2004

The vision began with God birthing a desire in Zac to be a part of a team of Christ-followers, experiencing authentic community, and seeing real kingdom impact both in a city and around the world. The vision for the church began to become clearer. As Zac and Jennie sought counsel and shared the vision with others, they were affirmed that this vision aligned with the biblical purposes of the church. After a six-month search across the United States, from Fort Collins to Washington D.C., God gave Jennie and Zac a peace that the city was Austin . As Zac took exploratory trips to Austin and met with local pastors, he received nothing but encouragement. Each pastor was supportive and acknowledged that Austin does have a huge need for healthy churches.

2005

Zac and Jennie finished DTS and moved to Little Rock. Zac was given the opportunity to participate in the year-long Church Planting Leadership Residency at Fellowship Bible Church. Regarded by many as the best church planting training program, the Residency is designed to equip church planters with all the wisdom and tools that FBC Little Rock has learned in 25 years of church planting. Austin Bible Fellowship is a church plant of Fellowship Bible Church , Little Rock.

2006

The Allens moved to Austin in July and they began to invite their contacts to a Vision Cast, share the story, and trust that God would begin assembling the right people. They shared with many people their desire to not just gather a group of people to do church, but rather a small band of missionaries who wanted to lock arms and truly be a beneficial presence of Christ in the most influential part of the city. They wanted to be a community where professionals were valued as the top draft picks rather than spectators on the sidelines, where believers could find other believers being authentic about their struggles and intentional about dealing with sin, and where the lost could find an atmosphere of grace and love.

2007 - 2009

We are constantly blown away at what God is doing among us. He has called a group of messy people to serve a holy God and to experience the true Life Change that is only found in Jesus Christ. We have grown deep with each other and in numbers and have experienced the joy and challenge of risking it all for the sake of the Gospel. God has continued to form us into a band of missionaries in this city and as we look back at our story of where we have been and how far we have come it is easy to recognize that God has done it all.