• Refugees & Homeless

    Rather than reinvent the wheel, we believe the best way to work for a lasting change in the homeless situation in our city is to partner with local non-profits who have gone before us, have the experience, and are professionally trained in working with the homeless population toward self-sufficiency.

    Restore Austin has partnered with Caritas of Austin, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, CapCity Kids, Foundation for the Homeless, and Front Steps.

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    If you would like to more fully engage in a lifestyle of service for the homeless population of Austin, simply contact us and we can help you connect with one of our restore communities who are actively engaged in weekly or monthly service.

    Along with our many partnerships and our Downtown GrillOut we provide what we call our ‘Food Projects.’  The mission of our food projects is to provide people with the means to become active members in their community. The food projects are a guideline for serving people in your community.  The food project offers engagement in the form of a handshake, eye contact, warm food, and even some hugs. The project is not a solution, it is a step by step, DIY (Do It Yourself) outline for a way to engage our homeless brothers and sisters by meeting tangible needs and developing relationships.

    Every fifth sunday at the corner of 7th and Neches we feed over 300 of the Austin homeless population with grilled hamburgers, chips, and bottled water.   If you have never experienced the   opportunity to serve Austin’s homeless brothers and sisters, then we highly recommend you sign up for our next Downtown Grillout.  For more information on this click HERE.

    Along with our social action in the realm of homelessness we partner with Refugee Services of Texas to further their mission: Committing to helping every arriving refugee receive the support they need to become self-sufficient, contributing members of our Austin community.

    Through our Restore Communities we have trained volunteers to ‘adopt’ refugee families from all over the word.  Refugee Connect provides in house training for our Restore Communities so that we will be well equipped to help the refugees move from being strangers in a foreign land to self-sufficient contributing citizens of Austin.  Refugee Services of Texas is providing the refuges for us to take care of.  They will interview the facilitator of the Restore Community and set up your Restore Community with a family that best fits your group.

    Along with ‘adopting’ refugee families we have partnered with the Free Methodist Church to plant an African Refugee church in Houston Texas.  Our hope is to make a lasting impact on the refugee situation, not only in our city, but nationally and globally as well.  Our hope is to have God’s heart as laid out in Leviticus 19:34: The foreigners residing among you must be treated as your native-born.  Love them as yourself

    • Mobile Loves and Fishes: Visit their website by clicking HERE.  Follow them on twitter by clicking HERE.
    • Caritas Austin: Visit their website by clicking HERE.  Follow them on twitter, by clicking HERE.
    • Foundation for the Homeless: Visit their website by clicking HERE.
    • CapCity Kids: Visit their website by clicking HERE.  Follow them on Facebook by clicking HERE.
    • Refugee Services of Texas: Visit their website by clicking HERE.

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