Our Story

Before Freedom Fellowship existed, before there was a program or a name, there were two lives in need of transformation.

Victoria’s journey was marked by broken relationships and restless searching. Married and divorced twice, she carried both independence and disappointment. Beneath her strength was a deep longing — an emptiness she tried to quiet through relationships and distraction, not yet realizing that what she truly needed was Jesus.

When we met, something shifted quickly. Within two weeks, Victoria sensed clearly that we would marry. At the same time, she knew we were not to have a sexual relationship. There was no outside pressure — only conviction. For the first time, obedience mattered more than desire.

Not long after, while watching a movie that included 1 Corinthians 13, something softened in her heart. As the words love is patient, love is kind were spoken, insecurities and reservations that had followed her for years began to loosen their grip. Healing had begun.

My story was very different — and much darker.

Before encountering the Lord, my life was destructive. I was addicted to opiates, bound by fear, involved in one-night stands, and carrying deep pain. The medical field had told me I would likely be in a wheelchair by the time I was fifty. I lived recklessly and without direction, believing what I was experiencing was simply “who I was.”

Two months into our relationship, a friend invited me to a deliverance conference. I went with skepticism — fully prepared to prove the pastor wrong about healing. But God had other plans.

That day, I encountered the Lord in a way I never imagined possible. I experienced profound freedom and healing. The addiction that had defined me lost its grip. My thoughts changed. My identity shifted. I realized that much of what I believed about myself — and even some of the destructive thoughts I had lived with for years — were not rooted in truth.

Everything changed.

Shortly after we married in January 2004, Victoria also pursued deliverance. The same freedom and restoration that reshaped my life began working deeply in hers. God was not simply adjusting behavior — He was restoring hearts.

From there, obedience led us into preparation. We entered Bible school. We pursued ordination. What began as personal transformation became the foundation of ministry.

After we married, we lived together in Canada from 2004 until March of 2010. During those years, God quietly formed something lasting in us. We began a ministry called The Secret Place in our rental property in downtown St. Catharines. People came seeking freedom. Lives were changed through prayer, surrender, and the authority of Jesus Christ.

When that property was sold, the ministry moved into our home. For a season, we ministered deliverance and hosted a home church in our living room. It was not polished or platform-driven. It was personal. Sacrificial. Rooted in presence.

The ministry later moved to Queen Street and then Zimmerman Avenue in Niagara Falls. Even after relocating to Niagara Falls, New York in 2010, we traveled back and forth across the border to shepherd that church until 2012, when we transitioned leadership to another couple.

Those years shaped us deeply. They exposed pride that needed to be broken. Insecurities that needed healing. Scars that needed restoration. Deliverance had set us free — but discipleship taught us how to live free.

In 2012, we moved to Darien Center, New York, and opened Freedom Fellowship and the Total Freedom program.

Freedom Fellowship was not born out of ambition. It grew out of transformation. We do not minister something we have not personally experienced. The freedom we proclaim is the freedom that first reshaped our own lives.

For us, Freedom Fellowship is more than an organization. It is the legacy of what God has done — and continues to do — in our lives. It is the evidence that no one is beyond restoration. That addiction does not have the final word. That emptiness can be filled. That pride can be broken. That healing is possible.

What began with two surrendered lives has become a calling to walk with others into wholeness.

And that is the heart behind Freedom Fellowship.