Sponsoring a family’s home is an attainable and life-changing endeavor for a group or individual If your church class, civic group, school club, company or any other kind of organization is looking for an uplifting project that can be unifying for your team and at the same time life-changing for someone else, consider raising money […]
California man’s Global Home Challenge efforts fund Thai family’s safe new home Tim Buscheck of Orinda, Calif., has made nine home-building trips to Lampang, Thailand, with members of his church, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. The last five of those trips, he served as the house captain on those builds, the most recent one with […]
GLOBAL HOME CHALLENGE TimBuscheck ORINDA,CALIFORNIA Building homes in Thailand has become a passion for Tim — and for many members of his church family at First Presbyterian of Berkeley. Join the Global Home Challenge! Click here to support Tim’s fundraising effort The 2020 First Presbyterian of Berkeley Global Builders team in Lampang, Thailand Why would […]
The obituary for Ramsay Walker with many details about his family and his remarkable talents and life of service is now available at this link. Ramsay Walker, almost always in partnership with his wife Bootsaba, has been one of the affordable housing movement’s most prolific volunteers — especially on the global scene as the Walkers […]
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 […]
(This is the latest installment of our “Faith in Action” series. If you have a story of how involvement with The Fuller Center has impacted your faith, please let us know at this link.) Fuller Center for Housing founder Millard Fuller saw the affordable housing ministry he and wife Linda started in the early 1970s […]
For Associate Professor of Business and Economics Henrique Cezar, Fuller Center Global Builders trips are more than just a chance for his students from Vermont’s Johnson State College to practice civic engagement and do some good in the world. They also are an opportunity to expose the students to diversity and cultural differences. After leading […]
Photos from Nepal, Haiti, Nicaragua, Thailand and Peru are among the 17 finalists in the Fuller Center Global Builders’ annual photo contest, and contest organizers would like your help in selecting the winner. The final two will be revealed on Friday, December 16 for the deciding round of voting. Click here to see the finalists […]
