Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, local Lutheran congregations and Skagit Habitat for Humanity will build an affordable home in Sedro Woolley in 2008
Skagit Habitat for Humanity is awarded the largest grant in their history.
Mount Vernon, WA (January 11, 2008) - An alliance between Thrivent Financial for Lutherans with Skagit Habitat for Humanity, will build an affordable home in Sedro Woolley, Washington in 2008. The property site is located at 520 Alexander Street in Sedro Woolley. The members of the Mount Baker Thrivent Chapter continue to build alliances in the Pacific Northwest region. A $102,960 grant from Thrivent Financial to Skagit Habitat for Humanity is making this all possible.
Skagit Habitat for Humanity successfully partners with local and international organizations to build affordable homes in Skagit County. Since its inception in 1994, Skagit Habitat for Humanity has built 17 homes and is nearing completion on a 18 th.
About Skagit Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian house-building organization dedicated to reducing substandard housing and homelessness worldwide. Habitat for Humanity invites people from all faiths and walks of life to work together in partnership, building decent, affordable, permanent houses with families in need--with them, not for them. There are now close to 2,000 Habitat chapters in all 50 states and around the world. Local citizens formed Skagit Habitat for Humanity in 1994. For more information, visit www.skagithabitat.com.
About Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity
Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity engages Lutheran congregations, Thrivent chapters and members, Habitat affiliates, and individuals from across the United States and around the world to build hundreds of homes per year with families in need, provide mission trips for Christian outreach in local and foreign communities, and directly reduce poverty housing and homelessness around the world. Part of Thrivent Financial’s mission as a faith-based membership organization is caring for others. Participating in this program with Habitat is a prime example of this mission in action. For more information, visit www.thriventbuilds.com and www.thrivent.com.
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