Donating
Many churches and businesses in the towns of Mooresville, Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville have partnered with Our Towns Habitat through its "Adopt-A-Home" program.
Sponsoring churches or businesses have the opportunity to partially or fully fund the cost of building a local Habitat home. The sponsor groups also offer their members and/or employees the chance to build the home along side the Habitat homeowner family. Adopt-a-Home sponsorship is exciting, challenging and rewarding, and most importantly, it makes a real and lasting positive impact on the community.
As a Christian ministry, it is appropriate that the
churches are a
primary partner with Habitat in this important work of building affordable houses with
people in need. Churches of all sizes and denominations have experienced
profound blessings by putting their faith into action and building houses
in partnership with their brothers and sisters in need. Former President
Jimmy Carter has said that if every church and every synagogue built or
repaired at least one home a year, the United States could totally transform
the problems of housing and homelessness.
Our Towns Habitat for Humanity assigns a staff member
to each build and supports the overall coordination of the build. Each
church or business offers a Project Leader volunteer and a House Leader volunteer
to manage/coordinate the build. Many volunteers are needed to build one
Habitat home – it takes 2,500 volunteer hours to build one Habitat
home. Volunteers have the opportunity to be Task Leaders or general volunteers.
Our Towns Habitat staff provides an Adopt-A-Home project planning manual
and training.
Below is a list of some of the groups that have participated in
the Adopt-A-Home program:
Bethel Presbyterian
Church
Davidson College Presbyterian Church
Davidson United Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church of Mooresville
Grace
Covenant Church
Ingersoll-Rand
Lowe's Corporation
Peninsula Community Foundation
Davidson College Students
Wachovia and First Charter Bank
Highland Creek Neighbors
River Run Club members and residents
A full Adopt-A-Home sponsorship, including the tithe, is currently $66,550. This covers building materials for a local Habitat home and building materials for three homes in Guatemala. Our Towns Habitat for Humanity sets aside
10 % of the money raised locally to fund the construction of homes in Guatemala and Sri Lanka. More infomation can be found in the Global Outreach section of our website.
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