KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD, the informal motto of the city of Austin, Texas, might make the average person think twice about the idea of starting a church there. But for David and Connie Bernard, it was a place they had both called home and would prove to be fertile ground for planting a church that would grow from zero to over one thousand during an eighteen-year pastorate. This book tells the story of the beginnings of New Life Austin and a network of daughter churches working to reach this beautiful city in the Texas Hill Country.