Purposeful Connections

12/02/2025

Jon Taylor's sons never had a youth pastor. Their church was too small.

But someone showed up anyway. Someone who lived nearby and could be there—not just for one week, but for years. Dinners together. Hockey games. Basketball games. Graduations. Conversations about faith, school, and life.

Two of Jon's sons eventually volunteered on spiritual emphasis week teams themselves, investing in other students the way someone invested in them.

That's multiplication.

This Giving Tuesday, we're training local believers in communities across the Northeast to have that same long-term impact. When mentors live nearby, relationships don't end after five days—they continue for years.

Your gift today trains local teams who'll invest in students the way Jon's sons were invested in.

Give at: givebutter.com/multiply2025 or text MULTIPLY2025 to 53-555

Help us train local believers to lead spiritual emphasis weeks at Christian schools across the Northeast. Relationships that last years, not just days.

12/07/2023

Looking for team members for a junior high/high school week in NH January 21-26. Please let me know if you're interested or know someone who might be. Thanks!

11/29/2023

45% raised! Can you help us reach 50% by the end of Giving Tuesday? Only $455 by midnight. Thank you!

Your Investment Impacts Volunteers of All Ages Too

11/28/2023

25% of the way there!

As I mentioned earlier, this year I’m
focusing on the impact your support has on our volunteers.

During his time serving with us, Joe experienced God redeeming some of his own struggles, both with sin and with a deep personal loss of someone very close to him. "What I found was that even though we were there to encourage the kids, I was encouraged. It was crazy seeing how God used my testimony and the testimony of my team members to speak into the lives of so many young people. Many times throughout the week, I found myself spending late nights digging into scripture to give biblical answers to deep and difficult questions asked by my journal partner. Spending a week alongside Matt Huffman and the team is an experience I will never forget, and it has forever changed the way I view my testimony and the struggles I’ve had in life."

Thank you for considering supporting Purposeful Connections this Giving Tuesday!

Your Investment Impacts Volunteers of All Ages Too

11/28/2023

21% raised

Your Investment Impacts Volunteers of All Ages Too

11/28/2023

Giving Tuesday is here! This year I’ve been highlighting the impact your support has on our volunteers.

Mercy shared this testimony after volunteering with us at Manhattan Christian Academy: “God taught me so many things about my own life throughout the week. I had been holding onto so many broken pieces and sins in my own life that I was ashamed of. For the first time, I finally vocalized many of the things I had gone through, bringing them to God and letting go of them. Through talking with the wonderful kids at MCA, I felt as if I finally saw God's reasons for my own struggles, because these kids were going through the same things I had. Yesterday, after coming home, I was able to open up to my closest loved ones about my past struggles… and have been relishing in such incredible peace from God. Not only am I elated God used me in the lives of the kids, but He clearly used the kids to work in my own life… I'm starting to see that this trip has opened my eyes to an entirely new career path that I had previously promised myself I'd never pursue.”

Your support truly impacts lives like Mercy. Will you consider supporting us for Giving Tuesday today?

Your Investment Impacts Volunteers of All Ages Too

02/11/2023

Nimrod's Reflections on Leading His Second Hungarian Spiritual Emphasis Week!

Dear Friends, We held the second-ever Hungarian Spiritual Emphasis Week at the Beginning of Wisdom Christian School in Bodrog, between January 30th and February 3rd. We held our first SEW here back in 2020, just before Covid broke out. Back then, I wanted to try how SEW works here. It was a great ex...

11/29/2022

On this Giving Tuesday, would you partner with us to impact youth across the Northeast?

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