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

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

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

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.

Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

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

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.