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Mission & Outreach

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On this list page are several opportunities for you to make serving others a permanent part of your life.

The Round Rock Area Serving Center carries out a community-wide mission with partners like St. Richard’s, other churches, organizations and individuals, to serve human needs in the City of Round Rock and surrounding areas. The Serving Center has a membership of twenty-seven churches and seven businesses.

The Serving Center provides a food pantry, Round Rock Coats for Kids, clothing & furniture vouchers, Computers for Kids, community gardens, The Volunteer Center, computer skills training, and financial assistance for utilities, rent, prescriptions, transportation, and temporary lodging. The Round Rock Community Clinic is also located at the Serving Center.

New Beginnings Mentoring Ministry is a Christian non-profit that is set up to help single parents find hope and a better future, by helping them to get job training and/or a higher education so that they can provide for their families on their own with out government funding. Our supports to NBMM helps them provide a mentor for their clients. This is someone that will help them to remember that they are a special gift from God and to their children. They also help them to stay on task so that they can complete their goals and become all that God would have them to become. You may want to explore God's call to serve alongside NBMM as a mentor, or as a board member that can get the word out about NBMM. Call Julie Polansky at 512-536-0181.

Faith in Action Caregivers offers services to help older adults in maintaining and improving their quality of life. With the assistance of volunteer caregivers, Faith in Action Caregivers can help clients can maximize their ability to meet their own needs and to continue to live independently.

In Round Rock and Austin, we're crazy about kids

Young Life thinks the world of kids. We believe that they deserve to know what life can hold for them. Young Life leaders are caring adults who come sharing that hope as well as fun and lasting friendships with kids. Young Life is also all about fun. From club and camp to Campaigners and other activities, teenagers will have blast laughing, trying new things and being with their friends.

The Role of a Young Life Leader

Leaders are committed to being involved with kids' lives -- from supporting them at their sporting events to listening to them talk about what's important to them. Our leaders help kids consider the direction of their lives, and they offer hope for their future.

In Round Rock and Austin, Young Life Leaders are college students, business people, teachers...anyone, really. Interested in being a Young Life leader in Austin? College students, we have a unique leadership training program for you. Post college, and working? We'd love to get you involved too...just call us at 512-963-5878.

PrayFAST (Pray For A Soldier Team) is a focused initiative of Fort Hood to give every deploying soldier an opportunity to sign up for a Personal Prayer Warrior who has committed to pray daily for their Soldier and his/her family for protections, finances, Unit Chaplain, or anything that affects the Soldier or family.

PrayFAST is a prayer ministry based at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. This ministry reaches out to soldiers at their deployment time with an offer to have someone pray for them while they are away and for three months after they return. Praying for the Soldier the additional three months helps the Soldiers and their family members to rebuild their relationships after the deployment.

While many soldiers already have a good support system of family, friends and churches, many do not and PrayFAST tries to reach these young soldiers.

Five Talents fights poverty, creates jobs, and transforms lives by empowering the poor in developing countries using innovative savings and microcredit programs, business training, and spiritual development.

Five Talents was commended as a long-term response to the ravages of poverty that debilitate communities in developing countries at the 1998 Lambeth Conference, a global meeting of Anglican leaders in Canterbury, England. The founders, including Anglican Church leaders, were deeply concerned by the plight of the poor and those dying of famine, AIDS/HIV and other diseases. They wanted not only to assist, but also to guard the dignity of the poor, many of whom survive on $1 a day, by supporting them in small businesses.

International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation, and other forms of violent oppression. International Justice Mission lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.

Every 60 seconds a child dies from malaria.

250 million cases of malaria each year.

saving 3 lives only cost $12.

Ready to go out and make a difference

There are an estimated 250 million cases of malaria each year, resulting in nearly one million deaths. The majority of these deaths are children younger than five years old.

Starting with NetsforLife®,the Inspiration Fund campaign will empower local Episcopal communities to realize their potential to help shape a better world, by raising $5 million dollars by 2012.

Yes, we're known as the "Pumpkin Church" in Round Rock, but do you know why? We sell pumpkins and those proceeds help us join God at work in the world! Read below for information about the resplendent ministries we support.