What I didn't know about Habitat for Humanity

Occassionally, as part of my responsibilities, I get to enjoy a luncheon where our church is invited to attend. One of us pastors gets to go to a few events.  Today at lunch I attended the Habitat for Humanity in Wayne County luncheon.

The keynote speaker was Clive Rainey.  He was deemed THE first volunteer for Habitat.  Two bonuses for me were:

1. Lunch with my wife
2. Hearing from Clive

There are many things I did not know about Habitat.  One of them is the founding principle of helping others because they want to serve people in God's power.  It's a Christian organization.

Habitat Wayne county mission statement: work in partnership with God and people from all walks of life to develop communities with God's help for people in need by building houses and by renovating homes.

Wooster Grace recently helped fund a Habitat House for Megan Parker with other churches in our county.  Our community gathered together to help Megan. That's why I love Wooster Grace.  We seek to help people in our community and around the world by collaborating with others to make a difference in our community.  We seek to reach out to our community with the love of Jesus.  That's what I love about our community. We can come together and bless a whole family.

That was the thrust of Clive Rainey's comments today at lunch.  We can do things together!  So let's keep working together.

The other thing that I did not know about Habitat is that each affiliate has a world affiliate.  Wayne County has Romania as its affiliate country.  Habitat is seeking to help families get into homes all around the world.  What an enduring vision!  Way to go Habitat!