Rabbi Rebecca Alpert was engaged to lead our first High Holy Days services. This drew an unexpectedly large group of unaffiliated Jews from the Houston area. Initially, we set up individual havurot, grouped together under the name Houston Reconstructionist Havurah.

After three years of High Holy Days with Rabbi Alpert, and functioning as separate small havurot, we moved to establish the community as one unified Havurah.

Starting in 1994, we engaged a succession of gifted Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) student rabbis, who came for 5-9 visits per year and stayed for a year to two years..  This group included; Herb Levine, Rabbi Joyce Galinsky, Rabbi Myriam Klotz, and Rabbi Michel Zimmerman, serving the community in that order.

Rabbi Myriam Klotz worked with us longer than any of the other student Rabbis. She served our community, as our part-time teacher and spiritual leader for the years 1997 through 2000. During this period, we saw a strengthening of the HRH membership and community life.

In 2002, we decided that we needed to "reconstruct" our community. For this purpose, two major task forces were created: the first was an Organizational Task Force to examine how different structures would best serve the community. The Organizational Task Force proposed a new set of Bylaws and organizational structure, which the membership adopted at the end of January 2003.  

The other task force, which started as the Rabbinic Task Force, identified the type of spiritual leader needed by the community. It then became the Rabbinic Search Task Force and decided to opt for local leadership. From 2003 - 2005, Cantor Diane Dorf, a local leader living with her family in Houston, served as our Spiritual Leader.

She was followed by a return to the employment of rabbinic students from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Me'irah Iliinsky, a student in her last year of the RRC, served as 2005-2006 spiritual leader.

Today with Rabbi Alexis Pearce, we have a part-time spiritual leader plus lay lead services, which keeps us an intimate congregation.