VICTORY CHRISTIAN CENTER

Robyn Gool, who built Victory Christian Center into one of Charlotte's best-known worship communities, died Nov. 18 at age 69.

Robyn Gool, who built Victory Christian Center into a force in Charlotte’s faith community, died Nov. 18 after an undisclosed illness.

Mr. Gool was 69.

A celebration of life service will be held Nov. 28 in the VCC Dome. The time of the service will be announced later.

Mr. Gool’s legacy includes Victory Christian Center Church, media outreach that include a television program, school, bible college, international ministry initiatives, and a shelter for homeless women.

Previously a pastor at Faith CME Church in Charlotte, Mr. Gool, a graduate of Oral Roberts University, and his wife Marilyn launched a non-denominational ministry in 1979. They held the first service a year later in a Matthews warehouse with 64 people in attendance.

VCC held services at a series of temporary sites before Mr. Gool established the church’s first permanent campus in south Charlotte in 1988. According to VCC’s website, the ministry includes worship campuses, a preschool, independent elementary, middle- and high schools as well as More Than Conquerors College, established in 1991 on Nations Ford Road.

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