Habitat for Humanity

General Description – The building of affordable homes through Habitat for Humanity has been a major mission project of Faith United Methodist Church for many years. Working with other churches on the eastside in a coalition format we have helped to fund and build seven homes in the last eleven years. Our primary funding source is a community-wide “garage sale” held at the church each year in September. In addition church members may attend Habitat fundraisers or purchase Habitat-related items through the alternative gifting program held each Christmas season as a part of Faith’s funding.

Volunteer Opportunities – Church members 16 years and older may work at a Habitat work site on the scheduled coalition work day each month. This is currently the 3^rd Saturday of the month. In addition, opportunities during the week are also available, particularly for retirees. No building skills or tools are required although volunteers with some experience are particularly welcome.

The annual Habitat “garage sale” requires a large number of volunteers. Because of the magnitude of this effort, a detailed description of these needs and of the event itself, see below for details or visit http://habitatgaragesale.org.

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“I was a stranger and you invited me in….”  Matthew 25-35

Habitat for Humanity Garage Sale

Annual Event :  September 23 & 24, 2011

Faith Church raises money for the purchase of building materials through its annual “Habitat Garage Sale”.  No ordinary rumage sale, this annual event is huge and includes, among other things, furniture, clothing, electronics, housewares, and toys.  A mini-mission in itself, the Habitat Garage Sale not only raises funds for Habitat For Humanity, it also:

• Provides a great opportunity for fellowship among the many volunteers
• Allows people on limited incomes to buy some very nice items for their homes and families
• Invites donors and shoppers to interact with Faith Church and its members
• Funnels unsold items from the sale to other charitable organizations

Wow, we are all booked up. If you want to donate you will have to bring the items yourself.

You can drop off donations: Wednesday, September 21 from 11:30a—5:00p/ and again from 7:45p – 9:00p and Thursday, September 22 from 9 AM until 8PM.

Please note, “Due to other church activities on Wednesday, please refrain from drop-offs between 5-8pm.”

Please do not drop off items after 8 PM so that we have adequate time to sort and price Thursday evening.

If you can help or have questions, please contact Bill & Jan Bennett:

H4H@faithunited.org

Questions? Visit http://habitatgaragesale.org

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