truth to a lost and dying world that is hungry for more than this world can give them. We have had several wonderful people help us get to this point. We want to say thank you to those first few people that were willing to come to church in our living room; Cason Beckham, Erin Vestel and the Draper Family as well as the Hille family who became the ambassadors to College Station for the pastor and his family and have faithfully served beside them since then.
It is also our (Pastor Castleberry and the church family) desire to express our thanks to each of the district board members for their support of the CIAD program and for Home Missions. With Rev. Danny Russo at the helm we have seen an unwavering desire to reach the lost of our great state. Our thanks go out to the Home Missions Department and for the vision that is so evident in all you do. Pastor Castleberry and his family greatly appreciates the friendship and the fellowship of their ministry friends and neighboring Pastors; E.W. Whitmire (Hearne,TX), Pastor Douglass Rashall (The Woodlands, TX) and Pastor Ronnie Frankens (Lufkin TX). Pastor Castleberry's wife and children have paid the highest price of all of, they have sacrificed in so many ways we do not have the space to write it. Most of all we want to say that God is awesome, still faithful and true; He will never fail you. It is our desire to give God the Glory in ALL things!!!