Level Up
Level Up: This is Who We Are
Together, we’re going to Level Up our impact in the world near and far, Level Up our faith, and we’re going to Level Up our giving as a church to model what it looks like to love like Jesus.
On December 1, we’re going to give every tithe and offering to 2 selected ministry partners. Every dollar given on this day will be used exclusively to support a national partner here in the states, and one local partner.
In 2023, through Level Up, we gave a total of $184,882 to Rū Tampa, GenerateHope and SHIELD616. We give as an act of worship, it’s our response to who God is and all that He has done for us. For those of us who are followers of Jesus, and call LifeBridge home, this is what we do.
We are excited to do it again this year!
Getting involved is simple. First, we invite you to pray and ask God how you can Level Up your generosity. Then, on Sunday, December 1, you can give as usual (online or on campus, in the boxes in the back of the auditorium). Everything that is collected that day will be given directly to our two partners. Let’s do this!
Learn more about each ministry below.
Rū Tampa
This September, Rū Tampa celebrated their first anniversary, marking a year of God’s faithfulness and transformation. When Hurricane Milton damaged their original space, they served their community by distributing groceries to over 800 families. Remarkably, the same location became their new home and the site of their first Baptism Sunday, where 13 individuals publicly declared their faith in Jesus—part of the 94 people who have been baptized since their launch.
Rū Tampa’s ministry continues to change lives. Couples on the brink of divorce are finding restoration, individuals who were homeless now have jobs and housing, people with suicide notes who tore them at the altar, and many others who have surrendered their life to Christ. Lives are being changed because of your radical generosity and commitment to seeing Tampa transformed by the gospel.
PEARL
Through Level Up, we have the opportunity to help support the Pearl Kids Mentoring program as they create a duplicatable model with which to break the generational cycle of poverty, trauma, and broken families. To do this well requires startup resources and staffing to create and administer the volunteer training material, mentoring curriculum, and relational experiences the program will provide. Once established, maintenance costs for the program are manageable within Pearl’s annual budget.
The impact of this program is already evident. One mentee, raised by his grandmother, thrived under Pearl mentorship, excelling in school and socially. After graduating, he joined the U.S. Air Force, where his talent in computer technology earned him a quick promotion.
This is just one example of how Pearl Kids Mentoring transforms lives, creating opportunities for young people to thrive and families to build lasting legacies of hope.