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Discover What We Are All About

At Austin Center for Faith and Work, we are passionate about helping professionals like you understand work as integral to life with God and mission. Through Christ-centered mentorship, connections, and resources, we create a space for you to dig into that truth and practice it. We believe diverse, Spirit-led communities of practice are ideal for change and only rich spiritual lives sustain sacrificial service to others.

Our aim is straightforward and heartfelt: to develop spiritually vibrant leaders who want to see Greater Austin flourish. This means bringing glimpses of heaven on earth through Spirit-led, sacrificially generous, and radically relational leadership.

All of this toward a vision where work's potential for good is realized in our city. At Austin CFW, our programs and initiatives help you to more deeply align your work with God's purposes, and to lead with excellence in service to others.

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The only Christian work is good work well done.

Dorothy Sayers

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The only Christian work is good work well done.

Dorothy Sayers

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Vision

Work's potential for "shalom" realized.

Mission

We gather, develop and empower people to engage work as God intended.

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Get to Know Our Team

Steve Teng

Executive Director

You can often find Steve brainstorming and strategizing with Austin CFW members and local community leaders for redemptive work initiatives. His sense of vocation leads him to the intersection of faith, work, justice and mercy. He and his wife Anne have three children and count it a privilege to serve Austin.

 

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Emily Padula

Director of Operations

Emily has invested most of her career as a healthcare executive with a deep conviction for faith and work integration. She is passionate about cultivating cultures that serve people well and holistically. She and her husband Ben have been enjoying the city of Austin for more than 20 years and are especially delighted to currently call east Austin home.

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Bill Walker

Director of Formation & Theology

Bill has worked as both a pastor and professor, teaching in the areas of theology, business ethics, and spiritual formation. He loves seeing people discover their work as a means of worship and living out their faith. He now serves as the director of House Christian Study Center at UT-Austin. He is also a lecturer at Baylor University. Bill met his wife Whitney,  in high school here in Austin and they have three children.

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Kristine Turner

Communications and Program Support

Kristine brings both her lived experience of integrating faith in the workplace and her gifts of intentional listening and compassion – cultivated through her nursing career. The way God uses small acts of faithfulness and boldness to build relationships and change workplace culture in Austin encourages and humbles her.

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Robby Moore

Workplace Fellowship Associate

Robby loves Austin and counts it an incredible privilege to serve the city and its people. He pastors Capitol City Church, with a passion for helping people figure out how to live all of life with the Lord, believing faith and work integration is a critical piece to the puzzle. Robby and his wife Kristin have 3 children and they enjoy being active outdoors.

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TJ Morelli

Pastor in Residence / Founder of Pivot

TJ draws from his background in both the business world and pastoral ministry. He finds great joy in seeing people go from ‘black and white’ to ‘color’ in how they view their work in the city where God placed them.  He and his wife, Rachel, have 4 children and they are thankful to call Austin home.

 

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Board of Directors

Howard Morrison - Partner, Morrison Ranch

Kimberly Deckel -Executive Pastor, Church of The Cross

Patrick Farrell - Executive Director, Potomac Angel Capital

Elizabeth Ledy - Civil Engineer, TDI Engineering

TJ Morelli - Founder, Pivot Leadership Group; Pastor, Austin Ridge Bible Church

Reid Rutherford - CEO Melzi Corporation; Partner, 1Flourish Capital

Advisory Board

Wesley Fang - Executive Director, Kingdom Capital Network

Nicole Ifill - Senior Product Manager, Square

Matt Johnson - Director of Capital, Escalante Golf

Danny Morgan - Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Matt Thigpen - Young Adults Pastor, Austin Ridge Bible Church

Susan Tolles - Founding ACFW Operations Director 

Join, Connect, and Make a Difference in Greater Austin.

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Bless your workplace.
Serve the City.

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Bless your workplace.
Serve the City.

Pivot Leadership Group, dba Austin Center for Faith & Work, is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
All donations in the United States are tax-deductible in full or part.