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Agape Villages Foster Family Agency
SUPPORT OUR SUPERHEROES!
At Agape Villages Foster Family Agency, we’ve been Despite all of these challenges, Mike and Linda
taking care of abused and neglected children for 60 never thought of giving up on Jimmy. Their Agape social
years! worker Maria helped them to partner with several
60
years
of
love,
compassion,
healing,
commitment.
different specialists, and within months Jimmy
Jimmy is one of our superheroes. Jimmy was just a
progressed to using a sippy cup and eating real food.
Three years later, Jimmy is in preschool. He is an
exposed to drugs in utero and was born into a life of affectionate little boy who enjoys playing. Jimmy has
severe neglect and trauma. Jimmy was still unable to healed because of his own efforts, supported by the
eat solid food or drink from a cup and could only take tireless love and tender devotion of his foster parents
formula from a bottle. He had no language yet, not Mike and Linda, along with the efforts of so many other
even a few simple syllables. Agape team members who have helped him to make a
When Jimmy first came to Agape Villages Foster
Family Agency, he cried nonstop for three days. Agape
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year old and was perilously underweight. He had been
new start in life. Best of all, Mike and Linda have
adopted Jimmy.
foster parents Mike and Linda weren’t sure how to help Because of You and people like you who have
the frightened, confused little boy except to hold him become foster parents, volunteers and donors, we’ve
tenderly in the safety of their arms, so that’s what they been able to help more than 6,300 foster children and
took turns doing. For three days straight. Because the youth. Children like Jimmy. Because of You. Will you
moment a child enters an Agape home, they are family. help?
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