News & Updates

Last April, when I participated in a Habitat Wake work team to Honduras, I met a 13-year old boy named Junior.  Though we spoke different languages, I learned a fair amount about Junior and enjoyed the time we spent together on the work site.  Junior was the unofficial leader of all the kids who would come to visit our work site after school.

Here is a creative blog entry by Annette Homiller, member of Kirk of Kildaire in Cary and active participant in Women Build:  "I was reminded of these Bible verses as I reflected on the weeks' activities which we celebrated Friday afternoon:

"Yesterday I hit the wall. All the hard physical labor had finally taken its toll on my body. After a good night’s sleep, I felt revived. However, I was cautious about overdoing it. It turned out to be a blessing. Although I worked hard making adobe bricks all morning, I focused on people for the afternoon.

Today's blog from Honduras comes from Chris Dupre, one of our regular Saturday volunteers.

Dre Antono, another Habitat AmeriCorps brings us the rundown on the team's first work day in Honduras:

"Our first day on the work site was both tiring and fulfilling. We quickly realized that the houses, however small, required some serious hard work!

For the second year in a row, I’ll be spending Easter in Santa Rosa de Copán in Honduras.  This year, I’m leading a large team of 19 individuals who will be spending a week working with Habitat Honduras to continue building homes that we started last year in the 31-house El Rosario project.