A Conversation with Jim Harrington
Thursday, March 26, 7:15 p.m. at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church Jim Harrington’s memoir, The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement, was published toward the end of 2025 by UT Press. Jim was interviewed at the Texas Book Festival in November, and he’s since held a number of presentations on the […]
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 […]
ACL Winter 2023/24 Newsletter
AUSTIN CITY LUTHERANS “More, Better, Together” Ministries Serving Low-Income Neighbors – Winter 2023 Greetings in Christ’s Name from Austin City Lutherans! We are the ELCA congregations in and around the Texas capital city—and that includes you. Since its inception in 2011, ACL has sought ways to fellowship and minister in Austin following the simple moniker […]
ACL Summer/Fall 2023 Newsletter
AUSTIN CITY LUTHERANS “More, Better, Together” Ministries Serving Low-Income Neighbors – Summer/Fall 2023 Greetings in Christ’s Name from Austin City Lutherans! Greetings in Christ’s Name from Austin City Lutherans! We are the ELCA congregations in and around the Texas capital city—and that includes you. Since its inception in 2011, ACL has sought ways to fellowship […]
ACL Rent Assistance Program Fundraiser
Rent assistance is a sure-fire strategy in the prevention of homelessness. During the past three years of the Covid pandemic, numerous city, county and federal rent-assistance funding streams have helped individuals and families maintain a roof over their heads. Many of these streams have now dried up, even as rents and grocery prices rise. Austin […]
ACL Move-In Ministry
“This is so wonderful,” Norma exclaimed with a wide smile. “It feels like Christmas.” Norma and her two teenage boys have been living with various family members, in their vehicle, at cheap hotels, and unsheltered in encampments for the better part of the past three years. By any definition, they’ve been homeless. On this mid-January […]
ACL Winter 2021-22 Newsletter
GREETINGS IN CHRIST’S NAME FROM AUSTIN CITY LUTHERANS! We are the ELCA congregations in and around the Texas capital city—and that includes you. Since its inception in 2011, ACL has sought ways to fellowship and minister in Austin following the simple moniker that we can do “more, better, together.”! NEW MINISTRY EMPHASIS TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS […]