MISSIONS - AGAPE CLINIC

The Agape Clinic, housed in the basement of Grace Church, was started in 1983 to serve the health care needs of the immigrant population surrounding the church. Bobbie Baxter, M.D., Charles Kemp, FNP, FAAN, volunteer physicians, nurse practitioners, and others serve patients four days a week. Services include immunizations for children, treatment for chronic and short-term illness, laboratory tests, and such specialty care as psychiatry, dermatology, asthma, women's health, neurology, and pediatrics.

When the clinic opened, patients were examined in spaces partitioned with sheets in basement classrooms. In 1996,