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BBC Christmas 2011

EmilyDelong — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:56:12 +0000

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 [...]

Letter from Emily

EmilyDelong — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:00:36 +0000

Update Letter November 2011

Why I am here and why I need your support…

Thank you! Enjoy!

Emily

Congratulations Raymond!

EmilyDelong — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:45:58 +0000

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 [...]

Agape ACTION Girls Volleyball

EmilyDelong — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:26:21 +0000

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 [...]

Gateway: Phase One: Accomplished

EmilyDelong — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:27:10 +0000

Last Friday October 15 marked the end of Phase One of Gateway. For the first seven weeks, each of the interns (Justin, Raymond, Kentrell) participated in 147 hours of Labs (Life Skills and Personal Development) and worked between 80-90 hours in their local business internships at The Guild Shop and Goodwill. The day-in, day-out grind [...]

Jonathan Steele’s September Newsletter

EmilyDelong — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:15:13 +0000

Please enjoy my latest update! Thanks, Jonathan.

Click here: Steele Newsletter Sep 2011

Song of the Year…”At Agape”

EmilyDelong — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:52:26 +0000

Rachel taught a Creative Writing class during Week One of Summer Camp. We wrote a fractured fairy tale based on the Princess and the Frog about the Magic Man. We had an entire day of improvisational skits using fun props (like giant lollipops), and the students self-initiated a moral lesson for each skit (“be nice” [...]

Fabulous T-Shirt Fabrication!

EmilyDelong — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:19:40 +0000

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 [...]

Interns Get it DONE!

Jenny — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:11:29 +0000

John Ytterberg, Ian Gottschalk, Jenny Ouseph and Amanda Reynolds worked at the Cosby Street house on Thursday. They finished removing the carpet from the back room and back bedroom, and also scraped VCT tiles off of the back room floor.

Click for more pictures! [...]

Please, read my March Newsletter!

EmilyDelong — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:43:58 +0000

Photos and stories inside! Girls program, rock climbing, Spring BREAK!

Emily’s Newsletter: March 2011

Thank you! Love, Emily