Windsor Village United Methodist Church
United Methodist megachurch in Windsor Village, Southwest Houston, Texas
The Windsor Village Church Family is a United Methodist church in the Windsor Village neighborhood of Southwest Houston, Texas.
As of April 2026, the church's senior pastor is Suzette Caldwell who was assigned in 2020. Prior to 2020, Kirbyjon Caldwell was its senior pastor for over thirty-eight years.
Formerly a megachurch, Windsor Village UMC has an average Sunday attendance across its multiple services of 1,200, down from 3,700 in 2018, 2,700 in 2019, and 2,600 in 2020. In 2013, the church had 17,045 members, making it one of the largest Methodist churches in the United States, but the membership has drastically fell off. The number is hard to account for as the church fails consistently to pay apportionments.
The church membership is mostly Black; in 2001, the church was one of six mostly black United Methodist churches in the U.S. with a membership of over 3,000 members, and one of 94 churches total with a membership of over 3,000. In the mid-2000s, it was one of the largest Black churches in the US.
History
Up to the late 1970s, the congregation was almost all white.
In 1982, Windsor Village UMC had 25 members. Kirbyjon Caldwell became the pastor of the church that year.
“Windsor Village United Methodist Church” enters the record as united Methodist megachurch in Windsor Village, Southwest Houston, Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Windsor, Village and United can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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