Sober and Free 803

06/17/2025

This is an amazing organization to support! Check them out.

WE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR SPONSORS ✨ This is a great way to advertise your business, big or small, while giving back to a good cause!

We have a few different options this year!
1. Donate a gift card to your business for the raffle.

2. $100 includes: An ad posted to the event page, shoutout at the event, and tabletop advertisement at the event.

3. $200 includes: An ad posted to the event page, shoutout at the event, tabletop advertisement at the event, and your logo on the photo booth banner.

Please message Sydney Kirton or Samantha Ernst-Lee with any questions.

03/01/2025

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, sometimes you just have to get out of your own way and take the plunge… New Adventure Loading……

02/22/2025

Celebrate yourself! You matter!

10/15/2024

10/07/2024

I want to thank everyone that supports, donated, and prayed for our journey into Burnsville NC, thanks to your generosity we were able to get supplies up to Shoul Creek Baptist Church, From this location hub, supplies are being taken into deeper parts of NC that aren’t having supplies delivered. The towns are truly coming together in this time of need! Yet, sadly enough the true preservation of these communities is yet to come.. without power, water, and the grocery distribution factory being flooded, supplies will run out fast. These communities are raising money to dig wells just to survive the upcoming cold weather.. in the coming months, they will need blanket, warm chlothes, pillows, sleeping bags, safe cooking stations, and food replenished to sustain life in these areas.. I am adding a direct link and contact in the comments section to shoals creek Baptist church.

Together we were able to band together to help shovel mud and river muk out of a general store that was deviated with damage, with 5 families living within the store and surrounding buildings we joined in to give these people a moment to breathe and collect themselves.. volunteers are needed for these areas in a massive way, the impact of this storm will take years to repair, and every small task that one person can accomplish is a massive help. If you’re interested in being a boots on the ground volunteer, message or email us at soberandfree803@gmail.com and I will get you in touch with local contacts to find ways you can serve.

We also got to watch a true blessing with Stephanie at Final Victory Animal Rescue, drive her passion to help the animals in need during these trying times. Together with her following and team she was able to collect so much food and necessities for the animals in need, she was able to locate the Yancey humane society, who is hand delivering food and supplies to animals in need around them. Following her purpose passion and helping the only way she knows how.

Thank you again for your continued support.

Shoal Creek
Baptist Church
PO BOX 665
1867 Hwy19E
Burnsville, NC 28714
Pastor Eddie: 336-337-0016
Shoalcreekbc.org

Final Victory Animal Rescue
Cola Stacks
Yancey County Humane Society
Shoal Creek Baptist Church

10/03/2024

Donation and supply pickup services are available in Columbia and surrounding areas until Saturday evening.

For coordination, contact Ryan at 8034099137 (call/text) or soberandfree803@gmail.com (email), or reach out via social media.

10/02/2024

As we assess the wreckage left in the aftermath of hurricane Helene that ravaged our part of the country, our focus has shifted to some of the smaller counties in our state that have had catastrophic damages. With media attention focused on other areas. Families in these smaller parts of the state are left without homes, entire counties left without power, food and fuel becoming scarce. Shelter filling quickly and many not allowing pets. We have decided to shift our focuses and postpone our care kit drive. We are redirecting our small amount of resources to more troubled areas needing immediate help. This Sunday we will be traveling to the upstate area to setup, hand out our care kits and see how neigbors can help neigbors. We appreciate your continued support and are still accepting donation items to take with us.


Items needed in disaster relief.
-ice and water
-tuna and canned meats
-pop top canned foods
-pillows and blankets as shelter don’t supply these
-bread peanut butter and jelly
-fruit or fruit cups
-trail mix and high protein snacks
-baby food, formula and diapers
-bar soaps and body wash
-first aid items
-pet foods
-trash bags and batteries
-flash lights
-sanitation items

For more information please reach out.

Soberandfree803@gmail.com
Ryan E. -803 409 9137

09/18/2024

As we move closer to our care kit give away day, we would like to thank everyone who has donated items so far! We are so thankful to have the support we’ve been shown! We are still looking for a few items to complete our bags!

-Gloves
-lip balms and chapsticks
-mints and gums
-25 more Beenie hats
-hand warmers
-other items such as fleece blankets

Again! We thank you for your continued support!!

If you would like to volunteer for handout day please email us at soberandfree803@gmail.com, message us on socials or visit us on the web at soberandfree803.org

09/14/2024

Ironically, to be on the side of the road picking up beer bottles and litter strewn about feels good. To chip at amending the carefree and reckless lifestyle that once enveloped my way of living, led me to be the very one laughing as I threw my empties on the side of the road for someone else to deal with.. luckily.. I am still here to have the chance to change my behaviors and learn to give back and be useful to those around me.. so many lives are lost, and forever changed because someone is out living that carefree way today.. not only are lives cut short by driving under the influence, but families are left grieving and picking up the pieces wondering how to move forward.. that’s why foundations like are so important and will forever have our support.. while we strive to help those fighting addiction find a way out.. SKMF advocates to help those who didn’t have a choice.. Through grief and emotional support, to physical and financial support.. To help spread the awareness and dangers of driving intoxicated through community outreach and sadly enough, living through tragedy themselves.. 12 bags of trash off the side of the road doesn’t seem like much.. but to the family that lost a loved one on that very stretch of highway, it’s a way to memorialize them, still take care of them, and continue to remember what SKMF stands for. There are plenty of opportunities to join a team, or be of service in your local communities for great causes.. feel free to reach out and volunteer in simple ways to make big changes in our very own communities. As always, if you or a loved one is struggling with substance abuse, struggling with grief, or want to be of service in any way.. feel free to contact us.