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You don't want to miss out on our fall banquet! | | | Don't miss out on the ExtraOrdinary Give, Lancaster's BIGGEST One Day of GIving on November 20th! We have new goals this year and are ready to reach them! Go online or visit our booth at Courtyard Cafe in Denver, PA! | | | Financial Literacy 10 Week Course | | | Beginning September 3rd, REAL Life Community Services and Tabor Community Services will be offering a 10 week Financial Literacy Course. While each week can be taken individually, there will be a financial incentive for those who complete all 10 weeks. For more information, call 717-336-7797. 9/3/20 Intro Session
9/10/20 Budgeting
9/17/20 Savings
9/24/20 Banking
10/1/20 Credit
10/8/20 Loans
10/15/20 Identity Theft
10/22/20 Off
10/29/20 Raising Money Smart Kids
11/5/20 Vehicle Purchase
11/12/20 Earth Conscious, money conscious | | | The renovations to Warehouse 916 will be completed this month! REAL Life Community Services will now be able to offer food to those in need with the confidence of good quality and greater quantity. Families who have students in the Cocalico School District and who qualify for the free and reduced lunch program can register for Power Packs. This program provides the ingredients for one recipe each week with a couple of staple items to help the family. The Cocalico Food Pantry is a client choice program where families that are currently clients with REAL can come once a month for groceries. For more information on either of these programs, please call our social worker at 717-336-7797 or click the link below to register for Power Packs. | | | Warehouse916 is close to completion! Stay tuned!! | | Power Packs registration opened 8/1 for any families of Cocalico School District students in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program (K-12). Distribution will begin on October 7th. | | | REAL Life is the Cocalico affiliate of the Power Packs Project. The program includes a recipe and ingredients for one hot meal each week and a couple of staple items. Each family must be in the free and /or reduced lunch program through the Cocalico School District. Sign up today by clicking the link below! | | | With a grant from the Hahn Family Foundation and generous donations from Cocalico Plumbing and Heating, J.S. Garman Electric and volunteers from MDS, LCBC, DOVE, Cocalico Community Church and Reamstown Church Of God, the Lighthouse got much needed upgrades. The bathrooms in the basement, first installed in 1952, were combined to make one new basement bathroom with a shower. The main floor now has new windows, flooring, paint and lighting. What a blessing for all the REAL Life programs and community events that will be held there! | | | Above, youth from LCBC (left) and DOVE (right) churches paint the Lighthouse! | | | Before and After pictures of the Lighthouse Youth Center's meeting room! | | | With the help of DOVE youth the Lighthouse basement was transformed into offices to support REAL Life Velocity Director and Early Learning Mentor, both are new staff members starting this Fall! | | | Welcome our new team members! | | | Bernie Stamm, Food Distribution Coordinator Bernadette Stamm, known by her friends and family as Bernie, was born and raised in Easton, PA. After graduating from high school she attended The Reading Hospital School of Nursing obtaining her R.N. Bernie and her husband, Jim, are members of Swamp Christian Fellowship. They currently reside in Reinholds. God has blessed them with two sons that are both married and live outside the local area. Bernie has served Swamp Church in many various aspects. Community outreach, youth involvement and hands on activities are where she is usually found. She has served Pennsylvania Jaycee Women as State president as well as various positions within the Horse Shoe Trail Boy Scout Council. Bernie will now be serving REAL Life Community Services as our Food Distribution Coordinator! You will see her in our warehouse helping out and getting food ready for clients! | | | Robyn Redcay, Velocity Program Coordinator Robyn Redcay, has been volunteering with REAL Life since 2011 serving at fundraising events, food distribution, and sits on Cocalico Cares Committee. She is stepping into the position of Youth Intern heading up our Velocity Youth Program. She is a Senior in high school and will be taking classes with LBC and HACC. Robyn enjoys volunteering at her church, playing guitar, and singing on her youth Worship team. She hopes to attend college next year at Penn State to study Engineering. | | | REAL's 2nd Annual Back to School Bash | | |
On Saturday, August 1, 2020, REAL Life Community Services, in partnership with UGI, distributed 60 backpacks to Cocalico School District students to help prepare them for this coming year. Volunteers enjoyed handing out the backpacks, which were loaded with folders, notebooks, markers, crayons, pencils, pens and glue sticks – everything you need to succeed in school. This was the second year that UGI worked with REAL Life Community Services to provide for our children. Thank you to UGI for being such an amazing part of our northern Lancaster County community!
Information was also distributed regarding the many programs and resources REAL Life has to offer for families residing in the Cocalico School District. If you would want to partner with us in transforming our community, check out our website, www.reallcs.org, or call 717-336-7797 for more information. | | | Our friends at First Fruits Farm and Orchard LLC partnered with other local organizations to provide fresh food boxes for 150 families in the northern Lancaster County region! It was another beautiful Saturday in August and Jordan Martin and his wife Rachel gathered friends and church members to help distribute boxes full of frozen chicken, beef, fresh produce, milk, butter, eggs, and more!! We have an amazingly generous community! We Thank You! | | | There are many other programs that can assist you too! Please call our office at 717-336-7797, to talk with our Social Worker for more information! | | | | |
