 Keeping Up With The Need
Imagine this: You’ve just finished work for the day at your second job. You’re exhausted, and you’re ready to go home. But what welcomes you when you arrive there only compounds the exhaustion. Your front porch is collapsing, creating quite the hazard for your three-year-old–a little boy whom you haven’t seen all day and who by now is probably asleep. |
The Hammer’s Silent Echo
We want to honor those that have generously partnered with us and helped us to achieve far more than we would be able to realize without them. |
You Deserve a Break!
Because Habitat for Humanity St. Louis contributes to the economic well being of Missouri, business donors may receive tax credits for giving to this agency.
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Thank You to Our Volunteers
Thank you one and all for your participation in our Habitat for Humanity build in Hillsdale. Most of our sponsors for this build came through with volunteers from their organizations. |
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 Executive Director's Report
I imagine most of you have been faced with moments in your life when you have had to choose between settling for what is safe, comfortable and familiar or stretching yourself to reach, to dream, to place your goals higher than most believed possible. Being Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity St. Louis puts you in this place more often than I could ever have imagined or could explain within the space of this column. Do we, as an organization continue to do what is safe, comfortable and familiar or do we stretch, reach and dream? I think the answer to this question lies within this issue of Cornerstone and our cover story, Keeping Up With The Need. As you read the true story of one of our partner families, the conditions that a woman and her children survived and the startling statistics on the number of families in our own community who continue to live in these conditions, the choice becomes clear. If our mission truly is to "eliminate substandard housing in the St. Louis area", how can we choose to be comfortable when those around us are living in conditions so uncomfortable? How can we not stretch, not reach, and not work to build more partnerships, more hope, and, ultimately, more houses? Those who are familiar with me often accuse me of being the eternal optimist. But that optimism stems from a belief that if we as an organization can raise awareness of the problems of substandard housing, then each of you will be so moved and so challenged you will join us in raising the roofs needed to meet the need.
In Partnership,
Kimberly McKinney
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