TAKE5 is a campaign in support of community projects and faith-based outreaches that support a passion and compassion for youth.

TAKE5 is an initiative of Miles Ahead, an outreach organization founded by pastor and evangelist Miles McPherson, a former professional NFL football player.

We aim to make a long-term investment in communities by investing in people and programs that can sustain themselves and grow.

TAKE5 wants to encourage you to DO Something for young people around the world.

You can make a difference just by taking 5 minutes out of your life to send $5 (or $50 or $500), and help Miles Ahead offer youth hope and leadership.

Mentoring programs, fostering leadership skills, and bringing the hope of God's love to young people have a powerful and positive impact in all areas of life, whether education, moral behavior, resisting drug use, or avoiding crime.

About Miles McPherson

With his bold, down-to-earth, and humorous style, Miles McPherson has been uniquely gifted to reach youth all over the world.

A former professional NFL football player with the San Diego Chargers, McPherson grew up on Long Island. He understands the challenges young people all over the world face: identity, belonging, hopelessness, pressure to conform, substance abuse, sexual immorality. Back in the NFL, McPherson was addicted to marijuana and cocaine. Then he made a decision to follow Jesus Christ and allow Him to be Savior and Lord of his life.

For 16 years McPherson has traveled internationally to speak in high schools, sports arenas, churches and stadiums. He has captured the attention and respect of street kids, inner-city youth, gang members, gen-XYZ-ers, millennials, and non-churched youth of every age, ethnicity, and background.

McPherson is convinced that young people can be reached by sharing the love of God through mentoring, leadership programs, community development and evangelistic outreach.

McPherson has a special heart for the Caribbean and its young people. His father was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the United States with his family. His mother's family also was Jamaican.

In addition to his role as president of Miles Ahead, McPherson is founder and senior pastor of the popular Rock Church, a quickly growing congregation in San Diego attended weekly by 10,000. He has come to be known for encouraging people of faith to "DO Something."

About Miles Ahead

Founded in 1992 as Project Intercept, Miles Ahead was renamed in 1995. They held their first youth crusade in 1996. More than 19,000 young people participated, and 4,000 responded to the gospel message. Miles Ahead has become known for large-scale youth events that appeal to a ethinically diverse audience. But it's much more than that. It is committed to reaching into the community, as it did in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in the spring 2008. Another passion is encouraging mentor programs.

Since 1996 McPherson and Miles Ahead have

• Partnered with the Jamaica Broilers to lead close to 300 volunteers from San Diego in a week of community work in Montego Bay, holding medical clinics, fixing schools, and hosting sports demonstrations with a former NBA pro and a two-time Super Bowl winner.
• Organized events in twelve cities worldwide, include in Canada and Africa.
• Presented the Gospel of Jesus Christ to more than 280,000 people attending the events.
• Recorded more than 42,000 young people's decisions to receive Jesus Christ and their Savior through their outreach events alone.
• Produced Master Meth, a 60-minute made-for-TV documentary confronting the scourge of meth addiction among young people (which won a local Emmy Award in 2007).
• Published One Kid at a Time, a mentoring program guide and workbook.

• The Caribbean has the highest crime rate in the world
• The Caribbean has the second highest HIV prevalence rate in world
• Skyrocketing food prices in Haiti are provoking deadly protests

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