Liturgy
Community Prayers
Each week at Liturgy we provide an opportunity for the community to voice prayers of thanksgiving and petition in a corporate setting. You can follow those prayers on the website to celebrate with and support our community.
Read Community Prayers
The Songs of Vox
Music is an integral expression of worship in our Liturgy. We hope that these hymns and songs reflect our longing and gratitude for Christ’s continual work in us.
Music Links Coming Soon
Ways to Serve on Sundays
- Setup. Flexing muscles and exercising jenga expertise. Transforming a community space into a liturgy space.
- Music. Creating audible beauty through wood, brass, ivory and communal singing.
- Host. Providing hospitality, preparing bread and wine, and welcoming new friends.
- Sound. Two turntables and a microphone. Replace turntables with cables and sound board. Multiply microphones.
- Prayer. Curating thanks and concerns and everything in between for the congregation, community, city and world.
- Bread. Baking homemade goodness that allows us to celebrate the Eucharist.
- Director. Liturgy maestro. Conducting the Sunday liturgy team.
- Rides. Saving fossil fuels by sharing vehicles and picking up vehicleless friends.
- Greenhouse Kids. Teaching our shorties how to love God and to love their shorty neighbors.
Email Us to get involved
Formation
Rhythm of Life
As a participating member of our community, we strongly encourage you to fill out a Rhythm of Life for each season. There are different areas within our Personal, Communal and Missional lives that will help enable us to live in the way of Christ. We believe that each person has unique expressions of each of these areas. So each season, each of us will fill out a Rhythm of Life in our Midweek Groups and use it as a tool to facilitate growth in our spiritual development.
(This will only be accessible to the Pastoral Team and your Midweek Group coordinator as a means to support you in your spiritual formation)
Submit a Rhythm of life
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina (“Divine Reading”) has been likened to “Feasting on the Word.” It’s a contemplative approach to engaging Scripture. Hearing it multiple times and reflecting on it allows the text to speak to our current environment and context. The goal is to listen to the Scriptures and have it shape how we live currently. There are four movements to this practice. The four parts are first taking a bite (Lectio), then chewing on it (Meditatio). Next is the opportunity to savor the essence of it (Oratio). Finally, the Word is digested and made a part of the body (Contemplatio).
Lectio Divina Guide
Prayer of Examen
The Prayer of Examen is a daily spiritual exercise developed by St. Ignatius Loyola. This practice seeks to grow followers of Jesus in their capacity to discern God’s will, find God in all things, and enhance their understanding of God’s good creation. The prayer may take between ten and twenty minutes. The majority of that time will be spent reviewing your day. Try not to dwell too long on thoughts. Instead, allow yourself to become aware and move on.
Prayer of Examen Guide
Community
Acts of Sharing
We’ve been trying to find a simple way to facilitate sharing resources ever since we launched our church. That’s why our minds were blown away when we found the Acts of Sharing website. We hope this will be a great tool for our community so that we can try to live in the same spirit as the early church when they shared all their possessions.
It’s easy to start sharing your stuff and looking for stuff to borrow. Just click on the following link, signup and join the Vox Veniae community:
voxaustin.com/sharing
(The password is voiceofgrace)
Missions
Local Missions
Care Communities
This group provides support and care to those in the Austin area suffering from terminal illness such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. Vox has been serving our Care Partner for a few years now.
thecarecommunities.com
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Through this partner we are empowered to provide food, clothing, and promoting dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need. We accomplish this mission through the creation of relationships that cultivate a community life of stability and purpose.
mlf.org
Foundation For The Homeless
This non-profit collaborates with local churches to host and provide meals for homeless families in the Austin area who are working to get back on their feet.
foundationhomeless.org
Space12
Providing hospitality and facilitating collaboration with varying organizations, churches, and individuals in a third party environment for the east Austin community.
space12.org
Join the Local Missions Team
Global Missions
India
Our friends in Chennai, India at Calvary Community Church. They are everything we hope one day to be as a church. They engage and serve those who live in the surrounding slums, preaching the gospel in their city. They have also made computer and tailoring classes available to those who lack opportunities while running an orphanage to support those impacted by the tsunami.
Central Asia
One of our own, E, serving as a missionary in the mountains of Central Asia. Supporting his work as a community developer, English teacher, cycling advocate, and Jesus follower as he lives and shares the gospel to his friends.
Join the Global Missions Team
Covenant
Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC)
We understand the value and benefit for our church to being a part of something larger than ourselves. In the summer of 2011, Vox became a part of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
The ECC is a rapidly growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God’s grace and ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through a faith with Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God’s love and compassion to a hurting world, and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.
The Evangelical Covenant Church is:
- Evangelical, but not exclusive
- Biblical, but not doctrinaire
- Traditional, but not rigid
- Congregational, but not independent
Visit covchurch.org
Covenant Membership
We can do more together than we can alone. We have all been gifted and resourced in specific ways to participate with others.
In becoming a Covenant Member of Vox, we enter into a relational agreement for the sake of committing to God, Mission, Community, and Formation. To commit to participating as a member of a functioning Body with your gifts, passions and resources (1 Corinthians 12).
Twice a year, we will make the Covenant Member application process available (in May and Dec).
Become a Covenant Member