The church began in 1984 as a house fellowship with a small group meeting every other Saturday with a Bible study. As the fellowship increased in numbers it moved to meeting on Sunday mornings in a hotel conference room, then to a Seventh Day Adventist church. Lewis McDorman, a South Central Conference regional minister living in Austin at the time assisted the group in becoming more organized and helped Austin Mennonite Church (AMC) become established as an organization with bylaws and five year goals. In its early years Austin Mennonite Church was dually affiliated with South Central Conference and Western District Conference. The church continued to grow and called its first pastor in 1990.
Austin Mennonite Church purchased its own facility on two acres at 5801 Westminster Drive, Austin, Texas 78723 in 2000. The facility was previously owned by the Trinity Presbyterian Church who built the facility in 1960. Austin Mennonite Church rents space to a child development center, a Spanish-speaking church, a recorder society, and a community gardens organization. The church is in the process of developing a site plan for the facility and grounds.
Over its several decade history AMC initiated and supported a Mennonite Voluntary Service unit, supported other short-term service volunteers, and was active in the Mid-Texas Convention activities before affiliating solely with Western District Conference. Past and ongoing activities have included: summer children’s camp, Mennonite Central Committee Texas Relief Sales in Houston and Edinburg, serving meals at the local homeless shelter, Mennonite Disaster Service, interfaith dialogue, home repair, refugee assistance, support of the child development center in its facility, peace and justice education and advocacy, and an annual pancake breakfast to raise funds for local high school scholarships.
Depending on the Covid-19 situation, AMC meets weekly for worship on Sunday morning and has an Adult Sunday school class meeting online. The congregation has open communion the first Sunday of each month along with a first Sunday potluck fellowship meal.