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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]