Give Love – Get a Tee!
On Sunday Feb 21, 2010 GiveLoveAway launched its newest endeavor, Give Love – Get a Tee! We have partnered with the Hands and Feet Project Orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti. If you donate more than $25, you get a free Least of These Tee created by the folks at wethekingdom.org.
The launch was an overwhelming success. Over 120 shirts have already been given away due to your response to helping the children of Haiti.
Thanks to those who have supported this new partnership. There is still time get your Tee while supplies last.
You can give online at wethekingdom.org or locally at Crossroads Church in Douglasville, GA.
Help Haiti: Hands and Feet Orphanage
For our next give love away endeavor we want to help the children of Haiti. We are partnering with the Hands and Feet Project, an orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti. This was an area, like many, devastated by the earthquake. The Hands and Feet orphanage was established in 2005 and houses 50 children and that number grows weekly. We are collecting donations starting at $15. Donations of $25 or more will receive a free Least of These t-shirt. Give today and help change a life in Haiti!
***Donations can be made @ Crossroads Church in Douglasville, GA or go to www.xroadschurch.net
Help for Haiti
If you would like to help those devistated by the earthquake in Haiti, we are partnering with two incredible organizations that are mobilizing aid and support.
Help today by choosing one of these organizations:
visit Compassion International or visit Sumaritan’s Purse
Help Give Love Away today!
Clike here to view our Help Haiti video
Flood Relief Work Team – Thursday
We are partnering with www.hopeatl.com and Courageous Church who have created an amazing network of churches and volunteers on the ground helping people in need. Here is how you can help:
Our staff team will be traveling directly to Austell tomorrow to work with Courageous Church and the HopeATL team. We will meet at Crossroads at 8:15am and travel to Ewing Road Baptist Church (4699 Ewing Road in Austell) for a 9:00am meeting. We will dispurse into work teams from the school.
If you can join our team tomorrow, please let me know so I can be expecting you. If you are coming tomorrow, need you to wear a long sleeve shirt and pants with shoes you don’t mind ruining (also bring some work gloves!).
Here is a list of tools you can bring with you:
ALL tools required to demolish and build a home (hammers, carpet knives, exacto knives, screw drivers, saws, drills, bits, crowbars, wrenches, measuring tape, levels, sledgehammers, etc.)
Pressure Washers to clean mold, sewage, mud, muck, etc. off of homes
If you cannot make it during the week, we are hoping to have hundreds -maybe thousands- of people at Clarksdale Elementary this Saturday at 9am. There is so much work to do. Thanks for giving love away.
Flood Relief Donations
Flood Relief Donation Drop Off Locations
The follow locations are drop-off & distribution centers that we have monitored, used, and approve. It is our preference that you use these sites to drop off your donations because they get supplies to the people that need them right away! See the list of urgent items needed here.
Sweetwater Valley Camp/770/819-0662/www.svcamp.org
6289 Veterans Memorial Drive, Ste 12A
Austell,GA 30168
- Accepting donations of food and clothing, donations accepted at back door Mon -Sat 9Am-12:30 PM
Turner Field
- Flood Relief donations will be collected at Turner Field Tuesday, September 29 – Sunday, October 4, from the time gates open 2.5 hours before the game and continuing through the second inning each day, in Turner Field’s Monument Grove. The Braves are asking fans to contribute any of the following:
- Monetary donations
- Gift cards
- Hygiene items
- School supplies
- Non perishable foods
- Baby items
Atlanta Community Food Bank 404/892-9822
732 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd., NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
8:00 am to 5:00 pm MON – FRI
If you would like to donate nonperishable food items, the Atlanta Food Bank will be providing items to those agencies that express a need. You must drop off your donation (no-pickup). Please note that they can only accept unopened, unexpired items and no “homemade” jellies, jams or vegetables. Most Needed Food Items Peanut Butter; Canned Tuna; Beans, Soups, Pastas, Fruits; 100% Fruit Juice; Cereals .
Gift of Love 770/947-8200/3870 Longview Dr. / Douglasville, GA 30135
10:00 am to 7:00 pm MON – FRI; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm SAT
- Accepting donations of food, school supplies, clothing, shoes, linens/blankets, household items
Warehouse Of Hope/770/ 489-0509/warehouseofhope.org
100 Hunter Road
Douglasville, GA 30134
Hosea Feed the Hungry/404/755-3353 X318/1035 Donnelly Ave. SW / Atlanta, Ga
10:00 am to 6:00 pm MON – FRI
- Collecting nonperishable food and other items to include in survival kits that will help storm victims in Metro Atlanta and the surrounding counties. Accepting donations of dry cereal, dry milk, flour, sugar, canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned meat, toiletries, infant formula and diapers, school supplies. CAN NOT ACCEPT CLOTHING
Northwest Christian Church – Helping Hands Pantry
3737 Dallas Acworth Hwy. / Acworth, Ga
- Accepting donations of baby items, food, water, personal care items, animal food, and school supplies. Pick up is not available.
The Pantry 770/217-0729/ 5960 Stewart Pkwy,Ste. C/Douglasville, GA 30135
Leave message for donation p/u
- Accepting donations of food, water and toiletry items
CLOTHING DONATIONS
County Line Baptist Church 770/942-0190
1814 N. County Line Rd. / Lithia Springs, GA 30122
9:00 am to 9:00 pm MON – FRI, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm SAT September 28 – Oct. 7
- Accepting donations of clothing and food. Donations will be distributed to flood victims on Oct. 10.
Church at Mirror Lake in Villa Rica 770/459-8653
501 Permian Way / Villa Rica, GA
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm THU, 9:00 am to noon, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm FRI
- Accepting donations of clothing
West Ridge Church 770/222-2125
3522 Hiram Acworth Hwy, / Dallas, GA 30157
- Accepting donations of clothing
FURNITURE DONATIONS
Faith in Action/770/833-7236/gafaithinaction@aol.com
- Accepting furniture including washers, dryers, refrigerators, sofas, dressers, microwaves, TV sets, kitchen table and chairs, mattresses and box springs. Items must be gently used and in good working order. Donation pick up in Douglas County and surrounding areas
West Ridge Church brittneyf@westridge.com
3522 Hiram Acworth Hwy, / Dallas, GA 30157
- Accepting donations of household items
TOOLS
Atlanta Community Tool Bank 404/880-0054 ext. 12 or cj@toolbank.org
- Accepting donations of new and gently used tools that will be provided to groups involved in clean-up efforts.
- ACTB requires appointments prior to drop-off.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES DONATIONS
- The Cobb Schools Foundation is accepting monetary donations for the Clarkdale Elementary School Relief Fund. A secure link to the fund is on the system’s web site at http://www.cobbk12.org/ . Donations can also be mailed to the Cobb Schools Foundation, 514 Glover St., Marietta, GA 30060.
PEBBLEBROOK HIGH SCHOOL:
991 Old Alabama Rd. / Mableton, GA 30126
7:30am to 4:30 pm MON – FRI Sept. 24 – Nov. 1, 2009
- This school is accepting donations of school supplies and clothing to assist their staff and students affected by the floods.
New Playground for NDES
Imagine if recess was not a highlight of a child’s day at school. Imagine if the playground at your school regularly had over 45 children but was only designed for about 20 children. Imagine if teachers had no place to sit and relax for a moment while children played. Imagine if disagreements and arguments regularly broke out because children just did not have enough engagement on the playground. Hard to imagine but that WAS the situation for North Douglas Elementary School.
God, however, imagined something very different! Thanks to some amazing generosity from Playland (a playground company in Carrollton), North Douglas Elementary School has more than doubled the size and play capacity of its playground. Not only did they add a huge new play area, they surprised the school with six new swings! It was an amazing completion to the playground landscaping project began by Crossroads and Team Jesus at the beginning of the school year. Check out the video below to see the first children to enter the new playground.
We are still needing to raise about $1500 to cover additional costs for the North Douglas project. If you would like to give, please contact Kurt Dean at 678-370-0555 or kdean@xroadschurch.net.
Super Saturday at the Pantry
September 26
Our next Give Love Away outreach will involve feeding families in our community on September 26. The Pantry (our community food partner) has been allocated enough food from Atlanta Community Food Bank to feed 500 families on this particular weekend. For this event, we are going to need over 150 Crossroads volunteers! Crossroads volunteers will be giving away food, directing traffic, and entertaining children as their families wait to receive their food. Please visit guest services on September 13 or September 20 to volunteer.
A message from Fran Davis, principal at North Dougals Elementary School
Wow! I just did a walk-through around the school and saw the
playground. It looks wonderful! I’m not sure how they did it all in
such a short time but they did an amazing job! Please pass along our
sincere thanks and overwhelming excitement. The supplies arrived and
let me say that God’s timing is always perfect. The teachers are so
appreciative. We hope that you all know what an incredible difference
you’ve made in the lives of our staff, our students and their families.
Sincerely,
Fran Davis
Teacher touched by Give Love Away
I just wanted to say that this sermon today really touched close to home. I am a teacher in a Title I school in Villa Rica and I have personally seen and worked with children that come from very harsh conditions. What the church has done for this school in Douglas County is amazing. You should rest assured that the students and teachers will be very greatful. I was also very happy to hear about the winter jacket drive, as I have seen so many students come to school without proper shoes, socks, coats, etc. We often try to pull together as teachers to get our students the bare necessities. You should see the look on their faces when they are handed a jacket when its cold outside- priceless. I am also sure, the many of those teachers feel a sense of relief knowing their students will have supplies. Teachers often try and scramble and get together whatever they can, knowing that many students will not be able to bring things with them to school. It is hard sometimes, to not be able to do all that you want for all of your students; especially in the face of economic uncertainty.
I am not sure where Give Love Away is headed, but I passionately believe that by helping the schools and the youth you not only touch the children, but their families as well. It is such a great investment. We had a church support our school this past year in helping provide backbacks of heathly snacks and food that could be sent home with students whom we had identified as having severe need; meaning these children may not be eating on the weekends. You could see the relief on their faces those Fridays they received their backpacks. Towards the end of the school year, the pantry had run out of food, so the teachers and faculty pulled together to continue filling the bookbags. I believe it made a difference in those childrens’ lives.
I just wanted to say that I believe this contribution will change many lives. And hopefully we will be able to change one school at a time.
Give Love Away – Packing Day
Have you ever seen 400 plus backpacks filled with school supplies? Today, Crossroads Church packed over 400 backpacks full of school supplies. It was an amazing day! Tomorrow, we will be delivering the backpacks to North Douglas Elementary School. Keep checking back for more info as we give love away!
