Focus Week (Monday): Surrender.

2009 Has been an amazing year in the life of Austin New Church. If you haven’t had an opportunity it see our “Year End Report” please do so by clicking HERE. We’re spending this week to focus on prayer not just as a part of the “Advent Conspiracy”, but also as an opportunity to ask [...]

Announcement: We’re Moving Locations!

What a week! After some great meetings, prayer, and conversation with the ANC staff, Board of Directors, and ANC Restore Communities we have decided to make the move from Akins High School to Jackie’s Performing Arts Academy on South Manchaca, effective immediately (this Sunday)! This is a great and unexpected opportunity for ANC and I [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 8 Day 5) “Fork in the Road”

As with many community groups going through the Tangible Kingdom Primer, ours from ANC were pre-existing groups (with an already missional and service oriented DNA). In addition to helping us grow in an understanding for who we should be, each of us have seen how the study could be really useful for establishing new groups [...]

Missional Church: African Refugee Churches

As many of you already know, Tray and I had the opportunity to go to Houston last week and help finalize an agreement on a facility that three African refugee churches will utilize for ministry. In this one location, we are going to be able to help plant three churches in three languages: English, Swahili, [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 3 Day 6) “Hindrance to the Gospel”

Since we had Hugh Halter (co-author of Tangible Kingdom) visit with leaders  last Wednesday, we went ahead and did the discussion from week 2 in our Restore Community last night (Feel free to adjust your schedule as needed). It was a surprisingly appropriate discussion as we evaluated our own gathering and talked about how and [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 3 Day 1) “The Gospel”

During His earthly ministry, “the Kingdom” was a primary topic for Jesus. Even when discussing love, He often did it in a way to explain what the “Kingdom of God is like”. Yet many believers have no concept for what the Kingdom really is. And often there is little effort to understand it. In the [...]