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In 1999 the Houston area had 350 Chinese Catholic families. [49] Ascension Chinese Mission (美華天主堂; 美华天主堂; Měi Huà Tiānzhǔ Táng; 'US-China Catholic Church') originated from a Chinese worship service that was established in the 1970s. [50]
Chinese American church refers to Christian churches in the United States made up of predominantly ethnic Chinese congregations. The term is primary used to describe certain Protestant congregations found in large American cities, with a majority Chinese membership, and who typically offer bilingual services in both English and Chinese.
Houston has large populations of immigrants from Asia. In addition, the city has the largest Vietnamese American population in Texas and third-largest in the United States as of 2004. [1] [2] Houston also has one of the largest Chinese American, [3] Pakistani American, [4] [5] and Filipino American [6] [7] populations in the United States.
Mandarin Chinese Church. In 2010, Rev. Ben Wang (originally from Beijing, China) was recruited as a Chinese pastor from Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Tsinghua University. Ben helped launch the Mandarin Chinese Church in April 2011. Peak Street Church. Cameron Beaty serves as lead church planter of Peak Street Church.
The St. Mary and Archangel Michael church began church services on July 25, 2004, had 200 families in August of that year, and was built at a cost of $2.5 million. [23] The St. Mary and Archangel Michael church is the largest Copt church in the Houston area. [24]
A retail center in Chinatown in southwest Houston, where restaurants serving authentic Chinese food are located. The Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South. [1]
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The first Catholic church in Houston, St. Vincent's Church, opened in 1839. [6] John Odin, a bishop arrived in 1841 to help establish it, and in the fall of 1842 the building, in the Second Ward, was fully built. This church converted into a parish catering to German Americans in 1871 when the larger Annunciation Church opened. [7]