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 […]
2024/2025 Impacts
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, […]
Rent Assistance Program #4 – 2024
This past summer, Austin City Lutherans provided rent assistance to support 73 households. Through this effort, our fourth rent assistance program, we distributed more than $76,000 to support individuals and families who, for a variety of reasons, needed a helping hand this summer to stay in their domiciles. Fifty-four of these households include children, and […]
Rent Assistance Fundraiser #4
Move-In Ministry Passes the 100-Mark
ACL’s Move-In Ministry served its 100th household in February of this year. People exiting homelessness – individuals and families – have received beds, living room furniture, kitchen tables and chairs, pots and pans, and other household items. Many have expressed their gratitude as a mostly empty apartment becomes “home” while dressers, washing machines, and boxes […]
Rent Assistance 2023 – Stories of Favorable Outcomes
On the first Monday in March of this year at our outside receiving line at Bread For All Food Pantry, I checked in a man whom we hadn’t seen for a while. He explained that his bad back was keeping him from working. As I completed his check-in on my computer tablet, I noticed that […]
Desmond’s “Poverty, By America” – Book Review
Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, By America, takes a hard look at prevalence of poverty in the richest country in the history of the world. As a writer on inequality and a pastor who works alongside low-income individuals and families, I enthusiastically recommend the book. You might not agree with all of what Desmond writes […]
2023 PIT Count
Combatting Homelessness ACL plans to participate in the “Point in Time” count of unhoused people in Austin and Travis County on the evening of Friday, January 27. St. Martin’s Lutheran Church will host the hundreds of volunteers who will go out in teams that evening to count and to bring care packages to the unhoused. […]
ACL’s Rent Assistance Program – 2022
Thanks to a generous grant of $40,000 through the Austin Community Foundation, ACL carried out its second rent assistance program at Bread For All Food Pantry A young Hispanic woman showed up at a Bread For All distribution with an eviction notice in hand from the SE Austin apartment complex where she had lived for […]