From the beginning, you—our dedicated volunteers and loyal donors—have shown up to care for and support our neighbors who need us most.
Nearly 30 years ago, God called the founders of Mobile Loaves & Fishes to go out and love their neighbors in a new and bold way. Specifically, they were called to love and serve the lonely, hungry and vulnerable men and women living on the streets of Austin. At the time, they didn’t exactly know how to answer that call, but they knew they couldn’t do it without the help of the broader community around them.
Our friend, Lynn, is one of the many caring and compassionate volunteers who has given her time, talent and treasure to serve and work alongside our neighbors over the years. In 2016, Lynn began volunteering with the truck ministry, preparing meals for neighbors experiencing homelessness. She has also volunteered with crews to help build some of the homes at Community First! Village.
Today, Lynn volunteers on-site at the Village each Thursday in our Food Pantry and on Saturdays in the Farmer’s Market. She helps our formerly homeless neighbors select pantry staples and find fresh ingredients that enable them to prepare simple meals. In doing so, Lynn says her time volunteering fills her heart as much as she hopes it fills her Village neighbors’ bellies.
Housing alone will never solve homelessness, but community will.
“I’m so grateful to be here providing neighbors with food. While I’m here, I get to build relationships with them, and now they are like family to me.”
— Lynn,
MLF Volunteer
since 2016
Mobile Loaves & Fishes’ food truck ministry began with a mission to connect human to human, heart to heart with our friends experiencing homelessness. With your help, this one simple act of hospitality—serving food to our most vulnerable neighbors—has proven to be the conduit that allows us to cultivate meaningful relationships built on trust. Through these relationships, our neighbors who have spent significant time living on the streets have told us first-hand that they need more than four walls and a roof to no longer be homeless. They need to be settled into a permanent home and surrounded by people who care. They need volunteers like Lynn who consistently show up for them. They need community.
“I love my neighbors by showing up. Getting to know them makes the Village not just a place to live, but a home. It makes it a community where we all belong.”
