Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders, Inc., dedicated their first house as a FCH mission partner on Wednesday in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The organization, headed by Bartow Tucker, has built 83 houses, but this was their first with The Fuller Center. The house was built on the property of Andy Favre, who had lived there in […]
Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing, died early Tuesday morning after a brief illness. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be an aortic aneurysm. He was 74. Family and friends are mourning the tragic loss of a true servant leader and a genuine heart. Millard […]
“The Fuller Center is changing people’s lives in a big way,” says Patricia Zerounian, a Fuller Center and Habitat for Humanity volunteer and team leader who has already made two fact-finding trips to Armenia, in 2006 and 2007. Continue Reading »
For four years, Nigerian civil servant Sunday Fanoiki lived alone in a deplorable, one-bedroom apartment without a kitchen, without a private bathroom and without his wife and three children. Today, he is the proud owner of a new, Fuller Center home. Transfered in 2003 from Lagos to the capital city, Abuja, Sunday found the expenses […]
Millard Fuller took to the small wooden podium like a preacher to a pulpit. The 74-year-old Alabama native was speaking to an intimate crowd at Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church on Saturday night. His smooth Southern accent was impossible to ignore as he pulled out a Bible and began reading from the third chapter in Hebrews. […]
Millard Fuller will be recognized for innovation and humanitarian work at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 20. The Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award recognizes builders who “go the extra mile” by demonstrating a lifetime commitment to making their communities better places to work and live. This year’s award will be presented to […]
He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses. – Proverbs 28:27 I hope the new year is off to a great start for you! Here at the Fuller Center headquarters in Americus, we are rejoicing about the wonderful response we received from […]
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