ACL 2026 SUMMIT!
Updates on Bread For All Food Pantry, Mariposa Family Learning Center, Move-In Ministry, Utility Assistance Program and partnerships. Crowd Source Session – Be part of the process to determine what ACL’s Next Big Thing will be! Music, Connections, Stories of Service, Recovery and Transformation! SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15th at TRIUMPHANT LOVE LUTHERAN CHURCH 9508 Great Hills […]
Mariposa’s “Winter for Wonder” Year-End Campaign
Dear Friends of Mariposa and Austin City Lutherans, As we enter this season of gratitude and generosity, we are reflecting on how far Mariposa Family Learning Center has come—and how your support has made this possible. This year marks our 5th anniversary, and in just half a decade, Mariposa has grown from a dream into a […]
Move-In Ministry Serves 300th Household
As the temperatures in Austin cool a bit and calendars turn to October 2025, the Move-In Ministry has served its 300th household. Beds. dressers, couches, coffee and end tables, bath towels, pots and pans, cups and plates, and other household necessities have been donated, stored and inventoried, and delivered to people exiting homelessness or at […]
Volunteer Sign-Up for BFA
We’ve started to use an online sign-up format to make volunteering at BFA as efficient as possible. This sign-up format applies only to the second shift on Mondays for distribution, beginning at 4.45 p.m. Click here for the link. You can sign-up for tasks on individual or consecutive Mondays. Simply scroll down the page for […]
2024/2025 Impacts
Bluebonnets and Redistribution
I’ve been smitten by bluebonnets ever since moving to Texas more than 30 years ago. I carefully seeded a side garden area at our home in Houston—etching the pebble-like seeds with a knife as instructed by the package—but to no avail. It wasn’t until we moved to Austin that I had any luck. One spring […]
ACL Newsletter – Spring 2025
AUSTIN CITY LUTHERANS “More, Better, Together” Ministries Serving Low-Income Neighbors – Spring 2025 Greetings in Christ’s Name from Austin City Lutherans! Bread For All Food Pantry BFA just concluded its busiest year ever in terms of households and people served. This ministry is powered by some 50 volunteers on a weekly basis. Food distribution […]
New ACL Board President
Dr. Cal Streeter, a member of Gethsemane Lutheran Church, is the new board president for Austin City Lutherans. Professor Streeter recently retired from the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas-Austin. He’s been a vital part of ACL’s Move-In Ministry for the past two years. The Rev. Brad Highum, after eight […]
Bread For All’s Busiest Year Ever – Again
2024 was unquestionably BFA’s busiest year ever. For those of us who had turntables back in the day, perhaps I sound like a broken record. The truth is, we’re on a three-year run of being “busier than ever.” We could not keep pace with this continual busyness if not for the workings of a divinely […]
Move-In Ministry Surges in 2024
ACL’s Move-In Ministry delivered furniture and household items to 114 individuals and families in 2024. Recipients were either people exiting homelessness or those living in situations making them vulnerable to it. Beds, dressers, couches, kitchen tables and chairs, bookshelves, end tables, lamps, and household items like pots and pans, dishes, silverware, Tupperware, glasses and cups, […]