Victory Family Centre

Victory Family Centre is a megachurch in Singapore. It was established in 1977 as Calvary Charismatic Centre by Rev Rick Seaward. It began it's services in the Mandarin Hotel. In the beginning of 1981 it moved to using other halls, primarily the DBS auditorium in Shenton way. After growing to 6 services on Sunday in mid 2002 it shifted to the new World Trade Centre auditorium, going back to 3 services. Within a short time it was running 6 services again. In 1983 it moved to the New World Amusement park using the old Grand Theatre for its Sunday services. In 1987 it built a new auditorium seating 5200 and went back to 3 services. It was the fist megachurch in Singapore, growing to around 6,500 adults by 1987. In January 1990 Rick Seaward resigned as Senior Pastor, having also been pastoring a church in New Zealand since June 1988. Rev. George Ee became the Senior Pastor, with Rick Seaward becoming the Apostolic Advisor. In 1994 George Ee resigned and Rick Seaward returned to Singapore and resumed the role of Senior Overseer, as well as Apostolic Overseer for VFC's International network of churches. In 1999 the church was renamed Victory Family Centre. In 2006 Danny Han became the Senior Pastor, serving under Rick Seaward. In 2008 Rick Seaward resigned as Senior Overseer, and Danny Han became the Senior Overseer, and in complete charge of the church, serving with the Spiritual Ministry Council in a Team ministry. Rick Seaward remains the Apostolic Overseer, which is a spiritual ministry role.
Missions is the essence of the Church. Victory Family Centre Singapore was founded with a vision to go into all the world to share the Good News by mobilizing the local church. To date, the church has planted churches in more than 80 nations of the world. Their vision is to plant churches that will plant churches that will plant churches! They now have more than 8,000 churches worldwide.
The church's mission vision is expressed through the raising up of church planting teams who will target strategic cities with the gospel and pioneer a church which emulates the missions vision of VFC Singapore. These churches will in turn plant churches of their own thus perpetuating and fulfilling the Great Commission of . The church's 'Gideonite program' was designed to facilitate this church planting vision. For the training of church planters, the church established The Asia Theological Centre for Evangelism and Mission (ATCEM).
VFC is one church with twelve geographic regions across Singapore Island. Every two regions are lead by a Regional Pastor and have a combined de-centralized regional service location, office, and cell groups near them, except for Regions 11 and 12 which each have a service centre, so Sunday morning services are held in seven different locations of the city.

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