Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity

Dear Habitat Friends,

We are so grateful for your time, support and investment in Habitat as we begin this busy 2006 construction season.  Can you feel our excitement to be building for the first time in Wayzata, Plymouth and Savage? We are also delighted to continue our house building activity in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Woodbury—including some exciting rehab work in the West Seventh Neighborhood in St. Paul. We know that your partnership with Habitat means you take the needs of your community seriously and that you look for ways to meet these needs in concrete and practical ways. The work that we do in building community with each other gives me such optimism for the future.  Every day I get to meet and work with people like you who embody the very finest in the human spirit. You are the door openers for us in your community, whether you are calling us about a vacant piece of land in your neighborhood, attending a community meeting when a Habitat project needs public approval, or connecting us with a friend who has building materials to donate for construction. You also expand the Habitat circle and the power of our work to build community when you enlist your congregation to sponsor a volunteer work week at a Habitat build, help our Habitat families apply to be homeowners, make a gift to Habitat on behalf of a loved one, or sew quilts for our new Habitat families.

I love the anonymous sage who said:

“Work as if you don’t need money,

Love as if you’ve never been hurt,

Dance as if nobody can see you,

Sing, as if no one can hear

Live, as if the Earth was Heaven.”

 I feel that building community together at Habitat is truly to “live as if the earth was heaven.” 

1 John 3:18:

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. 

Thank you for your true love for Habitat.

Susan Haigh