Agape Fellowship For All People

“Fellowship is just two fellows going the same way on the same ship.”

Agape was borne of the vision of our leader, Pastor Kermitt L. Williams, who heeded the call on his ministry to organize a fellowship, not just a church, where people would gather to focus on the Word as a guide toward the promises of God.  The original name of the ministry was “Agape One Church Fellowship, Inc.” and consisted of a mail ministry with covenant partners nationwide numbering in the hundreds.  After serving as a pastor for ten years in the early days of his ministry and enduring a wilderness period following his departure, then-Reverend Williams set to establish a new kind of fellowship.  On September 13, 1992, Agape Fellowship for All People held our first service in Pastor Williams’ Flatbush apartment.  There were approximately 20 people present that day and from that to this, Agape Fellowship has been a Word-centered place of instruction where the focus is Love, Fellowship and Family.

New Years 1993, another Agape tradition, the Agape Feast, was begun.  That first celebration with a pot-luck dinner and hours of fun and fellowship after the first watch-night service set the tone for all Agape events: large family-like gatherings demonstrating the fellowship that is the Agape message.  Also in keeping with the fellowship called for in the vision, Bible Class (then on Tuesday nights) was hosted by members in their homes for the first two years of the ministry. This lent a more relaxed and informal atmosphere that is conducive to questions and discussion and remains a staple of Agape Bible Class today.

Agape Fellowship in the early days cemented their mission and reputation with a fellowship concept and ministry that served individuals and ministries alike.  We became known as a Ministry to Ministries as churches began to fellowship with the fledgling ministry and witness the Agape message in practice.  Indeed, even the churches who rented their worship spaces to Agape in the early days saw a period of growth and revival in their own ministries, often leading to a level of expansion that made our continued residence there impossible!  It was during that period of fellowship that Agape Fellowship aligned with a now-international movement, the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship and Bishop Paul S. Morton, which had it’s genesis at the same time as Agape.  In that Fellowship, Pastor Williams rose to the post of General Overseer of Social Action, continuously expressing the Agape mission of a social gospel that seeks to teach a way of life.