Note: I’ve closed comments for this entry. Appreciate those that have written in and most have been positive. I felt some of the comments were beginning to become back biting and not helpful to those that might be seeking this program. With the many comments that are written, one can get a feel for the facility. If you have any concerns please contact me personally. There is a contact form on the About page of this blog.
Agape also would welcome you to talk to parents who have had or currently have a child in the program. Email them for a list of references at news@agapeboardingschool.org
I have never visited Agape Boarding School for Boys the following information was found on the internet. Agape Boarding School is for at risk teen boys and is located in Stockton, Missouri there are roughly 110 students in attendance. The school is inspired by Christ and the teachings of the Bible.
Recently, Steve Bozak an educational consultant located in New York visited Agape Boarding School, these are his pictures which may be found on flickr. Some of the images are of Refuge of Grace Academy a full-time Christian Boarding school for girls, also located in Stockton, MO. Refuge of Grace shares many activities and common values with the nearby Agape Boarding School for Boys.
If anyone knows anything about either of these schools please comment.
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My son is one of those wonderful young men who graduated last week. What a wonderful moment and such a blessing. Agape is why he graduated.My experience with the school has been awesome the people in charge are always there to help. i was told they never had a problem with college admissions yet.There are a couple different options on the accreditation. if your thinking of sending your son it will be the best thing you could do for you and your family. My son had numerous opportunities there. will write more later on my way to church. Call Agape and they will give you my phone #. Iwas just there last weekend. Debbie
My only comment would be to check the schools academic associations. Many of them are accredited so that the units will transfer.
About HS credits and going to college, I’d call Agape directly. A group of boys just graduate about a week ago. They can give you a real break down of what the boys will be doing. I have not heard of any problems of boys credits not transferring and boys being ineligible for college. The curriculum there is similar to a home school curriculum. Lots of standardized testing to enforce no-cheating. My son is there now and re-learning everything that didn’t sink-in. He had an assessment done and found holes in his understanding of math and English. He’s been there for about 4 months. So far, my opinion is that it’s a lot better than public school education where I live (CA) – where kids seem to be pushed through the system.
I am thinking of placing my teen at this place, but I have to ask you parents how you manage to get them in somewhere after they graduate because in their papers they state that they cannot guarantee that the credits earned with be recognized by other schools or colleges.
How do you find a place where they don’t check up on these things afterwards?
Hi Clyde, Thank you for your last comment in response to Aaron’s comment. I don’t want this to become a he said she said, therefore I am not approving your comment. You stated yourself very well earlier. Anyone that wants to know more about Clyde and his thinking please read his comment above.
Hi Aaron, For any teen it is hard to be sent away and on the reverse difficult decision for the parents. The feelings of abandonment must be huge. I don’t want to be one sided in the comments that I approve. I appreciate your honesty and with most things treatment differs for everyone and this may not have been the best placement for you.
I don’t know what you all are thinking. You brainwashed Christians. I spent 20 months of my life at that school and rose to a high rank. It was horrible. I will never forget it. Take a good look at your child before you send him off to be forgotten in a backwater christian hell hole. When i got out of there it was very hard for me to get back into society. Anyway I understand if your kid is way out of control but think about other options other than this school. They will lie to you.
Mike has offered if anyone would like to talk to him about the program he may be reached at Mike_burn13@yahoo.com. Note from the owner of this website everyone’s experience is different and teens like anyone else have different needs.
My name is mike burnette. I arrived at agape in july of 2006 and spent 6 months there. I left the program without graduating due to my horrible experience there(and i did return home to finish high school and am about to begin my third year of pharmacy school in San Antonio, TX). When i first arrived, i was stripped searched, and all of my personal belongings (from my shoes to my boxers) were confiscated from me. Then i was moved into another room (now only in boxers) and they shaved my head. Then orientation began. Orientation lasted 3 weeks and consisted of non stop workouts in triple digit heat from the time i woke up until the time i went to sleep. Not to mention i was allowed absolutely no contact with my family for the first 30 days i was there. We were also not allowed to speak to one another. Do you know what it’s like for a teenager to not be able to carry on a conversation with his peers? It’s absolutely horrible. Then there was “restraint.” This is a form of punishment when 4-6 of the staff members take you into a small room and manipulate your pressure points, and throw you around a little bit. During my time at Agape, i was restrained numerous times, and evertime i was restrained, i walked out of the restraint room bleeding, or bruised. I remember one specific time Brother Brian (the son of the founder and owner Mr. Clemens) elbowed me in the back of the head, causing my face to slam against the concrete-reinforced wall in the restraint room(Agape is located in tornado alley so therefore has concrete reinforced walls). This left a giant bruise and cut on the left side of my face that i still have a scar from. Brother Brian routinely bragged about his “jurassic-elbow” and the effect it had on us. And thats coming from the son of the owner? And they clame to be a Christian school?? Thats hard to believe when the men that preach to you also physically beat you. My experiences at Agape were horrible, and because of that, i returned home a worse son then when i first arrived there. I came back with the bitter resentment that my mother had sent me to that wretched place. I had all this pent up anger towards the staff at Agape, and i took it out on my family. And it stayed that way until i began seeing a psycologist. I would not suggest Agape Boarding School to any family out there. I am so cionfident that you can find a better boarding school for your son that will use much better tactics for reform.
Oh and as for the school, it is non-acreditted. Meaning that all school work done there cannot be transferred to another school. Having a diploma from a non-acreditted school also means youre son is less likely to get into college. Due to the fact that some colleges do not reconize diplomas from non-acreditted schools.
My niece has been at Refuge of Grace Academy now for two months. I was tasked with finding a permanent boarding school for her to attend. I called over 18 schools, ranches and programs, and Refuge of Grace is where God led us.
We have been very happy with the school these last two months. When we visited, we were impressed with the cleanliness, orderliness, and kindness of the staff. I talk to Miss Debbie at least weekly, sometimes several times a week to see how my niece is doing. Miss Debbie is firm but kind. It is exactly what my niece needs.
We have received letters from my niece telling us that she especially likes church and chapel! She quotes Bible verses in her letters and says “God is good.” This is a far cry from where she was before spiritually. She still has a long way to go – she is very behind in her studies and needs to learn to obey the first time, among other things. But I feel confident, given time, that she will rise to the occasion.
I feel optimistic about her future and her chances of graduating from high school, which was not the case before she began at this school. She says she really enjoys the school because she can go at her own pace. Furthermore, the students cannot fail, because if they receive below a “B” on a test, they must redo the packet and the test. Therefore, she won’t be missing any foundational concepts. The fact that she likes it is frosting on the cake!
We feel blessed that we are part of this great school and look forward to a bright future for my niece.
..sorry about that..
push ups can serve a lot of reasons, and let me tell you it works, when your son lets it. Like I said before, the program is set up to where your son is set up for succees, he just has to choose to do right. All the tools for him to do right are there, he just has to choose to pick them up and use them. He didnt have a problem not smoking weed, he had a problem smoking weed. So he needs to 1st , stop, and quit his desire.
He needs to come to the point to where he is against it, not just in between and..just..doesnt want it. If he just gets rid of his desire to smoke weed, hes only one step from smoking weed, but if hes against it, hes as far away he can get. This is how you’ll know where he’s on his old habbits, it will help you tell where he stands.
I talked a lot to my mom, I said a lot of “good things” and she liked it. I was singin like a bird to her. But I was full of it, I got into trouble left and right. You’ll know when hes really for real, when you call Agape and ask the staff, or Dean of Students and ask him how your boy has been doin.
Your boy’s words need to meet his actions, there also needs to be a long consistency, for a long time. But what am I sayin, you know your boy more than me.. I didnt truly iron out until a few months before I left, and I was there almost 4 years. In my heart I wanted to be good, and do good, but to be honest with you, I needed the “teenager” to be beaten outta me. If your boy has been there for 2 years, and has been in a little trouble ( which is RARE) and his mentality is good, and you want him back, then take him back. But I’m just telling anyone that if they want the best results, for the long run-which is all that matters- then keep him there til he graduates. There aint a better school, cirriculum, acadmeics, or staff in the World. The cirrculum is higher than most schools.. Its my understanding that public schools let you pass with a 70% or lower, when every test that i took was 80% or above( nothing lower). When the Recruiters came out to give the 15 and older students the ASVAB test – a few years ago when I was there- I can remember the Sergeant saying that Agape’s avergae score was 17% above national average U.S. High School scores! With the cirriculum that is used at Agape, your boy can start 10th grade there, with No credits! and leave 12th grade with full credits…and on time! Where else have you heard that? Well, viewers, that was me. I thought I wasnt going to graduate until after the next 2 Seniors. Not only that, but I also could have done a lot more, and still could have graduated on time. What is more important than school at Agape, or the work ethic that he will learn and establish…is knowledge of the Bible. That is how they do it there which is the primary reason why Agape is still there 18 years+.
And a highlight is when he accepts Jesus Chirst as his personal Savior.
Jesus is The focul point there, that all this discipline revolves around. With all this discipline and No Jesus, then the staff can only do so much, but when you put Jesus Christ, The Physician of any behavior….in the equation,impossibilities become facts.
Let me give you quotes that I came up with when I was a student there:
“The only problems I will ever have are the ones I create” May 20 ’07
“Doing good can not be accomplished by avoiding bad, but by doing good which avoids bad itself”
“Someone that reads the Bible should stand out in a crowd, because the Bible is outstanding”
“Humility is the best weapon against pride”
“Nothing should make us mad, we should be in control of our behavior and not it over us”
“If I want God to be in my corner when I am down, I’d better be His fighter when I am up”
Now after I left Agape, then thats when the real stuff hit
“How much faith you have is determined on how faithful you are”
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change”
“The only power satan has over you is the power yo give him”
“What you do with the Bible determines what God does with you”
“Prayer is the answer to everything because God answers prayer”
“You will get what you want, but what you get wont be what you wanted”
“Make God happy”
“Wisdom is being smart with your choices, character teaches you how to use them”
“If I lived my life in care of what people thought of me, I would only go as far as they would let me”
“Be thankful for your past, God chose it for today”
“The more I mature or the more I walk with Christ, the more I understand the Bible”
“Good thoughts fall down and fall in, but bad thoughts creep up and creep in”
“All that matters is that You have a Godly line”
And God gave me this just after I broke up with the most beautiful awesome girl in the world, a pastors daughter in Colorado springs Co
“When God takes something away, He did it to give it back better”
I must go , please fell free to email me at stevevaughncbc@gmail.com any time for anything, God bless
Pro.3:5,6
Its me Steven vaughn again, and I am re-commenting because I didnt even scracth the surface when I submitted my first comment. However I also see that it has helped the viewers of my first comment, and I want to do the best the give any one a good description of Agape.
There’s not a day that goes by I dont think about Agape’. It is such an easy place to succeed and live in. Everything is there for your son and theres not a thing there that he doesnt need, or does need. The whole, full purpose of Agape is “Behavior Modification” as on Staff member once put it when I was there a few years ago. The system at Agape is set up to where whenever your son does anyting inappropriately it is brought to the attention of an authority figure who will then give attention to that behavior. The staff are merciful people, but as long as those staff have been there, as many times those staff members have been lied to, as mant times those staff members been manipulated and stabbed in the back…they dont have a whole lot of mercy…which is kinda good if you really think about it. Your son has just been sent to Agape because he was good, right? Wrong. He was sent there because he was in trouble and the consequences that he had to face for them( or had no consequences) were not working..So a “no mercy policy” – if you want to call it that- is actually exactly what this young man needs, desperatley. You are not paying this nice amount of money, every month so that your boy can get away and not change his wrong ways, leave Agape still headed down a wrong path…If your boy is one of those kids who get in trouble to draw attention…he’ll get it alright, but let me assure you it is the right attention. -This is why I love Agape- A probation officer will issue a consequence, send him to Juvy, put him on probation..so on. But whos to say that he is changing his behavior? Whos to say that consequence stopped him from smoking weed? That officer is only watching your boy when hes in his office, giving him his statement of understanding for breaking the law as a minor… and so on…But that officer aint there at home with your son, monitoring his behavior…If hes at Agape, his behavior is being monitored 24/7. You see, you can change conscious behavior easier than you can change subconscious behavior. I had a huge problem of doing stuff that came out of no where – my heart. You see, that probation officer can change your son’s immediate behavior, but if your son has it in him to smoke weed, steal, that probation officer aint going to change your boy, unless that officer was with him ….24/7. At Agape, there is no weed, no drugs, no porn, no music, no falshy clothes from home, no cronie friends from home( if so, they are on “separation status”) there aint none of that stuff. The staff care about your boy like he was their own. It is actually harder on the staff than it is on your boy, they gave up everything on the outside world to help your boy, come on, you atleast owe ‘em that. Not to mention what they have to put up with 100 other boys, every day…..24/7. Thats all they do, all day, every day. To this day, I still call them often and thank them, and talk to them and they are my best friends that I have. This whole Agape thing seems so weird at the beginning, but after a while, it will all make sense, especially when hes gone.
I love Agape so much because I came from a broken, hard, ruff home and came to a place that involved me into a system where my core behavioral problems met attention. I have never experienced so much love anywhere, from anyone. When I say love, I mean, they display tough love. They gave me thousands of push-ups (because I was stupid and also because) they care about me. Push ups can serve dozens of reasons to react to a negative beahvior: to calm the kid down – it will make you tired-, to get his mind off of the current situatio
My wife and I have adopted 17 foster children over the years. Because they come to us with different backgrounds and a variety of isues, three have been placed at both/either Agape or Refuge of Grace. What stands out for us is that we can point them down the right road but, ultimately, they have to choose what they will do with the message. Either they will open their heart and receive Christ and let him change their lives, or, they will reject Him. As parents we need sometimes not to be so hard on ourselves. The Bible distinctly talks about children choosing their behaviors and the consequences which follow. Both of these fine schools do their part in presenting the Word, but the child must decide what, if anything they will do with it. Of the three children we have placed with them, two are doing well. The third came home after play acting for 18 months, and went right back into living in sin. He is now in Juvenile Detention for burgulary of a home. I do not hold the responsible. He was given the same love, care, treatment and God’s message. He rejected it and is now beginning to pay the price.
I want to comment on how impressed I have been with all the comments I have received about Agape. Even though I moderate all comments I want all my readers to know these are all the comments I have received, no one has written negatively about this organization. My other comment as the author of this blog, it makes me realize that maybe I need to write less and my viewers will write more!
I know Agape fairly well as my step-son has been there near 14 months. I have visited four times and have had numerous exchanges with many members of the staff. I also speak with him every other week-end. All-in-all I consider Agape to be a great place and feel fortunate my son was welcome to this strict but extremely caring family.
At then 9 years-old, with his Mother and oldest brother being killed in an auto accident 6 years ago, my son incurred brain damage known has TBI (traumatic brain injury). While he has recovered from the physical injuries, he progressively self medicated moving from alcohol to mj and maybe even crack. He told me he “did not believe in God as, if there was a God he would not have killed Mom and Steven (oldest brother). It was on my third trip to visit him when he told me that he “now understands that God has a plan for all of us and he no longer hates God.”
Agape is steeped in Baptist fundamentalist teachings and the bible is the focus/inspiration for almost all that the school does. While I am not Baptist, I am Christian and very much honor and value what Agape teaches. Bobby has the rest of his life to find his unique path to salvation. I just want him to stop hating and learn healing comes from the love and core values taught and lived by all I have met at Agape. The lessons and philosophy my son is learning at Agape should serve him well. We have no control over the paths that our children ultimately take but we can control what they learn before they take the next fork in the road. I have faith the Agape is preparing my son to make the proper choice knowing that if the choice is from a pure and loving heart, it really doesn’t matter.
Best of luck and love to all who read this, and “yes” I am a big fan of this school and their mission!
Steven Darak
602.291.4142
Sdarak@cox.net
Hello
I have been involved with the ministry of Refuge of Grace Academy for several years. I have had the privilege to preach in the chapel services and labor on some of their buildings. My wife and 2 kids and I took a trip to Michigan with them to visit supporting churches and go to a camp meeting. Having stayed with the leaders of this home and having them in our services at our church for many years, I have found the leaders to be faithful to the Lord and caring for the lives of the young ladies.
I have observed the young ladies in the home. They seem to be very happy, very well fed and taken care of. The young ladies are taught valuable lesson from God’s Word and given a good education. Most of the girls enter the home behind in their studies and must be lead to get on schedule where they should be for their age.
I would recommend the Refuge for Grace to anyone that was in need of their help.
Pastor Tim
All I can say is it’s so great to get insight from someone who’s come out the other side. I was especially moved by Steven Vaughn’s comments on manipulation and wanting to work with the system at Agape to be truly successful. Already my husband and I are thinking ahead. We are asking ourselves what should we do after one year? My son has been there for just a few weeks. He came from another ranch that he ran away from. He told the pastor there to send him to Agape, because he needed “higher walls.”
We just got our first letter from him (though we call every few days to see how he’s doing). He is in his yellow shirt – the 2nd level. Is staying out of trouble. Although one of the deans says he has a problem with sagging and is reminded to pull up his pants. He said the next time – it’s suspenders:)
My son is focusing on his school work so far. He wrote that he wants to come back after a year and that when he’s back, he does not want to attend his old school. He wants to go to a private school. (I think it will take a lot of effort on his part to get accepted.) He said if he goes back to the old school and old friends – he will probably go down the same path of drugs & rebellion. He even wrote about getting a job and earning money so he can make restitution for all the wrong he has done (stealing, destroying property). This is so HUGE – it’s hard for me to wrap my head around this. Is this real? Is it manipulation?
On March 29, he will turn 16 – at Agape. We are sending him a photo album – following the rules at Agape: family only, no friends from his old ways, people dressed appropriately. And we are ordering a cake from the head cook – big enough for the whole school – over 100 boys.
Time and prayer will tell. I was reading that confusion is a percursor to change. I think my son has hit rock bottom and his spirit has been broken. Now he is taking baby steps and drinking the milk – with the help of Agape. We have put our trust in the Lord and Agape.
-Suzanne
The previous comments are a truly great testimony! The only thing that I would like to add is my personal story: I brought my son to Agape over eight years ago. He had effectively dropped out of his senior of high school, was dealing drugs and addicted to them as well. Fast forward to today and he is married, blessed with a beautiful daughter and drug-free! It just doesn’t get any better than that! I highly recommend this tremendous program. It would be cheap at twice the price!
My name is alex pacheco and i went to Agape and i first arrived at agape october 25 2006 and stayed for a year and a half and the days there well sucked and i wished everyday i was home just playing along with the program keeping my nose clean and hoping my time would be short i was extreamly rebellious and hated my parents also i always stayed home on the computer and playing videogames all day and during school which in turn made me fail school but i didnt care so i arrived at Agape by my moms lie which was believeable and we went in and my world went for a spin new colthes and a new world that taught me dicipline and respect and surely put me in my place we woke up early made our beds, brushed out teeth, got ready for the day, and then had Bible time and ate Breakfast all the day was very organized and ran smoothly. after one month we got a phone call which came way to quick and every two weeks after that i always got a phone call and then in three months i got a visit from my parents and i have seen kids manipulate their parents into taking them home but i knew my mom so i didnt even try because i doubt anyone can change in three months so i watched my parents leave again so then i decided to finally let the program do what they needed to do and acually read the Bible as Gods Word and not as a text book and i learned many lessons both from the Bible and watching others get in trouble but eventually i lost steam in school again while i was 2 years behind and i got a brown shirt which taught me not to slack off because ignorance hurts yourself and now i am scheduled to graduate a month or two ahead of schedule while working with my teacher to create assignments for the class but the main thing i was taught was to pray pray pray because God will always anwser and he will never forsake you. now i am getting ready to join the army while i am praying i get shipped to Japan after basic training and GOD will anwser unless he had diffrent plans for my life
My name is Steven Vaughn. I went to Agape on Oct 2, 2004 and graduated on May 19, 2007. Those years were the tuffest years of my life, yet they were -hands down- the greatest years of my life. I came from a Christian home that turned out to be a split home when I was 10, I was abused and inappropriately treated as a kid in my younger days. I was disrespectful, wild, rebellious and headed for jail and needed something, anything to help. My need to get right was not going to be easy, it had to hurt. Agape is the smartest thing you can do for your son, I highly recommend it, without question. I can not guarantee he will turn around, but I can promise there is no better place for him.
Agape is not just for certain kids with certain histories, Agape is for any kid, and I mean any kid. Rebellion is not just for certain kids, it applies to all, and they deal with it accordingly. Agape’s methods of consequences, and things of that nature are diverse and numerous – I embraced them all. And I can honestly say, as I am typing this overseas, in the US Army, in Iraq, that Agape far succeeds and far excels the US military when it comes to responding to negative behavior. The US military is good at discipline, but it is not their #1 job, when Agape’s #1 job is nothing but that. Agape does not give up on the student, they have never given up and they will never give up. The US military will and he will be kicked out.
Agape is like a 2nd chance everyday…come on, he is still a kid, he can mess up a thousand times, hes still a kid. But in the US military, one strike and youre out. The staff have played any game in the book from A to Z. This school has been running for 18 years now and on, they have been up that long because they know what they are doing. You just have to trust them with your kid. The whole system is set up so that your child is set up for success, but the catch is, he has to want it and do it. I am going to be painfully honest and say that it is better for him to mess up when he is there, so when he leaves, he wont. Because I have known hundreds who flew under the radar the whole time they were there and now that they are out, they are doing horrible… I was that kid who messed up when I was there… Now I weekly talk to the staff members back at agape, I am one of the few that are doing exceptionally well. What I am saying is, dont be afraid of him falling a little.. Remember when he was just a little tike? He fell didnt he? And he got right back up didnt he? Look at him now, he walks without even trying…He just needs to want to not fall into bad things and keep moving on, and most times that requires him falling to realize that, just like me. It will benefit him in the long run, which is far more important than instant results. You will not see results right away. He will tell you he is changed and he will play with your emotions and manipulate you to bring him home. If he has to manipualte to do anything, its not right to begin with. When I was there for a year, I told myself that I had changed a lot and that I was ready to come home. I had changed, only a little. If you want your boy to change the most, you have to keep him there as long as possible. A year will wear off in a matter of weeks, 2 years at agape will wear off back home in a couple months. When I hit my 2 year mark, it felt strange and told myself the same thing I did a year ago. I ended up being there for over 3 years. I went when I was 15 and graduated after 18…to this day, I look back and say to myself, I still wasnt ready. Which leads me back to my original point…It all depends on HIM. Life for him is what HE makes it! You have to just let himdo what he will, the staff will act accordingly, I promise.
Please email me if you have any, I mean ANY questions, comments or anything that I can do for you. stevevaughncbc@gmail.com
I have the pleasure of preaching to the boys once a year in May. Last year was my first year and I was extremely impressed with the school. They have first class facilities that are very clean and well maintained. The food was incredible. Not your typical cafeteria food! I could tell the staff really cared about the boys. The owners of the school really have a heart and passion to get through to these kids and make a difference. I know in today’s culture and world of legalities that it is not easy to keep a Christian based home open, yet the owners press on because they believe in what they do and have a high rate of success to show for it. If one of my sons were wayward and I was forced with a tough decision, this is one of the boarding schools I would feel most comfortable with.
My son also is attending agape boarding school,it has been the biggest blessing of our lives.He was a runaway living in abandoned houses and with friends, in trouble with law numerous times on probation(what a joke) in a tagging crew at one time also.Started all around age 14 looked into many schools,some 3 times the price.At 1600.00 Agape is a bargain.The positive role models that have been put in his life, lets not forget Christ above all, have made my son the person he used to be before all the problems began. My son was an extremeley angry child who at the point of arriving at Agape did,nt respect himself or love himself so how was he to do that for anyone else. He was a bright extremely popular kid very good looking athletic build ,played football at school and volleyball. The deans office even liked him but he could not stay out of trouble and worst part was had absolutley no respect for me, calling me fat ugly, telling me everday practically he hated me. He was extremeley spoiled(my fault). He took everything for granted. With Agapes wonderful program and love for helping these boys my son has changed into a wonderful young man .Iam so proud of him and so thankful to Agape. He actually wants to be a police officer now. God Bless. The right side of the law. I get letters all the time #1 mom, that feels great, and also I love you around 3 times in every letter.The price at Agape does not compromise anything they do.There is also a hands off policy so your child is not hit it is strictly prohibited. my son is looking forward to attending church after he comes home ,which I am also very happy about.He wrestled out there and recentley took first place in his weight cattagory.They attend field trips when earned. He now actually wears his glasses and even had wisdom teeth pulled and also wears his retainer. If your reading this blog I know you realize how trivial but important those things are .Once again Agape has him doing those with no problem(my insurance even paid out there for those things).Some of you may find it hard to get your kids there, Iworked with Tom Mockett who my church had refferred me to 702-220-8013 he transported him out there because there is no way we could have got him on a plane. Toms website is advancedadolecentservices.com. God Bless any of you who are going through these problems I know how devastating this can be.Do your family a favor and put your son in Gods hands at Agape. Mine will graduate in June thanks to them.AMEN Iwould be willing to talk to anybody just call Agape for my phone number I have talked to parents from all over United States.I want the peace for you all that I now have. I also have my son back and that feeling is indescribable. God is good and Agape means Gods love. Follow your heart and send him where there is love and dicspline and so much hope and promise for these boys
My son goes to Agape Boarding School. He’s been there for two weeks. My husband (my son’s dad too) went to visit before making the decision. He was very impressed with the way these dedicated people are turning boy’s lives around. They have a fair amount of boy’s from other countries, because of the high quality of education. And it is more affordable than others. The school actually started out as an outreach in a living room in Stockton ,California. Because of my son’s destructive behavior and a history of running away, we had to use TAPS transportation service. TAPS is also a troubled teen referral service – a non profit organization – http://www.taps14.org. We’re looking forward to our first phone call with our son in another two weeks!