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I would hope so. Needless to say, I enjoyed the experience of the Antiochan Church. I have been told by other people that some Antiochan churches (such as the one in Jackson) have pews and when you have pews people tend to kneel and sit. It is an extremely common particularly in Greek churches in America (I have yet to see one American Greek orthodox church that doesn't have pews and where kneeling is avoided).

At my parish, we don't have pews but we do have folding chairs. Don't ask me why. I like standing. But, sadly, I think the whole pew phenomenon is likely here to stay. As for the kneeling, I've only ever seen it on a Sunday once by a visitor, back when I was a catechumen. I shrugged it off as some kind of Romanian thing. :/

In fact a few weeks ago, I was in Orlando in a beautiful and very upscale Greek Orthodox Church (the Holy Trinity, right off Interstate 4), and a visiting priest from Greece was reminding everyone that kneeling, especially during the 40 days after the resurrection is strictly prohibited.

We actually print that in the bulliten. No kneeling until after Pentacost. I remember when I first read that. My very next thought was, "get ready to kneel after Pentacost." At the time, I had no idea just how right I was. Hello Kneeling Vespers!