“LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.”
Isaiah 25:1
Backyard Bible Club has come a long way from its inception in 2009. This program has bounced around from the backyard of Agape’s office duplex [...]
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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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We want to shout out a super special “THANKS” to Tiffany Massey, Albuquerque Emmanuel, Brianna Marzett, Jermaine Philps, and Ni Zang! These new volunteers for Backyard Bible Club give their time tutoring and interacting with our neighborhood children. Tiffany and Albuquerque have been super-troopers by being there everyday! All of our volunteers have shown [...]
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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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This entire school year, 55 individual children came and participated in supervised afterschool activities with Agape Development Ministries. Those children came so frequently that their turnout adds up to over 800 attendees who came to the Agape offices after school to spend time with Agape staff and volunteers. But, the interest in young lives [...]
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