Real Life Center

2012 Food/Personal Care Products and Fundraising Events

July Drives
Rolling Hills Baptist Church Youth Neighborhood drive (shown below) - July 2

PTC First Baptist Church 5^th Sunday drive - July 29

June Drives
First Baptist Fayetteville VBS - June 11-15
St. Paul Lutheran Church VBS - June 11-15
Providence United Methodist VBS  June 11-15
Heritage Christian Church VBS - June 25–29

It’s Not All About Me Camp 2012 - This is their 2nd canned food drive for the Real Life Center.  Last year they had one grocery cart of food. This year, with more campers, they were able to collect four grocery carts full of canned goods by going door to door in their neighborhoods!!!  The group is pictured below.  Standing Row: Hank Wortmann, Sam Farrell, Elijah Smith, Mason Avidano, Lane Wortmann, Andrew Nye, Natalie Keohane, Thomas Keohane, Kalil Fox, Logan Rembisz, Cooper Roman, Tyler Pruett, Brandon Hays; Sitting Row: Zack Averill, Avery Pruett, Meghan Hays


May Drives
Legacy Christian Church is holding a food drive. 
Kristi Rapson of Keller Williams Realty Atlanta Partners held a Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive.  Pictured below is Kristi delivering 101 jars of peanut butter and 100 jars of jelly. 
 
Peachtree City Post Office Food Drive - May 12 - Thanks to everyone who donated and helped with the food.  Pictured below is a group from Providence United Methodist Church who helped unload the food.
 

April Drives
Dogwood Church Food Drive  - Apr 29
Bank of North Georgia (Tyrone and Peachtree City) is holding a Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive. Huddleston Elementary School - Apr 30 - May 4                                             
Braelinn Elementary School - Apr 30 - May 4

March Drives
Curves in Peachtree City is running a food drive for us in March. If you take a bag of groceries to Curves the last two weeks in March, you can join for free!
Grace Evangelical Youth - month long food drive

United Way Shoebox Project - Local schools collected 1124 boxes to help those in need in Fayette County.
Word of God Church - Provided 100 bottles of Juice and their youth group went out shopping for food for the pantry.

February Drives
Avery Dennison
Scouting for Food (Boy Scouts) - Feb 11

Sigvaris' Corporate Challenge of the Scouting for Food Drive


2011 Food/Personal Care Products and Fundraising Events

December Drives
Pro Health Physical therapy and Pilates Studio

Piedmont Fayette Hospital

Care Clinic - Toys
Curves for Women, Nov 14 - Dec 3
Word of God Church - Donated 65 Christmas Dinner Bags.  Pictured below delivering the bags from L-R: Lauren Simmons, Pam Davis, Ralph and Karen Quamme. The children of the church created handmade Christmas cards to decorate the bags.  Thanks Word of God Church!

Joseph Sams School, Dec 1 - Dec 16
Africa Inland Mission
Concord Village Apartments, Dec 17

Georgia Military College - collected a "wall of food" shown in photo below with over 900 items donated to the Real Life Center.    
 
Dogwood DSM 6th grade

PTC Fire Department Santa Run

Alpha Delta Kappa Gamma

Salon 54 - In addition to the food items donated, they collected $50 in gift cards and $320 in cash donations.

The Royal Learners 2 year old class and their teachers collected 200 cans for the Real Life Center.

November Drives

Flat Rock Middle School, Nov 1

North Fayette Elementary, Nov 7-11

All Saints Anglican Church,  Nov 10

Southside Church

Durden Chiropractic Clinic - Collected $130 and about 200 lbs of food - Pictured L-R below: Annie Durr, Dr. Krutika Desai, Dr. Marilyn Durden, Jeannine Massengale

Frank Cawood and Associates

Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church

Crabapple Lane Elementay School, Nov 1-15

Kiewit "Putt Fore Pantry" - The Friday before Thanksgiving, Kiewit held a fun annual event - an Employee Appreciation Day called "Putt Fore Pantry".  They collected food items to benefit the Real Life Center, using the donated food to build a 9 hole miniature golf course throughout their building, and teams of employees golfed to win prizes.  Pictured golfing in the first photo is Garland Perry; Doug Shoemaker, Lyn Gapen and Bert Laaker.  The second photo is the event organizer this year, Rich Hart, with the truck full of food that was donated along with a check for $1,000 to help restock the food pantry at Real Life Center.

Peachtree City Library
Davis Chiropractic Center
Longhorn Steakhouse 
Southcrest Bank of Tyrone
Peachtree City United Methodist Kindergarten
Power in Christ Ministries

PTC Martial Arts

New Hope Jobseekers Class- laundry detergent

FedEx

Kids R Kids - Sally Weaver's and Janice Joseph's classes
 

October Drives

Compassion in Action Neighborhood Drives, Oct 1
Dogwood Church, Oct 2

JC Booth Middle School, Oct 10-20

Sandy Creek High School ROTC, Oct 9 - Nov 14

Bennetts Mill Middle School
NCR

Landmark Christian Schools,  Oct 11-21

Fall Festival MacDuff Shopping Center,  Oct 29

Rising Starr Middle School, Oct 24 - Nov 11 

First Baptist Church Peachtree City, Oct 30

Crossroads Christian School- 8th graders

Spring Hill Elementary School

 

September Drives

RIOT Day Neighborhood Drives

Fayette Intermediate School, Sept 8-11

Peachtree City Elementary School, Sept 19-30

Entire Fall Semester

Starrs Mill High School Beta Club

 

Monthly "Ralph the Mouth" Food Drive

First Baptist Peachtree City Kindergarten

May Drives

NCR Corporation

 

June Drives

2nd and 9th: Woodcreek Swimteam

6th - 9th: Julie and Tyler Pruett and friends - Windalier Ridge and Southern Shore Neighborhoods

13th-16th: Fayetteville First Baptist VBS' "The Big Apple"

27th - July 1st:  Heritage Christian Church VBS

 

July Drives

18th - 25th: Rolling Hills Youth

School Supply Drive by Stacey Hensley

10th, 17th, and 24th: Legacy Church

Thanks to all who participated in this year's Post Office food drive on Saturday, May 14th.  Below is a photo of some of the food collected by the Letter Carriers in Fayetteville and Peachtree City!


Bank of North Georgia held their annual PB & J drive through the end of April, accepting items at locations in Tyrone and Peachtree City.  They also partnered with Crabapple, Huddleston, and Tyrone Elementary schools.  Pictured below, along with some of the school children, are Huddleston's Principal, Rebecca Maddox and Stephanie Goshman from Bank of North Georgia.




Braelinn Elementary School - May 2-6

Huddleston Elementary School - May 2-6

  

Heritage Christian Church VBS - June 27 - July 1

Dogwood Church's food drive provided the Real Life Center with 315 bags of food on Sunday, 3/27. Thanks everyone!Peeples Elementary held a food drive for the Real Life Center in March.  Here are the results from their food drive contest:
    Kindergarten - 86 boxes of cereal
    1st grade - 92 jars of PB & Jelly
    2nd grade - 64 bottles of juice
    3rd grade - 90 bottles of laundry detergent/dish soap
    4th grade - 120 bottles of shampoo/conditioner
    5th grade - 152 cans/bags of beans
They also donated 41 other items for a total of 645 items.  Thanks Peeples Elementary! 

Pictured below from Peeples are Cade Donaldson, Elika Somani, Bailey Powers, Jack Dombek, Sophia Shaw, Andie Whitlock and Emory Slagel

 

Pictured below is Vivian Sarkis and Rosa Culucci from St Matthews church delivering toothbrushes and toothpaste for families at the Real Life Center.  Thanks for making a difference in the community!

Starrs Mill High School BETA Club held a food drive in January.

Local Boy Scouts canvassed neighborhoods Saturday, February 5, leaving bags and flyers.  They went back to those neighborhoods Saturday, February 12 to collect the food.  This was the largest turn out ever for a Boy Scout food Drive ... over 11,000 items!!!  See photos below.

 

Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church held a food drive the entire month of February.

Dogwood Women's Ministry collected personal care products in Feburary for the Real Life Center in honor of women who are struggling.

 

Grace Evangelical Church held a month-long food drive for the Real Life Center, which started February 28.  Photo below shows food collected.  Thanks Grace Evangelical!



Men's Wearhouse held a special reception for a few families (through the RLC) on March 2 at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center.  The reception included bikes and helmets for the children.  What a treat!  
 

PTC Rotary club honored the Real Life Center on March 8 at the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center with a special gift from their Dragon Boat races.  Thanks PTC Rotary Club!

  

DNOW, a church/community-wide middle and high school event held at Heritage and New Hope South Campus March 8-10, adopted the Real Life Center to help families.  Thanks everyone!

NCR Corporation held a food drive in April.  THANKS NCR!

First United Methodist Church 2011 Great Day of Service was held in April.  THANKS FUMC!

2010 Food and Fundraising Drives

Providence United Methodist Church - Oct 1-31
Sandy Creek ROTC - Oct 11–Nov 8
Rolling Hills Baptist Church - Oct 24
Rising Starr Middle School - Oct 25-29
Spring Hill Elementary - Nov 1-9
Crabapple Elementary - Nov 2-16
Curves of Peachtree City - Nov 1-30
Southside Church - Nov 1-30
North Fayette Elementary - Nov 29-Dec 3
St Paul Lutheran Church - Thanksgiving Dinners
Dr. McPherson - food and toothpaste drive - Dec 1-31the
First Baptist PTC Kintergarten - All school year
Starrs Mill High School BETA Club - Fall semester
St Paul Lutheran Middle School Shine Club
Frank Cawood and Associates
Kiewet
Kids R Kids (Robinson Rd)
Kids R Kids (Hwy 74)
Outpatient Imaging
Carriage Lane Presbyterian Church
Upscale Pizza Comedy Night
Jennifer Hamilton's 5th grade Landmark Christian School Class
Katie Cucumano's 4th grade Landmark Christian School Class
ASAP Courier Company, Inc.
Flat Rock Middle School
CARE Clinic
The PTC Optimist Club Santa Run - yielded even more food than last year.  A special thanks to Stoney Lohr for filling his pickup and making the trips to deliver the food.
Word of God Lutheran Church - Pictured below are Vicki Troyer (with Real Life Center) and Lauren Simmonds (with Word of God) 



Thanks to homeowners in the Interlochen and Smokerise Subdivisions for the wonderful, unexpected donation of 42 bags of food!  And a special thanks to Chase and Jamie Crawford and to Wes Roberts for organizing the drive and collecting the food!  What a blessing!

August

--Dogwood Church held a food drive August 28-29, and we received 322 bags.  Thank you, Dogwood Church!

June-July

--Saint Paul Lutheran Church held a food drive and food was picked up June 6.
--Providence United Methodist is holding a VBS food drive, June 7-11.
--First Baptist of Fayetteville and Dogwood Church will both hold food drives during their VBS week of June 14-18.
--Peachtree City First Baptist will hold a church-wide food drive Sunday, June 20 to honor fathers on Father's Day.
--Heritage Christian Church will hold a VBS food drive the week of June 28-July 2.
--Rinnai is allowing employees to wear jeans to work every Thursday in June when they bring a food donation to work.  Rinnai is matching all donations.
--Woodcreek Waves is holding food drives at 3 upcoming swim meets.

May

--Dogwood Church held a food drive May 1-2, and we received 248 bags.  Thank you, Dogwood Church!
--Peachtree City and Tyrone Post Offices participated in this year's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 8.  We are so grateful to have received 9,730 lbs of food from the drive (9,230 lbs from Peachtree City and 500 lbs from Tyrone).

February-April

--Boy Scouts of Fayette County held their annual food drive on Saturday, February 20 and blessed the Real Life Center with more than 7,000 lbs of food.
--Braelinn Elemenary is holding a food drive from March 29-April 2.
--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 February 15 through the end of March.  Update: Curves collected 3,671 lbs of food and raised $1,407 for the RLC.  
--Huddleston Elementary is holding a food drive from April 26-30.
--Grace Evangelical is holding a food drive the entire month of March.
--Joey Potter with Fellowship of Christian Athletes provided 46 cases of Butterscotch Pudding and 24 cases of Grapefruit Juice.
--Peeples Elementary is holding a food drive from March 22-26.
--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!

Below are some of the pictures taken at the post office and the Real Life Center during the food drive.

     
               

March

--Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church
--Curves for Women
--Donna/Clark Adkins neighborhood Drive
--Cleveland Elementary
--Braelinn Elementary

Curves Food Drive:  During the month of March, Curves of Peachtree City participated in the 11th Annual Curves Food Drive to benefit local food banks.  Collectively, over the past five years, nearly 50 million pounds of food have been distributed to local communities all over the world through the Curves Food Drive.  Curves of Peachtree City and the 155 wonderful women who participated, blessed the Real Life Center with $1,784.50 in cash and 4,385 lbs of food.  "Thank you" Curves.  We are so appreciative that you included us in this effort!

 
 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