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Mobile Loaves & Fishes Volunteer Update

Mobile Loaves & Fishes Volunteer Update

As both a member at Vox and a staff member of our local missions partner, Mobile Loaves & Fishes, it's been awesome to see the Vox community come up alongside one of the most exciting missional efforts in our East Austin area. That vision is called the Community...

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Mobile Loaves & Fishes Volunteering

Mobile Loaves & Fishes Volunteering

One of our local missions partners, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, will be hosting volunteer opportunities for the Vox community over the next three months. We will have an opportunity to volunteer at their Community First! Village, which is a 27 acre master-planned...

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Wednesday Washing

Wednesday Washing

One of the things I have come to love most about Austin is the abundance of passionate people. Passionate about coffee, food, graffiti, running, naked bike rides...You name it, there is someone preachin' it here. Vox Veniae, our church community, happens to be...

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A Letter of Thanks

A Letter of Thanks

This is a letter from the director of Posada Esperanza thanking the Vox community for our support. Dear Friends at Vox Veniae, We are grateful for the generosity and friendship of the Vox Veniae Community. Thank you so much for giving Posada Esperanza a year of...

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Neighbors

Neighbors

For the past year, the Good Neighbor Fund has been available for Vox Covenant Members to feel supported and empowered to do good in their community. Voxites have applied to help their neighbor buy groceries, repair their homes and to allow a teacher friend to have an...

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Boggy Creek Cleanup [Oct 26]

Boggy Creek Cleanup [Oct 26]

On Saturday, October 26 from 9-11am, we will be joining with the McKinley Heights Neighborhood to clean up parts of Boggy Creek behind Mabson Field which is just down the street from Space12 (map). The plan is to remove invasive plants and bushes and replace them with...

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MLF Model Park Tours!

MLF Model Park Tours!

Friends at large & Vox Veniae members, the weather is PERFECT these days for a tour of Mobile Loaves & Fishes' Community First! Model Park, which is a 2-acre snapshot of the kind of beauty, creativity & rich community we're building into a 27-acre master-planned...

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Mission Sunday

Mission Sunday

I grew up in the Baptist church. Every year (probably twice a year since we were Baptist), the cavernous foyer would be filled on a Sunday morning with tables upon tables of people returned from all over the world to share about their lives overseas. The Peru table...

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Volunteer Nights with Homeless Families

Volunteer Nights with Homeless Families

We at Vox are volunteering with the Foundation for the Homeless’ Family Promise - Interfaith Hospitality Network shelter program (IHN) on September 2nd and 3rd and October 14th and 15th at Central Presbyterian Church. Volunteers are needed to bring dinner for three to...

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Posada July Birthday Party

Posada July Birthday Party

We will be hosting the last monthly birthday party this year for Posada Esperanza on Sunday (July 21) from 3-5pm. Posada is a transitional shelter for women and children in Austin. As a way to share not only our financial resources but also our love, time and energy,...

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