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New Poster and Flyer Being Used in Evangelism

New poster and flyer have been designed and are being used from October 25. We hope they will help us to witness the grace and life in Jesus Christ more effectively.

Reaching People in Different Ways in Evangelism

Agape Community Church is trying to reach people in different ways, which is making the evangelism more active and effective.

What impressed the minister is that it’s not easy to see people except in universities and in downtown, which makes the evangelism being limited. But now he found more ways to reach people.

Table in the Street and Universities

Agape Community Church has applied showing materials and doing evangelism by reserving a table in the main street of downtown once. Signs and flyers are being prepared for another one tomorrow. We will try to reserve table in the campus to do evangelism, too.



Flyers with Short Messages

The minister is making short messages to hand them out in evangelism, so people can read them even they have rejected the offer of Bible studies.

Posters

Posters are being made to be posted in the street and universities, which will inform more people.

Local gatherings

Residents here have many gatherings for different kind of people. We are following the events from local newspapers and are doing evangelism at the places where people gather.

Bible Study Programs

Bible Studies on Romans are being held in different places at fixed time, praying that people who are interested will come.

An Office in Downtown

We are praying for and looking for an office in downtown, and it will make the bible studies more convenient for people around.

We invite your prayers for the mission here – the minister can preach the good news of salvation and people here can seek and accept the salvation from God.

Invitation to retreat in Jersey City

Brothers and sisters in Agape Community Church are invited to attend the retreat held in Jersey City from Jersey City Ephesus Church on August 24 and 25.

It will be a wonderful time when you can have bible studies intensely, meet members from other cities and have joyful fellowship with each other. We will study the path of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph in the Genesis.

You are welcome to attend the retreat even you are not a member in Agape. Just send us email to office@burlingtonagape.org . Booking tickets from Megabus is a cheap way if you don’t want to drive there. (Just book the ticket to New York City)

Sunday Service and Fellowship with Grace

On July 7, two new comers from Burlington Emergency Shelter visited Agape Community Church to attend the Sunday service and had fellowship with the minister.

Valerie Brosseau and her husband are working in Burlington Emergency Shelter. The minister introduced himself and the church after service and they also gave their testimony and their opinions on spreading the Gospel.

As two Vermonters, they said that people here are easy to think about you are selling something, which reminds me of witnessing the Gospel only with love. We welcome anyone who wants to know the love of God to come.

Round-table Bible Study: Romans 1-8 Salvation and Justification

For you and I, nothing is more important than salvation.

In Romans 1-8, Paul writes about the justification and Sanctification. We are saved through the blood of Jesus Christ and after that we will live a life of victory with the help of Holy Spirit. However, most of us don’t know this deeply that our faith become weak and we are living a miserable life. We lose the function of salt and light of this world. We want to go back to Romans 1-8, study it with you and live it out with you.

We will study the Bible with the help of a textbook and a Q & A book. Welcome!

When You Know Salvation Deeper

What’s the first thing that a church should teach? What’s the first thing that everyone should know about Christianity? It’s salvation.

Romans 3:23-24 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Most people became Christians because of the love of Jesus Christ. I am one of them. Before I became a Christian, I didn’t know much about the righteous law of God. I lived a sinful life in God’s eyes, I we didn’t feel wrong about that. However, after I became a Christian, I study the Bible and live my life, I began to realize that “I am a so terrible sinner. Am I a Christian?” We try to follow God’s word, but we can’t do it. I believe there are people who leave Christianity because of this. Actually when we realize this, we can understand our salvation deeper. We can really know that I am so bad a sinner according to God’s law. Only through the forgiveness of God we can be saved. Jesus asked God to forgive the people even when he was crucified by them. He is like the Passover lambs that died for the sinners in the Old Testament. He bears our iniquities and punishment as sin sacrifice, so that we can be “as white as snow” though “our sins are like scarlet”. You will find you are in peace and love, and nothing can separate you from the love of God.

For non-Christians or Christians who haven’t experienced this, I suggest they read the Bible seriously and live their life seriously. They will surely realize “I am a sinner. I can’t follow the righteous word of God”. They may become extremely frustrated. However, you will experience the abundant grace of God through Jesus Christ and realize he is the only way.

Having known so wonderful savior, can you stop yourself from sharing the good news?