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HABITAT BLITZ 2006!
SAGINAW HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
HABITAT BLITZ 2006! House Sponsors
House #132 1220 S. Warren
Sponsored by: Catholic Churches of Saginaw County
Assumption BVM-Bridgeport + Blessed Trinity-Frankenmuth + Holy Family + Holy Spirit + Immaculate Conception-St.Charles + Knights of Columbus-Council 4232 + Our Lady of Perpetual Help-Chesaning + Sacred Heart-Birch Run + Sacred Heart-Merrill + St. Agnes-Freeland + St. Andrew + St. Anthony + St. Casimir + St. Christopher-Bridgeport + St. Elizabeth-Reese + St. George + St. Helen + St. John the Baptist-Carrollton + St. John Vianney + St. Josaphat-Carrollton + St. Joseph + League of Catholic Women + St. Mary Cathedral + St. Mary-Hemlock + St. Matthew-Zilwaukee + St. Michael-New Lothrop + St. Michael-Oakley + St. Simon and Jude + St. Stephen + St. Thomas Aquinas + Sts. Peter & Paul + Catholic Diocese of Saginaw-Center for Ministry
House #133 1238 Cornelia
Sponsored by: GM Powertrain & UAW
House #134 841 S. 15th
Sponsored by: Church Workers United and African-American Christian Unity
Bridgeport Community + Community Christian Reformed + Countryside Trinity + Emmanuel Catholic + First Baptist + First Congregational + First Presbyterian + New Life Christian Fellowship+ Saginaw Valley Community Church + Ss. Simon & Jude + Second Presbyterian + St. John’s Episcopal + Warren Avenue Presbyterian
Bethel AME + Victorious Believers Ministries + Mt. Olive Baptist + Zion Missionary Baptist + Jarena AME + Bethlehem Baptist + Bethlehem Temple + Candle Light Baptist + Messiah Missionary Baptist + St. Luke CME + Christ Fellowship + New Mt. Calvary + New Covenant Christian Center + Greater Williams Temple + Christ Fellowship Baptist Prince of Peace Baptist + Ninth Street Mennonite + Greater Free Will Baptist + Apostolic Faith + Coleman Temple + Truevine Baptist
House #135 1517 Barnard
Sponsored by: Lutheran Churches
Christ-Birch Run + Grace + Christ-Reese + St. John-Bay City + Trinity-Reese + Peace + Redeemer + St. Mark’s + Good Shepherd + Messiah + Resurrection + St. John + Our Saviour + Bethlehem + Faith + Trinity + Zion + Immanuel-Frankentrost + St. Peter-Hemlock + Faith-Bridgeport + Ascension-Shields + Zion-Freeland + St. Lorenz-Frankenmuth + St. James + St. Matthew’s-Bridgeport + St. Martin-Birch Run + Holy Cross
House #136 1003 S. Webster
Sponsored by: United Methodist Churches
First + Frankenmuth + State Street + Ames + Freeland + St. Charles + Swan Valley + Jefferson Avenue + Hemlock + Nelson + Brant + Calvary + Kochville + West Michigan + Sheridan Avenue
Map to the build sites available here
House #132, 841 S. 15th (site of 2004 blitz). Catholic Churches.
House #133, 1007 Atwater (at Cornelia, around the block from 2005 site). GM Powertrain.
House #134, 1220 S. Warren (site of registration and first aid tent in 2005). Church Workers United and African-American Christian Unity Churches.
House #135, 1517 Barnard. Lutheran Churches.
House #136, 1003 S. Webster. United Methodist Churches.
Schedule of Activities for HABITAT BLITZ 2006!
2 week schedule
Stepped form/work schedule
For each day and each house, there are three shifts to choose from.
When scheduling, please choose at least one shift.
Morning shift: 8 a.m. – 12 a.m.
Afternoon shift: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Evening shift: 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Lunch and/or dinner will be provided FREE for all those who volunteer that day.
Skill levels are self-evaluated and should be related to the days activities.
The general category is meant for anyone who is willing to learn, take direction from the
crew leader for that task, and most of all - have fun!
Day 1- Friday, June 9
Framing, standing walls, set trusses, begin roofing
Volunteers needed for each shift:
4 skilled
9 semi-skilled
9 general
Day 2 – Saturday, June 10
Roofing, installing doors and windows
Volunteers needed for each shift:
4 skilled
9 semi-skilled
8 general
Day 3 – Monday, June 12
Finish roofing, insulate, hanging drywall
Volunteers needed for each shift:
4 skilled
4 semi-skilled
8 general
Day 4 – Tuesday, June 13
Hang drywall
Volunteers needed for each shift:
1 skilled (vinyl siding)
8 semi-skilled
8 general
Day 5 – Wed, June 14
Hang drywall, wrap porch beams and columns, siding prep work
Volunteers needed for each shift:
8 semi-skilled (morning shift)
8 general (morning shift)
8 semi-skilled (afternoon and evening shift)
Day 6 – Thursday, June 15
Drywall finish, vinyl siding installation, install soffit and fascia
Volunteers needed for each shift:
2 skilled
5 semi-skilled
6 general
Day 7 – Friday, June 16
Installing vinyl siding, painting
Volunteers needed for each shift:
2 skilled
5 semi-skilled
8 general
Day 8 - Saturday, June 17
Finish vinyl siding, finish painting, begin landscaping
Volunteers needed for each shift:
3 skilled
4 semi-skilled
12 general
Day 9 – Monday, June 19
Lay underlayment, hang cabinets, install trim
Volunteers needed for each shift:
6 semi-skilled (installing trim)
5 general
Day 10 – Tuesday, June 20
Lay tile flooring, finish cabinet work
Volunteers needed for each shift:
5 semi-skilled
6 general
Day 11 – Wednesday, June 21
Finishing with trim and flooring
Volunteers needed for each shift:
4 semi-skilled
5 general
Day 12 – Thursday, June 22
Grade and landscape, clean house interior
Volunteers needed for each shift:
2 semi-skilled landscapers
6 general
Day 13 – Friday, June 23
Finish grade and landscape, lay carpet, finish house cleaning
Volunteers needed for each shift:
3 semi-skilled
7 general
Day 14 – Saturday, June 24
HABITATION!!
Big celebration for all volunteers to come out and enjoy their
accomplishments.
Every day activities that volunteers can help with are:
Food prep/serving
Recycling
Data entry of volunteer info at Pepsi Food Tent
Phoning of volunteers to remind them of scheduled time/date
Thank you for your consideration and support of
HABITAT BLITZ 2006!
SAGINAW HABITAT
FOR HUMANITY
HABITAT BLITZ 2006!
Fact Sheet
Motto: I came, I sawed, I hammered.
Dates: June 9-24, 2006 (Friday start)
Dedications: June 24, 10 a.m.,
Habitation
celebration: June 24, 11 a.m. at
St. Vincent’s Park—corner of Howard and Emerson, behind St. Mary’s of Michigan (combined with Cathedral
District Neighborhood Association Annual Picnic)
Location, scattered sites: Cathedral District in the city of Saginaw on S. Warren and Cornelia near Atwater;
South 15th Street (site of 2004 blitz), and two sites on Saginaw’s west side: Webster (near Waller) and Barnard
(near Houghton).
Saginaw Habitat for Humanity’s tenth annual blitz build—over 1,000 volunteers will participate.
Habitat returns to this deserving neighborhood, site of the 1998, 1999 and 2005 blitz builds, where over 1,000
volunteers came together each summer for two weeks. Strong support has come from site sponsors St.
Mary’s of Michigan, and the Cathedral District Neighborhood Association, which welcome the revitalization
efforts.
HABITAT BLITZ 2006! is an opportunity to build houses, build lives, and further rebuild a community.
Returning house sponsors include General Motors Powertrain & UAW, and five groups of churches—
United Methodists, Catholic Churches of Saginaw County, Lutherans (ELCA and LCMS), African
American Christian Unity and Church Workers United. Each house sponsor pledges a minimum of
$30,000 toward the $74,000 construction cost of its house and recruits and schedules all the volunteers. Returning
radio partners WSGW 790 AM, WTLZ 107.1, 96 WHNN, Wheelz 104.5 & 101, Z93 WKQZ, The Bay
104 FM and 1400 AM and 97.3 Joe FM play key roles in recruitment and awareness-building, as do partners
WNEM TV5 and 1250 AM are also on-board to help!
Further support comes from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority in the form of homebuyer
downpayment assistance, and generous individuals, foundations, churches, businesses and other local organizations.
Pepsi Bottling Group will again provide all beverages for the blitz volunteers.
WNEM personalities Erica Donerson and Katie O’Mara are Honorary Chairpersons of the blitz, following Councilman Amos O’Neal (2005) Mayor Wilmer Jones Ham (2002-2004) and former Mayor Henry Marsh, who retired following the 2001 blitz after two years as chair. Mr. Marsh joined Habitat after watching hundreds of volunteers build five homes in his Cathedral District neighborhood in 1999.
Families are selected for Habitat homeownership based on criteria of need, ability to pay, and willingness to partner. Habitat sells its houses for no profit and with a zero-interest loan to families who meet the demanding criteria. Homebuyers also contribute a required 250 to 400 hours of labor—sweat equity—to the construction of their houses. Nearly 40 hours is spent in classroom training learning homeownership skills and basic home maintenance.
SHFH builds and rehabilitates houses year round. Volunteer opportunities are available on many Saturdays
and often during the week. The goal for 2006 is to provide simple, decent houses for a minimum of 10 deserving,
qualified families. SHFH is one of 1,700 U.S. affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit
Christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing around the world. Founded in 1976
by Millard and Linda Fuller, the Americus, Georgia-based nonprofit organization has built over 200,000
houses in nearly 100 countries. For more information about Habitat for Humanity or this year's projects, call
the Habitat office at 753-5200 or visit our website, ww.saginawhfh.org.
1005 PHOTOS
08 HB06 2006-06-06 Prayer (18)
06 HB06 2006-05-24 Windows (4)
Clean-up at Cornelia and Atwater (11)
All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status, or national origin.
Updated Dec. 01, 2006 WebMaster
Dale Stephan