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

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

My day went amazing because we went to the migrant camps and went tabling at local grocery stores. Which went pretty well. Therefore nothing did not go well today at Agape. -CodyToday was really fun. We went to Sunrise Camp to play with the children there and collected food and money donations in front of a Haggen's. At the camp, my friends and I met these little girls and instantly became friends. One little girl made me three bracelets and was so kind and funny.At Haggen's there were so people who weren't interested but most people listened and brought us lots of donations. It was so cool getting to experience all these things with my friends and getting to make new ones in the process.-Tamsyn  

 Note from the Agape Staff: Thanks to the youth's hard work tabling today, we managed to collect over $210 in donations which will go towards our food bank on Wednesday! Stay tuned to find out how many families we will serve at our food bank on our Wednesday Blog Post!

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

We arrived at Agape today and met in a community circle. The instructors read us a bible passage and we were given journals. We answered questions in the journal then reflected on them in groups. We are excited for the week to come.

                                                                             

Week 5: Holy Redeemer - Thursday

Greetings from Bellingham!

This week has been an amazing and eye-opening week! Today was a day of celebration and it was a fantastic way to wrap up the week. Today's Catholic Social Teaching was about the life and dignity of the human person. We opened the day with our morning prayer and then prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which was beautiful and powerful. We also watched a documentary about the migrant community and the struggles they encounter on a daily basis. After some thoughtful conversations, we went to Mass at Assumption, then returned to Sacred Heart for lunch: left-overs! We then headed out to swim and shower, and afterwards, spent the rest of the day at Sunrise. The night ended at Sacred Heart with reflection, ice cream, and a dance party! Agape has been a wonderful experience and I am sad to see the week come to an end. A big thank you to the Agape staff and our adult leaders for everything they have done to make this week possible!

Blessings,

Sara L.

Week 5: Holy Redeemer - Wednesday

July 26, 2017 Agape

        Today we started off with a tasty breakfast. After an energetic mass we loaded the rental delivery truck with all of our donated items. After 32 minutes of cruising down the highway in our Honda Oddessy, we came to a screeching halt at the 3rd christian reformed church in Lindon. once the other group arrived with all the produce we began preparing the setup for to food bank. After several hard working hours of setting up we were ready to start the food bank, and the long line of people were ready too! The two of us carried box's for people because they were pretty heavy. It was really cool to see the ear to ear smiles on peoples faces when we were carrying their box's to their car and they didn't have to worry about paying for any it! After we finished with the food bank we all slumped back into the parish center from the long, hard, tiring but very fun day we were met up with an amazing taco bar.

Blog made by Justin Griffin and Michael Schneider 

Week 5: Holy Redeemer - Tuesday

Today was an amazing day. I feel like the VBS group had a lot of fun. All the children were so happy when we brought lunch for them they even could not finish their food and were saving it for later when we take for granted all the food we have. My group for dinner got $5.00 and we got beans, rice, and corn tortillas. It tasted amazing cuz we were starving. - Evelyn Kohler


Today was crazy in the best way possible. It was probably the most action packed 14 hour day I've had all summer. But one of the highlights I had today was at the Sunrise migrant camp. We visited this camp yesterday and met all of the children then, but today they greeted us like we were cousins they could not wait to hang out with. My "buddy" clung to me for our time at the camp. We painted each others' faces, painted nails, even got soaked with water balloons. But my favorite part was the nicknames we gave each other: Dora for her, and 'mochila' for me. I am the backpack to her Dora, and I know I'll miss her dearly when it comes time to leave, but I'll never forget her:) -Jordan Griffin