COMMUNITY USE OF OUR CAMPUS
Our facilities offer a spacious and beautiful venue for group meetings and family gatherings.
First Christian Church is available to rent for your group’s event or training.
Please contact our Church Admin, Laura Thewalt to request the sliding scale rates and applications.
Email at: admin at fcchou dot org or call 713-526-2561.
FCC is in a great central location in the city, and we find great joy in our relationship with the community. As part of that relationship, we host:
FAITH
American Chinese Fellowship: (Joshua Tau, Pastor) www.acfh.org.
First Christian Church hosts the American Chinese Fellowship for Bible Study on the First and Third Fridays of every month at 6:30 p.m. in the Knowles Fellowship Hall. ACF provides evangelistic out-reach and discipleship to the non-christian Chinese community in Houston so that they may have an opportunity to know God and to receive the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. The group meets for Supper and then breaks out into smaller Bible study groups, conducted in either English or Mandarin Chinese. Parking is available on the North and South sides of the building, but is limited (carpooling is encouraged.)
Coastal Plains Area Ministry: we serve as a central meeting location for the Area Ministry of the Disciples of Christ. Liscened ministry training, Area Assembly, Disciples Women's Ministry Retreats and Youth Events.
We often host visiting church youth groups and college students doing mission work in and around the Houston area (they love the fact that we have showers!)
ARTS
Texas Private School Music Educators Association: uses the facilities to host Solo and Ensemble Festival, and Concert and Sight-Reading Contest.
Lone Star Lyric Theatre: our Worship Minister, Jeremy Wood has been affiliated with this group for a number of years and they use our space for auditions and rehearsals.
International Music Academy: our Organist, Dr. Matthew Loudermilk uses our sanctuary for his music academy recitals.
COMMUNITY
We are delighted to partner with Kidventure for the summers with one of Houston's premiere summer day camping programs. We love the vitality they bring to our site during the summer. For more information visit Kidventure.
Boy Scouts of America: the Houston scouts use FCC as their starting location for their annual Ten Commandment Hike, when they walk to ten houses of worship in downtown Houston and review each of the Ten Commandments.
Cherokee Civic Association
Boulevard Oaks Civic Association
University Place Super-neighborhood
HEALTH & RECREATION
Rice/ University of Houston Youth Basketball program: uses the Gym for six month periods, one evening a week. Visit www.tinyurl.com/ricebasketball
Bayou City Road Runners: this running club uses our Rice-side parking lot Wednesday evenings while they run in Hermann Park and around Rice U. http://www.bcrr.org/
USA Fit Houston: a marathon and half-marathon training group. They have access to our building for their members training for various marathons and half-marathons around the country, including the Chevron Houston Marathon each January. http://houstonfit.com/
American Cancer Society Relay for Life: the Houston Medical Center Relay Team uses our building for Team Captain meetings and we offer our fellowship hall for bank night. http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=40862
Life Line Screening: FCC has been a location for these life-saving health screening fairs.
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Services: from time-to-time we have a blood drive, usually during holiday times when blood product supplies get very low.
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