House is closed in with a roof

At the end of the weekend January 28, the house has a roof structure complete.  

Plywood walls and roof have closed in the house.  

Thanks to all the volunteers

 Overcast morning as our volunteers gathered for prayer to begin the day. 

What a lot of progress was made this past weekend.
Painting on one house and a new roof on the other.  

Thanks to the volunteers and also to the kitchen crew who provided lunch for all our workers.

 

Wall Raising for the McKeithans

  We had a great weekend beginning the new house with the wall raising.  We greatly appreciate all who sent volunteers to build the walls in the warehouse and to raise the walls on site.  It was also great to have all who participated in the worship service celebration and wall-raising ceremony. 

What a wonderful way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  A special thank you goes to Marc Archibald and Rev. Paul Anderson of The Fountain for providing a spectacular worship event.

Check out the photos from the weekend. As you can see from the photos, we made huge progress on the McKeithen's home this weekend. 

 

 

Three Cheers! Baptist Build 2017 Begins!

Hello Baptist Builders,

Baptist Build 2017 started this morning at 7:30 am at Habitat Wake's construction facility located at 2615 Westinghouse Boulevard in Raleigh. Here is the status for this weekend's events.

Volunteers for Saturday: We have volunteers registered for the morning from the following churches: Oak City (3), Greystone (1), Ephesus (2), Juniper Level (4), Fountain (1), St. Augusta (2), Trinity (1), Oberlin (1), Tabernacle (1). 

Wall-Raising Ceremony-Saturday was held 5548 Neuse View Drive to praise God for this new home.  

 Please schedule your church's time to be a part of God's plans for the McKeithan family's new home. 

 

Habitat in Honduras and Cambodia

Rick Beech would like you to know that Habitat Wake is holding two meetings in October to share information about building globally in Honduras and Cambodia. If anyone is interesting in participating in this international mission, please attend one of these sessions. 

HONDURAS

White Memorial Presbyterian Church is organizing a trip with other Presbyterian congregations to build with Habitat Honduras March 4-12, 2017. Members of all faith communities are invited to participate. Learn more at an informational meeting on Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m. at White Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1704 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh. Please take a look at the Honduras trip brochure.

CAMBODIA

The first Habitat Wake mission trip to build in Cambodia will be February 3-12, 2017,  and the trip and activities have been organized in conjunction with Habitat Cambodia. Habitat Wake is hosting an informational meeting on Monday, October 24 at 6 pm

 a Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 2723 Clark Ave., Raleigh. All are welcome! Read more about the Cambodia trip. 

Schedule for Special Work Days for Baptist Build 2017

Planning is underway to begin construction early next year and we want your church community to get involved.  Please include the following events and special days in your church's 2017 ministry calendar:

• Saturday, January 14: Wall-Building at 7:30 AM at Habitat Wake construction facility, 2615 Westinghouse Blvd., Raleigh 
• Saturday, January 14: Wall-Raising Ceremony at 11:45 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Sunday, January 15 Baptist Build Kick-Off Worship & Mass Choir at 2:30 PM at The Fountain of Raleigh, 9621 Six Forks Road
• Monday, January 16: Youth & College Work Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Saturday, February 18: Young Adult Work Day at at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Thursday, February 23: Clergy/Church Staff Work Morning from 8:15 AM- 12 noon, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh 
• Saturday, February 25:  Women Build Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh 
• Saturday, March 11: Choir Work Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh 

Organizational meeting for Baptist Build 2017 - Letter from Rick Beech

Hello Baptist Build Churches,

We had a very good debrief and planning meeting on August 31, 2016. Thank you to everyone who participated. The below is a summary of our meeting. 

We celebrated a successful Baptist Build 2016 project. Highlights were the joy of working with the partner families and growing the community between the churches. We celebrated raising $59,912 and volunteers contributing 2,423 hours of work.  We enjoyed the kick off worship, the youth and clergy/church staff work days. 

We set the goal of fully underwriting the $65,000 cost of the materials on a home and increasing the amount of volunteers to work on the home each Thursday, Friday and Saturday during the build from January 14-March 17. 

The next step is for each church to put Baptist Build 2017 in their 2017 budget. As suggested in the past, larger churches were asked to provide $6,500. Mid sized churches were asked to provide $3,000-$5,000. Smaller churches were asked to to set a goal of providing $100 or $200 per month ($1,200-$2,400 per year) toward the project.  If churches can keep me updated on their plans, I will keep everyone posted on the general status of our fundraising efforts.

We also discussed the importance of each church designating a volunteer coordinator. Coordinators are responsible for notifying Christin Murphy at christin.murphy@habitatwake.org of their desired work dates and then encouraging their church's volunteers to register for those days via http://vhub.at/baptistbuild2017.

Churches were asked to add the following dates to the church's 2017 ministry calendar and promote these dates widely in the church:

• Saturday, January 14: Wall-Building at 7:30 AM at Habitat Wake construction facility, 2615 Westinghouse Blvd., Raleigh 
• Saturday, January 14: Wall-Raising Ceremony at 11:45 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Sunday, January 15 Baptist Build Kick-Off Worship & Mass Choir at 2:30 PM at The Fountain of Raleigh, 9621 Six Forks Road
• Monday, January 16: Youth & College Work Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Saturday, February 18: Young Adult Work Day at at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh
• Thursday, February 23: Clergy/Church Staff Work Morning from 8:15 AM- 12 noon, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh 
• Saturday, February 25:  Women Build Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh 
• Saturday, March 11: Choir Work Day at 8:15 AM, 5548 Neuse View Drive, Raleigh  

Everyone was encouraged to keep informed about the project through the Baptist Build Blog http://baptistbuild.blogspot.com/.  Attached is the sponsor packet which was reviewed at the meeting.

With enormous gratitude,

Rick Beech