The AgapeFamily Mission

PURPOSE

MISSION

To empower, encourage and equip parents and churches to help children develop Christian faith and Biblical character.

"These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." Deuteronomy 6:6-7

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . . . Love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30-31

VISION

Agape Family is focused on reaching and discipling millions of children, all over the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ using cutting-edge technology to develop and deliver new-media tools and training to parents and caregivers. These digital tools are integrated with Church programming, traditional media and print publishing. Agape Family tools make it easy for parents and churches to pass on their faith and values in ways children find interesting and fun.

VALUES

To help children master the great Christian truths at a depth that allows them to apply them to their lives:

1. The Gospel
2. The Great Commandment
3. The Ten Commandments
4. The Golden Rule
5. The Beatitudes
6. The Great Commission
7. 46 Biblical Character Traits
8. The Top 100 Bible Stories

PHILOSOPHY OF MINISTRY

God's truth instilled God's way, consistently over time, results in loving, well-balanced, morally upright, and highly-functioning, Kingdom citizens, capable of impacting their world through the advanced spiritual, moral and personal development summed-up in The Great Commandment of Christ:

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength . . . Love your neighbor as yourself. (Mark 12:30-31)

1. Heart: They trust Christ as Savior and Lord and function in the power of His Spirit. These Christians know, respect, love and glorify God. They are committed to the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20). They are humble and know themselves. They possess a balanced, positive self-image, are self-confident and maintain an optimistic outlook.
   
2. Soul: They live out the Golden Rule. Applied Biblical values power their Christ-like character (See: List of 46 Biblical Character Traits). They have a loving, winsome personality. They also have an appreciation of books, music and the arts. They are good communicators and possess strong social and relational skills.
   
3. Mind: They are emotionally and mentally balanced and maintain a positive outlook on life. They possess comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Biblical truth. They know how to gain knowledge, organize information, and have good critical-thinking skills. They acknowledge God as their source and owner of all of their resources, gifts and assets. In short these people have a Biblical world view.
   
4. Strength: They have well-developed ministry skills and work habits. They maintain proper mental hygiene and a sound body. Their honed abilities and work skills are exemplary. They give back to God all that they have (skills, gifts, resources, relationships) in order that His Will be accomplished.

STATEMENT OF FAITH
©1998 Campus Crusade for Christ International

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God's infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.

We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians. Because of the specialized calling of our movement, we desire to allow for freedom of conviction on other doctrinal matters, provided that any interpretation is based upon the Bible alone, and that no such interpretation shall become an issue which hinders the ministry to which God has called us.

1. There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.
2. Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. Hence, He is perfect Deity and true humanity united in one person forever.
3. He lived a sinless life and voluntarily atoned for the sins of men by dying on the cross as their substitute, thus satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who trust in Him alone.
4. He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He lived and died.
5. He ascended bodily into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God the Father, where He, the only mediator between God and man, continually makes intercession for His own.
6. Man was originally created in the image of God. He sinned by disobeying God; thus, he was alienated from his Creator. That historic fall brought all mankind under divine condemnation.
7. Man's nature is corrupted, and he is thus totally unable to please God. Every man is in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
8. The salvation of man is wholly a work of God's free grace and is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works or goodness or religious ceremony. God imputes His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justified them in His sight.
9. It is the privilege of all who are born again of the Spirit to be assured of their salvation from the very moment in which they trust Christ as their Savior. This assurance is not based upon any kind of human merit, but is produced by the witness of the Holy Spirit, who confirms in the believer the testimony of God in His written word.
10. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power and control are appropriated in the believer's life by faith.
11. Every believer is called to live so in the power of the indwelling Spirit that he will not fulfill the lust of the flesh but will bear fruit to the glory of God.
12. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.
13. God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
14. At physical death the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing.
15. At physical death the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
16. Jesus Christ will come again to the earth - personally, visibly and bodily - to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
17. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to disciple men of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all worldly and personal ambitions be subordinated to a total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us."