Construction Faith House Facts

Bend Area Habitat has long been supported by Bend's faith community, and specifically, by individual members within some of the many congregations. In 2000, Trinity Episcopal, First Lutheran, and First United Methodist together supported a Habitat home build, called the Grace House.

Since 2004, we have been making contacts in many of Bend's 70 + churches and other faith groups.

In 2005,thanks to the support of Westside Church and John Flannery, owner of Green Energy Transport, Habitat tours were available for interested parties, enabling Bend Area Habitat to broaden their reach in the community. Thanks to the tours and increased support in the community, we now have connections with 30 congregations. In each of these 30, we have one or more liaisons who receive information about Habitat's news and needs to convey to their respective congregations.

In late 2005, having made such valuable connections, we decided to build another house supported by Bend's faith community. We called it the Faith House and received support at various levels from the following churches and other faith groups:

All People's United Church of Christ
The Baha'i Faith
Church of the Nazarene
Discovery Christian Church
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
First United Methodist Church
Interfaith Ministries of Central Oregon
The Jewish Community
New Hope Church
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Trinity Episcopal
Trinity Lutheran
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Because of the successful commitment and level of community participation we are now hosting an annual Faith Build. We have since completed a Faith Build which houses a family of five, on Daggett Lane. We broke ground for the newest Faith Build, on Blakely Lane in August, 2008 and construction is underway.

To date, we have a strong committee formed with representatives from:

Bend Calvary Chapel
Christian Scientist Church
Church of the Nazarene
Eastmont Church
First Lutheran
First Presbyterian
First United Methodist
Nativity Lutheran
New Hope Church
St. Francis of Assisi
Trinity Episcopal
Trinity Lutheran
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

If you are interested in participating in this exciting Faith Build, please contact Faith Relations Co-Chair Richard Berg (rberg@finsvcs.org) or Co-Chair Carole Nuckton (cnuckton@bendcable.com), or reach Robin Cooper at Bend Area Habitat (541.385.5387 x229, rcooper@bendhabitat.org).

It takes a community to build a house, so come out and partner with Bend Area Habitat in building safe, decent, affordable housing!

Bend Area Habitat for Humanity, with God's guidance, works in partnership with deserving families and the community, to build quality affordable homes.