Encouragement from “AND” for Austin New Church

Last week in Orlando at the Exponential Church Planters Conference a new book was released in the Exponential Series by Zondervan called “AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church“. In it, authors Hugh Halter and Matt Smay (Tangible Kingdom) wrote some incredibly encouraging words about Austin New Church that I feel really captures our heart and [...]

ANC Children’s Ministry Volunteers Needed

ANC’ers We have a good kind of problem.  The good part of the problem is that God is adding to our numbers, families who are partnering with us to love our neighbors and serve our city!  The problem, is that we don’t have enough volunteers to make sure these new children that come with these [...]

ANC – Mother’s Day/ Child Dedication (May 9th)

Child Dedication is always as special time at Austin New Church.  We, as a church body, get to celebrate new life with new parents. Child Dedication is almost a misnomer…..what it really is a commissioning of the parents to raise their children in Christ-like manner.  We as a church body will agree to support, pray for and help [...]

There are many ways to be involved…

ANC’ers Spring is in the air, which means in the area of volunteerism there are many ways to be involved.  So, in an attempt to make this as short as possible, I’m going to simply put the name of each project, without an explanation.  However, each project is a link to a page with the [...]

Blackshear Extreme Makeover

ANC Friends and Family, As many of you know, Serve Austin Sunday is right around the corner.  Once again, we have the opportunity to serve with and for Communities in Schools in an another Extreme Make Over.  In order to pull of this make over we need to ask you to go through your “we-don’t-use-anymore” [...]

Spring Food & Diapers Drive for Caritas

Caritas is having their Spring Food Drive and we told them, that we would be happy to gather as many donations as possible for our homeless brothers and sisters. The food drive ends on May 16th.  Caritas has relayed to us their three biggest needs.  We have them separated in boxes.  These boxes will be [...]

Ministry in Ethiopia

Thanks ANC for allowing me the honor of representing you with our partner the Eden Projects in Africa. Amazing example of a holistic model of ministry. Who’d have thought that every tree planted has a face and a name? “If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry [...]

Party at Santa Rita Projects

Austin New Church is teaming up with Music For the City, Communities in Schools, and the Austin Housing Department to serve the residents of the Santa Rita Courts. We will be do everything from live music performances, grill out to feeding the complex, 3-on-3 basket ball tournaments, kid friendly activity, etc…but to pull this off [...]

Missional Church: Restore Austin Guest Post

This month Chris Marlow of HELP End Local Poverty wrote a guest blog for Austin New Church’s Restore Austin. Chris is the founder of HELP End Local Povery. HELP is a global tribe dedicated to ending extreme poverty by rescuing orphans, restoring their hope and renewing their communities. Being that April is National Child Abuse [...]