Impact Houston
Church of Christ
1704 Weber
Houston, Tx 77007
713.864.5667
713.864.5869 Fax

NEW Email:
office@
impacthouston.org


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About Us


We want to welcome you to
Impact Houston Church of Christ!

During the last half of 1986, three preachers from the Houston area having "mid-life" crises" and without portfolio began to plan for a new ministry to the city of Houston. They were without experience in this area, without existing models among Churches of Christ and without support. On the second Sunday morning of 1987, sixty-seven very apprehensive participants gathered at Lee Elementary School in the near North Side close to downtown for the first worship service. We sang, we worshipped, we preached and we shared a meal. People came from the suburbs, from other parts of Houston and from shelters close by. We have never had a smaller crowd and the format remains unchanged.

During the next ten years we would average one move per year as we outgrew facilities or were displaced by unhappy landlords or those complaining from nearby neighborhoods. Our present property was purchased in 1992 and the Distribution Center was constructed in 1993. Our present Bible Study Building was purchased in 1999 having been leased for several years. We met in city parks, YMCA, a declining housing project close to downtown and a warehouse on Washington Ave. We rented offices on Studemont for several years and started our distribution center in a small store front on White Oak Dr. We met in our present building for about three years awaiting funding for conversion from a warehouse to a church building. No heating, no air conditioning and the crowds were huge!!

In early 2000 we moved into our newly refurbished facilities and were able to occupy the Education Building three months later, just in time for our summer program.

The Staff has changed in addition with only two leaving to re-enter mission work in Central and South America and those changes were planned before they came. We have had hundreds of Summer Interns who came for various lengths of time, some staying for several years. Numbers into the thousands have come for Work Camp in early June. Hundreds of homes have been painted by these students. Groups large and small come during the year to work in service projects and to learn of urban ministry. Former Impact workers have begun urban ministries in other parts of this country, influenced by their stays in Houston. Our outreach to youth during the summer brings groups from around the country to assist, requires fifty interns and serves 450 children.

What a ride! And our work is only at the "teenage" stage. We are looking forward to the future with God being our beacon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Impact's Mision Statement
Our Passion is Jesus Christ.
He compels us to push beyond barriers
Beyond distinctions. Gal. 3:28
Beyond circumstances. Phil. 4:12
Beyond understanding. Phil. 3:10-11
Beyond self. Phil. 2:3-4
Beyond today. Rev. 21
In doing this, we strive to give limitless glory to God.

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