Our Movement
The Antioch Movement
“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do to hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.” -Isaiah 54:2-3
The Antioch Movement was started in 1986 by Jimmy and Laura Seibert in Waco, Texas. While serving in a baptist church in Waco, God gave them a vision of the local church as a church planting training and sending center. Thirty plus years later, the Antioch Movement consists of more than 40 US churches and more than 80 international church planting teams. You can discover more about the history and vision of the Antioch Movement at Antioch.org.
Antioch Houston Family of Churches
“He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.” -Isaiah 11:12
In 2012, Fred and Becca Nelson carried this Antioch church-planting church vision to Houston. As the original Antioch Houston church began to grow and multiply across the city, the Antioch Houston Family of Churches was formed in 2020 as a relational network of Antioch churches in the greater Houston metroplex to collaborate for mutual support and mission. Today, the Antioch Houston Family of Churches consists of three churches in the greater Houston metroplex, thirteen long term international workers in four countries, as well as several shared local impact ministries, including Unbound, Antioch’s anti-human trafficking organization.
