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“’Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and dust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.''' Matthew 6:19-24
 
Timely News
ReStore completed 3 weeks ahead of Schedule
Our great investment in the future awaits your working hands and willing heart. The new ReStore is scheduled to open in early July, but there is a ton of work to be done. We will work any day except Sunday. So call Terry at 851-1414 today to sign up. Remember, this facility is what will allow us to go from building just six houses a year to ten. sixteen. twenty-six! Every day the opening is delayed is a day of growth lost, so please remember those 10 tamilies approved and waiting plus the many who wish io apply but me "on hold" till we have more land or money for it.
 
Hands-on Board Builds Store
Habitat for Humanity is a hands—on ministry as many DHH board members demonstrated on March 1. Working with Summerville High Club and the CSU football team. board members hammered sheathing. assembled a table saw, hauled lumber. sorted nails and swept their hearts out. Thanks, Karen Alexander, Peggy Bangle, Jim Crawley, Stephanie Fetchen, Gilbert Hernandez, Rich Johnson, and JoAnn Kelly!
 
Family Support Committee Trains Mentors
"Giving a hand up, not a handout" means more than just building a house. The Family Support Committee believes wholeheatedly in the importance of mentors who will see our Hamitat families through the first year of ownership. Under the leadership of Committee Chair Kimberley Bond, the committee held a Mentor Training in March to instruct committee members on the types of things that are helpful to the families: encouraging them to complete their 425 hours of "sweat equity" and even working alongside them reminding them to save their down payment; holding seminars on insurance, wills, house maintenance, reading credit reports, etc.
 
Greed Leads to Giving
Folks were horrified that anyone would steal tools from Habitat for Humanity, many of those same tools having been donated to begin with. In Februauy. Perpetrators broke into the new Habitat ReStore under construction at Mallard Greyback Roads in Jedbtug, cutting into a metal storage box despite chains and padlocks as well as cutting the hasp of the 40-foot storage container. They helped themselves to all manner of saws, drills, batteries and more valued at $3,000. The looting, observed one board member: "it was like stealing a pew from a church" since Habitat makes no profit and only works for the good of others

"However," states Director Star Callaway, "we know that God can turn 'all things to the good' and such was the case here. When the Post & Courier, Journal Scene and Sumerville Star and published articles about the theft. A generous spark ignited many to give and make up for the loss. Generous souls gave tools or funds for tools to Habitat: Lynn and Chuck Chattelier, Maleeta Enis. Lowes-Goose Creek, Home Depot—Summerville, Lyle and Lynn Whitner, David McIntosh, Delores Gravechez, Elizabeth Harmon, Sharon Hough, Richard Danielson and others.

Ms Callaway smiles at the thought of these generous hearts. "Thank you so much! Our work continues because you gave!"
 
Habitat Kids See "Cinderella"
cinderella.jpgOn Saturday, March 15, Habitat Kids attended the Flowertown Players perfomtance of "Cinderella": or How Pipsqueals the Mouse Became a Stallion." Cinderella was a production of the Flowertown Players Children's Theatre. The Flowertown Players reserved 20 free seats for Habitat Kids. Habitat Kids appreciated the tickets and loved the performance!
 
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