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Lakewood Church Wins 2010 Energy Star Congregation Award

Category: Energy Awards – Tags: , , – October 5, 20103:12 pm

The cliché is that everything’s bigger in Texas. So it is fitting that the nation’s largest regularly used worship center, Lakewood Church , would be located in Houston. The church is housed in the former Compaq Center, an arena that was once home to the Houston Rockets professional basketball team. Repurposing such a major facility into a worship center that seats 16,000, saving it from possible demolition and not building a completely new complex, create an additional recycling and green success story, aside from the energy-efficiency program now underway.

Pastor Joel Osteen addresses an average of more than 38,000 attendees during the three services he hosts Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. Associate pastors host another four services in the main sanctuary each week, two on Sunday (one in Spanish), plus one each Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Pastor Joel’s messages are broadcast into every television market in the United States and viewed in almost 100 nations around the world.

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