Children's Ministry
Age-appropriate worship and Bible learning that helps kids meet Jesus, ask big questions, and form a faith of their own.
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A house on Vermont Avenue · Est. 1970
Worship God.
Worship God.
Love people.
Equip believers.
Make disciples.
56 yrsServing South L.A.
3 servicesSundays + Wed.
6 ministriesFor every age
1 missionTo make disciples
A church for the saved
the healed
the set free
the discipled
the equipped
the empowered
the serving
Senior Pastor · Since 2006
A word of welcome
From Superintendent
From Superintendent
Jeffrey M. Lewis
If you've found us by way of a friend, a search, or a quiet question. We're glad you're here. Whatever brought you to this page, our prayer is the same: that what you find at New Antioch points you to God, to His love, and to His grace.
I'm a fourth-generation member of the Church of God in Christ, raised in Los Angeles by a father who answered God's call in 1970 and a mother who taught us to walk in fullness of faith. I carry that inheritance with reverence. And I'd be honored to walk alongside you, wherever you are in your journey.
Who we point to
Christ crucified, risen, and coming back.
We are not a church about church. We are a church about Jesus.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He lived a sinless life, died on the cross to take the punishment for our sin, rose from the grave on the third day, and is coming back. Eternal life is not earned. It is a gift, received through repentance and faith in Him.
Everything else here, the ministries, the building, the music, the history, exists to point you to Him. He is the only reason any of this matters.
Ministries
A place to grow at every stage of life.
From the youngest child to the most seasoned saint, New Antioch is built to disciple, equip, and send. Find your home in one of our ministry families.
Youth Ministry
A place where teens are taken seriously. Taught the Word, mentored in life, and equipped to lead inside the church and beyond it.
Learn more →Young Adults
For the in-between season, when you're sorting out career, calling, and faith all at once. Honest conversation. Real friendship.
Learn more →Women's Ministry
A network of women's organizations led by Lady Floetta Lewis, Women in Ministry, Prayer & Bible Band, Mothers' Board, and more.
Learn more →Men's Ministry
Brotherhood for husbands, fathers, sons, and single men pursuing Christlike strength, accountability, and service in the home and city.
Learn more →Home & Foreign Missions
Local outreach across South L.A. and an annual educator mission to Haiti. Meeting people in need with the gospel and with their hands full.
Learn more →Basic Bible Institute
Established 1999. A serious, accessible classroom for believers who want to study the Scriptures with rigor and joy.
Learn more →Community Outreach
Eastlake Juvenile Hall ministry, shelter visits, hygiene & grocery drives, the Pre-Thanksgiving Feast. Service is in our story.
Learn more →I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.Psalm 122:1 · KJV
Our story
Five decades on Vermont Avenue.
From a storefront on Manchester Boulevard in 1970 to a sanctuary that has expanded, renewed, and refused to leave its neighborhood. This is our inheritance.
In early January 1970, Dr. James A. Lewis and his wife, Mother Barbara McCoo Lewis, gathered five other saints in their home and began the work that would become New Antioch. The first service drew more than fifty-nine people. Within three years, the congregation purchased the property at 7826 South Vermont. And never moved.
The sanctuary has been renovated, expanded, and reimagined. The mission has not changed: to be a place where people are saved, healed, set free, discipled, equipped, empowered, and serving.
7826 S. Vermont Ave. · Since 1973
In the neighborhood
A church embedded in its city.
Faith without works is dead. Since the 1992 unrest, New Antioch has answered every season of need on this corner of Los Angeles with classrooms, food, and presence.
Since 1999
Basic Bible Institute
A serious place to study the Scriptures. Open to members and the wider community alike.
Community Training
Computer & Learning Center
Tutoring in reading, writing, math, life and occupational skills. Staffed by professional volunteers from our congregation.
Annually since 2014
Educators to Haiti
Pastor Lewis leads a yearly mission of educators to Haiti. A multi-year commitment to people and place.