Faith Fellowship Ministries

THE HISTORY

		Faith Fellowship Ministries was founded in January 1980 in a Staten Island, New York, by Pastor David T. Demola. The first Sunday service was held in the home of one of the original four members. While the faith of Pastor Demola and his small congregation was great, none of them could have imagined what the ensuing years would bring.
		Within a few months, Pastor Demola began a radio broadcast called The Voice of Faith. Volunteers manned the phones as listeners called for prayer and counsel, and the living room soon became entirely too crowded.
Pastor preaching in St. Mark's        By the end of 1980, St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Staten Island was the new home of Faith Fellowship Ministries, which by then included the St. Mark’s pastor and his wife among its congregants.				St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Staten Island, NY

Elk's Club, Staten Island, NY

When St. Mark’s was no longer able to hold the fast growing congregation, Pastor Demola moved his church to a nearby Elk’s Club in 1982. While the lodge served Faith Fellowship well, the Elk’s club location was a temporary solution for Pastor Demola.

90 Cooper Ave, Iselin, NJ

Then by July of 1982, a dramatic financial miracle allowed the fledgling congregation to move across the river to Iselin, New Jersey, and into its very own church building. While the growth of Faith Fellowship Ministries New Life Center—as it was then known—was steady and impressive, it was in Iselin that the numbers really began to swell with over 1,000 people in regular attendance.

Faith Fellowship Ministries World Outreach Center, Edison, NJ Still, the growth continued. In 1987, the Barna Research Group cited Faith Fellowship Ministries as one of the fastest growing churches in America.		In mid-1984, the re-christened Faith Fellowship Ministries World Outreach Center moved into its newly constructed 1300-seat facility in Edison. Worship resounds during a service in Edison, NJ
Though the sheer numbers stressed the limits of the new facility, the Edison center remained Faith Fellowship’s home for nearly fifteen years.

In July 2000, after years of faith in the face of much sustained adversity, our new 3,200-seat auditorium and office complex in Sayreville, New Jersey was established.
True to the vision behind its name, Faith Fellowship Ministries World Outreach Center is a dynanmic ministry, with nearly 4,000 in weekly attendance, more than 40 departments and a staff of over 65 employees.

Through the confluence of Faith Fellowship’s television and audio media—as well as Covenant Ministries International (CMI), an international ministerial organization founded by Pastor Demola in 1988—Faith Fellowship’s reach extends to Western and Eastern Europe, South America, the Pacific Rim, Australia, and throughout the African continent.

The cornerstone of FFMWOC’s missions outreach is the annual International Pastors and Ministers Conference (IPMC). Rather than investing resources on training American missionaries and sending them out, IPMC endeavors to identify established ministries througout the world, bring them into the U.S. for one week, and build a conference for them. IPMC is a conference that builds, inspires, and refreshes pastors and ministers from over 150 countries every year. All IPMC costs are completely underwritten by the church.

In the 2001, Faith International Training School (FITS) 6-Month Program was established in Fort Myers, Florida. FITS is the culmination of a long standing vision of Pastor Demola to train people in the principles of faith for the work of the ministry all over the world. The program is an intense and rigorous program that develops leaders for effective ministry. Today, Faith International Training School (FITS) 6-month program is conducted at FFMWOC in the Sayreville, New Jersey campus along with our FITS part time program. Soon thereafter, Faith Fellowship Ministries of Fort Myers was opened—FFMWOC’s first sister church. Faith Fellowship’s journey has been extraordinary and the message of Pastor David T. Demola and Faith Fellowship Ministries remains precisely as it was in the days of the faithful four: uncompromising faith in God and His Word will yield victory in every area of life, all the time.

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