As summer begins, many of our dedicated volunteers who love on your children every week will be leaving for internships, missions trips, and other endeavors. While we expect many to return in a few months, this does create openings for others to be involved.

If you have ever thought about serving in KidStuff, here is a great way to serve for a few weeks. More than just a one-shot deal, this is a great way to even meet the children whom your children live, learn, and play with. It may also be a great way to meet other parents, just like yourself.

Another advantage is that you'll get a "front-row" seat to our special summer series that we're unveiling next week. You'll get to be a part of all the excitement that your kids will be talking about all summer long. We'll fill you in more about this in the coming weeks.

Know that God is working in tremendous ways, and we are grateful for what we trust He will do this summer.

We would love to have you join us. If you have  KEEP READING

Caring Family Network is a foster care agency in Austin that the Stone has built an AMAZING relationship with. On April 17th, they are hosting a picnic - complete with food, games, facepainting, etc. - for all of their foster families and foster kids at East Metro Park. We are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them to make this day super special for the families! We are in need of:

20 volunteers 9:30-12:00
20 volunteers 11:30-2:00

**All volunteer activities will involve directly working with the families and kids.
**If you have children who are old enough to help serve alongside you in a volunteer capacity (probably elementary school age and older), this is a great chance to bring them and serve as a family! If you have younger children who would require close supervision, we kindly ask that you do not bring them to this particular event.

And we are in desperate need of missional communities who could help provide food. Caring Family Network is providing hot  KEEP READING

A "Parent to Parent" Article by Kim Truss.

About a year ago, my husband Rob and I took Tyler to Church Under the Bridge. Church Under the Bridge is a Sunday morning church service under IH-35 that reaches the homeless and troubled in the Austin area. Tyler was only 3 years old when we served there as a family. Although our parents thought he was too young to understand what was going on, we felt the exposure to another culture would be good for him.

It was amazing to see how he responded. He was so sensitive to the fact that people didn't have a home. He would ask questions like: "Where do they sleep? What do they sleep on? Are they cold?" It bothered him so much that one day at a red light he asked me, "Mom we need to buy that man a house." I smiled and said, "I wish we could buddy, how about we pray for him to come to know Jesus."

Time passed, and Christmas 2009, together with the women from my area mom's group, we had been praying for our children, especially  KEEP READING

Steps to Volunteering with TeenRock

• Read - Take a look at our TeenRock Volunteer Covenant.pdf

• Complete - Download the TeenRock Leader Application 2010.pdf . These documents are in PDF format. Upon completion, submit application to the team leader that corresponds with the area within TeenRock that you would like to serve.

• Contact - Once your application is received, the process of "getting to know you" begins. Know that this process is a long one and to help guide you, we've provided a TeenRock Application Process.pdf. As we pray through this process we ask that you do the same. To answer any immediate questions, a brief description of the leadership opportunities within TeenRock is available on the last page of the Application as well as contact information of the corresponding Team Leader.