Charles Vance Ministries/ Empowered Church
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Charles Vance

Dr. Charles Vance is the Senior Pastor of EMPOWERED CHURCH, a ministry celebrating its 49th anniversary! EMPOWERED CHURCH is housed in its 40,000 square feet, debt free ministry headquarters in Barboursville, WV. After years of ministry administration, teaching, and preaching, Charles became the full-time pastor of EMPOWERED CHURCH in 1994. In the same year, God did a miraculous healing in his body- he was healed of lymphoma. Since that time, God has healed hundreds through the ministry of EMPOWERED CHURCH. Other interesting facts... *He's the host and executive producer of the EMPOWERED Television Broadcast, airing on Direct TV and on the DISH Network via Christian Television Network and Golden Eagle Broadcasting, and around the world by internet each weekday. *He has been a guest speaker for Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mike Murdock, Bishop Don Meares, and Dr. T.L. Lowry and a guest on Marcus and Joni Lamb's Celebration on Daystar and Sid Roth's "It's Supernatural." *He's a teacher and conference speaker whose bold and practical style of teaching and preaching is setting people free from the crippling effects of religious tradition. *He is a successful businessman and investor, as well as an author of four books: Retaining What You Receive, Beyond Faith...Believing, The Supernatural Greenhouse, and his autobiography, How I Beat the Odds.