Agape Youth Ministry Newsletter

Agape Youth Ministry

PROGRESS REPORT

2022 June/July/August

WELCOME!

It is our goal to keep you updated with the latest news about the activities of Agape Youth Ministry (AYM) and its various programs with hope that you may want to join us in our mission to work where God is working by helping to develop future Christian leaders from the young adults in our Local communities.

DONATE NOW!!!!

AYM is an Arizona Corporation as well as an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit Christian organization, which depends on donations to be able to provide programs to help our youth. If you are interested in supporting AYM and its Community Youth Programs such as WMY. Donations may be made through our website: We are a faith-based Ministry relying on God to provide individuals to financially support our ministry! www.agapeyouth.org or mailing a check to Agape Youth Ministry, P.O. Box 2145, Pinetop, AZ 85935 Thank you!

White Mountain Youth INC

White Mountain Youth INC (In the Name of Christ) is a non-profit organization dependent on generous donations to continue our efforts in not only teaching young people the truth found in the Bible through its AYM/WMY Dig Deeper Bible School (DDB School), but also sponsoring free events that provide opportunities for young Christians to meet and fellowship with like-minded youth from different Churches in our area. Your tax-deductible donation can assure that these efforts continue in the future. Please consider supporting this much needed outreach to our young people in the White Mountains with your donation of any size.

Our AYM/WMY DDB School provides 64 classes over a 64-week period. Each class costs approximately $15.00 per student, per class. Please consider supporting AYM/WMY/ DDBS! The AYM/WMY DDB School currently has approximately 15 students enrolled.

WMY INC Impacting Its Youth Community with Programs That Glorify Our Savior Jesus Christ!

AYM/WMY’s Dig Deeper Bible School has been expanding its student base and is completing its 2022, 16-week, 1^st Semester classes. Semester 101 focused on such issues as understanding

the Bible and its relevance and credibility in today’s world to understanding such terms and application of Hermeneutics and Apologetics.

White Mountain Youth Holds Annual Community Youth Group Picnic on

July 24th

White Mountain Youth invited youth groups from the Show Low, Lakeside and Pinetop communities to participate at the Pinetop Town Park. WMY’s mission is to bring youth groups together with community events, so that our Christian youth can see that there are other Christian youth in their communities.

White Mountain Youth INC (In the Name of Christ) is a non-profit organization which depends on generous donations. Please send your donation to: Agape Youth Ministry, P.O. Box 2145, Pinetop, AZ 85935. You may also donate through our website: agapeyouth.org. Please indicate if your donation is specifically for White Mountain Youth.

(Note: White Mountain Youth INC is a AYM Community Youth Group in the White Mountains community).

VALLEY OF THE SON YOUTH (VSY) HOLDS IT’S FIRST EVENT IN THE EAST VALLEY on July 16^th!

Valley of the Son Youth (VSY) held its first Community Youth Groups event in the Phoenix East Valley with youth from 3

churches participating. Thanks to VSY Coordinators Bev Buddee and Greg Schmidt, the Air Soft Event was a success! Valley of the Son Youth is a new AYM Community Youth group and is part of AYM’s Fellowship-Knowledge-Go Program.

AYM Scholarship Program Sends 5 To World View Academy Summer Camp, June 26th and

One Student to World View Academy Conference

In Colorado Springs

Dan Parcell;(WMY/DDBS Teacher) The Agape Youth Ministry sent 3 students and 2 adult chaperones to Worldview Academy (WVA) from June 26th to July 1st 2022, in Glendale Arizona. The WVA provided the 3 students from the Dig Deeper School with 22 lectures, averaging 1 hour and 15 minutes each, over the five-day camp. Each lecture provided a Biblical view of the world we live in today. The students took one afternoon to go to the Arizona State University campus to evangelize with college students on that campus. The total number of students attending the camp was just over 100. This camp has been described by students as life changing in the way they see the world they live in. Dan Parcell, Instructor for the Dig Deeper School., was one of the chaperones attending the camp. Dan noted that this camp is different than any camp he has ever attended, with the focus on solid biblical theology and living a Christian life over shadowing the activities, which were numerous and very fun as well, mixed in with personal prayer time and personal Bible study time. All in all, this is the finest summer camp available to youth wishing to grow in their walk with Christ.

Emagene Cooper (Student); Editor’s note; Emagene also received AYM scholarship money to help pay for her to attend the WVA Conference in Colorado Springs in August

“World View Academy Camp was a fantastic week. I Learned a lot from the lectures. I loved meeting new friends who wanted to learn more about God and to grow in their faith.”

Emagene Cooper (continued)

“We got to go to ASU and practice evangelizing one morning. The conversation my group had with one man was not very encouraging. It was reassuring, to realize that sharing your faith or asking questions to get people to think about God and their salvation can be simple and even easy. Worldview Academy Camp was the best camp I have been to. If you have the opportunity, I strongly encourage you to go”

Cyrus Coope (Student); “The most impactfully thing about the Worldview Academy camp was probably the large number of youths seeking to learn more about their faith and how to help it grow.”

Joel Brashear (Student); “I would say that the lesson learned from the Worldview Academy Camp was the lesson of leisure. They talked about what proper leisure was! They also talked about when people accept the reality of this world as a gift

from God as a gift from Him (God), and understanding that these gifts alone will not lead to ultimate happiness. These gifts include things like the sky and clouds and the beauty in them. This lesson really struck me, because it taught me to take some time to appreciate all of the beauty in this world that comes from God.”

(Editor’s note: learn to worship the creator not the creation!!)

Notes from AYM/CEO Gordy Lange:

Finally, the pandemic restrictions are disappearing and AYM can move forward where God would have us impacting our youth with our Fellowship-Knowledge-Go programs.

As a follow-up, I am meeting on August 16^th with representatives from those churches that participated in our Valley of the Son Youth event. My prayer is that Dan Parcell, the developer of the DDBS, will be able to come with me to the meeting to encourage establishing another DDBS in the Phoenix Valley, and that these churches would want to use our “Fellowships-Knowledge-Go” Program as additional resource for their churches.

Our Board of Directors will be meeting in Pinetop for its 2nd Quarterly Meeting. On the agenda is a proposal from me for AYM to sponsor an Apologetics Conference in the spring of 2023 in the East Phoenix Valley and in the White Mountains. The theme could be “Using Biblical Apologetics against the WOKE culture.” My vision is to bring in speakers from the Apologetics Press Ministry and a panel of our students to ask questions of the speaker regarding this topic related to their generation’s concerns.

My prayer is that ALL churches will focus on developing programs for our youth.

With Agape Youth Ministry’s Fellowship-Knowledge-Go! Program, we believe God will use the program to prepare our youth. Go to our website: www.agapeyouth.org, or contact Gordy at (602) 363-6387 for more information.

Our Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for Youth Groups in a community to come together for a back-to-school celebration event supported by AYM’s Community Youth Group Program for this next school year.

The Knowledge PROGRAMS include:

-The Student Leadership Program, which is a 3-Year Commitment.

-The Dig Deeper Bible School is a 2-year, 4 semester in-depth study, which is supported by our Community Youth Groups.

-One-week World Vision Summer Camp.

-6- 8 Weeks with Teen Missions international, and

-A 3–9-month Internship/Residency program.

GO! Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations… Matthew 28:18-20

AYM’S SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM is a great opportunity for your Church to provide financial assistance and encouragement to those students who want to attend summer programs that your Church is participating in.

The AYM Scholarship Program provides up to $100.00 for each student and a maximum of 5 students per Church.

Opportunities for parents and teens who have a passion to serve the Lord by providing scholarship money for students in the Student Leadership Program.

Check our website: www.agapeyouth.org to print out a Scholarship application. Funding is on a first-come basis and the AYM Board of Directors may change funding requirements on an individual basis.

HELP WANTED!

Serve on the AYM Board of Directors!

We are looking for men and women who have a Godly passion for youth. BOD members must have a desire to oversee and promote (includes financial support) of AYM’s programs.

*Most BOD meetings are held quarterly, in-person or by video conference, or on specific issues, by e-mail. BOD members are encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting in person in January or February.

*Applications for the AYM Board of Directors can be printed from our website at: www.agapeyouth.org under Forms.

*Geographic location is not an issue for BOD members as long as they feel they can provide oversite and promote AYM from their geographic location.

To receive the AYM Progress Report or to send it to another, or to receive additional information on Agape Youth Ministry and its programs, send us an e-mail!

Our e-mail is: agapeyouth@agapeyouth.org

or go to our website: www.agapeyouth.org.

Sincerely,

Gordy Lange

CEO

Agape Youth Ministry

Website

(602) 363-6387

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