God gave the leadership team of Hill Country Bible Church Austin a vision for reaching every man, woman, and child in Greater Austin with the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.
The first church plant was started, and a strategy developed for multiplying disciples and planting healthy churches around the Greater Austin area.
The Association of Hill Country Churches (AHCC) was born as a relational collaboration of evangelistic Bible churches that were committed to making disciples, planting churches, and partnering with like-minded ministries.
God accelerated the reproduction of churches through the establishment of the church-planting residency and a shift in model from hive-off launch teams to missional core groups.
More association churches got involved in planting new churches, moving reproduction to the 3rd and 4th generation.
After a season of rapid expansion, the association experienced a time of refinement, where new churches were started, some church plants folded, and a
few churches merged together.
The AHCC formally organized into a separate non-profit with its own board of directors with the intent of providing care for existing churches and resources for starting new churches.
This period saw expanded efforts at saturating the city with the gospel and an expansion of multiplication strategies, while at the same time clarifying the role of the association within the larger body of Christ.
The AHCC Board of Directors senses a renewed call from God to focus our association efforts on catalyzing church-planting in our region. God is moving us to intentionally develop our internal and external pipelines for the purpose of finding, assessing, training, launching, and coaching church planters into the mission field of Greater Austin.
We are excited to partner together as a movement to help one another multiply disciples and start reproducing churches. We envision a healthy rhythm of reproduction for every church in our movement that ensures the strength and viability for both the sending and starting church.
With greater clarity of focus, theological alignment, relational commitment, and increased financial partnership, we believe the association will play a vital role in catalyzing church-planting throughout our region.
Danny served as a youth pastor in Conroe, Texas before attending Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating with a ThM in Old Testament in 1990. He also has a BS degree in advertising from the University of Texas. Danny joined the staff of HCBC Austin serving for 10 years first as Youth Pastor and later as Family Pastor in 1994, before planting HCBC Pflugerville in 2000. Danny and Kathy have three adult children and five grandchildren: Jake & Krista, Camp, Enock and Della Box, Ben & Jennifer, Deacon and Mary Beth Box, and Kaley & Sebastian Anzaldo.
