About Us
Senior Pastor Joe Hernandez
Our History
Houston Victory Minstries is a non denominational church which began in 1986, starting off with just 3 people meeting in a small apartment. Since that time the church has grown into a multicultural congregation.
Joe Hernandez is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, senior pastor of Houston Victory Ministries and executive director of three recovery centers for men in the Houston area. Joe has served in the Houston area for 24 years being a light, he has committed his life to serving and helping people regardless of whatever circumstance, race or gender. Joe and his wife Gloria have worked side by side for 23 years in the ministry.
Gloria Hernandez is originally from El Salvador, married Joe at the age of 18 and a year later began a church in the Spring Branch area. Gloria is an inspiration and mentor to women everywhere. she communicates God’s Word with warmth and grace, inspiring others to pursue a more intimate relationship with Him.
Our Beliefs
The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16).
There is one true God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19).
In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His personal, future return to the earth in power and glory to rule for a thousand years (John 1:1; Matthew 1:18; Matthew 28:5-6; Revelation 20:4).
In the Blessed Hope, the soon return of Christ to receive His bride at His coming (Titus 2:13).
Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to personal salvation (Titus 3:5).
In Divine Healing of the human body provided through the redemptive work of Christ on the Cross in answer to believing prayer (1 Peter 2:24).
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, is given to believers who ask for it, with all the evidence manifested in the book of Acts (Acts 2:4).
The Church of Jesus Christ is the universal, spiritual body of believers from every tribe, tongue, kindred and race of peoples, and is indwelt by God through the Holy Spirit and divinely empowered to fulfill the Great Commission on earth (Ephesians 1:20-23; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Colossians 1:18-19; Revelation 5:9).
In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life (Galatians 5:16-25).
In the resurrection and final judgment of both the saved and the lost, the first to everlasting life and the second to everlasting damnation (Revelation 20:11-15).
In the new heavens and the new earth and the holy Jerusalem, the city of God, descending out of heaven and filled with God’s glory (Revelation 21:1-2, 10).