About 3 — Victory International Associated Ministries, Inc. (VIAM)

Our Mission

Our Vision

Our Beliefs

Victory International Associated Ministries (VIAM) exists to further the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by facilitating collaboration between domestic and international ministries of like faith and conviction.

VIAM will evaluate the successful ministry methods of proclaiming the gospel in different cultural contexts and then facilitate the sharing of these strategies cross-culturally.
VIAM will evaluate cross-cultural ministry challenges and then, in collaboration with other ministry or individual stakeholders, seek solutions to the challenges.
VIAM will expand cross-cultural relationships with individuals and organizations that are seeking to meet the needs of orphaned children in third-world countries.
VIAM will identify a pool of teachers and speakers that are willing to share their expertise at conference/teaching opportunities internationally and domestically.
VIAM will facilitate cross-cultural ministry experiences for individuals or families that desire to be an encouragement for their foreign brothers and sisters in Christ.
VIAM discipleship strategy will focus on equipping believers to effectively disciple children and youth in their faith in Jesus Christ including the scriptural model of the family.

Among other equally biblical truths, we believe in:

1. The Holy Bible, the Word of God; in its divine, verbal, plenary inspiration, its inerrancy and infallibility in the original manuscripts; and its supreme and final authority in faith and life (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter l: 20-2l);

2. One God eternally existing in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 3:14);

3. The Lord Jesus Christ:

• His essential, absolute and eternal deity (Philippians 2:6; John l:4, l4; Hebrews l:8);

• His true and sinless humanity (1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5);

• His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:20);

• His substitutionary, propitiatory death (Matthew 20:28; Mark 1:45; 1 Timothy 2:6);

• His bodily resurrection (John 20:19-20);

• His ascension to the right hand of the Father (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51); and

• His personal, visible and bodily coming again with power and great glory (Titus 2:13; John 14:2,3; Revelation 19:11-16);

4. The Holy Spirit is the promised Comforter sent by the Father and the Son, possessing full personality and deity. The Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He is the agent of the new birth, at which time He baptizes believers into the body of Christ, and His work among believers is that He seals, indwells, fills, guides, and teaches them. The sign gifts of prophecy, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, miracles and healing were powerful indicators in New Testament times whereby the authenticity of the gospel was established on Earth and prior to the closing of the canon of scripture, but these gifts are not normative for today. (John 7:39; 14:16-17, 26; 16:7-11; 1 Corinthians 12:8-13, 28-31; 13:8-12; Hebrews 2:1-4, 9:14; Acts 1:4,5; Revelation 22:18-19; Romans 12:3-8; Ephesians 1:13-14, 4:7-11)

5. The Scriptures teach that the Church of Jesus Christ, distinct from Israel in the Old Testament, began at Pentecost and must be considered in two aspects: the local church and “the church which is His body.” This “body” is the entire company of believers in Christ. A local church is an organized assembly of baptized believers, associated by a commitment to the faith, fellowship, and proclamation of the gospel, and observing the ordinances of believer’s baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper. The New Testament specifically assigns headship and authority in the local church to men. (Matthew 28:19, 20; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Titus 1:5-9; Philippians 1:1; Acts 1:5; 2:1-4; 10:44, 45; 11:15, 16; Ephesians 1:22, 23; Hebrews 12:23; 1 Timothy 2: 11-14; 3:1-13)

6. We believe the Scriptures teach that men and women are created in God’s image. Adam was created by a direct act of God as described in Genesis 1 and not from any previously existing form of life. By voluntary transgression he fell from his state of innocence, in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners by nature and by choice, and therefore under just condemnation to everlasting, conscious punishment, separated from God. (Genesis 1:27; Romans 3:23, 5:12-19; Isaiah 53:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9)

7. Salvation of man is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ apart from works. The sinner must be born again, being regenerated by the power of the Holy Spirit thereby receiving a new nature. The believer who has exercised personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is justified and in possession of a salvation which is eternally secure. A result of salvation is a life of obedience to God producing good works. (John 3:3-6, 16; 10:28, 29; 2 Corinthians 7:9, 10; Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:8; Acts 13:39, Ephesians 2:8-10, 1 Peter 1:18-23, Romans 5:1,9; Romans 2:4, Romans 8:16, 28-29; I Timothy 2:5, 6; 2 Peter 1:4)

8. The everlasting bliss of the saved and the eternal suffering of the lost (Daniel 12:2; Luke 16:24- 26; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:14-15);

9. The necessity of maintaining, according to the Word of God, the purity of the Church in doctrine and life (1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 1 Thessalonians 4:3).

10. We believe the Scriptures teach that baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, representing the believer’s death to sin and his resurrection to a new life. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of Christ’s death to be observed by believers until His return and should be preceded by honest self-examination. (Matthew 28:19, 20; Acts 2:41-47; 8:36-39; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28)