Austin Baptist Chapel

Jaime and Tobi said it well… a great service to Austin and if you are interested in serving, give Rosanne (sweetest woman ever) a call. Or you can drop me a line.
One of two soup kitchen in town… serves between 300 and 400 meals at lunch each day. A great service to the community and a great way to get right in life.
Amazing how helping others makes your cares seem less important.
Allison needs to open a similar ministry for one-​legged birds.

What a great service to the homeless and hungry population of Austin!
Unilocalers Tobi D., Justin B. and I, led by Unilocaler Don P., a regular volunteer, spent an afternoon prepping, serving and cleaning here.
I can’t comment on the religious nature of this place, but it’s my understanding that they’ll serve anyone who needs it during their 11 – 12:30 meal. I don’t know that they do anything else here (i.e. church services), as it seemed like basically just a soup kitchen when we were there.
The regular employees and frequent volunteers we encountered were mostly great to work with, and they weren’t afraid to put us to work right away. The less experienced among us were in charge of plopping one or more items on trays, then passing them along. A couple of others were actually handing out the hot meals to people.
In that hour and a half, we served 358 people what could be their only meal for a day or two. It’s a good feeling to help people out like that!
My only complaint is that we weren’t told in advance not to open the back door, and I was reprimanded pretty strongly for handing a guy a bar of soap and a towel. Apparently there’s a very serious system to giving out that stuff, which is fine. I just didn’t see the harm in giving out a bar of hotel soap.
It appears to be run off donations from grocery stores of day-​old bread, fruit, meat and the like. Toiletries were a wide assortment that led me to believe they were donated by random citizens. I’d recommend giving what you can, time, food or anything else!