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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Backyard Bible Club continues this 2010/2011 run, picking up right where we left off following the Spring Break vacation. We continue to establish relationships with more and more of the children in this neighborhood. We continue trying to condition and reinforce behaviors that reflect respect, obedience, and peaceful conflict resolution. We continue reading through [...]
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