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PROJECT AGAPE Updates

May 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

AGAPE Board Makes A Pivot Most every ministry has had to make some pivot—some change of direction—during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Our ministry to Armenia and Artsakh, which we call AGAPE, also has to make a pivot.  The AGAPE Board recognizes the hardships of local Churches which has in turn meant a slow down in financial… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Global Outreach, Missions

Why Project Agape Is Not a Toxic Charity

November 19, 2019 Leave a Comment

In a recent article, Jeff Brumley explains why quite a few church leaders are raising questions about the Operation: Christmas Child ministry of Samaritan’s Purse (see https://baptistnews.com/article/franklin-graham-toxic-charity-concerns-send-churches-packing-from-operation-christmas-child/#.XcV5tcBKhdg). Mr. Brumley shares examples of church leaders who have re-imagined their previous support of the ministry commonly known as the Shoebox Ministry and are now finding local ministry… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, General

AGAPE SUNDAY January 7

December 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mark your calendar! In this season of giving, and in this Conference year of ‘Generosity in All Places,’ please remember our friends in Armenia and take up a special offering on January 7, (or any time!). Check out this easily printable bulletin insert: AGAPE-PROJECT-2018 insert All of our work in Armenia is totally funded by… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, General, Global Outreach, Missions

MERCI Warehouse Workdays in May

April 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

The MERCI Warehouse continues to be a place to organize, pack and send relief supplies to places of need around the world! Thanks to the Capital District Mission IMPACT event held last Sunday, many supplies have been collected and will need to be sorted.  All of those items will be going to Armenia to help… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, Christian Ethics, General, Missions, Refugee, Immigration, and Welcoming the Neighbor

Project Agape Special Offering

January 11, 2017 Leave a Comment

Please consider taking a special offering for the people of the Kashatagh Region, one of the seven regions of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic east of Armenia. Its capital is Berdzor, where Project Agape is located. Many refugees fleeing Syria have returned to their homeland in Armenia and there is a pressing need to assist them and the… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, Christian Ethics, General, Global Outreach, Health, justice, Missions, reconciliation and peace, Refugee, Immigration, and Welcoming the Neighbor

Project Agape Christmas Box Drop Off Points

August 25, 2016 Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again! Turn in your 2016 Christmas boxes for children who live in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. All boxes need to be at the MERCI Center Warehouse by October 1, 2016 so that they can be processed and readied for overseas shipment. Please carefully follow the list of contents for 2016 which is… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, Christian Ethics, Global Outreach, justice, Missions, Refugee, Immigration, and Welcoming the Neighbor

MERCI Center Updates

July 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

The MERCI warehouse will be open for regular workdays on the First Saturday and the Third Thursday of each month.  Saturday workdays will be from 8:30 am to 1:00 PM and the Thursday workdays will be from 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM.  Please mark these dates on your calendars and encourage folks to join you. (We will not work on Labor Day weekend). Other work days… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Disaster Response, General, Global Outreach, Health, justice, Local Outreach, Missions Tagged With: MERCI Center

New Project AGAPE Opportunities

May 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

~ Helping Refugees in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh with Welcome Home Kits Many Christians have left Syria under pressure from Islamic extremists to return to their ancestral home in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.  As refugees, these families are having to start completely over.  Most of them have spent what they had to make the hazardous journey through… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, General, Global Outreach, Missions, Refugee, Immigration, and Welcoming the Neighbor

Meet An AGAPE Missionary in Person!

February 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

Nara Melkonyan, who is our Conference missioner assigned to work with AGAPE in Nagorno-Karabakh, will be visiting Churches in North Carolina between April 12 and May 9, 2016. For over 20 years, AGAPE has been a joint ministry between the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Conference. During that time, AGAPE has been in ministry in Nagorno-Karabakh—a territory… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, Missions, Refugee, Immigration, and Welcoming the Neighbor Tagged With: AGAPE, Armenia, missionary, outreach

AGAPE Sunday Reminder: January 24, 2016

January 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

A friendly reminder that the NC Conference takes a special offering for Project AGAPE (#S-00004), our ministry in Armenia on Sunday January 24, 2016 (or other date of your choosing). Project Agape serves impoverished people in Armenia and the politically contested Karabagh region. Increasingly, Syrian refugees, many of Armenian descent, are flooding into the area… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: AGAPE - Armenia, Alleviating Poverty and Hunger, General, Global Outreach, Missions Tagged With: AGAPE, Armenia, Project Agape, Special Offering

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