Sacred Service Saturday 2025
Join us June 21st for Agape's Annual Sacred Service Saturday, LOVE IN ACTION, as we serve all over our greater Los Angeles community and around the world through our Sacred Service Saturday “Satel-Lights”. Whatever your interest–if it’s tending a community garden, working with animals, or supporting services for the unhoused and a whole lot more–there is a service opportunity for you to do it in community.
Awaken the natural compassion of your heart and direct its energy into action!

Beloved Community,
Agape’s Sacred Service Saturday extends to each of us an opportunity to express the qualities of the heart we aspire to cultivate as spiritual practitioners: unconditional love, compassion, generosity, and selflessness. One of Agape’s core values that goes hand-in-hand with our practice of timeless wisdom teachings is the practice of timely action through being of service to our brothers and sisters. This is how we spread the contagious light of Agape love throughout our city, country, and the world. His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes it as, “a sense of universal responsibility...a commitment in action that is vital to our future.”
It is programs like Sacred Service Saturday that invite us to become agents of change and build the momentum toward a kinder tomorrow for all beings. I point to our “Satel-Light” participants in India, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Canada, and throughout California and other states including Kentucky, Texas, Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, and more. So if you would like to participate but are not in the greater Los Angeles area, please email us at SSSLights@AgapeLive.com. If you have an opportunity in your area to be of service on June 21st, please send us that information.
Until we come together on June 21st, may each of us be an embodiment of generosity and compassion, a lighthouse whose strong beam cuts through the density of challenges facing our world, pointing the way to a more peaceful, altruistic, and loving human interconnectedness.
Love, Peace, and Richest Blessings to you,
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Founder & Spiritual Director
Project List

1 - A New Way of Life Reentry Project
Serves women who have been in the criminal justice system, some for decades. While incarcerated, these women had little or no opportunities to garden or even enjoy healthy foods. Our project, at their newest facility in Montebello, will be working in a garden that the women take care of so as they nourish the garden, they nourish their bodies, souls and spirit as they find their ways back into society.
Ages 16+ 10am- - 2pm Montebello

2 - A New Way of Life Reentry Project - LA
Same as above but at their residence in South Los Angeles.
Ages 16+ 10:00 -- 2pm Los Angeles

3 - Hand to Hand Feeding Program
is a nonprofit that serves hundreds of folks a sit-down meal every Saturday, with compassion and love.
Ages 17+ 7:30am – 11am Santa Monica

4 - The Learning Garden
is a community supported project of over 20 years, at Venice High School, teaching gardeners of all ages how to grow our food. We are dedicated to restoring the knowledge of plants, healing arts and sustainable living to all.
All Ages 10am - 2pm. Mar Vista

5 - Agape Road Show
Come perform at local residential care facilities. Bring your love and joy to folks in need. All levels of talent are welcomed.
All Ages Project hours and location TBD: in Los Angeles

6 - Bright Lights of Compton
will lead us in a Neighborhood Clean-Up through Compton supporting their efforts of “working in harmony toward a cleaner, safer, brighter City of Compton.”
Ages 12+ 9:00 am – 12:30pm Compton

7 - New Earth
provides mentor based arts, educational, vocational programs and wrap-around services that empower at-promise youth ages 13-25 and their families. This will be a “deep” campus beautification, organization, cleaning, and more. A mural project is involved!
Ages 18+ 9:00am - -1:00pm West Los Angeles

8 - Community Services Unlimited Inc. EXPO Urban Farm
CSU is dedicated to advancing social and food justice in South Central through urban farming and educational programs. We will be at CSU’s urban farm helping with seasonal maintenance and planting. Activities will include: weeding, mulching, planting, watering, and other maintenance as needed at the time.
Ages 15+ 9:00 am – 12:00pm South Central LA

9 - Community Services Unlimited Inc. Paul Robeson Community Wellness Center
Home of the Village Market Place. We will be working with their fruit trees and vegetable garden.
Ages 15+ 8:00am- - 12:00pm South Central LA

10 - Compton Jr. Equestrians
Is a leadership development program for disadvantaged, underserved and underrepresented urban youth utilizing horses and equestrian based participation opportunities. This will be a general cleanup, light construction and organizing day with horses and some other critters. Folks should know that they will be with animals, so if they have allergies they should prepare appropriately. Boots recommended! This is a work day!
Ages 18+ 9:00am - 3:00pm Compton

11 - Critter Crusade
LA City Animal Services is one of the largest municipal shelter systems in the U.S. The Chesterfield Square Shelter works to promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of animals, and people, in Los Angeles. We will be involved in activities designed to ease kennel stress for the pets at this facility and help keep the shelter operating efficiently.
Ages 12+ 9:00am - -1:00pm South Los Angeles

12 - SHARE! Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, DTLA
Empowers people to change their own lives and provides them with a loving, safe, nonjudgmental place where they can find community information and support. We will be cleaning, organizing, painting and making holiday decorations at their downtown meeting spaces.
Ages 18+ 9:00am - -1:00pm Downtown LA

13- SHARE! Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, Culver City
We will be gardening and painting at their Culver City location.
Ages 18+ 9am- - 12:30pm Culver City

14 - Allies for Every Child
provides thousands of at-risk children and their families with critical, high-quality early education programs, family strengthening interventions, fostercare and adoption services, and a variety of other vital, integrated services. We will be gardening and cleaning and organizing their library.
Ages 16+ 9:00am – 12:00pm Culver City

15 - Allies for Every Child, Back-to-School
Back-to-School pop up event! We will help organize school supplies , backpacks , infant clothes and shoes. We will also assist in set up and giving out items.
Ages 16+ 9:00am - -12:00pm Culver City

16 - Habitat for Humanity
Builds and repairs homes for low income families in need and provides affordable home improvement items through our Torrance and Los AngelesA ReStores (like a cross between a home depot and a thrift store). Volunteers will be helping run and operate the stores for the day. Activities could include organizing items, loading and unloading donations, placing items out on the floor, cleaning, and other essential projects to help the stores function.
Ages 14+ 10:00am - -2:00pm Torrance

17 - Habitat for Humanity, LA
Builds and repairs homes for low income families in need and provides affordable home improvement items through our Torrance and Los Angeles ReStores (like a cross between a home depot and a thrift store). Volunteers will be helping run and operate the stores for the day. Activities could include organizing items, loading and unloading donations, placing items out on the floor, cleaning, and other essential projects to help the stores function.
Ages 14+ 10:00am - -2:00pm Los Angeles

18 - The Blazers Youth Services Community Club Inc.
is one of our first community partners, they are a non-profit Life mentoring and leadership program. We will design a front entrance yard for their Museum. Also cleaning, gardening, and performing general maintenance of their spaces and grounds.
Ages 15+ 8:00am – 1:00pm South Los Angeles

19 - LA Regional Food Bank
Aims to fight hunger throughout LA County, Project at both sites include sorting produce, assembly of food packages and food kits. These are distributed throughout the county with partner agencies.
Ages 14+ 9:00am – 1:00pm Los Angeles

20 - LA Regional Food Bank
Aims to fight hunger throughout LA County, Project at both sites include sorting produce, assembly of food packages and food kits. These are distributed throughout the county with partner agencies.
Ages 14+ 9:00am – 1:00pm City of Industry

21 - Home Sweet Home
Will be a joint effort with the Temple of the Performing Arts. We will clean, paint, and provide general maintenance to a predetermined area of the Saban Theatre and Office Tower.
Ages 18+ TBD Los Angeles

22 - Spirit Awakening Foundation
is a multi-disciplinary arts organization celebrating 30 years of service. And, has been an integral part of Agape’s circle of community partners since they began. They believe that art is essential to Life and can entertain, heal and inspire. Therefore, artistic expression is a powerful entryway to uncover and heal from traumatic experiences. We will be creating curated care packages to be shared with local neighbors of the historic Crenshaw Fire Station, which is now home to SAF. This is one way to introduce the community to the work of SAF and inform them of ongoing free arts programs at the fire station.
Ages 13+ 10:00am – 2:00pm Mid City

23 - Surprise
Are you willing to trust Spirit? Choose Surprise on your sign-up form and, we promise, you will be surprised. It could even be a project that came in after we went to print. This is your only choice, and a great one, if you register after June 1st.
All Ages Project hours and location: TBD
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
~ Gandhi
If you have any questions please send an email to: sacredservicesaturday @ agapelive.com
Service … is love in action, love “made flesh”; service is
the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus;
service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.
Sarah Patton Boyle
U.S. civil rights activist and author.
Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Cultural Anthropologist, Author
