A New Look on New Year’s Resolutions
You are likely one of the estimated 100 million Americans that made a resolution list for 2012. Your list probably includes the ever popular “eating healthy” and “losing weight” goals. Most Americans have similar plans to achieve their goals, except for Friends Life board member, Logan Verner. Logan has made losing weight his top goal, but he is letting the world follow his journey. Why, because his second goal is to help a great organization. Logan has declared 2012 to be the year he finally gets in shape! He invites you to follow...
read moreA Time to Reflect
It seems like Christmas comes faster every year. With lights now adorning lamp post and stores slammed with people shopping for the perfect gift it would appear that we are in full stride holiday routine. Now, at least in our minds, is the perfect time to slow down, breathe deeply and reflect on the past year. For us, we have nothing but thanks to give, in fact it is the gift that we long to share with everyone. It may sound trite and insincere but we are indebted to a list of people this year. We are thankful for there involvement with...
read moreJoy of Fall
One of the joys of Fall is raking up all the leaves. A few weeks ago, Friends Life took to the task of cleaning up our yard. Let’s be honest, the whole reason you rake up leaves is to make a giant pile to jump in…so that’s what we did. Yeah, that happened and it was...
read moreArt Show
Friends Life will be having its first art show on November 22, 2011 at 5:00 PM at Lipscomb University – Ezell room 301. Our participants have been working/creating a lot of art to display and are extremely excited about showing their work to the public. This will be the our first ever art show, so come out and support them.
read moreGo Titans!
This past summer, LP and the Titans promised Friends Life tickets to the opening game of the season if we meet our fundraiser goal. We meet our goal and LP and the Titans gave us tickets and field passes. We were so thankful for the generous gift to our participants, families, and staff. We attended the opening preseason game on August 13th at LP field. Not only did the Titans win, but more importantly our participants had a blast. We were also presented with the game ball down on the field before the game started. It was an unbelievably...
read moreCookie
It’s official, we have a Friend’s Life pet! After many discussions, we have named her Cookie.
read moreBackpacks Accomplished
Over the past two months, Friends Life has been tasked with filling over 2000 backpacks with promotional material for an upcoming conference. Our participants each took part in inserting the eight different forms into the backpacks. They worked diligently and proficiently to complete the project by tomorrow morning’s ship out date. They were also very excited to have a weekly job to participate in accomplishing. We are looking forward to many more projects in the future. Check out a few picture below of the...
read moreAbout Us
Friends Life is a certified 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities. We seek to create opportunities to develop socially, grow personally and enjoy community as they experience life together.