Over the next several months, we will be sending teams all over the world! As you look at the summary below, please pray for the teams and the people they will serve.
Join us this Tuesday, June 1 at our First Tuesday prayer service as we pray for those who will go and do this summer all over the world [details and map].
Keep checking back for stories from our teams as they serve as Christ's hands and feet this summer!
Students from Reagan High School are going to Kenya this Summer in partnership with The Austin Stone and Manna Worldwide. They will be at The Austin Stone this Sunday to talk about their vision and how you can help. Watch this segment on them from KVUE below and stop by after the 9am, 11am, or 5pm services in the cafeteria of Austin High School to hear more.
Look closely, though. These teenagers aren't friends - they're family. Their relationships run deep and visitors are immediately included within this bond. The home-cooked meal comes from the hands of volunteers and their homework isn't really homework, but questions of purpose. The young man writing poetry isn't just another hopeful artist, either. His work sings of love and hope and finding clarity in the midst of chaos.
It's Monday night in the St. Johns neighborhood. And these students from Reagan High School will be taking the biggest leap in their [KEEP READING]
written by Branndon Bargo
I remember as a boy going on trips with my missionary grandfather to Mexico. It was exciting to visit remote jungle villages, experiencing a different culture. But, I remember not looking forward to the boring church services. I thought if only I could just go exploring and forget the church stuff it would be perfect. I enjoyed my time with my grandfather, but thought the mission life was not for me.
It is now 20 years later, and I am both an explorer and a missionary; the best of both worlds, to share His story and His beauty. I have always had a thirst for life, and a child like sense of dreaming. As I have grown older nothing has changed with my dreams, except that now I am achieving each of them one by one. As with each of my dreams they are like flames that are eternally burning. They do not go out unless they are first attempted and then accomplished. I know now it is because they are not just dreams, but desires that Christ has placed in me.
My most recent dream is one that is so huge that I know that it is completely from God. I know this because as I was sharing my dream with a Ugandan pastor he told me, "I know this vision you have is from God because you will never accomplish it without His help and the help from many other people." He then said, "God does not want you to do things that are so small that He is not needed, He wants you to lean on Him, and that is done when you dream big." I had my confirmation, and I thanked [KEEP READING]