Who is Victory Life Fellowship? Perhaps you have heard of us before, or maybe even seen us at one of our many public outreach events around town. Want to know more? This area will provide you with a little more information about who we are and what we're all about. Click below to jump to a specific section:

• About the Pastors & Victory Life Fellowship
• What We Believe

Pastors Dieter & Diana Tripke are graduates of RHEMA Bible Training Centre in Tulsa Oklahoma. They came to Kelowna in 1988 and sought God on His plans & purposes. In the summer of 1989 home prayer meetings began and by September of that year Victory Life Fellowship started Sunday morning services.

It has always been the vision of Pastors Dieter & Diana to bring the uncompromised Word of God to all the people of this city. The Church began to grow and in 1993, Victory Life found a new home at 1601 Bertram St where we have been to this present day.

Located downtown Kelowna, there is much opportunity for our outreach drama team (Impact Acting), Youth Group (Crave), Children's (KidZone) and a recently added Bible Training Centre (Kelowna Word of Faith Bible Training Centre).

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Tenets of Faith & Doctrine

Victory Life Fellowship accepts the Scriptures as the revealed Will of God, the all sufficient rule of faith and practice, and for the purpose of maintaining general unity, adopts these Statements of Fundamental Truths and Doctrine.

Section 1: The Scriptures Inspired
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason (2 Tim. 3:15-17; 1 Peter 1:23-25; Heb. 4:12).

Section 2: The One True Godhead
The triune Godhead is comprised of three separate and distinct personalities, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, who are eternally self-existent, self-revealed and function as one entity. Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, is the second member of the Godhead, co-equal and co-eternal with The Father and The Holy Spirit.

Section 3: Man, His Fall and Redemption
Man was created good and upright, for God said, "Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness". But, man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ the Son of God. (Genesis 1:26-31; 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21).

Section 4: The Salvation of Man

1. Man's only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. On the cross Jesus Christ became sin and sickness providing both salvation and divine healing for all mankind, (Psalm 103:3) being justified freely by His Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. For by grace we are saved through faith. "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart -- that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made, resulting in salvation." (Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 10:8-10)

2. The evidence of Salvation. The inward evidence to the believer of his salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Romans 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness. "And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us" (1 John 3:23).

3. Faith and Works. Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ and not by human works; however, our works will determine the rewards in eternity (Acts 16:3; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; Romans 14:10-12; and 2 Cor. 5:10).

Section 5: Baptism in Water
The ordinance of baptism by a burial with Christ should be observed as commanded in the Scriptures by all who have really repented and in their hearts have truly believed on Christ as Saviour and Lord. In so doing, they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. (Matt.28:19; Acts 10:47-48; Romans 6:4).

Section 6: The Lord's Supper
'And when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, "this is my body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me". In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."' 'Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.' (1 Cor. 11: 24, 25, 28)

Section 7: The Promise of the Father
All believers are entitled to, and should ardently expect and earnestly seek, the promise of the Father, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and Fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the endowment of the power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry. (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-8; 1 Cor. 12:1-3). This wonderful experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth. (Acts 2:38; 10:44-46; 11:14-16; 15:7-9)

Section 8: The Evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit
The full consummation of the Baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is evidenced by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, and by the subsequent manifestation of spiritual power in public testimony and service. (Acts 2:4; 10:44-46; 19:2-6, 1:8)

Section 9: The Church
The church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfilment of her great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the general assembly and church of the first born, which is written in Heaven. (Ephesians 1:22; 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23)

Section 10: Total Prosperity

1. Spiritual. John 3:3, 11; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; Romans 10:9-10.
2. Mental. 2 Tim. 1:7; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 26:3.
3. Physical. Isaiah 43:4, 5; Matt. 8:17; 1 Peter 2:24.
4. Financial. 3 John 1:2; Malachi 3:10-11; Luke 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:6-10, Deut. 28:1-14.
5. Social. Proverbs 3:4.

Section 11: Blessed Hope
Jesus is coming again to gather all His Saints to Heaven. (1 Cor. 15: 51-52; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; 2 Thess. 2:1)

Section 12: The Lake of Fire
Those who have not accepted the redemptive work of Jesus Christ will suffer eternal separation from the Godhead. The devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life, shall be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake of fire that burns with brimstone. This is the second death, the lake of fire. (Rev. 19:20; 20:10-15)

Section 13: The Millennial Reign of Jesus
The return of our Lord Jesus Christ with His Saints from Heaven, to rule and reign for one thousand years on earth as the Scriptures promised. (Romans 11:25. 27; 2 Thess. 1:7; Rev. 19: 11-16; 20:1-7) After this, there shall be a new heaven and a new earth (Rev. 21).

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