NFL and NCAA Legend Speaks at Harvester Fundraiser

On March 19, 2019, Harvester Christian Academy welcomed 147 people to the Douglasville Conference Center for its annual Gala & Auction. Coach Bill Curry, two-time Super Bowl Champion and former NCAA Coach of the Year, was the headlining speaker. He delivered a message on the importance of diversity and teamwork in completing tasks and building a great school that serves our community and God

Coach Curry explained how “magnanimitas,” greatness of spirit, means that each of us is uniquely created with potential no one else has and we are called to share our own magnanimitas in an unselfish way, giving all that we have and all the we are to anyone who needs us all the time.

The Gala & Auction was also attended by Mayor Rochelle Robinson, Commission Chairwoman Ramona Jackson-Jones, Judge Beau McClain and representatives from Sheriff Pounds’ office, Lieutenant Elmer Horn and Captain Taverreus Pounds. Local “celebrity” and partner at the law office of Hartley, Rowe & Fowler, Joe Fowler delivered an appeal for donations, detailing the reasons why he and his wife, Carol, became founding members of Harvester Christian Academy in 1987.

Joe Fowler said, “when I’d sneak into the school, I’d hear children being taught academic subjects of course, but also principals of life from a Christian perspective—Godliness, honor for parents, love for a neighbor, self-control, honesty, right and wrong,” and these are all values you still hear in Harvester Christian Academy classrooms every day. “If you are concerned about our culture and what children are being taught…then we have to do whatever we can, with whatever resources we have to breathe life back into [Christian schools]” like Harvester.

Through ticket sales, a silent auction, donations and the support of eight corporate sponsors (PKS Paving, CKS Packaging, Douglas Dental Care, Douglasville Eye Clinic, Frazier & Deeter, Hawkinson & Muchnick, Crown Contracting and Progressive Painting), the gala raised over $34,000, the net proceeds of which will go toward campus improvements.

Harvester Christian Academy is a private school serving pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade students in Douglasville, Georgia. Harvester Christian Academy seniors garner over $1 million in college scholarships annually and 100% are accepted into college. With art, music, and STEM courses, competitive sports for every age, drama, physical education, over a dozen clubs, AP courses and a dual-enrollment initiative, the school carries out its mission of "training minds to lead and hearts to serve."