The Gathering at Victory Acres

The Gathering at Victory Acres Located at Victory Acres Farm, we are equipping learner/disciples to engage in God's Global Mission.

12/14/2025

The Gathering will still be meeting at 11am this morning!

Are you living life with purpose or do you feel like life is happening to you? "Designing our Days" is the topic of this...
10/24/2024

Are you living life with purpose or do you feel like life is happening to you?

"Designing our Days" is the topic of this week's GNG Podcast.

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Tonight is the Harvest Celebration at Victory Acres. 5:00-8:00pm. Hayrides, bonfire, chili, soup, food, fellowship. A gr...
10/19/2024

Tonight is the Harvest Celebration at Victory Acres. 5:00-8:00pm. Hayrides, bonfire, chili, soup, food, fellowship. A great time will be had by all!

Have you read our report about the Nehemiah Discipleship Program?
06/14/2024

Have you read our report about the Nehemiah Discipleship Program?

We are continuing to develop Victory Acres as a place of hospitality, healing, and discipleship, and our Nehemiah Discipleship Program last week was another step in that direction.

Here's a report from our family.
03/26/2024

Here's a report from our family.

Dear Friends, We want to say “thank you” to everyone who has encouraged, supported, and prayed for us during this time of transition. Since leaving Evangelistic Faith Missions, our family has been …

02/28/2024

NDPx is just three months away! Applications are being accepted.

If you’re interested in the Nehemiah Discipleship Program, we are now accepting applications.
02/28/2024

If you’re interested in the Nehemiah Discipleship Program, we are now accepting applications.

02/18/2024

“Our funds are deposited in a bank which cannot break.”
- George Muller

24 hours before Longing for the Light, we have 31 locations in 15 different states that will be hosting an all-night pra...
02/16/2024

24 hours before Longing for the Light, we have 31 locations in 15 different states that will be hosting an all-night prayer gathering. I am grateful for the response.

If only one heart is touched, if only one ministry effort is advanced, if only one person is encouraged, if only a single family is affected - it will still be worth the loss of sleep and inconvenience.

Why spend a night in prayer? Some have poked fun at the idea with comments like, "Why don't you spend from 7am to 7pm instead?" We encourage them to do it! But my sense is that they will not. The demands of the day will divert them. The night is AVAILABLE. We spend it in prayer because we want to seek HIM. We are watching and waiting for The Light.

We are in good company with many of the past who waited in prayer throughout the night. Jesus spent all night in prayer. (Luke 6:12) In Genesis, Jacob's persistent all-night prayer brought him victory and blessing. The church is praying all night for Peter when he is delivered from prison, and in Acts 16:25, Paul and Silas received a supernatural deliverance after praying and worshiping in the midnight hours.

It is prevailing prayer to which the church has resorted in times of great trouble and peril. We watch and pray so that we will not enter into temptation. We live in perilous times. The world, the flesh, and the devil are no friend of grace. While they revel the night away, can we not watch and pray with our Lord?

It is not a way to "get God's attention," but instead it is a means of grace to break the lethargy and indifference in our own hardened hearts. The night is far spent; the day is at hand. We need to be ready with oil in our jars. We must not allow the spirit of our age to dictate our direction. We must fight back! To make space in our life for His dear voice to be heard and to be heeded. Where is that space? The space for extended time in contemplative, prevailing prayer. If it matters as much as we say it does, why would we not make serious time for it?

We do not condemn; we invite. Join us! If your heart beats as my heart, you are my brother - give me your hand! Let us join together in prayer and unite our hearts before the throne of grace. While we may have our differences, let us be united in the essential matter of prayer. Let us call upon Him together. Why together? That the world may know that Jesus is indeed Lord and Christ. (John 17)

Prayer is not just preparation for the work; it IS the work. (Tozer) Prayer changes the Pray-er. I am hopeful that God will use this time to bring people together in local ways that will bear fruit long beyond this night, that it will unite Christians for the challenging days ahead. May God give us a supernatural unity and allow us to decrease so that He might increase.

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Upland, IN
46989

Opening Hours

11am - 7pm

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+17659978448

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A New Kind of Church

It’s not uncommon for churches in other countries to meet outdoors, but The Gathering at Victory Acres is one of the few churches in the U.S. to do it.

Started in June 2017, our “family of Christian families” has been meeting at Victory Acres to worship and to work together. Our congregation is 100% volunteer run with no paid staff. Since we meet in the open air pavilion for six months (or more) out of the year, we are able to use all of our tithes and offerings to bless other ministries and missions efforts.

There is a lot of synergy between the mission of Victory Acres to create a place of hospitality and healing for families from the city and The Gathering’s mission of “Empowering our people to become Christian Leaders who engage in God’s Global mission.”

We are a family of families, growing together. We welcome neighbors from across the street and around the world. We believe that the urban poor should be more than just objects of our pity; we believe that God wants them to join us at the table and to experience the “Shalom” that He desires for all of His children.