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.

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.

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

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

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.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.