For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves life’s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.