| Agape Community International Ministry in Agape Community - About the current leader and founder:- The Abbott and Senior Pastor of Agape Community International The Reverend Father George A. Booty has been in evangelistic ministry in some form or other since 1986.
Fr George has good and varied experience in different spheres of ministry already. George Says: Agape Community International is really going places....We also have a STREET MINISTERS Project which is working really well as an Inter-denominational Pastoral work It is called 'STREET MINISTERS' and includes an Inter-Faith Arm of the work also, which serves the Homeless and the poorest of the poor.
Agape Community have small Mission Stations of the Holy Spirit in other parts of the world, we are already twinned and affiliated with the The Arc Community who are currently working in 9 different countries and the CEEC which we are affiliated to has over 3,500 churches world wide. George comes from London originally and spent his early years in the RAF. After leaving the forces he lived on the south coast of England, in the Hants and Dorset area. He became an International Rally driver with some reasonable success and became the RAF's No.1 Rally driver. He later went on to start his own business in car engine tuning. As a boy his mother sent him to Sunday school and in his earlier years, when he was just a lad of 11 years of age he was chosen to be a quior boy in the Church of England, based at St. John's Church (in Stratford Broadway, East London). He continued singing in a Church in Australia at 13, when his parents emigrated. So from an early age George began to feel the call of God on his life and yet by late teens he was off into the world. God started to draw George more obviously much later in life and after his conversion he then studied at Moorlands Bible College in Dorset for three years and received a Bible College Diploma. Further studies were continued for a further five years at The Reformed Baptist Seminary at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, under Dr Peter Masters. George later served as a Youth Pastor and then briefly as an Evangelistic Co-ordinator in a Milton Keynes Church. After that time George became a Church planter and was successful in planting a Baptist Church in Milton Keynes in 1992 and was subsequently post ordained to full time Ministry as a Pastor, although the church was disbanded much later in 2001. He became an Accredited Minister with the Fellowship of Independant Evangelical Churches (F.I.E.C.) and therefore a full member of the Pastor's Association in 1994. George has been a Pastoral Counsellor, using Psychodynamic/Nouthetic methods for around 18 years and has widened his experience counselling skills and he is now also a trainee Psychotherapist who is currently studyingfor his Masters degree, in the Integrative Psychotherapy field, at Post Graduate level. George has started to build up his new Practice TALK THERAPY and is taking on new clients. He is under full supervision and fuly insured, building his practice around Milton Keynes in the Buckinghamshire area and he also offers new clients access to the service in Paddington, London. England.UK George felt a call to his roots of the Anglican/Celtic stream of the wider church and has joined the CEEC which is in the Celtic stream of Christianity. George has since been Ordained again, only this time in Apostolic succession, as an Episcopal (Anglican) Priest, receiving Holy Orders from his Archbishop Robert Wise, in April 2004. These orders have great validity and proceed through three lines, which also include the Petrine line of succession. George's Vision, is for a very unique Christian Cell Community called Agape Community International. George also moves in the gift of healing and has a tangible healing anointing in his hands. God uses him in Healing and Deliverance ministry. George is the CEEC Chaplain To The Poorest Of The Poor here in Milton Keynes, for the homeless outreach in UK with the growing new organisation called STREET MINISTERSHe was the lead singer and a songwriter in Lifesongs music and together with others has produced two complete CD Albums of their Christian music. www.lifesongs.co.uk George is also the current Principal of the non-denominational distance learning centre called Agape Spiritual Institute.Another new development is the 'Ministers of Hope' web site, which will be primarily a Pastoral Support Network. We will be holding teaching seminars and retreats in future months, so.. watch this space...! |