Dedicated to Building: Habitat for Humanity

Written by: John Osberg

The Lutheran Coalition for Habitat was founded in 1993 and currently is comprised of 11 north Atlanta Lutheran churches. We just completed the Lutheran Coalition’s 37th Habitat for Humanity house. LCR has been a contributor to all of them. Through the Coalition’s fund-raising efforts (which is primarily our “Taste of Habitat” gala which will be held again this fall on Friday, September 22), we were able to donate more than $35,000, which is ¼ of the total cost of building this house.

But we do so much more than just fund. Our volunteers build. We do much of the house’s framing, we put on the siding, we paint, we landscape and much, much more. We are already preparing for this year’s 2nd house. Again, we will offer volunteers the opportunity to build a Habitat house, this time we will be closer, in Marietta.

Over the years, hundreds of Lutheran Coalition volunteers, including more than 40 LCR members, have donated thousands of hours building houses for truly deserving families. Each family was carefully chosen to be a Habitat for Humanity homeowner.

I personally choose to serve this ministry because I have seen so many truly good people get a safe, secure, and high-quality home that I helped build for them. Many times, I have worked alongside the homeowner. Being a part of the team that fulfills such a fundamental homeownership dream, one that so many of them were afraid to dream, is a truly incredible, personally empowering, ministry opportunity.

Want to volunteer with Habitat? Contact John Osberg.