This past Sunday, Erin Szczerba opened her home for an important discussion about neighbors that often go unseen in North/Central Austin: refugees. The meeting featured Gary Barnes of World Changers International. Gary has spent decades ministering among different people groups in east Asia and east Asian immigrants in the United States. Gary shared about how many arrive in the United … Read More
This week wraps up a look at our Markers in Sunday liturgy. Our markers are a starting point for shared understandings, for a common view of how we see life and do it together. The final marker, which we will talk about Sunday, is Presence, and here’s how we describe it: We are an active community. As a church community, … Read More
What is Karaage? According to the menu at East Side King it is: Gluten-free, deep-fried chicken thigh, sweet-spicy sauce, fresh basil, cilantro, mint, onion, jalapeño It’s just one of the dishes you will have available at this week’s Midweek Meetup? Why is that important? You see, as much as we love Sunday church, we get even more excited about Monday-Saturday church. This week’s meetup is … Read More
Sermon audio from Sunday morning, 11/10/13, liturgy as we continued in our series on our Markers. Here are the quotes shared during the message: “The characteristic way of a prophet in Israel is that of poetry and lyric. The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are … Read More
For many of us who grew up in church, we learned Bible stories, but not of teaching the Bible as one big Story. But there has been a new emphasis that way in the last decade, and it’s important as look for a larger understanding of God’s work in history and the present. This is part of what we talked … Read More
On November 16, we will have the chance to see the work of our friends and neighbors from Hill Country Hill Tribers, a group of refugee Artisans in North/Central Austin. Here’s how they describe the event on their website: SHOP ONCE. GIVE TWICE. The 6th Annual Artreach Fair Trade Gift Fair is right around the corner! At Artreach, you can … Read More
We are in the midst of looking at our Markers in Sunday liturgy. Our markers are a starting point for shared understandings, for a common view of how we see life and do it together. The second marker, which we will talk about Sunday, is Wholeness, and here’s how we describe it: We are an imaginative community. While we see … Read More
Sermon audio from Sunday morning, 11/3/13, liturgy as we began our series on our Markers. Here are the quotes shared during the message: “Scripture was never simply about that imparting of information, reminding people of a previous religious experience. Even when the biblical writers were telling the story of Israel, this was never merely in order to provide facts about … Read More
After a great Halloween break, Midweek Meetup is back! This is important to us, because as much as we love Sunday church, we get even more excited about Monday-Saturday church. This week’s meetup is at the Draught House. The food trailer phenom East Side King will be there too! If you like cold drinks, autumn evenings or just want to learn more about Austin Mustard Seed, we … Read More
As a community, we can support and celebrate with each other through prayer. Join us in praying for those both spoken and unspoken during Sunday liturgy. Prayers of thanksgiving for… …friends Matthew and Mikayla for loaning out their scooter for the week – Chris …let us bless the Lord. Thanks be to God. Prayers of petition for …a softened heart toward one … Read More