Week 6: St. Catherine's and St. Joseph's - Thursday

Today we celebrated our accomplishment of serving others in the migrant community. This morning we went to mass at Assumption church and prayed for all the migrant workers. we had fun swimming and celebrating putting ourselves in others foot steps for the week. one last time we helped the kids at sunrise migrant camp by putting on a barbecue and hanging out with our new friends. we played with them and made them feel welcome in our lives.we savored our time with the kids because we knew that some of them were moving away and might never being be coming back, we might not see them again. Saying goodbye was hard we were all sad to leave our friends, but we hope to keep a connection with them. We headed back to Sacred Heart and had our final reflections, and the Agape Staff surprised us with a fun a treat and a dace Party. Agape has been a great learning experience for us all and we will continue to live out what we learned into our everyday lives.

Alexa Mauad and Abbey Koory

Week 6: St. Catherine's and St. Joseph's - Wednesday

Today was food bank day, and it was an amazing adventure. The day started off with going to adoration at church at Sacred Heart. It was a great beginning to spreading God's message throughout the day. At the food bank we served  98 families and gave out food, toys, and school supplies. It was so inspiring to see how thankful everyone was to us and their acceptance for allowing our help. It warmed our hearts to see how many lives we were able to reach out and help. I got the responsibility to carry food to people's cars, to be in charge of the tortilla station, make pencil pouches, and to serve God and the families. Agape gave me the opportunity to give back to the community that has given so much.

~Sarah Greeley, Mary Farewell, Tess McMillen


Today we went to adoration, and mass. When I first walked in I was in awe to see the gorgeous church the walls and pews where painted in color. For the stain glass was shining it's amazing light, and colors. when you looked at the stain glass all you could see was Jesus' kind smiling face stairing down on his childern (you), with four angles staring in awe. The colors where of every color soronding the main pice. When the priest came in the crowd blew up in psalm, sing praise to our lord Jesus christ. After mass we headed over to the food bank area to set up. When we arived we saw the egar faces of the crowd waiting for school suplise. The children glowing with joy when they saw us arrive. After an two and a half hors of prepareing for happy families we opened the line for them. They rushed in with happy and excited faces. Each person at every stand greted them with a kind loving smile. Each person leaving with abright face. In the school suplies and  toy sectiuon where I worked. The children in line where so excited to be getting a back pack. As soon as we begun children streamed in each with a smile. every person working there welcomed them with a kind and loving smile. Every child  came with a grin but left with athe most joyful smile that youd ever seen warming your heart. After the the food bank closed we all left with much more than when we came . We left with nothing in our hands but in our hearts.

       
      By Alinea Topacio

                                                                         Thank you for your time have a nice day!-alinea

Week 6: St. Catherine's and St. Joseph's - Tuesday

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not even close to being a morning person, so when I had to wake up at 4:45 this morning, I wasn't happy. But then we ate breakfast and loaded into our cars and buses and made our way to the three farms we would be working at. We helped weed strawberry plants and bag herbs for the migrant community. I also learned that a lot of workers are in the fields from 8:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night. This made me realize how lucky I am that this isn't my daily routine, and that I get to have fun instead of working my entire day. I also felt lucky that I got to experience this, because it made me feel like I could understand what they go through better than I could yesterday.

-Allie Pettijohn     

Today we took on the role of being a worker in the fields. It was a very moving day not only to see what they do but to feel it. Fingers were sore only an hour in and backs were aching from the start. This made me have so much more sympathy for the workers now that I know what an everyday life is like. I am very happy that Agape gave me this chance. 

-Kathryn Gibbons