WHAT'S NEW !

- Online Donation
- Saginaw County 10-Year Plan

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  Please join us for our Fourth Annual

  “Builders’ Club” Auction!

  Thursday, October 9, 2008
  Bavarian Inn Lodge
  Frankenmuth (map)
  

  Art Lewis, WSGW 790 AM
  Master of Ceremonies

  5:30 p.m. social hour and silent auction begin
  6:30 p.m. dinner
  8:00 p.m. live auction begins

  This is our 21st year of building simple, decent houses in Saginaw County.  Your involvement in our Builders’ Club Auction will help us continue this strong tradition of helping deserving families realize the joy of home ownership.  All monies stay local.

  There are many ways you can become a member of our Builders’ Club:

  • sponsorships
  • purchase tickets to the auction
  • donate items for the auction

  Please respond by September 30. See order form for more details.
  

  Please support those who support Habitat!

  Click here to visit our Cornerstone Sponsor,
  Frankenmuth Insurance

  
  
  

• Pasty Sale - First United Methodist Church
  
  BEEF PASTY
  
  $4.00 each
  PICK UP ORDERS
  Friday – Oct. 10 Saturday – Oct. 11
  4pm -7pm 8am – 2pm
  First United Methodist Church
  4790 Gratiot Rd. Saginaw, Michigan
  
  To order in advance
  contact Chuck Aubin at
  Phone – 799-0586
  E-Mail – Pastyman@sbcglobal.net
  Walk-in Orders Welcome
  Proceeds:
  Men’s Club Projects & Outreach Projects
  
  

• Food Sale Schedule - First United Methodist Church
  

  Freeland United Methodist Church (204 E. Washington) is starting up their monthy eggroll sales. $10/dozen with all proceeds to benefit Saginaw Habitat for Humanity. Call 695-2101 to order yours. Be sure to order early, as they do sell out (for good reason). Cameron gives them two forks up!
  

   

  Date	Photo	Name
  Oct. 24th		Egg Rolls
  Nov. 21st		Egg Rolls
  Dec. 13th		Cookie Sale
  Jan. 23rd		Egg Rolls
  Feb. 27th		Egg Rolls
  March 27th		Egg Rolls
  April 17th		Egg Rolls

  
  ... Methodists like to eat.
  
  
  
• Another Habitat success story
  
  

  Sitting in the pleasant and inviting atmosphere of Zada Bailey’s home the pride she has in her home is clearly evident.  When talking with Zada about her Habitat house, the question was asked, “So are you glad you made the decision to apply for a house?”  “Glad?  I asked God for it!” she replied.  “I had wanted a house and had been looking for a long time but every avenue I went down I didn’t qualify for a variety of reasons; income wasn’t good enough, etc.  I prayed to God to let me have my own house before I turned 50 years old.”
  
  

  “My prayers were answered when Habitat accepted my application when I was 49 years old.  The opportunity presented itself and I took it.  I’ve never been sorry.  I always knew it would be up to me to maintain my house and take care of it and that is what I’ve been doing.  It didn’t have to be grand or a mansion, just a roof over my head that I can say is mine.”

  
  Zada graduated from Arthur Hill High School and has been a special ed assistant for the transportation department with the Saginaw Public Schools for 24 years.  She has a daughter and three granddaughters.  She is raising two of those granddaughters, Makeisha and Whitney, and they are both currently attending Delta College.  Makeisha is studying physical therapy and Whitney is considering secondary education.
  
  Zada moved into her new Habitat home in 1998.  “Having my own home with our own yard and a bedroom for each of the girls was truly a blessing for our family.” Zada’s father always told her, “You make one step and God will make two for you.”  Zada says, “He sure will.”
  
  
  

• Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP Flyer PDF)
  Watch the NRP video!
  

  For our Neighborhood Revitalization Program we used 1720 Stark (48602) as our HomeBase address. This is one of four contiguous vacant properties owned by Covenant that we used for our registration and staging area. Volunteers were directed to projects from that site.

  Saginaw Habitat for Humanity preserved, updated, and upgraded exteriors of homes and their yards in a 15-block area near Covenant HealthCare on Saginaw’s west side.

  The dates for our inaugural NRP project were July 25-August 1 (except Sunday), from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm each day in an area bounded by Michigan, Union, Oakley, and Cooper. There are 218 houses in the area. We received applications for volunteers to repair 35 houses (exteriors only) and we cleaned the yards of as many neighbors as possible.

  
  
  Celebrations took place on August 1 at Bliss Park.

• This effort was part of what is known as the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP). Each project within this project was done with minimal expense, with a substantial percentage of volunteers recruited from the neighborhood.  Activities were labor intensive and short in duration and limited to work on exteriors.

  The NRP serves as a low cost way to improve the appearance and livability of the neighborhood.  The program is done with donated or low cost materials and volunteers, including residents of the neighborhood.  This included home painting projects, neighborhood clean up, landscaping or other low cost, labor intensive activities.

  Beverages and snacks were provided.
  
  
  
  

• Hemlock/Women Build
  We dedicated the Peitsch family home, a rehab at 780 N. Pine in Hemlock on Sunday June 22 at 4:00pm.
  This ecumenical reBuild began on May 5, when over 50 women began removing and replacing siding, windows, doors, and trim.

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  Get the flyer (Word 75KB)
  
  
  View Larger Map
  
  
  
• Home #145 Build
  We dedicated home #145 for the Grayson family of Carrollton. See photos.
  
  
  
• Saginaw Habitat for Humanity Announces the
  Home Repair and Neighborhood Improvement Program
  Saginaw Habitat for Humanity will operate a home repair program as part of its affordable housing program. The HRP will give approved County homeowners the opportunity to obtain low cost repairs to their home, with low cost financing, so that their current home becomes (remains) a decent and affordable place to live.. More...
  
  
  

• eBay Volunteer Needed !
  Help is needed at ReStore. To help facilitate sales of items on eBay. More...
  
  

• Donate a car to Habitat’s Cars for Homes™ vehicle donation program
  Your car donation can help a family in your community build a house and the hope of a better life!

  Car donations to Habitat’s Cars for Homes™ program help Saginaw Habitat for Humanity build houses in partnership with families in need of decent, affordable shelter within your community.

  It is quick and easy to donate a car, truck, boat, RV, motorcycle, construction equipment or other automobile, and your vehicle donation may be eligible for tax deduction purposes if you itemize. (Consult the IRS or your tax adviser for details.)

  Donate cars to Habitat’s official vehicle donation program
  Call Cars for Homes™ at (877) 277-HFHI (4344) toll free or process your car, boat, RV donation online now!

  http://www.habitat.org/carsforhomes/

  
  

• <- click here On-line donation is a great way to donate to Habitat for Humanity. We receive the money with no transaction fees and you can donate with full confidence in the security of the transaction. Your on-line donations are handled by the professionals at Habitat for Humanity International. Be sure to click the orange Designate Your Gift button on the left side and type in the zip code 48602
  
  
  
• News and Notes
  - United Way of Saginaw County is seeking volunteers to work on its wheelchair ramp project. Please call Bob Cramer (755-0433 x204).
  
  
  
  
  

• Saginaw County 10-Year Plan:The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) asked each county/community in Michigan with a CoC (Continuum of Care) to write a 10-Year Plan to END homelessness. This is a departure from the typical agency mindset to manage homelessness. There is a national movement toward Housing First, which says get a person into housing first, and THEN they will be more open to the offer of supportive services. It has always been my goal to have the service providers improve their discharge planning to include what happens AFTER they leave each shelter/transitional housing program. I have always thought we needed to get people ready for PERMANENT Housing (like Habitat, for instance)... and this plan will ensure that anyone requesting HUD or MSHDA money from now on will have to conform to the 10YP (including the concept of Housing First). You will be reading and hearing about this more in the next few months and years, and we want everyone to become familiar with the plan’s Goals & Objectives. –Cameron Brady

  . Read the plan here...(851KB)
  
  
  
• ReDistribution Program
  Items collected are distributed to the homeless and near-homeless in Saginaw County to help make houses into homes. Read the flyer or go to the ReStore page to learn more.