Faith in action

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Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, is sponsoring its 150th Habitat house during Lent 2014 with new homeowners Demetrius Brownlee and Taneshia Rumph and their son, King.
Lashawn Meadows and her three children soon will move into the Pope Francis House built in partnership with Asheville Area Habitat.
Habitat Philadelphia brought together worshippers from several churches for its Building on Faith Week 2013. People of different churches and ages worked side-by-side on home repairs and painting.
As part of the 2013 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, Jim Reuteler of Denver’s Loaves and Fishes Coalition helped coordinate 12 area churches as they built a new home alongside homeowner partner Marcella Ovalle.
In 2013, a team from Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveled to San Cayetano, Nicaragua, to put their faith into action building Habitat houses. Volunteers presented one new homeowner with a Spanish-language Bible in which t
After a 2013 tornado damaged or destroyed 58 Habitat homes in Granbury, Texas, local churches opened their doors and provided food, clothes and shelter to survivors, including Habitat homeowner Linda Lou Wilson.
Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, is sponsoring its 150th Habitat house during Lent 2014 with new homeowners Demetrius Brownlee and Taneshia Rumph and their son, King.
Lashawn Meadows and her three children soon will move into the Pope Francis House built in partnership with Asheville Area Habitat.
Habitat Philadelphia brought together worshippers from several churches for its Building on Faith Week 2013. People of different churches and ages worked side-by-side on home repairs and painting.
As part of the 2013 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project, Jim Reuteler of Denver’s Loaves and Fishes Coalition helped coordinate 12 area churches as they built a new home alongside homeowner partner Marcella Ovalle.
In 2013, a team from Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveled to San Cayetano, Nicaragua, to put their faith into action building Habitat houses. Volunteers presented one new homeowner with a Spanish-language Bible in which t
After a 2013 tornado damaged or destroyed 58 Habitat homes in Granbury, Texas, local churches opened their doors and provided food, clothes and shelter to survivors, including Habitat homeowner Linda Lou Wilson.

Habitat for Humanity offers faith groups a powerful way to put their faith into action, and many faith partners support Habitat in hundreds of U.S. communities through their generous donations, prayers — and volunteers.

A few examples:

  • Asheville Area Habitat in North Carolina will hold a wall-raising in May for the Pope Francis House, with local Catholic churches taking the lead in bringing together volunteers to build. “The donor wishes to remain anonymous but said they were so impressed by the rejuvenation that this pope has brought to many aspects of the Catholic Church,” says executive director Lew Krause. “They were particularly fascinated by a quote by the pope about dignity through work and felt that really matched the language of Habitat.”
  • Atlanta’s Peachtree Presbyterian Church started building homes with Habitat in 1988, and the church is nearing completion on its 150th home. “The volunteers love that it’s very hands-on,” says Staci Graham, Peachtree’s mission resource director. “They get dirty, they build and they can see the results right in front of them.”
  • In 2013, Habitat Philadelphia’s Building on Faith Week was held during the hottest four days of the year, but volunteers from 13 churches still came together to tackle a 22-home blitz repair as part of the local Habitat’s neighborhood revitalization efforts.
  • When a few churches in Denver, Colorado, got together in 1988 to form a coalition to build with Habitat Metro Denver, they knew what they wanted to do. But Jim Reuteler, who heads up Denver’s Loaves and Fishes Coalition, recalls someone asking where the money was going to come from. “They had no idea,” Reuteler says, “but the crowd that Jesus fed in the Bible didn’t know where the food was coming from either.”

These days, the coalition numbers 12 congregations and raises 85,000 every year to sponsor a Habitat home that the churches then help build.

Learn more about how you can participate in Habitat’s many faith engagement opportunities.

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