Let’s put on our party hats and celebrate! It’s National Volunteer Week and organizations all over the country will honor ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Across our great nation volunteers make a difference. This year’s theme is “Celebrating People in Action”. At Habitat for Hope, our volunteers serve families day in and day out. I love these lyrics from Mumford and Sons song Awake My Soul.
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life
Awake my soul, awake my soul Awake my soul
You were made to meet your maker
Habitat for Hope Volunteers get it. They choose to invest their love. They choose to invest their lives. They know that we are all on the brink of eternity and they choose to live in such a way that honors their Maker and willingly pour out their hearts on behalf of others. It is truly a beautiful sight to behold. Here’s a note of thanks from one of our apartment families – the Greggs – that best highlights the actions of HFH volunteers.

Effie Gregg and father, Brad
Our family would like to thank Habitat for Hope and all of your volunteers. The apartment was a house of healing. When we arrived there were necessities, toiletries etc., waiting. We were blessed with meal upon meal. What a blessing all of the food was to our family, especially during chemo week. There were meals delivered around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our children received gifts paid for with gift cards. The kids were even blessed with stockings already filled. Mom really liked that one! You were the church to us during our time away from our own church family! We felt very loved. Effie is cancer free! We pray that it does not come back, ever! Finally, after six months we are home home. Thank you for making our journey a little easier financially as well as emotionally and spiritually. Our family is grateful for all of you! Last but definitely not least, thanks for your prayers! Sincerely, Brad, Alysia, Essie, Alexis, Nic, and Effie Gregg




minute we met in line for the dinner at Hope. Though I do now love her hubby, Andy, I was happy that she was single for the night and could share some fun girl time with me! We enjoyed long conversations about so many things and found that we had a lot in common. She is such an inspiration to me in that she is a strong, Christian woman with a wonderful family and dedicated heart. She finds time to share her talents and devotes herself to serving others in Christ’s name in Memphis and abroad. I sometimes get so caught up with work and related responsibilities, so it’s so nice to have a good role model to show me a better way—being more of a “Mary” in this crazy “Martha” world in which I seem to find myself (great book by Joanna Weaver). I thank God and HFH for giving me the opportunity to find such a great friend. I hope to volunteer with her more often and do more 5Ks with her throughout the year.


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