Love Austin Initiative
God loves the city of Austin! And we believe that when God's people show up, then we should see the renewal of people and communities, starting in our neighborhoods and moving progressively throughout the city.
Our posture toward the city is to love the people and communities of the city, so naturally we have a community outreach initiative called Love Austin. Read below to learn more about Love Austin and then head over to the Love Austin website and the Love Austin Facebook page.
Love Austin exists to renew people and communities in Austin by...
- Strategically partnering with existing organizations and city leaders to bring renewal.
- Developing new initiatives that fill the gap in existing services or that we are uniquely positioned to lead.
Check out our upcoming service opportunities.
Why Love Austin?
Having withdrawn from the city, the church in the urban core of Austin, is largely absent and irrelevant. As the church began focusing more on moral behavior than on the condition of the heart, the church became judgmental and withdrew. After enough time, the primary interaction the church had with urban areas was through television shows and the media, and it was less than flattering. The combination of the church withdrawing from the city and towards a relationship with the city on a TV screen has left us without a healthy personal witness in the city. Add to this, the politicizing of the church on a local and national scale. As such, in the minds of many in the city, we are a caricaturized version of a political, self-serving, judgmental Christianity. We need a more humble, graceful declaration and demonstration of the truth, with an approach that seeks to engage the people of the city in a manner that breaks the categories that we are placed in. To do so, we also need to continually reexamine the categories we have placed the people of the city in. Loving Austin is our response.
Loving Austin Holistically
Each individual and community is comprised of multiple components that make up the whole person or community. Like any organism, if any part suffers, then the whole of it suffers. As such, Love Austin will seek to operate and bring renewal through multiple paths.
- Renewing People: Emotional, Physical and Spiritual
- Renewing Communities: Neighborhoods, Families, Education, Health, Science, Environment, Social Equity, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Economics, Government & Law.
Love Austin on the Web
Check out the Love Austin website and find us on Facebook.