Our Ministry History

At the age of 14, on a Sunday night after the Allentown Camp Meeting, Sis. Shirley Lester was preaching at my home church. Bro. Jimmy McDuffie was the Pastor at that time. She was preaching about Samuel taking the horn of oil and anointing David to be King of Israel. She called me up to the altar to stand in as David and she took the horn of oil and held it over my head and the Holy Ghost came upon me and the Lord put His blessing on my life that night.

It was six years later, at the age of twenty that God spoke to my heart to preach the Gospel. I accepted the call, after wrestling with God for about two months and announced to my Pastor, Larry Peters that God had chosen me to preach the Gospel. I was placed as Youth Pastor of the Tanner Williams Holiness Church in December 1987, where I served for almost three years.

In October of 1990 the Lord dealt with my heart to go full time in evangelism. I quit my job without one revival and stepped out on faith and God met my needs and kept me busy preaching for more than three years. We preached in thirteen states, and saw many saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost. Many others were healed and encouraged during our evangelism.

In January of 1994, God dealt with my heart to settle down and help a pastor in a church. I didn't know where that God was going to send me, but once again, I took a leap of faith and started canceling revivals. I felt like calling Bro. Rufus Caraway in Lake Placid, Florida for a revival ,and I told my wife that we would be staying there as his Youth Pastor when we went. We started there the second week of January. The first week into revival, Bro Caraway asked me to pray about being his Youth Pastor. My wife couldn't believe what she was hearing, but I told him we would pray about it. We felt like it was the will of God and stayed six and a half years as Youth Pastor, Assistant Pastor, and then as Pastor of New Life Holiness Church.

We moved to Hamilton Ohio in September of 2000, where my wife was originally from. We worked with Bro. L. L. Collins for a year and a half as his Assistant Pastor. They decided to terminate the position in January of 2003.

I still had a burden for the city of Hamilton and Fairfield Ohio and felt like that is where God wanted me. A group of people that wanted to start a Holiness Church called me and asked me to pastor them, and I felt the burden to do so.

They started what is now Victory Pentecostal Tabernacle, where I have resided as pastor since April 28, 2003. We have seen God bless the church and we have went from sixty when we started to almost ninety as of June 2004.

In His Service,
Pastor Donald W. Pierce

Our Family History

I was born and raised in Tanner Williams, which is west of Mobile, Alabama. I attended Tanner Williams Holiness Church all my life. I had some of the best pastors that a young man could ask for. My first pastor was Bro. Hiram McDuffie, Bro. George Allen followed him, Bro. Jimmy McDuffie followed him, Bro. Larry Peters followed him, and Bro. Donnie Williamson followed him.

My wife was raised in Hamilton Ohio where Bro. L. L. Collins was her pastor. She traveled with her mom and dad, Larry and Irma Peters while they evangelized, and then settled down to pastor Tanner Williams Holiness Church.

Shortly after God called me to preach I began praying for God to give me a wife. The Lord spoke to my heart and told me that I was to marry Jennifer Peters, the daughter of my Pastor, Larry and Irma Peters. We dated for about six months and was married on November 3, 1989.

We were in Lake Placid Florida when God blessed us six years later with a beautiful baby girl. She was born on September 16, 1995 in Lake Wales Florida. We named her Andrea Lauren Pierce.

Two years later on December 28, 1997 we were blessed with another little girl, at the same hospital ,in Lake Wales Florida, that we named Jessica Lynn Pierce. Now we had two little Floridians.

Two months after we moved to Hamilton, Ohio, on November 3, 2000, on our wedding anniversary my wife woke me up at five o'clock in the morning and said,

"Happy Anniversary darling, get up and get ready to take me to the hospital, we have a baby coming. God blessed us with a 8 lb. 14 oz. baby boy that we named Jadon Watson Pierce.

My wife is now expecting our fourth child, which is due July 23rd 2004.

The Church Vision

It is my desire to have a church that has a vision to reach souls. I firmly believe that "without a vision the people perish." We the people of Victory Pentecostal Tabernacle have a vision to reach beyond our families and friends, and minister to the needs of those who cannot help themselves.

Jesus said, "The whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick." It is my desire to provide a place of worship where people can feel the presence of God and feel their liberty to receive what they need for soul, spirit, and body. For "where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty."

It is my desire to preach and teach doctrine and biblical Holiness. John 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

It is my desire to be faithful to the congregation that the Lord has entrusted me with. I would like to do my best as a pastor to be the spiritual shepherd that they need to teach and instruct them in the ways of God. I want to have the message of the hour for God's people to help them through the spiritual battles that they will face.

It is our desire to purchase land or a building that is large enough to start a Christian School. I would like to have a Pentecostal Holiness School for our children to attend and be taught the same doctrine that we teach in our church. I believe that God's will is for us to teach and train our children when they are young. I was affiliated with the Christian school in Lake Placid Florida, and it changed my views on Christian schools. I don't believe they are an option in the hour that we live in today, I believe they are our responsibility.