DOCUMENTING THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER IN HOUSTON

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The Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal), in Houston, Texas, dates back to the 1910s.  The church experienced a wave of growth during the 1960s-1970s, which included charismatic worship, communal living, and extensive outreach to the Eastwood community.  By the late 1970s, the revival was dying and the church's attendance was deteriorating steadily.  The church never really recovered, and in early 2011 the historic church building was abandoned.  The congregation, or what remained of it, relocated to share the building of the nearby Redeemer Lutheran.  Some young adults from Redeemer have recently formed a small apartment church called Missio Dei Houston.  The history of the church in the 1960s-1980s is documented elsewhere, in video and in a few books such as Julia Duin's somewhat controversial "Days of Fire and Glory". This website's emphasis is not on revisiting the heyday.  Rather, the focus is on preserving the memory of the church's final days in its old building, and its transition to a new one... and explaining what is happening in the church today, now that it has moved on to a new location.