Students Rewarded for Efforts in Coat Drive

A huge thank you to Jordan Gilbert and Paxton Poitevint of Southwest Farm Credit for rewarding GCA students Friday with a pizza party.

GCA students collected over 280 coats and sweaters during the annual SW Ga Farm Credit coat drive in December. The two classes, 4th and 10th, who collected the most items, enjoyed pizza along with dessert and drinks. 

Annual Coat & Blanket Drive

During the annual Southwest Georgia Farm Coat & Blanket drive,

GCA students collected over 278 items to donate.

Pictured is sponsoring club Student Government Representatives: Back row, L-R Mary Glenn Warr, Wyatt Carpenter, Chasen Wood, Spence Butler, Jack Holden, Brooke Tobin, Gabby Hardee, and Jeb Smith. Front row, L-R Cade Wells and Hines Roberts.

Coat & Blanket Drive

As the temperatures dip and as recovery from Hurricane Michael continues, Southwest Georgia Farm Credit, Grace Christian Academy and Five Points Cleaners are teaming up to hold a coat and blanket drive to help those in need. 

Gently used and new blankets, coats, scarves, and winter hats can be dropped off at any Southwest Georgia Farm Credit office, or at Grace Christian Academy in Bainbridge, through Monday, December 17th. 

Special thanks to our long-time blanket and coat drive partner, Five Points Cleaners, for cleaning all the gently used items.

Coat Drive Helps Decatur Co. DFCS

Pictured:  Carly Godwin, Abby Bodrey, Abigail Mills,
Mrs. DeLanoy, Breanna Pritchett, Jeremy Greene and Pooja Patel.

GCA's Annual Coat Drive was a big success!  Many thanks to the Interact Club for sponsoring and senior, Carly Godwin for heading it up. 

The coats, etc. were donated this year to the Dept. of Family and Children Services.  Mrs. DeLanoy is pictured receiving the items from the Interact Officers.

Interact Sponsors: Coat Drive - Nov. 6th - 17th

GCA Donates over 900 items in Coat Drive

GCA's 10th grade class participated in the annual Coat & Blanket Drive again this year.   For only two weeks in November, they were able to collect over 900 items.  Carley Godwin organized the drive and worked with Stephanie Poitevint from the DCBOE to make the connection between the schools and social workers in our community so families in Decatur County will be a little warmer!  Mrs. Worsley's 4th grade class won the party and many, many thanks to Rick Ragan with 5 Points Cleaners for graciously cleaning the multitude of coats, blankets, and other warm clothing. 

Giving On Game Day- Friday, November 20th

Giving On Game Day

Coat & Blanket Drive

Giving on Game Day is this Friday, November 20th.  We are asking all Cougar fans to please bring new or gently used coats, blankets, gloves, hats, etc. to our home basketball game.  Please bring these items to help our school give back to the community!

GCA Collects 606 Items for Community Coat Drive!!

Mrs. Jone's 5th Grade Class along with GCA's Student Government Association challenged the student body to collect 350 items for the Annual Farm Credit Coat & Blanket Drive.  Not only did we reach the 350 goal, but our kids almost doubled it by collecting 606 items!!
WAY TO GO GCA!!

Mrs. McRae's K5 class collected the most items and won 1st Place!
2nd Place  - Mrs. Harrell's 4th Grade
3rd Place - Mrs. Jone's 5th Grade

Coat Drive....HUGE Success!!

Many, many thanks to all of our GCA Students and Parent for making the Annual Farm Credit Coat and Blanket Drive a HUGE Success!!  As of the deadline, Oct. 31st, GCA had collected 430 items for this year!  Totally Awesome!!

Annual Farm Credit Coat & Blanket Drive

Thank You

 
GCA’s Student Government Association and Mrs. Harrell’s 4^th grade class would like to take a moment and thank all of the teachers, students, family, and friends of GCA who contributed to the Annual Farm Credit Coat & Blanket Drive.  When asked to meet a community need, GCA stepped up willingly.  Last week’s challenge was to collect 146 additional items by October 31^st in order to meet the original goal of collecting 300 items.  GCA didn’t just meet the challenge, we almost doubled that number and collected 276 additional items!  This brought the final total of items collected by Grace Christian Academy to 430!!!!  Wow!  And the timing couldn’t be better since the cold weather has begun.  Needs are already being met as some coats and blankets have already been distributed.  But of course, God’s timing is always perfect!

Once again, thanks to all who contributed!  Your willingness to share what you have with others has helped make this community effort a tremendous success.  Because of you, many families will be able to have a warmer winter. 

“He (John) replied to them, ‘The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.’”

                                                                                                             Luke 3:27 

Coat & Blanket Drive Ends Oct. 31st

The Annual Farm Credit Coat and Blanket Drive will be coming to an end next week - Oct. 31st and we are half way to our goal.  GCA's Student Government Assoc. and Mrs. Harrell's 4th grade class set an original goal of 300 items and as of Oct. 22nd we had received 156 items. 

Student Government Association members show some of the donated items.
Pictured are Sara Castoro, Jared Duke, Brent Warr, Emilee Murr, Kendi Castoro and Melissa Mills.

 

Remember we are collecting new and gently used coats, blankets, hats, gloves, sweatshirts, sweatpants, scarves, and vests.  Send all items by Wed. Oct. 31st.

4th Annual Coat & Blanket Drive

October has arrived and cold weather should be just around the corner.  As an outreach to our community, GCA's fourth grade class and Student Government Association will be teaming up with Southwest Georgia Farm Credit for the 4th Annual Coat and Blanket Drive.  The boys and girls are excited to be a part of the project again this year.  All GCA Families are asked to donate new or gently used coats, blankets, gloves/mittens, scarves, knit caps, sweaters, sweatshirts, sweatpants, sleeping bags, and even socks (preferably new socks).  Last year GCA passed their 200 item goal and collected 274 items.  This year the goal for GCA is 300 items!!

 

The drive will run from October 15th - October 31st. 

Annual Coat Drive - Oct. 10th thur Oct. 31st

Grace Christian Academy is again helping with the Annual Farm Credit Coat and Blanket Drive.  The Drive kicked-off on October 10th and Mrs. Butler's 3rd grade class enjoyed hosting a fashion show of ideas for the GCA Elementary students this past Wednesday.  Acceptable items include:  new and used coats, blankets, sweaters, scarves, hats, and gloves.  Items will be distrubted locally and Five Points Cleaners is providing the cleaning services for the used items. Other drop-off locations include Farm Credit, Five Points Cleaners, Decatur Auto Parts, and Auto Zone; however, we want GCA to collect the most!

This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make a difference in someone's life and our community has a whole!  Please support Mrs. Buter's 3rd grade class and bring your donations to the drop-box in the GCA foyer.