Real Life Center
2010 Food and Fundraising Drives
February-March
--Boy Scouts of Fayette County held their annual food drive on Saturday, 2/20 and blessed the Real Life Center with more than 7,000 lbs of food.
--Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church is holding a soup can drive.
--Cleveland Elementary is holding a food drive the week of March 15.
--Curves of Peachtree City is holding a food drive from Feb 15 through the end of March.
--Grace Evangelical is holding a food drive the entire month of March.
--St. Paul Lutheran Church Youth Group is holding a food drive in Ardenlee the last weekend in February.
2009 Food and Fundraising Drives
November-December
--AWANA Club with Grace Evangelical Church
--Bank of Georgia
Joanna Morris, Head Teller and
Kristina Hajzak, Asst. Branch Manager
--Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church
--Counterpane
--Crabapple Lane Elementary School - Provided approximately 1,000 lbs of food
--Curves "Give A Gobble" Food Drive
--Davis Chiropractic
--First Baptist Church Peachtree City
--Flat Rock Middle School - Provided over 800 items
--Frank Cawood and Associates - Food and Socks/Underwear Drive
--Frank Cawood and Associates Quilting Group - Made and raffled a quilt to provide us with over $400
Quilt made in 2008 Quilt made in 2009
--Girl Scout Troop 341
--Kids R Kids at Lexington Place
--Kids R Kids Pre-K Classes at Robinson Road
--Kiewit Southern Company - Provided food and $1,320 ($660 from employees, matched by company)
--Little League
--McIntosh Band Concerts
--Mike Winslett and DTH Expeditors, Inc - Provided Smoked Boston Butts
--Moms Club of PTC North Thanksgiving Drive - Provided carload of food
--North Fayette Elementary School
--Popeyes - Fayetteville and Peachtree City locations
--Sandy Creek High School ROTC - Provided over 3,000 items
--Southcrest Bank
Katie Atwood and Becky Anderson
--Southside Church
--Spring Hill Elementary School - Provided approximately 1,000 lbs of food
--St. Andrews in the Pines - Provided 18 Thanksgiving Baskets and $750 in gift cards
--Starrs Mill High School Beta Club - Provided over 4,000 lbs of food
Kelly Rock, Beta Club Sponsor
October
--Dogwood Church
--Fayetteville Intermediate Elementary School
--Girl Scout Troop 341 - Cans for Candy (covering neighborhoods: Woodcreek,
Whitewater, Highgrove, Wilshire, Chimneys)
--Grace Evangelical Church
--Rising Starr Middle School: Red Ribbon Week
--Rolling Hills Youth Group
--Sandy Creek ROTC
August
--Eagle Scout Project
--First Baptist Church Peachtree City
Eagle Scout Project:
By: The Citizen; Tue, 07/21/2009
Life Scout Ricky Rojas, of Troop 172 at New Hope Baptist Church, North, will be coordinating a county-wide food and clothing drive to benefit the Fayette Samaritans and Real Life Center on Aug. 15 (rain date: Aug. 29). The collections will occur between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at several stores throughout Fayette County, and will be manned by Boy Scouts. Goals for the Eagle Scout project are to collect a total of 10,000 food and clothing items and to make the collection an annual event. Boy Scout troops in Fayette County are requested for assistance in manning the collection points and each boy helping will receive service hours and a special thank you. For more information, or to make a donation please visit http://summerharvestforfayettecounty.blogspot.com.
Update: Ricky's hard work provided the Real Life Center with more than 1,000 blankets and personal hygiene kits from Delta Air Lines, over 1,050 food items, over 350 clothing items, and over $1,500. We are so appreciative!
July
--Bank of North Georgia
--Fayetteville First Baptist Church VBS
--LaFayette Kids World
--One Magnolia Lane
Bank of North Georgia: "Big Thanks" to our friends at Bank of North Georgia for holding a Back to School Peanut Butter and Jelly drive for the Real Life Center. Pictured below are Kris Clark, Joanna Friche, and Rosalyn L. Davis.
One Magnolia Lane: We are very grateful to One Magnolia Lane for partnering with us for the month of July, working through Brighton's American Heroes Program to raise funds and food for families in Fayette County.
Pictured below are Diana Surratt, Chanel Ranes and Ellen Sturgill.
June
--Flat Creek Baptist VBS
--Canongate Golf Tournament
April-May
--Dogwood Church
--Huddleston Elementary
--Peachtree City Post Office
Dogwood Church Food Drive: We owe a heartfelt thank you to our Dogwood Church Family! There were close to 800 bags of food collected during our food drive in support of the ministry at the Real Life Center. This is the largest food drive in Dogwood's history! A special "thank you" goes to Mark Johnston and his small group for the 179 bags they collected in his neighborhood! You are all a part of helping us to reach out to the families in our community that need our love and support right now. Thank you for your generosity!
Vicki Troyer and The Goodmans Donations Dana Eisfelder & Cathy Berggren
receiving donations receiving donations
Peachtree City Post Office Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: We are overwhelmed by the generosity of Peachtree City families! We received over 200 postal boxes of food (~6250 lbs) collected Saturday, May 9 by the PTC Postal Carriers. This is the largest food drive the PTC Post Office has had. We owe a tremendous thanks to all the Postal Carriers for volunteering to collect the food. They did a wonderful job advertising the drive - it was a huge success! And thanks to the many wonderful volunteers who helped sort through the food at the Real Life Center. We couldn't have done it without their help!
March
--Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church
--Curves for Women
--Donna/Clark Adkins neighborhood Drive
--Cleveland Elementary
--Braelinn Elementary
Curves 
Terri Baily and Debbie Martin
February
Boy Scouts Food Drive: The Boy Scouts from the Flint River Council collected over 9,000 lbs of food for the Real Life Center - the largest ever! What a testimony to our community for jumping in to help when there is a need!
Donna Cox and Heath Owens
unpacking the donations