 Agape Flights -
A Global Mission Built on Faith
After hearing from missionaries in Haiti in 1980 about the need for dependable mail and delivery service, a group of friends in Bradenton, Florida gathered in Keith and Clara Starkey's living room to pray about a way to help. The result was Agape Flights.
On November 15, 1980, Agape’s inaugural flight left the
Sarasota-Bradenton Airport, bound for Cap Haitien. The small
Cessna 411 was loaded with donated emergency supplies and mail for
about 25 families.
Today, for about 350 missionary families in Haiti and Dominican Republic, Agape Flights is a lifeline to family, friends, supporters and supplies. Agape Flights serves Christ by serving His missionaries on some of the most challenging mission fields in the world.
Agape, named with the Greek word used in the New Testament to describe God’s unconditional love, offers a ministry of love to missionary families. We help bridge the gap between the perception and the reality of what is needed for missionaries to accomplish most effectively their calling to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and meet the needs of the people around them.
Services
provided by Agape Flights:
- Makes regular weekly flights to Haiti,
the Dominican Republic and Bahamas delivering mail, critical supplies, manpower resources and equipment for
over 350 missionary families
- Receives and distributes millions of dollars worth of medicine, medical supplies, nutritional supplements, Bibles, school and office supplies, building materials and other mission-critical items
- Responds to some 200 weekly requests from missionaries for information and needed supplies
- Provides banking and other professional services for missionaries.
- Coordinates short-term, volunteer mission teams
- Organizes and implements missionary-initiated, self-sustaining community development projects
- Encourages fellowship among the missionary community
- Sponsors revivals and retreats for missionaries and their families
- Serves as a repair center and parts supplier
- Utilizes the Agape network to speed disaster relief directly to those in need
Agape Flights provides services to missionaries from its hangar
at Venice Municipal Airport. The work of its full-time staff, headed by executive director Charles Gardner, is supplemented by over
150 regular volunteers. |
How
You Can Help
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Surround
us with your prayers.
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Become a mission partner, supporting Agape with your prayers and financial gifts.
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Introduce your friends to Agape and encourage them to become supporters.
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Volunteer your time at the hangar, complete a project at home or coordinate a project through your church.
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Expand your mission field as a short-term mission volunteer.
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Schedule a presentation about Agape Flights for your church, civic group, family and friends.
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Give a gift through your will, life insurance, a gift annuity or a charitable remainder trust.
 He has shown thee, O man, what is good; and
what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? - Micah
6:8
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