The Antioch Movement

The Antioch Movement is a group of churches connected through the power and work of the Holy Spirit and by a desire to love God, love one another and love those who do not know Jesus. Whether in Houston, around the U.S. or in the most remote parts of the earth, we believe a local church committed to evangelism and discipleship can change the world.

The Antioch movement began in 1986, when God called Jimmy and Laura Seibert to begin a training school with eight people from Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.  The vision was simple: love God, love each other and love those that don’t know Jesus.  They believed that the local church could own the process of training and sending people across the street and around the world so that all might hear and know the good news of Jesus.

In 1991, they began planting churches.  The first church plant was in Ulan Ude, Russia just as the Cold War was coming to a close.  This church continues today to plant churches of its own. In 1999, the elders at Highland Baptist Church blessed Jimmy and Laura and sent them out to start a new church in Waco called Antioch Community Church.

Over the past 20 YEARS that church has grown from 400 people to 5000. Today the original church planting vision has grown into a church-planting movement with over 75 churches in 20+ nations of the world, including churches scattered throughout the US in cities like Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Boston, Chicago, Knoxville, Tempe, Fort Collins, Norman, Dallas, College Station and …. Houston. For more information visit the movement website below.