Covid-19 Update

My Dear Agape Family and Friends:

I trust all is well with you and yours. Please know that you are constantly on my mind, in my heart and prayers.

2020 is definitely one for the record books. It has been unlike anything we’ve seen before in recent history. Thank God for His sustaining and sufficient grace.

As you know, things are improving in New Jersey—slowly but surely. At this time houses of worship are permitted to assemble but with restrictions, i.e. as of June 22, 2020 attendance may not exceed 25% seating capacity or a maximum of one hundred persons. Consequently this limitation inhibits us from holding services at this time given the size of our congregation. We must wait until the occupancy number increases before resuming in-person gatherings.

Trust me, no one wants to reopen more than I do, and we will when the time is right. We must be very attentive to the health and wellbeing of our congregation in view of this awful COVID-19 global pandemic, and plan accordingly. In the meantime, we are working diligently toward the day when we will once again meet in person to make sure protocols are in place including sanitization, signage, social distancing and cautionary guidelines to make our fellowship times as secure as possible.

Please continue in prayer and worship with me via our morning prayer calls and weekly online worship services.  Likewise, remain committed to financially supporting Agape—not as a debt you owe but a seed you sow. When you give remember God’s promise, He “is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” (2 Corinthians 10:8)

Finally, thanks for all you’ve done thus far and continue to do to advance the Kingdom of God, and Agape. Stay safe, sound and healthy. I love and miss you all so very much. I can hardly wait to see you in person again, soon and very soon.

Shalom,

Dr. Lawrence Powell