Special Projects Team
Below are current opportunities to give to ConnectUp Special Projects that will enable specific ministry and mission-oriented initiatives to take flight. These items are updated at least three times a year, and reflect active financial needs and/or areas of faith for provision in the ministry. Last updated November 2025.
2026 Vision Gap Goal – $50,000
Progress by Project
🟢 $5,400 ConnectUp Ministry to Children - Materials (Fully Funded!)
🟡 $25,300 Current Program Support & Ministry Sustainability (Not Yet Funded)
🟡 $1,800 Prison Ministry (Not Yet Funded)
🟡 $7,500 Ministry in Pakistan (Not Yet Funded)
🟡 $2,500 Sabbatical Support (Not Yet Funded)
🟡 $7,500 Mexico Training & Equipping (Not Yet Funded)
We welcome online donations using the "Donate" button above, and checks can be made out to ConnectUp and mailed to ConnectUp, 1217 Slate Hill Road, Camp Hill, PA 17011. For wire transfers, donor-advised fund grants (such as those from investment-account sponsors like Fidelity Charitable) or any other questions, please email us at mitch@iconnectup.net.
Current Project List
Priority 1: ConnectUp Kids – Materials
Goal: $5,400
We are partnering with Cherie Anthony (Healing the Heart Ministry) to support the publication of a book on ministering to children—an important resource we plan to use across ConnectUp to support leaders and encourage ministry to children in our spheres of influence.
This project includes:
Editing
Proofreading
Typesetting
Cover Design
Initial 250-book print run
Resource development support
The copyright for this book will remain with its author, Cherie Anthony. ConnectUp is providing coaching, collaboration, and funding to prepare the resource for widespread use.
Your gift helps equip the next generation with tools for healing and wholeness.
Priority 2: Current Program Support and Ministry Sustainability
Goal: $25,300
We remain committed to offering emotional healing and deliverance prayer ministry without a set fee, making it accessible to everyone who needs it. This requires ongoing operational support for our staff, ministry leaders, and team members across the United States and multiple nations.
Every week, individuals and groups are receiving healing through ConnectUp. Training resources are now available in six languages, and live training events at least quarterly. As this movement grows, so does the need for sustainable ministry infrastructure.
Your gift strengthens and sustains the heart of ConnectUp’s mission.
Priority 3: Bringing ConnectUp into a Prison and the Nations
Goal: $16,800
In 2026, we are planning to send teams to serve in key domestic and international locations where we hold invitations to extend the ministry of emotional healing. This includes:
Prison Outreach (March 2026) – $1,800: Bringing emotional healing, encouragement, and prayer ministry to incarcerated individuals.
Emotional Healing in Pakistan (April 2026) – $7,500: Ministering and supporting a Pastors Conference (300–500 expected) and through village outreaches to support persecuted believers.
Emotional Healing in Southern Mexico (June 2026) – $7,500: Training and mentoring leaders in Spanish and distributing the ConnectUp Manual to equip local ministry teams.
Emotional Healing in Ukraine (Ongoing Support).
Your gift helps bring healing, hope, and restoration across diverse contexts—domestic and international—where people are seeking God’s touch.
Priority 4: Sabbatical Fund – Mitch Luse
Goal: $2,500
ConnectUp is opening a fund for staff to take strategic sabbatical from ministry. After ten years of service, ConnectUp is offering Mitch Luse, Co-Founder and Operations Director, a 6-week sabbatical (Feb 22–Apr 5, 2026). ConnectUp will cover 50% of his salary, and we are inviting donors to help fund the remaining portion and bless him with additional resources for rest, spiritual formation, and growth. Additional income received will go to the Sabbatical Fund with Mitch taking the first one, these funds will support his sabbatical experience and development during this time.
Your gift honors faithful leadership and invests in longevity and strength for the years ahead.
Funded with Gratitude
Launching a Branch of ConnectUp in South Africa (Funded, January 2025). Thank you to the donors who gave to this project to help launch the Kingdom Carriers Advance Branch of ConnectUp, catalyzing the offering of healing and deliverance ministry regularly in Pretoria, South Africa!
Training Scholarships for February 2025 (83% Funded, January 2025). Thank you to the donors who sponsored 8 students with financial hardships to attend the ConnectUp M1 Training. The students were from MO, VA, NY, MI, TN Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa.
ConnectUp Studio Updates! (1st iteration Funded, February 2025) Thank you to the donors who sponsored the purchase of a new studio monitor, desk, decor, camera lens, and other studio technology. We hosted our first M1 training with the new equipment and it was amazing!
Spanish Translation - 2nd Edition ConnectUp Manual We would like to translate the 2nd Edition Manual for our Spanish community to provide equal opportunity access to the latest resources. This budget includes translation of updated segments ($1481), prayer cards 1st print run ($409), and typesetting ($750) to prepare it for print. $2640.
Russian/Ukrainian Translation and Proofreading project to train and equip prayer ministers in the slavic community, in hopes of serving those affected by the war. The remaining cost includes the bill for our final edits with the translator ($500), Russian proofreader ($400), Ukrainian proofreader ($400), and typesetting to prepare it for print ($750 Ukrainian + $750 Russian). The remaining cost totals $2,800.
ConnectUp Training in Ukraine. Thank you to donors who supported this project. We sent a team to Ternopil Ukraine in October of 2025 to train local leaders, bring materials printed in Ukrainian, and hosted a Level 1 + 2 training in partnership with Awakened Generation.
ConnectUp seeks to honor donors’ wishes that designate the use of donated funds. ConnectUp, though, must maintain control over the ultimate determination of how all donated funds are allocated. Although ConnectUp will make every effort to honor a donor’s contribution designation, contributions become the property of ConnectUp and it has the discretion to determine how best to use all contributions to carry out its mission and purposes. This policy helps ConnectUp to fulfill its mission and to steward donated funds in an integrous, appropriate, and honoring way.