"A world where everyone has a decent place to live."
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God's love and can live and grow into all that God intends.
Brown County Habitat for Humanity celebrated the start of the Harden House located at 7801 Brocks Lane with a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday, July 19th. This is the 12th house the local Habitat organization will build in Brown County. More importantly, this is the first house of four to be placed on eleven acres of land donated to Habitat by Al and Ida Rose Meyer. It is a major milestone to be able to develop this beautiful wooded acreage into homes and community plus helping build lives.
Pictured with the shovels is the new construction supervisor, Jim Kelp and new home owner Jason Harden while Jason’s family looks on. Also pictured are new Habitat Board President Verne Sindlinger and Jonathan Hutchinson of St David’s Episcopal Church who blessed the beginning of the build. Habitat is ready with a plan of action and is looking for volunteers to help build this house. Even if you do not know one end of the hammer from another, there are countless ways you can help. Initial framing should begin August 6th.
Visit Habitat at their booth in the commercial tent at the 4-H Fair next week. There will be volunteer sign-up sheets, partner family applications, and current information on the new Harden house build.
Jason and Brittany Harden with two children, Emma (5) and Eli (1) and an expectd third child in September, have been on our application list for almost a year. Jason was born and raised here in Brown County and Brittany is from the Bedford area. They both work locally; Jason is a machine knitter at For Bare Feet in Helmsburg where he has worked for 1 1/2 years and Brittany works full time for The Bartley House in Nashville. Brittany is also finishing up her first year of business classes at the Career Resource Center and is interested in the field of Human Resources. As a young family, they have had their share of "bumps in the road' and are eager to realized the long awaited dream of home ownership.
Brown County Habitat for Humanity welcomes the Harden family Partner Family. We wish them all the best as our construction begins.
In May of 2007, Habitat received a wonderful gift of 11 acres from Al and Ida Rose Meyer. This gift provided Habitat the opportunity to pursue its first major subdivision with four lots. It has taken a tremendous amout of planning work, much cooperation and support along the way, and Habitat finally received the approval from BC Area Plan Commission just this last month. We are now ready to move into the actual infrastructure stage of our development as we prepare the roadway and the utilities in anticipation of building our first home in the new subdivion later this summer.
These are exciting times for Habitat, and we could not do this without tremendous community support and involvement.
Here are just a few of the businesses/individuals we would like to thank for much of the first-stage subdivision planning and assistance:
Brown County Abstract
REMC
Brown County Water Utility
Dave Harden, Surveyor
Cheryl Scott Apprasials
Dave Wagler Excavating
John Simpson, Monroe LLC
Doub Miller, Millbuild
Hills O' Brown Realty
Scott Rudd and Brown County Plan Commission
Wanda Jones Law Office
When shopping at the Brown County IGA, don't forget to take your green point coupons and deposit them in the slot for Brown County Habitat for Humanity!
