Round Rock Food Fort

Using food as a doorway to connection, discipleship, and hope for under-resourced youth.

Round Rock Food Fort will use weekly meals as an anvenue to build relationships with under-resourced youth right in their own neighborhoods. Through our mobile dinner tables and consistent volunteers, we'll create a family-style environment where kids can experience care, consistency, and connection. As we meet physical needs, we also cultivate trust, uncover deeper emotional and physical needs, and share the love of Jesus in a tangible way.

Breaking the Cycle

Rewiring Connection

God designed every child’s brain to grow, learn, and thrive in an environment of love and safety. But research shows that poverty and chronic stress can actually change the brain, reducing the size of the Hippocampus and Amygdala - the areas that help regulate emotions and respond to stress.

When children grow up in hard circumstances, it can affect:

How they handle stress and form relationships
Their ability to focus, learn, and manage emotions
Their physical health and long-term wellbeing

Yet God’s grace can bring healing and hope. The presence of caring adults, safe spaces, and nurturing relationships can actually help the brain rewire and restore what hardship has broken.

ACEs and PCEs

Building Resilience & Faith

We often hear about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - things like abuse, neglect, or financial strain - that can harm a child’s heart and mind. But just as powerful are Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) that build resilience and faith.

Positive Childhood Experiences include:

Feeling safe and protected
Being able to talk to someone about feelings
Sharing in family or community traditions
Feeling a sense of belonging
Having at least two caring, non-parent adults who take genuine interest in you

When the church steps into a child’s story, these experiences become real.

Our Mission

It’s about more than just a meal. We believe that meeting physical needs opens the door for spiritual transformation.

Food

Our mobile-ministry model will allow us to bring hot, nutritious meals into underserved neighborhoods every week, meeting a child’s most basic needs. Our long-term vision includes offering a mobile food pantry to reach even more families in need.

Relationship

Around the dinner table in our "dining room on wheels," children will find what many are missing at home - a team of safe, consistent adults who listen, encourage, pray, and remind them that they are loved by God.

Development

Our volunteers will be trained in social-emotional development, de-escalation, and discipleship. We'll help with homework, speak words of life, and walk alongside kids as they grow into the people God created them to be.

Because when the Church shows up with compassion and consistency, we reflect the heart of Jesus - healing brokenness, restoring hope, and helping every child know they are fully known and deeply loved by Him!

Coming Soon: Food Fort Formworkers

Jarrod is starting a Life Group that will meet on Sunday mornings at 10:30 to plan and prepare the Food Fort Bus for ministry! We’ll focus on research, design, and planning, and we’re looking for congregants with construction, electrical, design, or handyman skills. We'll update the congregation on workdays we plan and ways everyone can help bring the bus to life for ministry use.

Contact Jarrod