2025 Impact: Restoring Lives, Fulfilling Purpose

In 2025, The Purpose Outreach Center walked alongside nearly 10,000 neighbors across Hamilton and Bradley Counties in Tennessee and Catoosa and Walker Counties in Georgia — with food, clothing, housing help, and mentorship, all in the love of Christ. Here is what that looked like.

No neighbor goes hungry.

Every month, tables fill with fresh bread at our Breadbasket outreach — more than 100,000 loaves given away in 2025 alone. Through the Debbie Snacks program, more than 150,000 snacks reached students in Hamilton County Community Forward Schools in just three months, and we help keep three school food pantries stocked year-round.

Seasons of blessing.

From 335 Thanksgiving turkeys with fresh produce, to 225 Boxes of Blessings, to a Christmas Toy Giveaway that put 200+ new toys in children's hands across Hamilton and Catoosa Counties, to 400 backpacks and 5,000 school supplies each August — TPOC shows up in every season.

Shelter in the storm.

In 2025, five families in crisis found emergency shelter through our hotel-assistance ministry, and handmade sleeping mats reached neighbors living outside. Restoring lives starts with a safe place to rest.

The next generation, unplugged and unleashed.

Our Unplug Mentorship Program meets students where they are — in-school mentorship at Tyner Middle School, life-skills and healthy social-media habits for students in grades 2-12, and the Unplug Mentorship Basketball Camp, which welcomed 78 campers in summer 2026 with support from the City of Chattanooga Office of Community Health.

"Let them give thanks to the LORD for His lovingkindness... For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with what is good." — Psalm 107:8-9

Thirty-two partner organizations and churches make this work possible. To partner, volunteer, or give, visit tpocenter.org or write to info@tpocenter.org.