Census County Division · Bastrop County
Cedar Creek and Red Rock
- Neighbors
- 40,000
- Active churches
- 42
- Residents per church
- ~950
About 950 residents per church here. Across the fifteen divisions it is about 1,980.
2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024 · Our church database, 2026-10-10
If you pastor here, pray here, or have given your years to this place, this page is for you.
We count 42 active congregations in Cedar Creek and Red Rock today, and about 40,000 neighbors, which is roughly one church for every 950 of them. That is not a scorecard. It is a description of the ground you share, and of how much of it none of you can reach alone.
The others who serve here
You share Cedar Creek and Red Rock with congregations across 8 denominational families. Some of them you know. Most of them you probably do not, and that is the ordinary condition of a city, not a failure. We put the list here so you can start.
Drawing the churches of Cedar Creek and Red Rock
42 congregations across 8 denominational families.
- A Place for the Broken and Lost Home FellowshipNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekWebsiteSuggest a correction
About
A Place for the Broken and Lost is a small fellowship in Cedar Creek that describes itself as 'a non-denominational, straight from the Bible, teaching church' welcoming 'the broken and the lost.' It gathers on Sunday mornings on FM 20.
- BastropFounded 1990WebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Apostolic Christian Church of Austin-Bastrop is a congregation of the Apostolic Christian Church of America, established in 1990, meeting on Highway 71 on the west side of Bastrop and serving the greater Austin area.
- Bastrop Church of ChristChurch of ChristBastropWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Bastrop Church of Christ is a nondenominational Christian congregation led by an eldership in Bastrop, gathering at its FM 20 facility, The Gathering, for Bible classes and worship on Sundays.
- Bateman Baptist ChurchBaptistRed RockFounded 1955WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Bateman Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on Farm to Market 20 in the Bateman community near Red Rock, in Bastrop County southeast of Austin.
- Calvary Chapel BastropPentecostalCedar CreekFounded 2010WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Calvary Chapel Bastrop is a congregation meeting on North Gaines Road in Cedar Creek, Texas, affiliated with the Calvary Chapel Association. It pairs teaching through the Bible with contemporary praise and worship, and states that its 'supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit.'
- Cedar Creek United Methodist ChurchMethodistCedar CreekFounded 1847WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Cedar Creek United Methodist Church is a United Methodist congregation on FM 535 in Cedar Creek, southeast of Austin. In its own words it is 'Growing, Serving, Loving All in the Name of Jesus Christ,' and its ministries include a community food pantry.
- Celebration Community ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropFounded 2008WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Celebration Community Church is a non-denominational congregation on Farm to Market Road 20 in Bastrop, Texas, founded in 2008. In its own words its vision, drawn from Ephesians 2:19, is to move beyond mere community to true family, and it states its belief that God speaks through Scripture and that the Holy Spirit continues the work of Jesus in each believer and in their neighborhoods.
- Christian Country FellowshipNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekFounded 1997WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Christian Country Fellowship is a non-denominational congregation on Farm to Market Road 20 in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County, established in 1997. In its own words it invites everyone who wants to experience the love of Jesus, and holds that Christ died not only for sin but so that people may have healing and abundant life.
- Church of GodOtherCedar CreekWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Church of God is a Cedar Creek congregation affiliated with the Intercontinental Church of God, describing itself as 'a church built upon the solid word of God.' The congregation observes the seventh-day Sabbath and streams services on Friday nights.
- End Tyme FellowshipNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropFounded 2007Suggest a correction
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End Tyme Fellowship is a non-denominational congregation on State Highway 71 in Bastrop, Texas, established in 2007. It publishes no website of its own.
- Epiphany Lutheran ChurchLutheranBastropFounded 2022WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Epiphany Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in Bastrop, organized in December 2021 and holding its first service in February 2022. Sunday worship uses Divine Service Setting 1 from the Lutheran Service Book, with adult Bible class and children's Sunday school beforehand. The congregation gathers on its own property on Three Oaks Lane, 5.58 acres purchased in 2023.
- Foundation Christian MinistriesNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropFounded 2001WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Foundation Christian Ministries is a non-denominational congregation on Union Chapel Road East in Bastrop, Texas, which held its first service in March 2001. It describes itself as a church that feels like family and states that its desire is to connect people with God, others and purpose through discipleship.
- Grace Baptist ChurchBaptistRed RockFounded 2002WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation at 115 Sorrell Street in Red Rock, Texas, founded in 2002 and publicized in its own wordmark as Grace Baptist Church in Red Rock. Its published statement of faith begins "We believe that God is the eternal King," describing Him as "an infinite, unchanging Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, and love." It gathers for Bible study and worship on Sunday mornings, and it runs a community food pantry and a men's ministry at the Bastrop County Jail.
- Grace Bible FellowshipNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropFounded 1996WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace Bible Fellowship is a non-denominational congregation on Flahive Road in Bastrop, Texas. It records that it began in 1996 when a group of families gathered for Bible study and fellowship, first meeting in homes and then in more permanent facilities, and that it has been at its present location since 2003. It is elder-led, gathers for Sunday school at 9:30 and worship at 10:30, and carries its Sunday service live on Zoom alongside the meeting on campus. Its statement of faith confesses one God existing eternally in three Persons, the virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God and the supreme and final authority in matters of faith and belief.
- BastropFounded 1997WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace Mennonite Fellowship is a Beachy Amish Mennonite congregation on Shiloh Road near Bastrop, begun in 1997 as an outreach of Faith Mennonite Fellowship of Lott, Texas. In its own words, it is 'a small Amish Mennonite community seeking to understand and follow the teachings of Jesus,' gathering for Sunday morning worship at 9:30 a.m.
- Heart of Texas Church of ChristChurch of ChristBastropFounded 2015WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Heart of Texas Church of Christ is a Church of Christ congregation meeting at 652 Highway 304 near Bastrop. It states its purpose as building up and encouraging one another and reflecting Jesus to the world.
- Heirs of Grace ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropFounded 2015WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Heirs of Grace Church is a non-denominational congregation on Farm to Market Road 20 in Bastrop, Texas, which records that it opened its doors in September 2015. It gathers for worship on Saturday evenings at 6:30, with a women's gathering on Tuesdays and a men's on Thursdays, and it notes that some who come to its services also attend another church on Sundays. In its own words it is a community of believers that worships inside and outside the walls, and its statement of faith confesses one true God eternally existing as three Persons and holds the Bible to be inspired, inerrant and infallible.
- Hills Prairie Baptist ChurchBaptistBastropSuggest a correction
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Hills Prairie Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on State Highway 304 in the Hills Prairie community southeast of Bastrop, Texas. Directory listings identify it as Southern Baptist.
- Cedar CreekFounded 1855Suggest a correction
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Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church is a Primitive Baptist congregation on State Highway 21 in Cedar Creek, Texas. Its own sign at the property gives its founding date as 1855.
- Iglesia Cristiana de BastropNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekFounded 2014SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Iglesia Cristiana de Bastrop is a Spanish-language congregation on Union Chapel Road in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County. In its own words it is a warm congregation that gladly welcomes visitors.
- Iglesia Cristiana Puerta Del Cielo, Red Rock Tx “Tiempos Finales”Non-Denominational/IndependentRed RockSpanishSuggest a correction
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Iglesia Cristiana Puerta Del Cielo is a Spanish-language congregation on Lentz Main Street in Red Rock, Texas, in Bastrop County. It publishes no website of its own.
- Iglesia de Jesucristo, Palabra MielPentecostalCedar CreekSpanishSuggest a correction
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Iglesia de Jesucristo Palabra Miel is a Spanish-language Pentecostal congregation in Cedar Creek, east of Austin, part of the Palabra Miel church network.
- Iglesia la Barca de Cristo Jesús Paz y RestauraciónNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekSpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Iglesia la Barca de Cristo Jesús Paz y Restauración is a Spanish-language congregation on Oak Forest Drive in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County. It publishes through its own Facebook page rather than a website of its own.
- Iglesia Nueva VidaNon-Denominational/IndependentDel ValleSpanishSuggest a correction
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Iglesia Nueva Vida is a Spanish-language congregation on Mesa Drive in Del Valle, Texas, southeast of Austin. It publishes no website of its own.
- Iglesia Puerta Del Cielo De AustinNon-Denominational/IndependentDel ValleSpanishSuggest a correction
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Iglesia Puerta Del Cielo De Austin is a Spanish-language congregation on Mesa Drive in Del Valle, Texas, southeast of Austin. It publishes no website of its own.
- Life Center Church of BastropPentecostalBastropSpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Life Center Church of Bastrop is a bilingual United Pentecostal Church International congregation on State Highway 71 in Bastrop, Texas, also publicized as Iglesia Centro Vida UPCI. It describes itself as Pentecostal by experience and Apostolic in doctrine, and holds all of its services in both English and Spanish.
- LifeFamily BastropNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropWebsiteSuggest a correction
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LifeFamily Bastrop is a campus of LifeFamily, a non-denominational church with several locations in Central Texas. In its own words, LifeFamily is "a Christian church that believes every person's life can be transformed through the power of Jesus Christ," offering "friendly people, powerful praise and worship, reflective communion and a practical message." The church began in 2005 as LifeAustin and adopted the LifeFamily name in 2022. The Bastrop campus is on State Highway 71 and holds Sunday services at 9:30am and 11am.
- Mt Olive Baptist ChurchBaptistCedar CreekFounded 1874Suggest a correction
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Mt Olive Baptist Church is a historically Black Baptist congregation on Mt Olive Road in Cedar Creek, Texas, in rural Bastrop County southeast of Austin. African American citizens of Bastrop established it in 1874, meeting first in a brush arbor, and in 1909 the congregation bought three acres for its building; from 1897 until consolidation with Bastrop in 1957 the Elm Grove School shared the building, and Mount Olive Evergreen Cemetery lies northeast of it. The site carries a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark marker awarded in 2008.
- Cedar CreekWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Mt Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on State Highway 21 West in Cedar Creek, Texas, southeast of Austin. In its own words, it is 'connecting with mankind to spread God's message of love and salvation.'
- Cedar CreekSuggest a correction
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Mt Pleasant Primitive Baptist is a Primitive Baptist congregation on McDonald Lane West in Cedar Creek, in Bastrop County southeast of Austin. It publishes no website or social presence of its own.
- Cedar CreekSuggest a correction
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Mt Woodrow Missionary Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on Walter Hoffman Road in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County southeast of Austin. Its church building, on a half-acre property, dates to 1976 according to Bastrop County appraisal records.
- New Covenant ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekFounded 1970WebsiteSuggest a correction
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New Covenant Church is a non-denominational congregation on State Highway 21 in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County, incorporated in 1970. In its own words it was founded on Christian principles and the doctrine of Christ according to the Holy Bible, which it calls God's inspired Word, and it describes its evangelical ministry's sole purpose as fulfilling the great commission.
- New Life In Christ ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentCedar CreekWebsiteSuggest a correction
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New Life In Christ Church is a non-denominational congregation on State Highway 21 in Cedar Creek, Texas, in Bastrop County. It describes itself in its own words as a Spirit-filled, full gospel church that teaches the word of God.
- Red Rock Christian ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentRed RockFounded 2002WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Red Rock Christian Church is a non-denominational congregation on South Front Street in Red Rock, Texas, in Bastrop County, established in 2002. In its own words it is a local community church that is independent and Bible-believing, committed to a lifestyle of love expressed in obedience to God, service to the body of Christ, and witness to those outside it.
- River Valley ChurchBaptistBastropFounded 2006WebsiteSuggest a correction
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River Valley Church is a congregation on State Highway 71 West in Bastrop, Texas, founded in 2006 and known formally as River Valley Christian Fellowship. It met in seven different locations before completing its current worship center in December 2019. In its own words it is about one thing, 'reaching, helping, connecting people to Jesus,' and it describes itself as 'a non-denominational church in Bastrop, TX.' Its published beliefs affirm the Bible as 'the inspired Word of God,' 'one God who exists in three persons,' and Jesus as 'fully God and fully human' who 'lived a perfect life, died on the cross for our sins, and rose again.' The congregation gathers for three Sunday morning services and carries kids, students, groups, care and prayer, and outreach ministries.
- Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchCatholicBastropFounded 1876SpanishWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish of the Diocese of Austin serving the Rockne community of Bastrop County from 4045 FM 535, with roots in German Catholic settlement and a founding dating to 1876. The parish shares its pastor with St. Mary's in String Prairie and offers Sunday Mass in English and Spanish, with an active Hispanic ministry.
- BastropFounded 1872WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church is a Primitive Baptist congregation on FM 20 about six miles east of Bastrop, Texas, organized in 1872 and worshipping on its present site since 1963. In its own words it 'holds the honor of being the Mother Church of Black Primitive Baptist congregations in Bastrop, Travis, and surrounding counties.' It hosted the first Annual Session of the Providence District Association in 1873 and helped establish Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church in Cedar Creek in 1884; its 1890 building served, as its history page puts it, 'like many early Black churches', as both sanctuary and community school until it was lost to fire in 1915.
- Stoney Point Fellowship ChurchNon-Denominational/IndependentDel ValleWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Stoney Point Fellowship Church is a non-denominational congregation on Wolf Lane in Del Valle, Texas, southeast of Austin. In its own words it is 'a non-denominational house of worship.' Its public presence is its own Facebook page rather than a website of its own.
- The Pentecostals of Bastrop ChurchPentecostalBastropFounded 1945WebsiteSuggest a correction
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The Pentecostals of Bastrop is a Pentecostal congregation on FM 20 in Bastrop, Texas, which traces its beginnings to 1945. In its own words the church exists "to be a beacon of salvation and righteousness in the Bastrop, TX community" and describes itself as "committed to biblical truth, heartfelt worship, genuine fellowship, and Spirit-filled living." Its published New Testament plan of salvation sets out three steps: repentance, baptism and the Holy Ghost. It gathers for Sunday and midweek services.
- Trinity Zion MinistriesNon-Denominational/IndependentBastropWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Trinity Zion Ministries is a non-denominational congregation on Shiloh Road in Bastrop, Texas, which publishes its announcements on its own Facebook page rather than a website.
- Union Chapel AME ChurchMethodistCedar CreekWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Union Chapel AME Church is an African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Cedar Creek, Texas. In its own words, it is 'a place of worship, word, and community where you belong,' gathering on Sundays at 11:00 AM.
- Wyldwood Baptist ChurchBaptistCedar CreekFounded 1974WebsiteSuggest a correction
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Wyldwood Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation on Union Chapel Road in Cedar Creek, Texas, founded in 1974. Its own published statement of belief is the text of the Baptist Faith and Message, affirming that the Holy Bible "has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter" and that "all Scripture is a testimony to Christ". Its own words to visitors are "we don't want Heaven without YOU", and it runs prayer, children's, women's, men's and prison ministries.
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The people you are praying for
These are your neighbors, described as honestly as public data allows. Nothing here tells you what to do about them. It tells you who they are, so your prayers can be specific.
- Hispanic or Latino55.9%
- Non-Hispanic White37.5%
- Non-Hispanic Black3.5%
- Two or more races2.2%
Metro share, for comparison
Population
Cedar Creek and Red Rock40,000Austin metro2,426,5922026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Median age
Cedar Creek and Red Rock35.9Austin metro36.02026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Median household income
Cedar Creek and Red Rock$86,747Austin metro$100,4312026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Hispanic or Latino
Cedar Creek and Red Rock55.9%Austin metro32.2%2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Non-Hispanic White
Cedar Creek and Red Rock37.5%Austin metro48.7%2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024
Active churches
Cedar Creek and Red Rock42Austin metro1,196 (metro total)Our church database, 2026-10-10
Residents per church
Cedar Creek and Red Rock~950Austin metro~1,980 (fifteen divisions)Both sources
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The languages of this division
What is spoken at home here, other than English, and how many congregations record worshipping in it.
Spanish
Speak it at home16,107 ± 1,602Share of residents 5 and over42.9%Congregations worshipping in it8Chinese, including Mandarin and Cantonese
Speak it at homeToo few to estimateCongregations worshipping in it0German or other West Germanic
Speak it at homeToo few to estimateOther Indo-European languages
Speak it at homeToo few to estimateFrench, Haitian, or Cajun
Speak it at homeToo few to estimate
Languages from the American Community Survey, 2026 edition, ACS 2020-2024, as a share of residents five and over. Congregations from the Society database as of 2026-10-10: a language recorded on a congregation is a language it worships in, not a count of its members. A congregation number appears only where the survey names a single language our records also name. Where the survey's margin is as wide as its own estimate, we say so rather than print a figure. How we read these two sources
Ministries at work here
Alongside the congregations, 7 organizations serve this division. On the map above they are the open rings; the filled dots are churches.
- Network or citywide ministryWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Bastrop Prayer and Healing Rooms is a volunteer prayer ministry serving Bastrop County, offering what it describes as focused, personal prayer for healing of body, soul, and spirit. Sessions are walk-in with no appointment needed, a prayer team of two or more prays with each visitor one-to-one, and all services are free of charge and open to anyone seeking prayer regardless of faith background. It also holds weekly community worship and intercession gatherings.
- Food SecuritySuggest a correction
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Community of Hope Food Pantry is a food-pantry ministry of Friendship Bible Baptist Church in Cedar Creek, serving Bastrop County as a Central Texas Food Bank partner agency. Distributions run on a monthly schedule at 111 Pearce Lane, and the pantry also operates HOPE, a program providing about twenty pounds of non-perishable food each month to adults aged 55 and older.
- Food SecurityWebsiteSuggest a correction
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Grace in Red Rock Food Pantry is a weekly food distribution operated by Grace Baptist Church in Red Rock, open each Friday from 8 to 10 a.m. at 115 Sorrell Street. The church has been a Central Texas Food Bank partner since July 2000, and in 2025 the pantry distributed more than one million pounds of food to over 19,000 families. Prayer is offered in English or Spanish to anyone who would like it.
- Help for All Nationsnot mappedEvangelism/DiscipleshipSuggest a correction
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A discipleship and missionary training ministry operating a training base in Cedar Creek, in Bastrop County. Its programs include Revival School Texas and Revival School on the Move, offering discipleship and missionary training for international and United States students, alongside community outreach through revival nights, friends nights and encounter weekends. Established in 2004.
- Pregnancy & Women's ServicesWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A pregnancy resource center in Bastrop offering free and confidential pregnancy testing, limited ultrasounds, options counseling, adoption information, parenting classes and material assistance such as diapers, formula and baby clothes, to women and families in Bastrop County and nearby communities including Cedar Creek, Elgin, Lockhart and Del Valle.
- Sowell Ministriesnot mappedMental Health & CounselingWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Bastrop Christian marriage ministry whose stated mission is to strengthen, advance and empower marriages, building foundations that equip couples to grow together. Its marriage coaching works with couples on emotional intimacy, spiritual unity and trust, on communicating without defensiveness and resolving conflict with grace, and on healing from past wounds toward a Christ-centered marriage. It also speaks and publishes. Established in 2023.
- Leadership DevelopmentWebsiteSuggest a correction
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A Bastrop faith-based nonprofit established in March 2022 providing outdoor-based leadership development rooted in biblical principles. Programs include discipleship cohorts with weekly Bible study and leadership skills, wilderness adventures and retreats, skill training in CPR, first aid and outdoor skills, and spiritual development using creation as a classroom. It holds an evangelical statement of faith and serves Central Texas and Colorado.
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Read more about Cedar Creek and Red Rock
The narrative on this page is from the July 2026 edition. Its figures were fixed when it was written, so they can differ from the charts and lists around it, which rebuild monthly from the live database.
Portrait
The Cedar Creek and Red Rock Census County Division occupies the southwestern portion of Bastrop County, a large rural-to-exurban swath running along the Highway 71 corridor between Del Valle and the city of Bastrop and southward toward the community of Red Rock. It contains the communities of Cedar Creek, Red Rock, and Wyldwood, along with the river-bottom farmland, ranchland, and rapidly multiplying subdivisions that fill the space between them. The city of Bastrop itself sits in a separate CCD to the east; this division is the county's residential and rural west, and its population of 40,000 makes it a mid-sized division among the fifteen in Greater Austin.
The population is Hispanic-majority and family-centered. Hispanic or Latino residents are 55.9 percent of the division, well above the MSA figure of 32.2 percent and second only to Lockhart among the fifteen CCDs. Non-Hispanic White residents are 37.5 percent, Non-Hispanic Black residents are 3.5 percent, and Non-Hispanic Asian residents are 0.5 percent, with the remainder multiracial. Median age is 35.9, essentially even with the MSA median of 36. Foreign-born residents are 16.1 percent, just below the metro figure of 16.3 percent. This is a settled, working, family-raising population rather than a transient one.
Economically, Cedar Creek and Red Rock is an affordable, high-ownership commuter region. Median household income is $86,747, below the MSA's $100,431, and the poverty rate is 11.5 percent, up from the metro rate of 9.8 percent. The defining economic feature is the combination of homeownership and distance. Owner-occupied housing stands at 79.1 percent of occupied units, far above the MSA's 58.3 percent, and the median owner-occupied home value is $329,200, well below the metro median of $465,000. That affordability comes at the cost of the commute. Mean travel time to work is 36.5 minutes, roughly nine minutes longer than the MSA average of 27.3 and among the longest of any CCD in the region. The bachelor's degree or higher rate is 23.7 percent, less than half the metro rate of 50.9 percent, consistent with a workforce heavy in construction, trucking, warehousing, trades, and service work. All figures in this section are from the 2024 five-year ACS release.
What makes this division distinct
Among the fifteen CCDs in the Greater Austin MSA, Cedar Creek and Red Rock stands out first for its Hispanic majority. At 55.9 percent Hispanic or Latino, it sits well above the metro rate of 32.2 percent and joins Lockhart as one of only two Hispanic-majority divisions in the region. Compared with the neighboring Bastrop CCD to the east, which is 37.6 percent Hispanic and centered on the city of Bastrop, this division is more rural, more residential, and considerably more Latino. Set beside Elgin to the north, it is larger and more heavily Hispanic still.
The deltas from the MSA tell the rest of the story. Homeownership is 79.1 percent, up from the metro rate of 58.3 percent, one of the highest ownership rates of any CCD in Greater Austin. The median home value of $329,200 sits well below the metro median of $465,000, marking this as one of the region's remaining affordable footholds for homeownership. The mean commute of 36.5 minutes runs about nine minutes above the metro average, among the longest in the region. Median household income of $86,747 falls below the metro's $100,431, and bachelor's degree attainment of 23.7 percent is less than half the metro rate of 50.9 percent. The composite portrait is of a Hispanic-majority, working, high-ownership exurb whose families buy affordable homes in southwestern Bastrop County and drive long distances west to earn their living.
Underneath the new subdivisions runs a rural memory older than almost anything else in the metro. Cedar Creek United Methodist Church traces its roots to 1847, Sacred Heart Catholic Church to 1876, and Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church to 1873, and the division carries a distinctive layer of historically Black and Primitive Baptist congregations, including Union Chapel AME Church and the Shiloh and Mount Pleasant Primitive Baptist churches, alongside a large and growing cluster of Spanish-speaking fellowships. Few divisions in Greater Austin hold this particular combination of deep rural heritage and present-tense Hispanic growth in the same ground.
Church density and the mission need
Research on gospel saturation suggests that church density is a meaningful proxy for a region's spiritual health. In his book Center Church, Tim Keller notes that a region with one church per 10,000 people sees roughly 1 percent of residents attending regularly. At one church per 1,000 people, that figure rises to 15 to 20 percent, and at one per 500, more than 40 percent attend.
These numbers matter because of what tends to happen in populations. One rough model of this, the diffusion of innovation, describes a kind of tipping point. An idea often struggles to be accepted until somewhere around 16 percent of a population has taken it up, after which it can begin to sustain and spread on its own. The analogy to the gospel is inexact, and the human heart is not a product to be adopted, so we hold the model loosely. But the concept is worth consideration and used often in gospel movements around the world. A region where regular gospel engagement sits far below that threshold may simply lack the critical mass for a movement to take hold, while a region approaching it has the numeric reality from which one can grow. When compared with Keller's ratios, church density becomes a rough way of asking whether a region sits above or below that line, and gives us a guide to how we can pray.
Cedar Creek and Red Rock has 42 active churches (figure from the July 2026 edition) serving approximately 40,000 residents, for a ratio of roughly one church per 952 residents (figure from the July 2026 edition), one of the stronger per-capita densities among the fifteen CCDs. The headline number should be read with care. Many of the 42 congregations (figure from the July 2026 edition) carry too little public information to be known well, a share among the largest in the metro, and it reflects a landscape of small rural congregations, many without websites, several without formal denominational affiliation, and a large cluster of Spanish-speaking churches that have not yet been reached by the research in a way that allows a confident read. The density is real, but the missional picture is thinner than the ratio suggests, and the primary needs here are threefold. First, the historic rural congregations at Cedar Creek, Red Rock, and Wyldwood need renewal and reconnection to the wider body. Second, the growing subdivisions along Highway 71 are adding households faster than they are adding church capacity. Third, the Spanish-speaking congregations that serve the majority population of this division need strengthening, deeper relational trust with their English-speaking neighbors, and in several cases a clearer picture of their life and teaching that can only come through relationship.
A kingdom ecosystem
And yet the church was never meant to carry the whole work alone, and the nonprofits and church-run ministries listed on this page are evidence of it. A region is rarely reached by strong congregations acting in isolation. The same Tim Keller whose density research framed the mission need earlier in this guide also described, in Center Church, what he called a gospel ecosystem, the observation that lasting gospel movements grow not from isolated churches but from a whole interdependent web of gospel work in which churches and the ministries around them each supply something the others need. At the center of that ecosystem are two movements the church herself carries, the planting of new congregations and the renewal of existing ones. Around them grows a wider set of callings that no single church can hold on its own: intercession that keeps the whole work dependent on God, evangelism to those the church has not yet reached, mercy and justice among the poor and vulnerable, faith and work that sends disciples into every corner of the economy, Christian institutions like schools that form the next generation, and leadership development that raises up the pastors and planters still to come.
None of this becomes a movement, though, until the leaders carrying these callings actually know and trust one another. The connective tissue of a kingdom ecosystem is relational, pastors and ministry leaders across traditions who pray together, share what they are learning, and labor toward a common mission rather than guarding their own corner. Where that trust is real, the parts begin to feed one another, and where it is absent, even well-resourced ministries work at cross purposes. Unity here is not a program to be launched but the fruit of a shared mission held long enough for friendship to grow.
The wider Austin kingdom ecosystem
Austin does not carry the whole mission alone. Around every congregation in this CCD sits a citywide gospel ecosystem that any church here can draw on, organized below by the same Keller categories. These are metro-wide ministries whose service area is the region rather than a single division, so the names that follow are illustrative highlights rather than a full directory.
Church networks knit congregations together across the metro, among them the Austin Baptist Association and the Diocese of Austin. Intercessory ministries keep the whole work dependent on God, including the House of Intercession, HOPE Prayer Ministry, and the Lake Travis Prayer Room. Specialized evangelism is the largest category in the metro and reaches particular fields, with campus and athletic ministries like Cru City Austin, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes across every county, Campus Renewal Ministries, and Launch Global. Justice and mercy ministries carry the poor and vulnerable, among them World Relief, Habitat for Humanity Austin, Unbound Now, and Texas Alliance for Life. Faith and work ministries send disciples into the economy, including the Faith and Work Movement, Faith Driven Entrepreneurs, the National Christian Foundation Austin, and C12 Central Texas. Christian institutions steward long-term formation, such as the Texas Methodist Foundation. Leadership development raises up the next generation of pastors and planters, through the Colson Fellows Program, New Canaan Society Austin, PastorServe, and Mission Increase. And unifying networks connect leaders across congregations, traditions, and sectors for the good of the whole city, among them Christ Together Greater Austin, the Church Ambassador Network of Texas, and the Greater Austin Mission Society.
For Cedar Creek and Red Rock, the local strength is food-security ministry, carried largely through congregations, while nearly every other sector, including Christian schooling, has little or no base within this spread-out rural division. The citywide networks named above are the nearest source of the mercy, recovery, youth, and education capacity these families otherwise drive to Austin or Bastrop to reach. The direction to pray, in the spirit of Jeremiah's letter, is that a majority-Hispanic exurb being settled in real time would seek the welfare of its own ground by tying into that wider ecosystem and, in time, growing more of it at home.
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