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New Spaces, Familiar Faces

Jenny — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:55:15 +0000

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to all awesome volunteers!

Jenny — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:29:34 +0000

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 [...]

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 [...]

Backyard Bible Club Week #31 Finale!

Jenny — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:01:44 +0000

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 [...]

BBC Week#25

Jenny — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:15:25 +0000

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 [...]

BBC Week#24

Jenny — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:55:27 +0000

As the spring warms Houston up, our attendance grows again. Several children who’ve never attended the program before came this week. As our rolls expand, our need for volunteers will grow with it. The children we minister to need interactions with competent, caring adults; some just to see what one looks like. We’re [...]

BBC Week #23 – Black History Month Ending

Jenny — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:45:49 +0000

Our 23rd week of this program year marked the final week of our Black History Month themed sessions, and it marked the real beginning of spring. To celebrate President’s day, we read an inspirational poem about how we can become anything we want to be and read a children’s biography about [...]

How do you tell someone “I want to be your friend”

EmilyDelong — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:01:44 +0000

At BBC this last Tuesday one young girl, “Sue,” was being friendly to another young girl, “Betty,” but Betty did not really appreciate her friendliness. It hurt Sue’s feelings that Betty did not seem to be very interested in being friends and she didn’t understand why. Feeling rejected, she sat on the front stoop of [...]

Backyard Bible Club Week #22

Jenny — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:54:09 +0000

This past week, Backyard Bible Club continued its 2011 run with regular Tuesday and Thursday program sessions. We welcomed back children who had been evicted from their previous house, but had not moved far. We had not seen them in over a month, so we were very glad for their return. We were also [...]