HOPE, HEALING, FREEDOM

Empowering Lives with Hope and Healing

"Empowering individuals on their journey to recovery by providing compassionate, personalized, and evidence-based care, fostering healing, resilience, and hope within a supportive Christ-centered community."

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Our purpose

At Agape Community Services, our purpose is to break generational cycles of addiction, incarceration, and absenteeism by raising up Christ-centered, pro-social leaders. We believe that when men heal and lead, families follow—creating lasting change in homes, churches, and communities. Through long-term recovery, transitional housing, mentorship, and evidence-based care, we exist to restore dignity, identity, and hope.

The Need

Short-term programs and fragmented systems are not enough. The community is in crisis, and we are stepping in with a better way.

We love our community and know they are doing their best – WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER and are here to be the missing link to restoration.

    • 60,000 adult men are estimated to struggle with addiction.

    • Addiction has increased by 400% in our region since 2020.

    • 2nd in Iowa for incarceration

    • 5th in addiction rates

    • 6th for foster care placements

    • 5th for single-parent homes

    • 36% of Iowa marriages end in divorce

    • Over 29% of children are raised in single-parent homes

    • 4,048 Iowa children are currently in foster care

    • 35.2% of children are born out of wedlock

    • Babies are still being born drug-exposed, continuing generational trauma

our solution: a different kind of evidence-based recovery

Agape Community Services offers a holistic, long-term solution through our 9 to 12 month therapeutic community. Everything we do is intentional, layered, and designed for lifelong impact.

Where are we in the process?

  • Our Board of Directors has been seated and initiated the mission process.

  • Agape has finalized a land purchase with Sioux City City Council.

  • The Sioux City Planning & Zoning Commission has approved the project.

  • Ongoing building design & planning with CMBA Architects & McClure Engineering

  • Hired Avalon Construction out of Sergeant Bluff, IA

  • To date, we have successfully raised $3 million and are making steady progress toward our goal of breaking ground this fall, beginning with site preparation and utility installation.

  • We are now entering the next phase of our capital campaign, focused on securing funding for our first year of operations.

On Wednesday, October 9, 2024 we celebrated with the community during our ribbon cutting ceremony, dedicating the property and praying over the next steps as we prepare for construction of the building! Watch the local KTIV news story here.

CMBA Architects have provided the vision for the agape physical property

JOIN US ON OUR JOURNEY TO PROVIDE HOPE, HEALING, AND FREEDOM

Give to Agape Community Services

EIN: 84-3993872

You can also text AgapeSiouxland to 50155!

For all questions on Donor Advised Fund Giving, Stock Giving, or Other Planned Gifts, please contact Rachelle Rawson directly at 712-899-0920 or rachelle@agapesiouxland.com.