STAND IN THE GAP FOR WILL LEKO!
The Leko family in Maryville, TN is going through the unimaginable. Will is a bright young boy bravely fighting Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This is a terminal condition often by the late teens or early 20’s. We have been helping Will raise funds for about 6 years but his medical needs are growing beyond the family’s means. Will is the inspiration for the birth of Outreach25. He, like his parents, is an awesome human who just needs help beyond what insurance companies are willing to provide.
It is our belief that kindness should not be taxable. 100% of the donation go to directly to the recipients. Outreach25 does not have any fees at all. Donations will be retro flagged as tax deductible back to our charter date in 2024. Campaign recipients are paid out in grants, which if used for the purpose as designed, should not be taxable income. No one here gets paid. This isn’t about an income for us – we all have jobs or are retired. Please read Will’s story and find out how you and your community can stand in the gap with us and make life just a little easier for this family going through the worst possible of situations.
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Help us grow
To be honest, Outreach25 is struggling. Although we don’t have wages and salaries to pay, we do have bills and we are self funding as we can. Here are some ways you can help us grow and really turn this into something that can help a lot of people and serve them just for the sake of it.
- Serve on our Board of Directors and advisory panels
- If you are a business, consider sponsoring us
- Donate to the organization at the top of any page
- Invite us to your church to come speak
- Gather books for our Books For Blessings Fundraising
- Share our stories and campaigns on social media
- Tell people we even exist… let’s help people
What is Outreach25?
Think of a cross between Gofundme and Angi’s but we are a non-profit. We can help raise funds and swing hammers and provide basic home services to help lives a little better for those in need. Loving and serving others is really a simple straightforward action once you take all motives of revenue off of the table. We believe that we, as Christians, are called to let God fill our cup so that it overflows and others can benefit. We also believe you can’t do that from inside the walls of a church building. We worship in the church and then should carry Jesus out into the streets and introduce others to him. This is how we have decided to use our skills, networks, and technical abilities to advance God’s kingdom one campaign at a time. Together we can be so much more. Let’s be better humans.
Ask for help when you are in need
When the need is extreme, love must be greater. Every day, families across our communities face unimaginable challenges—caring for critically ill family members, living with disability, battling terminal diagnoses, or struggling to survive emotional and financial crises. They need more than hope. They need fundamental help now.
At Outreach25, we believe love isn’t just a feeling — it’s a call to immediate action.Serving those in deepest need with unwavering compassion — physically, financially, spiritually, and emotionally is a huge effort and we are calling on you to join us because time matters, and love can’t wait. Outreach25 is a Matthew 25 Christian faith outreach ministry. It doesn’t mean that you have to be a Christian to work along side us but if you’re helping you do have to respect our faith and have a strong desire to serve others in agape love.
We are a tech-first nonprofit meaning that we will leverage technology to minimize administration costs and maximize beneficiary payments. Our board of directors does not receive a salary and most of our help are volunteers which means that 98% of money raised, on average, goes directly to the beneficiaries.
Fundraising opportunities
Books for Blessings – fundraising through book sales
You may not have extra money to give. But you likely have something just as powerful: books. Every gently-used book you donate becomes a blessing—converted into funding that supports urgent needs across the country. Led by publishing expert Chris Hendrix, Books for Blessings is ready to scale nationally, with systems to track donations, issue tax letters, and give donors full transparency on the impact of their gifts. Don’t let your unused books collect dust—let them become lifelines. The shelves of America can be the solution. But we need your help to unlock it. [ Read on… ]
Agapify fundraising campaigns
Love is powerful. And now, it’s also a social giving platform.
Agapify is our revolutionary faith-based fundraising engine—built to rival Gofundme with one critical difference: every campaign is real, vetted, and rooted in selfless love. We don’t fund garages or luxury dreams. We rally for cancer patients, widows in crisis, and families one emergency away from tragedy. Agapify is low-cost, transparent, and built for trust—so every dollar goes further, faster, and directly to those in need. The need is real. The stories are heartbreaking. And the time to act is now. [ Read on… ]
Ways to serve others hurting in your community
- Get social – advocate for us and share our website on your social platforms. We are currently on Instagram, Facebook, and X.
- Help us find people to help. Remember when someone is in need they can always email us at [email protected]
- Organize a book donation drive in your neighborhood. If you’re out of town we may be able to help pay for shipping.
- If you are in the home service industries, contact us and become a partner in our My Goto Pros network and help people.
- If you are a church, we would love to come as a guest speaker to explain to your congregation.
This is more than nonprofit. There is a lot of pain in the world. Broken bodies and broken hearts, weary of the struggle are in need of hope and comfort.. This is a calling. We are not waiting for someone else to show up. Jesus commands us to serve and to love one another. God still does miracles through those that call him Lord.