Our Leadership

Pastor JC & First Lady Jeannitta Church

Pastor JC Church is the Founder and Lead Pastor of Victory in Truth Ministries, a growing multicultural church, birthed in September of 1997. Victory in Truth Ministries is a Non-Denominational Independent church located in Bucyrus, OH.

Pastor Church has a passion for leaders and leadership principles. He gives council and covering to many ministries and churches throughout the United States of America. He is President and CEO of 3 Cord Alliance which was created by a calling, validated from a vision, and launched from a longing to equip churches and ministries, engage culture, and empower leadership, for the purpose of community transformation.  This three part organization comes alongside other pastors to provide “hands on” mentorship, practical resources, and guidance. This empowers the pastors to support and encourage their families, congregations and communities to fulfill Christ’s purpose. In addition, Pastor Church formerly served as the National Director of Ministry Engagement for Family Research Council (FRC), networking churches to answer the call on moral issues.

Pastor Church is Pro-life. He continues to defend life, participates in marches and prayer vigils at abortion clinics. He has spoken at the State Capitol in defense of the Heartbeat Bill.

Pastor Church has enjoyed serving his local community as chairman of Crawford 20/20 Vision, co-founder and board member of Together We Hurt, Together We Heal and is currently the Chaplin for the city of Bucyrus. Serving in these capacities has allowed Pastor Church’s passion for spiritual, economic, and social concerns to be put into action in his local community.
On a broader scale, Pastor Church has been quoted in several articles from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Sunday Times out of London regarding issues that face our culture today. He has also appeared on several national television and radio programs. Additionally he has spoken at numerous Christian University’s across the country.

As a gifted leader with an Apostolic mandate to reach out to lost souls and exhort believers in other nations of the world, Pastor Church has traveled internationally to the Philippines, Haiti, Mexico, India, Egypt, Panama, Canada, Israel, Guatemala, and Kenya conducting crusades and leadership trainings for more than 10,000 pastors and leaders.

Pastor Church studied at The Ohio State University, Otterbein College, and Carolina Christian University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Masters in Counseling with a minor in Pastoral Care.

Pastor JC Church and First Lady Jeannitta were married in 1983 and have three children; Christopher and his wife Christina along with their children Zeke, Roman, and Arrow. They also have daughter, Jessica, who is married to Nathan Sterrett and their children Nathaniel & Tirzah, and Joanee who is married to Josiah Malan.

Our elders

Pastor Steve Phillips

Pastor Brian Hall

Min. Dave Harruff

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