The children at Backyard Bible Club enjoyed an entire week filled with Christmas Spirit, but Christmas began weeks beforehand, as the kids participated in community service projects around their neighborhood to earn vouchers to “purchase” a gift for a BBC friend. The service activities included working in the community garden and trash clean-up along Perry [...]
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Raymond completed the 2-week workshop at the WorkFaith Connection, a wonderful organization that empowers individuals to find meaningful employment and to build a new life through work and faith. We attended his class’s graduation ceremony, and it was a joy to see Raymond and his class filled with hope and courage. There were many uplifting [...]
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This fall we started our first ever girls sports team at Agape. We have several girls ages 9-13 playing on the volleyball team. For many of them, it is their first time to play organized sports. I was amazed at their courage to get out on the court with very little experience or practice before [...]
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During Week Two of summer camp, Emily introduced screen printing to a class of five kids and four youth leaders. They designed and fabricated their own t-shirts with a three-step process during the three class periods.
Step One: Screen print “negative” image by creating a “positive” paper template. This layer created the foundation for [...]
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