Our Story


Agape Europe is the Western European branch of Campus Crusade for Christ, an interdenominational movement that was founded in 1951 in the USA. "Agape" is the Greek word used in the Bible for God's love. Worldwide around 20,000 people have joined us to share God's love with the world. Recommended Links:
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Our Purpose
To glorify God and be used by Him in the power of the Holy Spirit to help lead in the fulfilment of the Great Commission in every generation

Our Calling & Mission
To boldly proclaim Jesus Christ to every person as we develop leaders and spiritual movements to mobilize co-labourers for the global harvest.

Elements of Our Mission

  • Win - Proclaim Christ to every person
  • Build - Develop leaders and spiritual movements
  • Send - Mobilize co-labourers and partnerships

Vision Objectives
Prayer Movements as Foundation for Ministry

  • Give every person in the world (Europe) an opportunity to respond to the gospel every 7 - 10 years (Win)
  • Building spiritual movements to take the gospel in a fruitful manner to campuses and hub cities (Build)
  • Build leaders who passionately own, clearly articulate and consistently live our mission and values (Build)
  • Initiate partnerships and mobilize co-labourers to reach entire nations (Send)

Developing Local Movements and Initiatives

Our Values

Faith

  • Have exalted view of God
  • Glorify God in all that we do
  • Maintain biblical lifestyle
  • Believe God and pray for the impossible

Hope

  • Living and expressing our hope in Jesus Christ
  • See the fulfilment of the Great Commission in every generation
  • Honour Christ with abundant fruits at His return
  • Capture opportunities for the future

Love

  • Living and sharing God's abundant and unconditional love
  • Maintain our first love for God
  • Love relationships as context for all we do
  • Value and develop our people
  • Compassion for the world
  • Connect with people who are without a personal relationship with Christ

Fruitfulness

  • By grace, bearing the fruit of the Spirit
  • Depend on the Holy Spirit for the results
  • Creativity and innovativeness
  • Cultural relevance and effectiveness
  • Measure and evaluate progress

Our Principles
Ministry Operations are based on internationally agreed upon principles and frameworks of effective movement building, leadership development, globalization and resource development

Principles of Evangelism, Discipleship and Movement Building

  • Living and Teaching the Spirit Filled Life
  • Strategic Evangelism
    - reaching leaders, people of influence and influential target groups
  • Broad Sowing and Saturation
  • Providing opportunities to respond
  • Filtering and following up ripe fruit
  • Spiritual Multiplication
  • Transferable tools
    - concepts, methods, materials, strategies
  • Developing indigenous leadership and resources
  • Building inter-confessional cooperation with churches and organizations
  • World Mission

Principles of Operation

  • Relevance and creativity encouraged in every local setting
  • Flexibility in methods and strategies
  • Accountability based on agreed upon framework, principles and results
  • Global vision and interdependence


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