About Our Pastor

Pastor Pablo Catala and his wife Nicole have been serving in Bridgeport, CT, for 4 years. They began their walk with Christ 18 years ago in Bronx, NY, before moving to Connecticut.

Since their arrival The Church has Seen Many precious Souls Come To Christ and Pastor Catala has ministered to many who have come to Christ and now can share a testimony of the power of Christ come and join us to see what God can do in your life

Pastor Pablo Catala’s Testimony

Many blessings to all in the name of Jesus Christ. My name is Pablo Catala, and I am the Senior Pastor of “Victory Chapel Christian Fellowship Church of Bridgeport.” My wife and I along with our 4 children moved to Bridgeport from NYC in 2018 to establish this wonderful work in our community. I want to share my story with you in hopes that whoever is reading this will be inspired to repent and receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and begin to be a vessel for His glory and fulfill destiny.

I met my wife in the spring of 2001, an associate of mine was dating my now sister-in-law at the time and asked me to join him while he went to visit his girlfriend in hopes that I would hook up with his girlfriend’s sister. When we got to the place where they were waiting, I fell in love with her, in my heart I said I’m going to marry her, we began dating and a year and two months later Nicole is now my wife.

We moved to the Bronx and began our lives as Mr. and Mrs. Catala. We were excited, we were anticipating wonderful things, two ignorant young people with problems that we did not know were about to be manifested. 6 months into our marriage divorce was in the making, paperwork set before us, broken lost and hopeless, hurting and looking for answers. Before our final decision my wife and I walked miles looking for a church, we were desperate to try to find someone to help us, but I was a terrible husband and continued to break down my wife, we finally found a church, we opened the door and began to scream out “anyone here”, “hello”, “anyone”, no one answered, we left disappointed and hopeless once again not knowing what to except. Still hurt and angry at life and one another, we saw nothing but destruction in front of us, we sought to finalize our separation that was going to lead to finalizing our divorce.

On June 2nd 2003, we were a couple of days from signing divorce papers and life is not looking good for us, I was about to sign a deal with Vibe Spin Records and continue on with my music career and my marriage was not even cared for salvaging. Monday afternoon while I’m at work my wife receives a flyer to go to an event, a healing crusade that would change our lives forever. The event started at 6 pm and was across the street from where we lived. My wife hears a message of healing and hope, Pastor Wayman Mitchell preaches a life-changing sermon as my wife surrendered and gave her life to Jesus.

The event would go on for the rest of the week and have a lasting effect on our lives. On June 3rd, 2003 my wife attended the 2nd night of the healing crusade, I was preparing to go to the studio to finish recording my album and she was heading out to the healing crusade, before I left my apartment to go I could hear them singing and praising God in the park across the street. Anger is arousing in my heart, my soul is vexed, everything in me wants to embarrass my wife in front of those people, but I just continue to get ready to leave for the studio. Pastor Wayman Mitchell begins what I now know is a sermon, I’m about to leave but I could hear the piercing of the word of God through the loud music I was playing as I was getting ready, “God could heal your marriage”, God could heal your life”, “Everything that is going wrong, God can fix it”, the voice cutting through the music and touching my heart.

I got so vexed I called some of my friends to go with me to interrupt this church service, I had 2 guys in each entrance of the park with guns blocking and preparing for a shootout, I had it in my heart to shoot the preacher, I go down with my guns on my waste, sit next to my wife ready to shoot this preacher that knows too much about my marriage, as Pastor Mitchell was ending his sermon, he makes an altar call, looks straight in my face and says, “Son you need Jesus Christ”, upon hearing him speak, God took me back to the time, when I was 7 years old, my mom just finished getting abuse badly by my step dad, I ran, crying in the bathroom, asking God, “Why can’t we be like the Cosby’s”. At that moment, a grown man, ready to commit murder was touched by God, I began to weep uncontrollably asking Jesus to help me and forgive me for all my wrongs. At that event I met with Jesus Christ, I bowed my knee, repented of my sin, and received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. And now over 20 years later, still married to the love of my life along with our wonderful children, my wife and I are in the will of God. God is building a wonderful church and we have some wonderful people serving God with us, come and give us a visit, may the Lord Jesus Christ bless your heart.

No matter how bad or how hard things may seem, God has a plan and a way to make all things work out for His glory and your redemption. We invite you to meet this Savior, here at the Victory Chapel of Bridgeport. Jesus Christ died and rose again to seek and save the lost. God bless you.

Pastor Pablo Catala