2024
Multi-Church Servants Saw At Work Home Building

We did it. With the leadership of Bethel Hill Methodist church and volunteers from the surrounding faith communities including Plymouth Friends Meeting, we completed the framing of a duplex house in just a few hours on a Friday evening and Saturday. Approximately 100 volunteers followed the cut by number and assemble by printed patterns on the lumber to build more than 150 walls for these two-family homes.

 
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The framed walls from last year and this year’s build went to a Habitat for Humanity project in Reading Pa. A dead-end street with 10 building lots on it has been transformed with the installation of 4 out of the 5 planned duplex homes. On Wednesday April 10th representatives of Plymouth Friends attended the Open House ceremonial passing of the keys to the new families for the duplex we built last year. Once the walls are assembled at Bethel Hill Church, they are loaded on trucks and taken to the building site. Habitat for Humanity then oversees the assembly of the buildings using a mixture of volunteers and contractors to complete the work. Each home in the duplex has 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, laundry, kitchen with a breakfast nook (triple window wall). The buildings are constructed with low maintenance materials and have air conditioning and gas heat (both of which are donated by a local family company).

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It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to raise a home for families that are un-housed. A wide diversity of people donated their skills, not just building skills to ensure this project was a success. What we heard as we finished the work was – We will be back to build the next one.