| Happy New Year from all of us here at REAL Life Community Services! We're thankful for all that YOU have helped us complete this past year! | | |
What New Year's resolution are you looking to make?! If your looking to serve your community and volunteer in 2020, we would love to have your help!
| | Volunteer needs:
--People that can help lift 50lbs of food for Power Packs food distribution on Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
--Mentors for the Lighthouse Youth Center on Tuesday evenings.
--We are also looking for people to help with emergency car and house repairs.
If your interested and have time to donate yourself to help others, please fill out an application! We will be in touch with you!
 | | | Rapid Response Team!
We are creating a group of people that would be able to quickly respond to needs in our community. These needs may be anything like; changing a tire, helping with repairs, fixing a furnace, cleaning up water in the basement, chopping up a tree. Or even something as simple as giving someone a ride to work because their car wouldn't start. There are many different needs, and we want you to be apart of this team! | | 
We hosted a very FUN Christmas gathering for the residents here at the Declaration House on December 13th! Thank you to Blainsport Mennonite Church for supplying all the cookies and snacks!
We had our 4th annual Christmas Party for our Power Packs families! Thank You to Dormakaba for all the wonderful gifts! We would also like to Thank LCBC Ephrata "Be Rich" for their generous help as well!
We would like to also thank Kim Goshert, Schoeneck Lions Club, Ephrata United Zion Church, Courtyard Café, and many others for making Christmas so special for our youth and families! | | 
Willow Creek Discount Grocery Store, has officially opened their doors here at the Declaration House! They are located at the front of the building. Parking out back is available to you! Stop by and say hi!
Monday thru Friday - 8am to 6pm
Saturday 8am to 5pm
Sunday is closed | | | Don't forget to save the date for our Spring Banquet Coming up in March!
Location: Shady Maple Smorgasbord
Day & Time: Thursday, March 26th at 6 pm
Lisa Landis from WJTL will be our guest speaker. | | | Get messy for a good cause!
5K trail run that is designed with 12 FUN obstacles and multiple hills! Save the date for the REAL Conquest 2020 Trail Run! | | Lets Dance and Dine! This valentines day, make a Declaration of your love and take your loved-one out for a nice evening at Foxchase Banquet Hall. Make sure to Register Now or email Sue by February 7th! | | The Future of Transportation in Northern Lancaster County | | | Complete this survey by Sunday, February 9, 2020 to help us develop a shared vision for transportation in Lancaster County! | | | We're not quite done with the Victory Challenge! | | | We are ONLY $17,831 short of having the Declaration House Project fully funded! Donations of $250 or more made will be acknowledged on the Donor Wall in the hallway of the Declaration House. Please prayerfully consider what you can give to help us make this project a complete success! | | | With the impressive leadership of Kelly Ernst Warner, Hub Coordinator, we have seen some strong programs being developed in our community to help families in need! One of the "Top-Prize" accomplishments is collaborating with the Ephrata Public Library and Ephrata Area Social Services to create the: | | | Powered by the United Way, this Hub bus runs 5 days a week for FREE!
More stops being added in 2020!! | | | This is a community dinner that is built to uplift, empower and find stories of amazing individuals who are thinking critically about their community. Pay $5 for a meal, listen to 4 social project presentations, then visit and discuss the 4 ideas with those around your table and vote on your favorite idea! The idea with the highest vote gets the cash to implement their plan! Learn more by clicking HERE! | | REAL wants to invite you and your organization to partner with us. Annually, we hold two a couple banquets a year and 2-3 other special events for which we need sponsorships. In place of coming to you prior to each event, we would like you to consider adding us to your 2020 budget.
As a partner, you would be recognized depending on the level at which you choose to join us.
Executive Partner - $5,000 a year ($1,250/quarter). This level would garner mention at all REAL Life Community Services events, allow your company banner to be displayed at each event, logo listed on the event sponsor list, a reserved table at each banquet, and put the partner's name/logo on our website.
Corporate Partner - $2,500 a year ($625/quarter). This level would earn the partner mention at all REAL Life Community Events, name/logo listed on the event sponsor list, name/logo displayed on our website, and reserved table at each banquet.
Community Partner - $1,200 ($100 a month). This level is partnership in banquets and would reserve a table at each event for that partner with name listed on the event sponsor list.
Please consider these options in your 2020 Fiscal Budgets. We appreciate your support! | |  Why should you give to REAL Life?
Here are just a few things REAL Life does to Connect our Community to HOPE;
1) The Declaration House which provides;
- Ten Affordable Apartments
- A Social Service Office in Downtown Denver
- A Medical & Dental Center
- 1,500 Square Foot retail space for Willow Creek Discount Grocer & Deli
2) The Power Packs Project
3) A Youth Development Program including the Lighthouse Youth Center
4) A Transitional Home for Moms coming out of Good Samaritan Shelter
5) The Connection with Northern Lancaster Hub (24 Nonprofit Organizations)
6) Working with Ephrata Area Social Services to provide the FREE "HUB Bus"
7) And So Much More.... | | | | |
