Disability Impacts All of Us: CDC
61 Million adults in the United States live with a disability – that's 26%, or over 1 in every 4 people. (Click on the above photo from the CDC to see all six parts of this infographic.)
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Here's How to Reach the World:
At age 15 in 1958, while taking care of lawns at an apartment complex, the Lord gave me a vision: I saw a map of the USSR in the sky and a voice said: "Remember this apartment complex plan – you'll build it when you're an old man."
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Please Let Me Introduce Myself
Are you getting 24 hours older every day, 168 hours older every week, and 8,736 hours older every year? We sure are! How can we turn around that fact to our advantage?
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Can You Help Us?
The purpose of our 6 courses is to prepare people to "Build the ARC" - the Agape Restoration Community, an accessible Christian housing co-op with 10 to 12 living units and a built-in community room/chapel.
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Take a Stand With Us!
Do Boomer Lives Matter to you? There's a very serious problem: most people ignore the 75,000,000 "Baby Boomers" – many who are sick or disabled.
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A New Approach to Home Care
What is Home-Based Primary Care? "HBPC programs provide appropriate care (primary, urgent, or palliative) to high-risk, medically vulnerable patients, often suffering multiple chronic conditions, when and where they need it.
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Answer the Call!
All Christians, not just monks or clergy, are called to be saints. The main task of bishops, pastors, deacons, evangelists and teachers isn't just to teach doctrine (although that's important too!), it's to equip the saints to minister to the poor, lame, maimed, and blind.
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Bear One Another's Burdens
How are we to "bear one another's burdens"? When Jesus Christ first started His ministry, He said: "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He..."
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Brief Overview of the ARC
Get 2 PDFs: first, "Agape Restoration Communities - Brief Overview," a one-sheet "management summary" to give you a bird's-eye view of the Agape Restoration Community concept with two drawings...
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Building the ARC
"Why would I want to build an ARC, anyway? Do I look like Noah?" How do you start building it? First, you gather people together who are committed to living together as Christians in community. In his book The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher describes...
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Christ Sending Out the Twelve
Jesus Christ showed and taught His followers how to heal the sick and care for the poor and brokenhearted. But it seems that many Christians think - "I don't have the gift of healing, I'm not a great evangelist or a pastor, so..."
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Crowdfunding Tipsheet
Dear friend and crowd-fund-raiser, Thank you for your willingness to Help Spread the Word! I appreciate you more that I can put into words! This is an entirely grassroots effort to prove that ordinary...
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Escaping Debt Slavery
Why are U.S. middle-class incomes falling? Why do the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? Simple! Because the poor get tricked into giving their money to the rich! How? Through long-term and usurious interest...
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Free e-Book on Agape Restoration Communities
In 1957 when I was 14, I committed my life to serve Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord. The next summer, 60 years ago, while taking care of lawns at an apartment complex, the Lord gave me a vision...
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Help at Home
Pennsylvania offers various social services for citizens age 60 and up, as shown here. Agape Restoration Society helps residents and others get needed assistance so they can live at home, either in our wheelchair-accessible ARCs or other housing. Then...
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How Many Disabled People
Are in Your Church?
Notice how the likelihood of disability increases with age, as shown in this graphic. How Many Disabled People Are in Your Church? How does your church compare to society at large? ...
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Seek the Welfare
of the City, Part 1
Where does the concept of "philanthropy" come from? Where did we get the idea of erecting hospitals, orphanages, homes for the elderly and infirm? Today we might think that these institutions were created by billionaires...
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Seek the Welfare
of the City, Part 2
In case you're thinking about Jeremiah 29:7 - "That was then, but this is now!" - well, you're in for a surprise. It explains in Part 1 that there were beggars who refused to work, and Christian philanthropists were warned...
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Support Agape Restoration Society
Go to our Support page to see how to help Agape Restoration Society assist the inner-city poor to build housing, improve their skills to find more meaningful and better-paying work, and provide counseling and material support...
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The Best Way To Fight Poverty
Private charity by individuals, churches, synagogues and other non-profit organizations should replace government welfare programs. Why? Because private charity is by nature more efficient!– read more –
Uphold Orphans and Widows
How are we to "Be a doer - uphold orphans and widows"? Jesus Christ, starting His ministry, quoted the prophet Isaiah, saying: "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor..."
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Various Kinds of Crew Members
Check out this important Podcast! The speaker really nails it, stressing that the Church, the Ark of Our Salvation, is not a cruise ship where we're passengers on vacation, relaxing and having a good time...– read more –
We Who Are Strong
The Apostle Paul wrote - "Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up" (Romans 15:1-2). Are you reasonably strong and healthy?...
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Who Are We?
We set up "Agape Restoration Society" in 1998 as a nonprofit organization that demonstrates the love of Christ in practical, charitable actions, namely by training people to work with and rehabilitate disabled people, to provide wheelchairs, computers, medicines...
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