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Macon Area Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing ministry - our goal is to eliminate substandard housing in Macon. The affiliate has built 66 houses in Bibb and Jones County since it was founded in 1986, providing a simple, decent place to live for 76 adults and 167 children.
Habitat is not a giveaway - we give partner families a “hand up,” not a “hand out.” Homeowners must meet income and credit requirements, put in 300 hours of sweat equity on their home, and pay back their cost of their house with an affordable mortgage.
Macon Area Habitat has embarked on an ambitious project: to eliminate substandard housing in Lynmore Estates, a neighborhood in southeast Macon.
MAHFH will construct or rehabilitate 46 housing units and acquire 12 lots in addition to those required for these 46 units.
Thompson Tractor Company donates forklift to Macon Area Habitat for Humanity
Thompson Lift Truck, a division of Thompson Tractor Company, generously donated a forklift to Macon Area Habitat for Humanity to use at its construction warehouse to move donated building materials. “We greatly appreciate the Thompson Tractor Company’s donation as it will assist our affiliate to accept larger donations of building materials that can be used to construct Habitat for Humanity houses right next door to this plant in neighboring Lynmore Estates. All credit is due to Mr. Floyd Paulk and his staff to listening to our needs and revitalization plans and then advocating with their corporate office and the Thompson Foundation to make this donation as reality.” said Harold Tessendorf, Executive Director of Macon Area Habitat for Humanity. “We are humbled by this generous donation from a company whose local office is on the outskirts of Lynmore Estates. This donation clearly indicates their commitment to seeing the housing in the surrounding neighborhood revitalized and a belief in Macon Area Habitat for Humanity’s efforts to do so. For that we are truly grateful. We are also excited that one of the employees of Thompson Lift Truck has recently been approved as a future Habitat for Humanity homeowner. One of our hopes is that more of our homeowners will be able to afford a home closer to their places of employment.”
Thompson Lift Truck’s Macon operations are located on Mead Road on the outskirts of Lynmore Estates. This donation was made possible through the Thompson Foundation, the charitable arm of the Thompson Tractor Company, whose CEO and Founder is Mike Thompson. For more information about Thompson Lift Truck, please visit www.thompsonlifttruck.com.
Fall 2008 Faith Build
The second Fall home to be built this early October in Lynmore Estates will involve 14 area Bibb County churches. Macon Area Habitat for Humanity is both grateful and humbled for the support of thes churches and all churches who have come together to build decent and affordable homes for deserving families over the years. Each year partner churches join forces to fund and build a home by involving church members.
Led by MAHFH's Church Relations Committee Chair and Board member Dan Riley, church representives have met several times this year to discuss the construction start date set for early October with completion projected in December before Christmas. Please look for more details regarding the start-up and progress of this important build in the weeks and months to come,
Churches participating this fall include: Martha Bowman, Vineville and Liberty United Methodist Churches, Northminster and St. Andrews Presbyterian Churches, Vineville Baptist Church, Christ, St. Francis and St. Paul's Episcopal Churches, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Evangelical/Liberty Christian Churches, Bethel CME Church, Southside Community Church and Christ Life Church, Montezuma.
For more information about how your church can participate in future Faith Builds in 2009 or beyond, contact Jim Mercer, Development Director at (478) 784-6800. We will be happy to come to your church and make a presentation to your Congregation, Missions Committee, Youth Group or Sunday School class.
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