Week 7: St. Andrew's - Sunday

Correa: I learned to have empathy for others and to show more in life, to show happiness and to show them to smile because it boosts up yourself and makes it easier to live.

Luke: Through a prayer that focused more on scripture and imagining ourselves as the characters in scripture, we are given the chance to imagine ourselves as other people, in different situations. This gives us the chance to think about how we can put ourselves in other's shoes, and how they might be different to us.

Week 5: St. Catherine of Sienna & Our Lady of the Lake - Thursday

Dear friends and family,

Today's beatitude was "Blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted."This morning we watched a video about migrant workers immigrating and the reasons that they would come. The beatitude for today related a lot to the video we watched because so many people lost family on the way to the United States and they were some how blessed after. Breakfast was plentiful because they bought more cereal.We were going to go to mass today ,but there was a funeral so we prayed the rosary outside of the church in a field. After we prayed the rosary we went back to the church we were staying at and got ready to go to the pool. Then we went to the pool as a part of the end of the trip celebration. We left the pool to go to the barbecue for the migrant workers. Then we had a surprise ice cream party after reflection!

Week 5: St. Catherine of Siena & Our Lady of the Lake - Wednesday

It was very awesome today to serve people at the food bank. I enjoyed seeing the looks of pure joy on the peoples faces when we gave them the food, considering that's their food for the week. Another thing that was cool was that the children would line up in the toy line to wait for the toy that they had their eye on,  and then playing with them immediately after they got them. It was also heartwarming when the children were getting the food on their own, to support them and their families. It was also nice to see the kids from the migrant camps coming to the food banks with there families.

-Matthew from Our Lady of the Lake and Zach from St. Catherine School

We served 151 families today!
Thank you to all of our generous donors and supporters!
-The Agape Staff

Week 5: St. Catherine of Siena & Our Lady of the Lake- Tuesday

hey family and friends,

      Today we woke up at 5 am and went to a farm to work like the migrant workers. Once we were done we then WE SHOWERED!! After that we went to the grocery store to buy food for dinner. We came back to the church where we are staying and we cooked what we bought. Later in the day we went to migrant farm worker camps and handed out flyers for our food drive tomorrow and then headed back to the migrant camp to play with the kids! Overall it was a super fun experience and a great day!

-Chase (Our Lady of the Lake)


Good evening readers,

      Today we woke up at 5 am and went to Growing Veterans, a beautiful farm that supports local veterans and local food banks. We worked for 4 hour out in the squash patch today. It was so fun because we were all singing while we worked. After that we showered!!! Finally! Once we were clean again we went to Grocery Outlet to gather dinner for tonight. Everyone was separated into different groups. Each group received around 5 dollars for food. leaving one dollar for every person. It was hard to find food to accommodate every ones personal restrictions but in the end we made it through. After that we went to migrant camps spreading word about the food bank tomorrow. After that we went to a different migrant camp to play with migrant children. It was so fun. Lots of people got beautiful makeovers. All, in All, it was an incredible day filled with happiness and a lingering feeling of fulfillment. 

-Alinea (st. catherines)

Week 5: St. Catherine of Sienna & Our Lady of the Lake - Monday

Hi friends and family! It was our first full day at Agape and we're already working hard. This morning we did some activities to help us better understand the injustices in our country's immigration system. We learned that the process of becoming a citizen is very long and complex. In the afternoon we had some fun playing with the children and a migrant camp. Weather you were making friendship bracelets or playing dodge ball we all got plenty dusty while having a great time. Our evening was spent tabling at local grocery stores. We asked for donations for our food bank that we will host on Wednesday for the migrant community. Of course everyone was not willing to donate so when people did and generally gave to us, it felt really good. By the end of the night we were very tired and ready to enjoy some dinner.

St. Catherine Parish 

Thank you for your donations today! Check back here on Wednesday to see how many families we were able to serve with your help!

Week 5: St. Catherine of Sienna & Our Lady of the Lake - Sunday

The long drive was worth the rewarding pizza. We enjoyed the beautiful scenery that Western Washington has to offer. As we get accustomed to a week of Solidarity we started off with prayer Circle and get-to-know-each-other games. We are looking forward to the full week ahead.

-Elizabeth F. and Abbey

Week 4 St John the Baptist - Thursday

Blogger #1: I am only human. God made me to be incomplete without His love, but he also made me in  ways that let me spread the same kind of love that he infinitely gives, Agape. I never had a great childhood, so to give these kids a chance at something I lacked was so emotional. Leaving these kids made my heartache and everyone in our group would agree that these kids left a mark in our hearts that will last forever, even if we forget their faces, but we also left something with them that I hope they never forget. Happiness and joy in days that are tough for kids that are so young to have to experience. I hope that we were able to relieve their troubles for the few hours we got to know them. Love, 

St. John the Baptist family

Blogger #2: "Blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted". If this is true, then I need a lot of comforting right about now. This week has been long, awkward, difficult, fun, and most of all, memorable. I am without a doubt mourning the end of this week and the fact that we are leaving our dear friends we have made, but we will be comforted. Through the thought that we have made in impact in not only the kids we played with, but in the people we served through the food bank and in other ways. The thought that we have given people hope in some way, shape or form. I am grateful for this week at Agape. The staff, my peers, and the people we served. Thank you for this wonderful week of serving not only the people of this community, but God up above. It will be difficult to leave, but at least we know that we have made an everlasting impact on many people.

Thank you,

St. John the Baptist - Agape Volunteers

Week 4: St John the Baptist - Wednesday

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO today was the food bank and honestly it was a great time and experience to experience, people were very nice and happy when they were receiving the donations that they needed to be able to make it another day. Seeing the kids run around with their new toys was very nice to see and when the kids were getting their own items they were thinking about their whole family and not just thinking of their own stuff. I really liked it and I wouldn't probably do it again to be honest but if i had to I would enjoy it again. TONY FLORES


So today we had the food bank and it was really fun.  I felt like everybody bonded and became closer together.  I felt really happy serving people that don't really have much.  I think that everybody had fun serving all of the people and the people had fun being served.  Chad Forczek.