Agape Community

The Agape Community, a Non-Profit Organization, located on 32 acres of land in the Quabbin Reservoir watershed hosts groups of youth and adults for work/education days throughout the summer and into the fall, to encourage young people, to consider a nonviolent sustainable lifestyle.

Volunteers and Interns will experience Brigid House, our straw bale house with solar energy and compost toilet, organic gardening, wood splitting/stacking and Agape?s ?veggie? car, which runs on vegetable oil from a local 99 Restaurant.

Other activities will consist of hospitality to summer guests, including students for a summer course at Agape on The Philosophy of Nonviolence sponsored by Worcester State College, as well as dialogue, discussion on nonviolence, sustainability, eco-theology and community living.

Vegetarian meals & private rooms in large community house included as well as potential for small stipend.

If interested, please contact Suzanne Belote Shanley at 413-967-9369, email us via our contact page:
http://www.agapecommunity.org/contact.php
or download our College Retreat Flyer http://www.agapecommunity.org/CollegeBrochure.pdf …and print the registraion form.

The community is in need of volunteers to help cut, cart and stack wood.

We need people who will help us with our large organic garden, produce from which goes into the nourishing Agape meals at events.

We need overall homesteading assistance on an ongoing basis.

Office work and outreach always with us.

CAN YOU GIVE US AN HOUR, A DAY, A WEEK, A MONTH, A YEAR.

NO AMOUNT OF TIME IS TOO LITTLE.

This assistance keeps the community available for people who come for respite, retreat, programs, liturgies, courses. Please give us some of your time.

WORK DAY AT AGAPE JUNE 11 from 9am until ??? or ANY OTHER DAY YOU CAN COME.

COME TO A WORK DAY PLANNED FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 11TH ALL DAY.

ENJOY FELLOWSHIP WHILE WORKING, SOME VEGGIES FROM LAST YEAR’S GARDEN AND THE LIFT YOU WILL GET FROM THE EARTH AND PUTTING YOUR HANDS IN IT.

JULY 9, 16, 23, 30 & AUGUST 6 / 05
SATURDAYS ONLY: 9am-5pm

This is a meditative group experience for the study of ethics. The ethics
of nonviolence is emphasized in personal, historical, and philosophical
contexts. Many Western, Middle Eastern, and Asian viewpoints from history
are used to shed light upon a nonviolent theory of ethics, i.e., Feminist,
Pragmatic, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jainist, Confucian, Taoist,
Existential, Ecological, Perennial, etc.
Concern is upon making real connections between a theory of nonviolence
and the actual experiences of persons in society. Contemporary social and
moral problems are discussed. Emphasis is upon the values and ideals of a
nonviolent ethics in one’s own personal life and the world. Talks,
dialogue, readings, videos and meditations used. The course will be held at
the beautiful retreat center of the Agape Community in Hardwick, MA.
Students should meet at WSC for their first meeting and the directions to
Agape.
Course facilitators: Courtney Schlosser, Professor of Philosophy at
Worcester State College.
508-929-8822
Suzanne and Brayton Shanley, co-founders of the Agape Community, 2062
Greenwich Rd., Ware MA 01082, 413-967-9369, website:
www.agapecommunity.org

FOR COLLEGE CREDITS (3): APPLY TO WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE, SUMMER SCHOOL:
1-508-929-8125

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Agape Community
2062 Greenwich Rd.
Ware, MA. 01082