Category: News

The First English Child Development Center has openings! It’s rare for a high-quality child development center to have open spots—especially for infants–but we do! Word of mouth is our best marketing, so tell your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers about the FELCDC.

Visit: https://www.firstenglishcdc.org/

Post or Share our flyer: Have an info board at your office or know someone who might be interested? Share this flyer!

Follow us on social media: Share our posts, like, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram and Nextdoor!

Write a review: Online reviews help others learn about our CDC! 

Nextdoor, Google, Yelp, Facebook, Care.com

Donate:  Read this letter from our CDC Board and Donate today! 

Contact us:  CDCBoard@felcaustin.org

The Call Committee has recently interviewed two pastor candidates and will meet next week to prayerfully discern next steps with these candidates. We are grateful for your continued prayers as we follow this Spirit-led process. To contact the Call Committee, please email us at: FELCTransitionMinistry@felcaustin.org. 

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans. For more information visit:

https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov

On Monday evening, November 4, we gathered for a time of prayer, music, scripture, poetry, reflection, and connection. We centered ourselves in the themes of community, humility, and peace.

The link to the service is online here. The link to the worship bulletin is here.

Holy One, where hearts are fearful and constricted, grant courage and hope. Where anxiety is infectious and widening, grant peace and reassurance. Where impossibilities close every door and window, grant imagination and resistance. Where distrust twists our thinking, grant humility and illumination. Where spirits are daunted and weakened, grant soaring wings and strengthened dreams. Holy One, you are the fullness of all love: today, tomorrow, and forever. Amen.

We commend our nation to God’s loving care.

On a beautiful, breezy, Sunday evening, 50 or so neighbors, members, & friends gathered at FELC for our Fall Festival. We celebrated our community of faith: past, present, & those yet to come. We enjoyed brats, schnitzel, & many trimmings & desserts prepared by folks. And, this year, there were a variety of potato salad recipes to try! Our great thanks to Herr Randy Baden (and Herr Terry Porter) for coordinating & welcoming us – and to all the hands & feet that served. Das leben ist gut! La vida es buena!

Sunday November 3, 6-8pm

The FELC Fall Fest returns on Sunday, November 3, 6pm in the FELC parking lot & fellowship hall. We’ll celebrate the fall, our founding heritages, & our community of faith. The cooks will provide brats with brotchen & schnitzel.  We’ll also enjoy the sides that you choose to bring! A Karlihaus Brew will also be on site; feel free to bring your favorite beverage.  Contact Randy Baden (towbarcity@yahoo.com) to let him know you’ll be there and what sides you’d like to bring.  It will be helpful to have a head-count for purchasing purposes.  See you then!
 

FELC Book Club will meet Sunday, November 10, 1:00 pm, at the home of Vincent Hill and Anne Wiebe. Potluck lunch, followed by a discussion of A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers. Copies are available (but in high demand) at Austin Public Library and available for purchase at Ebay and Bookfinder.

Here’s a summary: In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers’ delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of “what do people need?” is answered.

The book for December 8 is The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, available at Austin Public Library.

Join Oliver Rajamani with Sitar Maestro Pandit Rajib Karmarker & Tabla Maestro Pandit Gourisankar Karmarker for an evening of extraordinary music from world class artists: Friday, November 8 at 8pm. This evening of music will be at “The Rosette” – another jewel setting of Austin. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://oliverrajamani.com/events/

It’s that time again!  Join Texas Early Music Project (TEMP) for the fall edition of our TEMP-Oh Community Madrigal Sing on Monday, November 11, at FELC!  No experience is required for this “TEMP-orary choir”—just a love of singing madrigals!  For more information, including upcoming holiday events, visit: 2024-2025 Concert Season — Texas Early Music Project (early-music.org).