GREATER HOUSTON

The Present

Houston has more Evangelical congregations per capita than any city in the nation. In Fact, Houston is oftentimes referred to as the “Megachurch Capital of the United States”, the population in the city of Houston is over 2.1 million. The population in the Greater Houston metropolitan area is over 5.1 million.

Every year, a declining number of Houstonians claim to be followers of Jesus Christ.

The Future

70 percent of the population in Harris County 60 years old and older is Anglo; more than 70 percent of the population in Harris County younger than 30 is non-Anglo.

Houston is home to more than 300 people groups. The Houston population speaks at least 209 different languages and hails from at least 139 different countries around the world.

The Current Reality

There is one Church in the city of Houston with over 4,000 different congregational expressions of the Christian faith.

Challenges that the Church needs to face in a growing city where cultural diversity and "church culture"attempt to isolate members of the Body are real and they are numerous.

No matter how big congregations in Houston become, the need to reach the city requires that ALL the Body of Christ work together practically and perpetually.

There are diverse gifts and abundant resources present within the Body of Christ in Houston which have been given to equip us and enable the whole Church together to reach and help prosper the city and community where it lives.