Agape Community

Agape Community Internships long and short term are available. Interested in climate change? Ecology? The environment? Living green? Agape is open to all!

The Agape Community is a residential community, ecumenical and interfaith in outreach and practice, with a focus on sustainable living, prayer, meditation, education in nonviolence co-founded in 1982. Nonviolence in personal relations/global change? Then check out the Agape Community, located on 34 acres of land in the Quabbin Reservoir (central Massachusetts). A spiritually based/residential comm

unity, Agape is interfaith in outreach and perspective, founded as lay Catholic Christian community. Ecologically based, Agape has a strawbale house, compost toilet, solar energy and hot water, organic garden, wood heat, and a grease car which runs on vegetable oil. Since 1982, college students, both grads and undergrads, and post grads have journeyed to Agape for internships, workshops, retreats,and to volunteer. We welcome people from all walks of life and age groups, emphasizing the current need for live-in residents who will commit to a long-term covenant leading to community membership. Agape needs you to continue our environmental lifestyle and to spread the word that nonviolence is green!!!

** We are currently accepting applications for our internship program! Please see our website for an application form and more details.**

Long term applicants welcome! Join our Agape Community Group to share your experience! https://www.facebook.com/groups/58694301291/


www.agapecommunity.org


Please take a look at our most recent edition of Servant Song:
http://www.agapecommunity.org/ServantSong/tabid/63/Default.aspx

08/24/2026
08/24/2026

Paula Peters is a journalist, educator and activist. A citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, she travels internationally to speak and educate on the true Wampanoag story. Here she tells the story of the 1833 Woodlot Revolt, in which Wampanoag activists were arrested but the Wampanoag achieved a pe...

08/24/2026

As a New York Times columnist, Ross Douthat's commentary on the Church was defined by a central antagonist: Pope Francis.

08/24/2026

Twice a month, the members of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark come to Delaney Hall to hold a prayer service outside. We prayed for forgiveness and repentance for what our government is doing in our name with our tax dollars to our neighbors.




08/24/2026

Cardinal Brislin joins African clergy in calling Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide

07/03/2026

In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the deat...

07/03/2026

The following essay is the text of a keynote address delivered by James F. Keenan, S.J., at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall during the Outreach conference on June 21, 2026

Please join us Saturday, June 13th for our annual open house and work day! Together we'll be splitting and stacking woo...
05/14/2026

Please join us Saturday, June 13th for our annual open house and work day! Together we'll be splitting and stacking wood, gardening, making new friends, and performing other important homesteading tasks.

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2062 Greenwich Road
Hardwick, MA
01082

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+14139679369

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