Hello from temperate springtime Central Asia! It’s been cool and breezy and even rained recently — probably for the last time before next winter. Wanted to ask for your prayer and thanksgiving for a few things: Nepal Next Week My CW Area Director has asked me to join him on a visit to a CW team in Nepal — and [...]
Missions @ VOX
Flip for a Cause
The 78704 Midweek Group has put together a fundraising event that involves a parents night out! Parents can drop off their kids for an evening of gymnastics, art, games, movie and pizza. Then they can enjoy an evening out themselves. The best part is that all the proceeds go to the renovation of a Posada Esperanza house, which is a [...]
12th Street Cleanup
Austin will be having a city wide cleanup event on Sat, Apr 14 from 9-11am (KAB Clean Sweep 2012). We will be joining with the McKinley Heights Neighborhood to clean up parts of 12th Street and the creek behind Mabson Field which is in Downs Park (map). The plan is to work in small teams and with gloves and garbage [...]
Potluck Party for Central Asia
Interested in Vox’s connections to Central Asia? A friend of E? Never heard of him? Great, if you answered yes or no to any of these questions, or any other questions, we have the event for you. A potluck party at Space12 to celebrate Central Asia, E, and the present combination of the two. There’ll be succulent kebabs, large-format prints [...]
Resource Center in Kenya
For those of you who know Teesa in our community, she works for an organization called Comfort the Children International. CTC International works alongside the community of Maai Mahiu, Kenya to provide resources that create sustainable change. Their initiatives, focused on educational, environmental, economic, health and community development, directly impact the community as a whole. They’re currently raising funds for [...]
Posada Esperanza Donations
Posada Esperanza is a homeless shelter for immigrant single mothers with children located on the east side of Austin. We will be collecting donations over the next couple of weeks of the following items: tuperware plastic drinking cups shampoo/conditioner laundry detergent specific needs for some newborn babies and other residents (click for more details) Donations can be brought to Space [...]
E’s Update: Epiphany, Hospitality, Hearing
Happy (late) New Year from Central Asia. Last week, the foreigner community had a service for Epiphany, the tradition celebrating the arrival of the royal astrologers and their gifts to the feet of the toddler Messiah. We talked about the history a bit—apparently the best research finds the astrologers to have been extremely literate and wealthy Persians, specifically Kurdish (or [...]