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Fruit from Faithfulness

“The Agape Center? I used to go up there when I was a kid!” I heard similar exclamations shared over and over, whenever our staff and volunteers advertised for our

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Expanding Her Heart

You might remember the story of Kiersten’s summer in Milwaukee from the 2015 Inner City Summer Mission. Since that summer, she’s been investing her gifts in the heart of the city with

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Raising Up Young Men

In April, five hundred volunteers came to the warehouse in Minneapolis to help pack Easter Bags, an outreach tool used by our church partners. Among the volunteers was Jacques. Jacques

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When the Church Commits

I was surprised to learn that over 150 identifiable church/school partnerships currently exist in the Seattle area! The benefits are so apparent that Seattle’s superintendent recently expressed his desire to

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An Everlasting Welcome

For our friends in Bakersfield, California, Easter can be an invigorating time of year. Cool, dry winter days lengthen into warm, bright days of spring. Produce crops are sown with

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Helping Us Both

“Bob,” a homeless man, rings our doorbell most nights. He lives nearby in a boarded up house. I met Bob late last summer. He frequently walked by my house, and