On This Date at MinistryWatch

Victory Church gives $100M to missions, IHOPKC cuts ties with Bickle, ECAP launches child safety accreditation program.

ONE YEAR AGO: On December 24, 2024, MinistryWatch reported that Atlanta’s Victory Church reached its goal of giving $100 million to missions since its founding in 1990. Read more here.

TWO YEARS AGO: On December 26, 2023, MinistryWatch reported that leaders of the International House of Prayer, an influential charismatic evangelical prayer and mission group based in Kansas City, announced they were cutting ties with founder Mike Bickle. Read more about MinistryWatch’s IHOPKC reporting here.

THREE YEARS AGO: On December 26, 2022, MinistryWatch reported the Evangelical Council for Abuse Prevention (ECAP) was launching a new child safety accreditation program that puts churches, schools, camps and other ministries through a rigorous process to implement, validate, and comply with a five-part set of abuse prevention protocols. Read more here.

FOUR YEARS AGO: On December 20, 2021, MinistryWatch reported that the Rev. Frank Barker—whose 4,000-member Briarwood Presbyterian Church grew from a Birmingham, Alabama, storefront before he helped found a conservative branch of Presbyterianism—died. He was 89. Read more here.

SIX YEARS AGO:  On December 16, 2019, MinistryWatch reported that Boz Tchividjian would be leaving GRACE, an organization he founded to help churches better respond to sexual abuse issues. Tchividjian went on to represent sexual abuse survivors at a law firm in Florida. Read more here.