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.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

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

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.