As a church in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, we are the inheritors of the original, ancient, authentic and biblical church found in the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Jerusalem, and the ancient Eastern Byzantine Empire). Antioch is the place of our spiritual homeland; it is also the place where the disciples were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). Antioch is also the place where St.s Peter & Paul went to first establish the Church before they went to Rome. The Orthodox Church is the church that wrote, edited, canonized and was martyred for the New Testament. Our Holy Scripture, worship, beliefs, and practices have remained unchanged for almost 20 centuries. This makes our link with Jesus Christ and His Apostles more than just philosophical, emotional, and romantic. We are spiritually, physically, and sacramentally (mysteriously) linked with Christ, His Apostles and His One Church in a very real and tangible way.

This congregation was started by six families from St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in 1993 as a mission to the people of West Houston & Katy, TX. For three years, we were meeting as a community in the West Belt Plaza, an office park off Beltway 8. We have completed Phase II of our building project. This comes after the completion of our first multi-purpose metal structure (phase I) on five and a half acres of land on Hammerly Road east of Beltway 8. Our new Sanctuary has a domed ceiling with beautiful marble floors, and altar. It gives us an enormous amount of room to grow! Our previous Sanctuary (now our Parish Hall) houses our Parish banquet hall, eight classrooms, a bookstore, bathrooms, a break room, a large meeting room, and the priest's office. Our congregation is made up of half "cradle" and half convert Orthodox. The ethnic mix of our parish is American, Middle Eastern, Greek and various Slavic backgrounds. Our services are all in English and we try to include a very Pan-Orthodox piety and spirituality in our practice of worship, asceticism and festivals. It is our prayer, hope and dream that we minister to all Orthodox and reach out to American seekers of the true faith of Jesus Christ, handed down by the Apostles unchanged.

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