Ground-breaking
for the first Newton County house will be held Sunday, April 27 at 2
p.m. CDT. The location is the corner of 1st and Dunlap in
Kentland. A steering committee has been
formed by
Newton County residents to
oversee the process. JCHFH will be providing logistical
support,
training, financial management and guidance during the pre-build
process. The Newton steering committee will provide the
fund-raising, select a family, and provide labor and meals for this
house.
If you are interested in being part of this exciting project, contact
Rev. Sue
Beckett at Brook UMC afternoons at 219-275-3751.
We
are accepting applications for the Newton County house.
Check back to find out the plans for the next Jasper County
house.
2007
Remington Faith-Built House Dedication
The
Tonya Carty house was dedicated Sunday, March 25.
The home
is located at 312
W. South Street in Remington.
Groundbreaking for the
Carty family
home. Click here
for
pictures.
The
Jasper
Foundation, Inc. and Jasper County REMC Community Fund, Inc. recently
awarded grants to Jasper County Habitat
for Humanity. Both grants will be used
to
purchase a storage trailer
for the affiliate. This will allow for the secure storage of
equipment, supplies and tools and make those portable to each building
site. The JCHfH logo will be added to the side of the trailer
to
identify
the trailer, and allows us to get the word out about our organization.
The board of directors sincerely thanks both The Jasper Foundation and
the REMC Community Fund for their generosity.
The Jasper County, Indiana affiliate
of Habitat for
Humanity, International
was formed in 1994 and has completed seven homes in its
history.
The board of directors dedicated the most recent home on
March 25, 2007 .
Jasper
County Habitat for Humanity holds board meetings each month. We
welcome individuals who might be interested in being on the board to
attend. The next public
meeting: May 19, 2008
Are you
an
individual or represent a church group interested in being a part
of our next Habitat house in Newton County? If so,
contact Fred Berger
to find
out how to
get
involved!
Applications are being
accepted
for
our next Jasper County Habitat house. Keep coming back to
this
page to find
out
about future home ownership applications.
If you have property, time
or
talent and would like to discuss how you might help Habitat, please
contact board president Brian
Carey at:
Jasper County
Habitat for Humanity,
PO Box 325, Rensselaer, IN 47978
Click here
to see what the various committees of
the board of directors do...
If you
are interested in working with Jasper County Habitat for Humanity as a
board or committee, contact any of the board members listed below.
Contact us at:
Jasper
County Habitat for Humanity PO
Box 325 Rensselaer,
IN 47978
2007
Jasper County Habitat for
Humanity Board of Directors
Brian Carey; President; Construction
Committee
Fred Berger, Community Relations; Vice President
Carol
Deardorff, Treasurer
Butch Claussen, Secretary
Loni
Burnaska, Family Support
Committee Chair; assistant treasurer
George
Tonner, member;
Fund-Raising Committee Chair
Rev.
Keith Kincaid, member
Dr. Jim
Wakefield, member;
Fund-Raising Committee member
Carol
Sue, member
Jenna
Ketch, SJC Campus
Chapter
representative
Habitat for
Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing
ministry. Habitat works in partnership with people in need to build and
renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those
in need, Habitat's partner families, at no profit and with no interest
charged. Partner families invest hundreds of hours of their own labor
--
sweat equity -- into building their homes and the homes of others.
Their
mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to
build more houses.
Founded in
1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda, and headquartered in
Americus, Ga, HFHI's work in the United States is accomplished by
affiliates. Habitat affiliates are independent, nonprofit [501(c)
(3)] organizations
that are organized by local citizens and operate with local boards and
local volunteers. There are more than 1,600 U.S. affiliates spread
among
all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of thousands of
volunteers provide most of the labor, and faithful individual and
corporate donors provide the money and materials to build Habitat
houses. Habitat's mission is to eliminate poverty housing from the
earth. Habitat has taken its vision of a world with no more shacks to
100 nations. To date, HFHI has completed over 200,000 simple, decent,
affordable houses around the globe.
(last
updated April 22)
Founded in
1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda, and headquartered in
Americus, Ga, HFHI's work in the United States is accomplished by
affiliates. Habitat affiliates are independent,