• Valentine's Day Sweethearts Candy

    The Best Valentine’s Day Gift: Another Chance

    By Cathy Downen, MA, MA, PLPC Love is a many splendored thing when you’re first dating Mr. or Miss Right, and Valentine’s Day seems to have been invented just for the two of you to celebrate your very special love. But after a few years of marriage (a few hours in some cases), when Miss Right has turned into “Mrs. Always Right” and Mr. Right has deteriorated into “Mr. Can’t Get it Right” (or vice versa), Valentine’s Day may seem like a trumped-up tradition of forced, and often expensive, displays of affection custom-made for commercialism, hyped-up expectations, and often disappointment. The gift industry would have us believe that flowers, candy…

  • 2015 St Louis Home Educators Expo

    2015 Greater St Louis Area Home Educators Expo

    March 19th – 21st Agape’s Director of Children’s Therapeutic Services, Carolyn Knarr, will be a speaker at the Home Educators Expo this year.  We will also have a table at the event, so please stop by to meet Carolyn and our other child therapists!  The purpose of the Greater St. Louis Area Home Educators Expo (GSLAHE) is to equip and encourage parents as they seek to raise and educate their children. The GSLAHE organization was created to provide the community with a conference that focuses on bringing educational and family topics to the community. We also strive to inform the community at large about home education. Click here for more……

  • Agape Counselor Tai Yong Moves to Taiwan

    Counselor Tai Yong Moves to Taiwan!

    It is with both joy and sadness that we announce that, after almost seven years at Agape, counselor Tai Yong will be leaving us this month. He and his family will be relocating to Taiwan to counsel missionaries and pastors. We will miss him greatly, but we can see his excitement as he prepares to go, and we know that he will be doing God’s work. We are happy that he will continue his affiliation with Agape through our AgapeOnline counseling program. We wish Tai the very best, and will be praying for God to protect him and his family, and to bless his endeavors!       While no…

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    Bridge to Wholeness | Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2015

    Welcome to the January 2015 Issue of the Agape newsletter, Bridge to Wholeness! Our monthly newsletter is the best way for you to keep up with what is going on around Agape, with events and updates, and articles written by our counselors. We hope it will help bring you a little bit closer to emotional, mental, and spiritual wholeness! In this issue (click to read individual articles): How to Forgive the Unforgivable by Cathy Downen, MA, MA, PLPC ‘Parenting the Love and Logic Way’ Comes to Agape by Kathy Bleitner, MEd, LPC New Beginnings: Rebuilding and Repairing Relationships by Kathryn Manley, MS, LPC, CST Gospel Driven Parenting by Carolyn Knarr, MSW, LCSW…