Children in AGAPE Christian Education

Conference contractor JP McGuire is leading a construction mission work team to Armenia July 28 – Aug. 12.  Construction experience is not necessary for this trip, just a willingness to be God’s servant in hands-on building ministry.  There is a particular need for persons with good computer skills.  The cost of the trip is projected at $3500 – all inclusive.

We have multiple openings on the team.  You will be blessed and you will be a blessing.

For more information on this team, go to Armenia team.

Aly Stanley is serving as a short-term Mission Volunteer with Project AGAPE, Armenia.  Initially, she is teaching English with college aged students and later, will serve with the Agape Children’s Home in Nagorno Karabagh.  You can follow her blog at:  Aly in Armenia.   She would love to hear from you as she shares the love of Jesus in this, the oldest of Christian nations.

You too can be part of this incredible ministry through a Mission Work Team scheduled for  July 28 – August 12.

Children dance at the AGAPE Children's home. Some children at the home have living parents who bring their children to the home because the parents are so impoverished that they cannot feed their own children.

And as always, you can join with your gifts, where with every donation, 100% of your gift is used in the ministry.

Contributions may be made through your local church or mailed to:

NC Conference, PO Box 60053, Charlotte, NC 28260.

Make check payable to:

NC Conference designated as Project AGAPE

Project AGAPE can be found in Lane #4 – World Missions in the Rainbow Covenant/Advance Service Commitment Booklet.   Advance #S – 00004.

Children readying for sleep at AGAPE orphanage.

Conference Contractor JP McGuire is leading a Construction Mission Team to Armenia with tentative dates of July 28 – August 12.    Construction experience is not necessary for this trip, just a willingness to be God’s servant in hands-on building ministry.  Approximate costs of the trip is projected at $3500 – all inclusive.

Our primary construction focus will be either (1) a hospital, (2) an orphanage, (3) a staff house, or (4) low income housing.  We, like all other teams/individuals working in such relief, will work where we are asked to work – according to what is the priority of our host in Armenia.

If any of our team members additionally enjoy working with children, or teaching/sharing specific skills with children (art, game playing, architectural drawing, photography, knitting, crocheting, basket weaving, sewing, etc.) time will be secured for such endeavors.  This is looked upon as a way of building upon the good rapport between our two nations, and a way in which the children/adults of Armenia may practice their English language skills.

Children being instructed in an AGAPE computer class at the AGAPE Christian Education Center.

There is a particular need for persons with computer skills.

The computers in use in Armenia are very old.  Persons able to teach on these are appreciated.  New lap-top computers are sought, and the ability to teach the use of these new computers is also sought.

If you are interested in this life-giving journey with Jesus to the oldest of Christian nations, please contact JP McGuire at:  919-920-7282 or jpmcguire@nccumc.org.

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Child at AGAPE Orphanage receives Christmas gift through your generosity. this Christmas season, let us who are warm, sheltered, clothed, and fed, remember there are brothers and sisters in the world who are not. In Armenia, the oldest of Christian nations, many struggle for life. Through your action, they will not be alone. Through your action, in the midst of despair, they will know hope.

Following this Christmas season, let us who are warm, sheltered, clothed, and fed, remember there are  brothers and sisters in the world who are not.  In Armenia, the oldest of Christian nations, many struggle for life.  Through your action, they will not be alone.  Through your action, in the midst of despair, they will know hope.

January in the NC Conference is Project AGAPE month.  Project AGAPE is a joint ministry with the Western NC Conference, proclaiming the name of Jesus in an area that suffered the devastation of a generation of communist rule and state-sponsored atheism, a war with Azerbaijan, and a place where thousands of refugees continue in a struggle to survive.

Please prayerfully consider supporting our brothers and sisters with an AGAPE offering.  If you cannot do it in January, please consider any other day that works for you.  Your gift could make the difference between life and death, spiritually and physically.   Jesus births God’s light into our existence, so that we may birth the same light into the lives of others.  Please help.

To download the AGAPE bulletin insert, please click:  AGAPE Brochure – AGAPE SUNDAY

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Impoverished Armenian children are loved and celebrated in the AGAPE ministry.

Project AGAPE Armenia, a joint ministry of churches in the NC and WNC Conferences, continues to serve in ministry with some of the most vulnerable people in the world – refugees and displaced persons in eastern Armenia.  Though the ministry remains critical, funding and congregational support for the ministry grows smaller.  Continued ministry beyond June 2012 is in real jeopardy.  You are invited to an AGAPE ministry meeting at the Methodist Building in Garner, on Tuesday, December 6, 7:00 PM – 8:00.  We will have an overview of the ministry’s history, look an current actions, and strategize about possible future responses.  Please RSVP to Kathy Reavis at kreavis@nccumc.org or 800-849-4433 ext 256.

For more AGAPE information, please see:  Project AGAPE Armenia

Hamest has been a recipient of God’s love delivered through your prayers and gifts.  This is a small portion of her story:

The smile never disappears from the faces of her family members because they will no longer be cold and wet each time the winter rains come.  Hamest says she showed the pictures of the new roof to their son drafted to the army just two weeks before the team started the house renovation and her son didn’t believe it was their house.  “Now he counts the days remained to come and see it first hand,” says Hamest with tears in her eyes.  “We were born in a country teaching us that it’s the most humanist country in the world and we couldn’t believe what was happening to us during the war in that “humanist” country.  We had lost our faith…  And I would never believe that there are people like these who care about others and love them like their sisters and brothers.  Our eternal prayers will be with them.  I have a feeling that they are Angels sent by God to let us know that there isn’t only violence in the world, we had to go through.  May God bless them richly, as they blessed our house and brought the light of Jesus and hope back to our hopeless souls.”

You have made a difference in this family’s life.  You have been the proclamation of Jesus.  For more stories of AGAPE, please see the 2010 Year End Newsletter and Project AGAPE Page.

Also, if you did not receive an offering during AGAPE month in January, please prayerfully consider doing so on some other date.  The Project AGAPE funds are low and the ministry remains critical.  Please join Read more »

Project AGAPE Christian Education Center

You are invited to journey to Project AGAPE, Armenia as part of a NC Conference mission team.  The team is a combined Construction and Medical team to the town of Bedzor, Armenia.   The trip is scheduled to be approximately two weeks in length and is planned for the the September 1-20, 2011 time frame.  Please contact JP McGuire at jpmcguire@nccumc.org, or at 919-920-7282 for more information or to apply.

Armenia is a nation with an extremely long history; and unfortunately that history has included great pain, over and over again – from both natural disaster and by human hand.  Coming at the end of a generation of Soviet occupation, on Read more »

If you didn’t join in AGAPE Sunday back in January, you can do so on any Sunday.  A bulletin insert  is available for downloading.  Let’s celebrate and support this special ministry.

2010 AGAPE Bulletin Insert