South County Habitat for Humanity completes house

EXETER – South County Habitat for Humanity opened its newest house, the Faith Build Home, to volunteers, supporters and members of the local community, and the home’s recipient, the Mancini family, planned to move in by Christmas.
Nearly 100 people turned out to celebrate on Dec. 12.
Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity awarded $109,000 to South County Habitat for Humanity to help to complete this build.
“Thrivent’s mission is to help people be wise with money and live generously, and the Thrivent Builds program with Habitat for Humanity is just one of the many ways we support our community,” says Bryan Schmeling, financial representative with Thrivent Financial. “I’m always inspired by the generous outpouring of time from Thrivent members and others as they help families obtain decent, affordable housing.”
Lou Raymond, executive director of South County Habitat for Humanity said that helping a “hardworking family achieve the dream of homeownership, especially at Christmastime, is extremely rewarding for all of us affiliated with Habitat.”
“We are so blessed,” said Carla Mancini. “We’ll get to spend our first Christmas in our very own home.”
In addition to Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity, 11 local churches made financial contributions to the construction of the home. Volunteers from five of those churches also spent time building on the site.
Since its start in 1990, South County Habitat for Humanity has built over 55 homes for community members, as well as provided better accessibility to buildings for both elderly and disabled citizens. All Habitat homes are environmentally friendly, energy efficient, handicap accessible and built to meet or exceed all required codes.
Thrivent Financial is a financial services organization that helps Christians be wise with money and live generously.
Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity is a multiyear, multimillion dollar mission partnership between Thrivent Financial and Habitat for Humanity International. Thrivent Builds is designed to involve Thrivent members and Christians in helping provide a “hand up” to people in need of affordable housing.
For more information, visit www.ThriventBuilds.com or www.southcountyhabitat.org.

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