Austin Baptist Association

What Austin Baptist Association does

Austin Baptist Association (ABA) is a Texas-based religious nonprofit that operates as an alliance of more than 100 Southern Baptist churches across the Greater Austin metropolitan area. Its stated mission is to coordinate participating congregations in fulfilling the Great Commission, and it functions as a regional clearing-house for ministries, events, church-planting efforts, and resource sharing among member congregations. Core services include a public Church Directory, a Church Planting program that has helped launch over 40 new churches over twelve years and currently financially supports 8 new works, a Church Needs resource-matching service, an electronic and mail newsletter, and an Events coordination platform. ABA also maintains a strategic partnership with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) for joint missionary and church-planting work.

The organization is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions from its member churches, which are encouraged to contribute 3% of undesignated annual receipts (with a minimum participation threshold of the lesser of 1% of undesignated receipts or $30,000). ABA has no commercial products or pricing model, no technology platform of meaningful scale, and no disclosed revenue or financials. Its distribution is operated through a website (austinbaptist.org), an email newsletter, mail communications, and a Facebook presence, all targeted at member churches and the broader Austin-area community rather than a commercial customer base.

The operating footprint spans at least 17 communities in Central Texas, including Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Georgetown, New Braunfels, Buda, Elgin, Dripping Springs, Driftwood, Lockhart, Bastrop, Manor, Del Valle, Hutto, Lago Vista, and Cedar Creek. ABA is staffed by approximately 5 employees based at its office at 15020 N Interstate Hwy 35, Austin, TX 78728 (mailing PO Box 4978, Austin, TX 78765). The organization identifies approximately 1.4 million Austin-area residents who do not believe in Jesus and an estimated 84% of the Austin population as unaffiliated with evangelicals as the unmet mission target for its member network.

Name

Austin Baptist Association

Legal name

Austin Baptist Association

Website

https://austinbaptist.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Austin Baptist Association is a Texas religious nonprofit and regional alliance of more than 100 Southern Baptist churches in the Greater Austin area, coordinating church planting, resource sharing, ministry events, and Great Commission collaboration funded by voluntary member-church contributions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Association Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious Organizations (813110)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

Keywords

• Church network services
• Church planting support
• Baptist association coordination
• Ministry resource clearinghouse
• Congregational alliance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Austin Baptist Association operates as an alliance of participating Southern Baptist congregations in the greater Austin, Texas area, fulfilling the Great Commission. It provides church planting assistance, a church directory, event coordination, a newsletter, and a church-needs clearing-house to coordinate ministries, resources, and outreach among member churches.

Product overview

Austin Baptist Association operates as an alliance of participating congregations fulfilling the Great Commission. The organization provides a suite of services including a Church Directory (listing over 100 affiliated churches), Church Planting support (having started over 40 churches in twelve years), a Newsletter subscription service, Events coordination, and Church Needs resource matching. These services function as interconnected community programs rather than a unified software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Church Directory A comprehensive directory listing over 100 affiliated Southern Baptist churches in the Austin area, including each church's address, pastor name, contact information, and website. Used by member churches, prospective visitors, and community members to find and connect with local Baptist congregations.
• Church Planting Program
• Newsletter
• Events Coordination
• Church Needs Clearing-House

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• North American Mission BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNAMB invites pastors and pastoral staff to free luncheons and missions updates. The ABA collaborates with NAMB on missionary work and church planting initiatives in the Austin area.
• Member Churches (100+ churches)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerABA partners with over 100 member churches including Anderson Mill Baptist Church, Austin Baptist Church, Hyde Park Baptist Church, First Baptist Church of Pflugerville, and many others. These churches collaborate on church planting, Great Commission efforts, and community outreach.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Acts 29: International church-planting network active in Austin and other U.S. metros. Competes with ABA for planters, funding, and member churches, even though denominationally distinct (Reformed/evangelical rather than Southern Baptist).
• Send Network: NAMB's church-planting network focused on multiplying healthy churches in strategic U.S. cities, including Austin. Operates as a peer and partner to ABA in the same church-planting mission space.

Broad incumbents

• Baptist General Convention of Texas: The largest statewide Baptist convention in Texas, coordinating churches, institutions, and missions across the state. ABA operates under and is affiliated with the broader BGCT/SBTC ecosystem, making it a direct denominational peer at a larger scale.
• Southern Baptists of Texas Convention: Texas-focused Southern Baptist convention providing church planting, missions funding, and ministerial support. ABA's church planting and member-church coordination model is similar to SBTC's at the state versus metro level.
• North American Mission Board: National Southern Baptist domestic missions entity and ABA's key strategic partner. NAMB funds church planting, sends missionaries, and is the upstream body that ABA collaborates with for planting initiatives in Austin.

Regional players

• Converge: Baptist church-planting network that, like ABA, supports church planting in major U.S. metros. Functions as an adjacent denominational peer in the cooperative church-planting space, though with different national affiliation.

Direct peers

• Greater Houston Baptist Network: Baptist association serving Southern Baptist churches in the greater Houston area. Directly comparable to ABA in function, scale, and denominational alignment, just serving a different large Texas metro.
• Tarrant Baptist Association: Baptist association serving churches in Tarrant County (Fort Worth). Same network-of-churches, church-planting, and missions-support model as ABA, with comparable membership size and staff scale.
• Dallas Baptist Association: Metropolitan Baptist association coordinating Southern Baptist churches in the Dallas region. Comparable structure to ABA with church planting, member services, and cooperative missions programs.
• San Antonio Baptist Association: Metropolitan Baptist association serving Southern Baptist churches in the San Antonio area. Operates the same church-network, church-planting, and Great Commission coordination model as ABA in a comparable Texas metro.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ABA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/austin-baptist-association

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Funding overview

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M&A

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