The Catholic News Service has an extensive new report on a team of 18 volunteers from St. Francis Builds, a program based in St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, who recently spent a week working with The Fuller Center for Housing’s new covenant partner in Puerto Rico through the Global Builders program. The […]
Toward the end of their workweek on a Fuller Center Global Builders trip to Thailand in January, volunteers from Berkeley, California’s First Presbyterian Church were asked if they had ever seen a house with one wall. The team, led by Tim Buscheck, was intrigued. The house belonged to an electrician named Jareorn, who had performed […]
The Catholic Order of Foresters is much more than a life insurance company. Their mission is to help their 114,000 members achieve financial security while supporting the community through fraternal outreach with the motto “Bringing Catholic values to life.” One of those helping bring those values to life is Brittany Demendi, Fraternal Outreach Coordinator. “One […]
(Photo: Millard Fuller’s early work in Africa inspired the Rev. John J. Staton, who continues to support The Fuller Center for Housing’s work decades later.) Editor’s note: We published this story on May 17, 2017. The Rev. Staton died on April 14 of this year, and we are re-running this story about a man […]
"Fuller Center Bike Adventure Dad" Dave Willis tells the story of Koinonia co-founder Martin England’s anxiety about the financial protection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family and England’s tenacity and success in writing King a policy just weeks before he was assassinated. Last month, the Christian community in South Georgia and beyond celebrated the […]
by: Kirk Lyman-Barner, Director US Field Operations The Fuller Center for Housing The foreclosure crisis is a national disaster. The Christian Church should treat it as such and respond. When a tornado, flood or hurricane strikes a community, our nation’s governors generally use 100 damaged or destroyed houses as the benchmark to declare a disaster […]
by Kirk Lyman-Barner, Director of U.S. Field Operations There are many metaphors for life’s journey. One might be a race. We are born on a starting line and we run as fast as we can to receive victory at a finish line. We ask for the Lord to guide our feet as we run this […]
Seventeen years ago, Rosalynn Carter began her landmark book on Caregiving with the following quote: “There are only four kinds of people in this world: · Those who have been caregivers · Those who currently are caregivers · Those who will be caregivers · Those who will need caregivers” As the former […]
