In 2008 my wife and I were sitting in the parking lot at Barton Creek Mall, and I said to her, “What if we started a new church in Austin?”  My loving wife gently said, “Why would we ever do that?”  

You might not know many people who have started churches, but when you tell people you are starting a new church people look at you like you might be a cult leader.

But, that’s what we did.  We talked to the elders at our current church, we went through this interview process where they look at your finances, talk about your intimate parts of life, and try to figure if you’re trying to be a cult leader, and then by God’s grace, a local church, Hill Country Bible Church, committed to sending us out to start a new church in Austin, but where?