Let’s celebrate what God is doing in Polk County, Texas! There are now nine homes sheltering families in Polk County that were built by Habitat for Humanity of Polk County over the last six years. Plans are under way for the construction of at least 10 more homes in Livingston and Corrigan to be built as quickly as we can find volunteers to build them and qualified families to live in them. God is truly good!
Let’s celebrate that we can share our blessings with those less fortunate than we are. We can experience the just-plain-good feeling of helping others who need it with our time, energy, and other resources. God has blessed us with riches not always reflected in a bank balance.
Let’s celebrate that many, if not most, of us have good health and can walk. Polk County Habitat’s president, Ray Gearing, is celebrating his 84th birthday this winter by challenging us to walk with him, or support him financially while he walks, from Corrigan to Livingston. Why that route? It’s because Habitat’s next two homes will be built at sites in Corrigan and Livingston. We want to celebrate the breadth of the Habitat “footprint” in Polk County by highlighting these sites.
The “Build the Dream” celebration begins on Sunday, January 17, 2010, after worship at First Baptist Church, Corrigan, with a ground-breaking ceremony at the Habitat site about a mile from the church. Following the ground-breaking, Ray and his “celebrants” will begin walking to Livingston. Over the next four days, they will make their way to Bluebird Street in Livingston--a distance of 24 miles--where Habitat will break ground on Wednesday, January 20, for a second build.
To be part of this historic walk, just return the form above indicating how you will participate. Will you walk? Will you pledge $10 (or $5 or $1) a mile to Ray’s walk or to another’s walk? Will you send a year-end gift to Habitat to support its continuing mission to eliminate poverty housing in Polk County, one house at a time? If you choose to walk with Ray, details will be sent to you shortly after the first of the year. Go ahead and enjoy all the blessings of the Christmas season, knowing that you will be walking off a lot of those extra calories in January!
God is doing a good thing in Polk County. Be part of that good thing by remembering Polk County Habitat for Humanity when making your year-end financial gifts. You will be blessed in so many ways.
Gratefully,
Susie Gearing
Executive Director
