Habitat

The following blog was sent to me by a friend. It is a post Jason put on his golf message board about out day on sunday with habitat.

OK, I am not the worlds best volunteer and I'm uncomfortable around poor people. Not that I feel guilty for being successful...as the song says, I'm conservative Christian, right wing Republican, strait, white, American male & I believe my success comes from hard work...but my only experience with those I know to be below the poverty level are people walking down the street with a shopping cart and talking to themselves. I'm a much better check writer than I am a hands on guy.I've married the ultimate volunteer, she gets it naturally from her parents. A few weeks back she gets me to come help make dinner for 15 homeless guys as part of a program at church. I'm visualizing knappy headed, smelly crack addicts - it turns out, after talking to our deacon in charge of the program, these guys are heavily screened and have jobs. Maybe they are recovering from some sort of addiction or they are working for a couple of months up here and this program allows them to save money and send it back to their families. OK, I survived and actually want to go back this fall and help once a month (our church does it 4 times a month). So Sunday at 4:30 we wake up to go work on a habitat house with other members of our church. I've been told by Mrs. AU I can leave at noon and head for the club (played 36 on Saturday). I stand around for a few minutes until the guy in charge asks me if I know how to hang siding...um, no but I could order it over the internet...Six hours later, the Mrs. offers to let me leave. By gosh, I've got five or six pieces of trim left and I'm going to finish this dang porch. I stay and according to the supervisor on site, it looked good . The girl getting the home (one of 14 being built in a Habitat neighborhood of about 100) was all over the site helping and was very thankful. I went home at 3pm exhausted and very thankful for my sales job.

PSA, go work on a habitat for humanity house one weekend, I'm not going into detail here, but it is an impressive program and based on how the older part of the neighborhood looked, one that actually works.

It was a wonderful day and we are going back out in two weeks to help again.