Triumph Church
It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming, or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason. Although not required, you are encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, do not replace it. This message has remained in place for seven days, so the article may be deleted without further notice. Find sources: "Triumph Church" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR Nominator: Please consider notifying the author/project: {{subst:proposed deletion notify|Triumph Church|concern=Un-noteworthy church among many in the world. Wikipedia is not a guide to churches or church advertising portal.}} ~~~~Timestamp: 20120927202144 20:21, 27 September 2012 (UTC) Administrators: delete |
| Triumph Church | |
|---|---|
| Triumph Church | |
 | |
 | |
| Location | Metro Detroit, Michigan |
| Address | Triumph Church East Campus 2760 E. Grand Blvd Detroit, Michigan 48211 |
| Country |  United States |
| Denomination | Christian Non-denominational Charismatic |
| Website | www.triumphch.org |
| History | |
| Founder(s) | Claude Cummings |
| Clergy | |
| Senior pastor(s) | Solomon W. Kinloch, Jr. |
Triumph Church is a Christian multi-site church located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It was founded in the Fall of 1920 by Reverend Claude Cummings as the Triumph Missionary Baptist Church. Reverend Solomon W. Kinloch, Jr. is currently the Senior Pastor. The church has six weekend and three midweek services and its average attendance makes it one of the largest churches in Detroit and Michigan.
More notably, the church is recognized for its exponential growth. According to Outreach Magazine, it is the 3rd fastest growing church in the United States, with more than 2,000 new members formalizing a commitment to the church during the 2008 calendar year.[1]
Beliefs
Triumph Church's motto is “the Church where the Word is the Word.” Members believe that religious affiliations and denominations are unimportant as the church bases its beliefs solely on the Bible, asserting it to be inspired by God, inerrant, infallible, and the final authority on matters which it covers. Based on its understanding of the Bible, Triumph intends to nurture souls within Christ through the four tenets of: fellowship, discipleship, stewardship, and worship. Triumph also believes in and draws the following Biblical conclusions about the following topics:
- GOD: We believe that there is one God who exists in three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
- JESUS: We believe that Jesus is: the Son of God, was born of a virgin, was wholly God and wholly man, lived a sinless life, died in our place as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind, was buried, arose bodily from the grave, and ascended into heaven.
- CHRIST’S RETURN: We believe that Jesus Christ will literally return to earth.
- HOLY SPIRIT: We believe that God the Holy Spirit is active in convincing unbelievers of their need for salvation, and is the Comforter and Guide Who lived in every believer.
- BIBLE: We believe that the Bible is the Word of God without any error, the sole authority for life and faith.
- SALVATION: We believe that salvation is a gift received through repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- ASSURANCE: We believe that every person who is truly saved is eternally secure in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- ETERNITY: We believe that those persons who die in their sins without Christ spend eternity in Hell and those persons who die with their sins forgiven through Christ spend eternity in Heaven.
- BAPTISM: We believe that water baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and is by immersion after salvation.
Locations
Triumph is also a Multi-site church, currently providing nine weekly worship services at five different sites in Metro Detroit. Many churches using a multi-site model duplicate the sermon through satellite video transmissions (or video venues) or by sermons delivered by a site or campus pastor. However, Triumph's senior pastor Kinloch delivers each sermon in-person at each facility.
In addition to its worship facility in the New Center, Detroit area of Detroit (known as the East Campus), Triumph also occupies its historic worship facility in southwest Detroit (known as the South Campus). The East Campus also serves as the central business office for the church. The South Campus facility dates back to 1954.
Because the New Center, Detroit East Campus facility and southwest Detroit facility inadequate to accommodate one large weekly service attendance, Triumph temporarily utilizes rental facilities for five of its weekly services (including three of the five Sunday services).
Additional Sunday worship services are held at Salem High School in Canton, Michigan and at the Millennium Centre (known as the North Campus) in Southfield, Michigan. Wednesday services are held at Faith United Methodist Church in Belleville, Michigan.
In August 2009, Triumph announced that it would relocate its 11 am Sunday worship service, which is currently held at Cass Technical High School's 1100-seat auditorium, to the 2,700-seat Detroit Opera House beginning in January 2010. Additionally the 8AM Sunday and 6:30 pm Tuesday worship services will move from the 300-seat southwest Detroit campus to the 800-seat New Center Detroit campus.
In June 2010, after six months of weekly occupancy at the Opera House, Triumph transitioned its 11 am service into two different services at two different locations; a 10:45 am service at the Millennium Centre and an 11:45am service at the East Campus. Due to capacity attendance at both of the new services, Triumph added another service at 12:45 pm at the Millennium Centre.
Triumph Church property owned
- South: 2550 S Liddesdale St, Detroit, Michigan (original location, 300-seat sanctuary, classrooms, outreach programming, 3 worship services)
- East: 2760 E Grand Blvd, Detroit, Michigan (central administrative office, 800-seat renovated sanctuary to be completed in 2009, banquet hall, currently hosts special worship services)
- West: 48015 Geddes Rd Canton, Michigan (13 acres, 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m2) facility with 17 classrooms, 17 offices and 400-seat multipurpose gymnasium. future facility expansion to include 1,200 seat sanctuary, parking lot expansion and other renovations)
- North: 15600 JL Hudson Dr, Southfield, Michigan (long-term, multi-year lease on facility with 1,043 seat auditorium. sanctuary, teen auditorium, outdoor amphitheater, nursery, coffee shop)
- Other: 25750 Outer Dr, Lincoln Park, Michigan (6.6 acres, no facility or future plans to build on this site)
Rental facilities
- Salem High School in Canton, Michigan (hosts 9:30AM Sunday worship service)
- Faith United Methodist Church in Belleville, MI (hosts 6:30PM Wednesday worship service)
Detroit Opera House
In 2009, Triumph entered into what is believed to be the first-ever weekly rental or residency agreement with a major Detroit entertainment or performance venue.
Under the deal, each week the Detroit Opera House housed the 11 am Sunday worship service for Triumph. Triumph formerly hosted this service at the 1100-seat Cass Technical High School auditorium.
Triumph Church held weekly worship services at the Opera House from January 3, 2010 through June 6, 2010, including an Easter Sunday worship service featuring the Grammy award-winning gospel musician Kirk Franklin.
Worship style
Though Triumph traces its beginnings to the Missionary Baptists organization, as part of the "seeker sensitive" movement it does not publicize its traditional "Baptist" ties as research indicates new believers are less drawn to traditional forms church activities and worship.[1]
Triumph utilizes a modern, high-energy worship style that features popular Urban contemporary gospel music in the sub-genres of either "praise" (faster in tempo, stronger and louder) or "worship" (slower in tempo and more subtle so the song's message is understood). Additionally, Triumph worships will include sermon topics that deal with Biblical connections to pop culture and may showcase brief theatrics or hip hop dance performances to contemporary gospel or Christian hip hop music.
Leadership
Solomon Kinloch, Jr., was born to Solomon and Janie Kinloch on July 28, 1973, the youngest son and the fifth of six children. He is the senior pastor of Triumph Church. He has been a minister since the age of 14, beginning under the tutelage of Pastor Robert Smith, Jr. at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Kinloch received formal training from the American Baptist College in Nashville, TN. In 1998, Rev. Kinloch accepted the call to Pastor at Triumph Baptist Church, in Detroit, Michigan.
Kinloch serves on the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the New Market Tax Credit Advisory Board. Recognized as a premier personality in preaching, Kinloch has received numerous recognitions and awards for his extraordinary accomplishments as a young visionary. Comcast has spotlighted locally him as a 2003 Newsmaker. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference selected him as 2003 Pastor of the Year, and the Detroit News has declared him one of “The New Generation of Black Leaders”. He was named a “New Kingdom Voice... one of twelve Dynamic, World Changers” by Gospel Today Magazine. In 2006, the Michigan Chronicle named him “Contemporary Pioneer” during its 70th anniversary celebration.
History
In the fall of 1920, Reverend Claude Cummings organized the Triumph Missionary Baptist Church. In 1924, while located underground in a wood-frame structure at 515 Holford Street in River Rouge, Michigan, the church was officially incorporated.
Cummings was succeeded by the Reverend L.A. Forte, Reverend Rosbrior, Reverend F. Freeman, Reverend Scott and Reverend G.W. Sims respectively. In 1941, Reverend A.D. Boone, who had been a member for twenty years, accepted the call to pastor Triumph.
It was under the leadership of Boone that members marched to the new church in 1954 and one of its current locations. Located underground at 2550 South Liddesdale in Detroit. After the death of Boone in 1969, Freeman re-assumed pastoral duties until God appointed another pastor, Reverend David DeYampert in 1970.
Under DeYampert, Triumph‘s membership grew from approximately 300 members to over 1,200. Construction of a new edifice on the same site began in March 1974. The following September, members began worshiping in the new sanctuary. By June 1988, members held a special service to celebrate full payment of the mortgage.
From 1989 to 1997, Triumph faced difficult times as the membership dwindled from its highpoint of over 1,200 to only 44. In addition to the struggles facing the church, Pastor DeYampert died on July 2, 1997. Earlier the next year on March 22, 1998, Triumph Church appointed a then-24-year-old Solomon Kinloch, Jr as its next pastor.
Under Kinloch visionary leadership, membership has exploded from forty-four members to over 9,000. To accommodate this growth, Triumph Church made a decision to transitioned into a Multi-site church by adding additional services on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday at various sites. The growth has also led to the creation of the Spiritual Beltway.
The Spiritual Beltway
The Spiritual Beltway represents the vision to more aggressively impact the secular population of Metro Detroit by eventually operating between four to six community campuses that are extensions of Triumph Church.
The vision aims to accommodate current membership needs and future growth by maintaining a level of intimacy within ministries and the worship-experience by offering locations within 30 minutes of the majority of the population in Metro Detroit. As one church in multiple locations, members and visitors would not have to endure extensive commutes to experience a Triumph worship service.
The Spiritual Beltway, which has begun, includes breaking ground or renovating more than 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land on four different sites in three different cities inside Metro Detroit; (Canton, Detroit and Southfield).
The earlier phases of the Spiritual Beltway included the acquisition of a 29,000-square-foot (2,700 m2) worship facility and adjacent land in the New Center, Detroit area and the purchase of a 16-acre (65,000 m2) site in Canton, Michigan. Additionally, in 2005 the church acquired 6.6 acres (27,000 m2) of property in Lincoln Park. The land, was the former location of Oakwood Hospital at Outer Drive and Fort streets in Lincoln Park.
However, the growth of the church quickly exceeded the type of facility and parking the Lincoln Park property could accommodate. At the time of the Lincoln Park acquisition, the church consisted of over 4,000 members and was growing at a rate of 900 new members per year. In less than four years, the church's membership had doubled to over 8,000 members.
Personal life
In 2010, Pastor Kinloch married his best friend and love of his life, the former Robin Kemp. Together, they are the parents of one son, Kadin Elijah and guardians of two nephews, Ramone and Devonte Rainey.
Recognition
In 2008, Outreach Magazine named Triumph the third fastest growing church in the United States, with over 2,000 new members formalizing a commitment to the church during the 2008 calendar year.[2]
References
- ^ "American Society for Church Growth". official website.
- ^ "Top 100 Fastest Growing Churches". 2008