Our partnership with the Martinsville-Henry County chapter of the Fuller Center for Housing (formerly the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity) helps us in our Christ-centered efforts to meet the critical needs of our community – none more critical than safe and adequate shelter.
Local Fuller House Executive Director Beth Stinnett shared the following with us:
“Our partnership with the Henry County Baptist Association of Virginia is critical to the efforts of our organization. With the generous, yearly contribution to the Fuller Center for Housing of Martinsville-Henry County, we are able to build and renovate homes for deserving families in our community. We believe that everyone deserves a safe, comfortable place to call home. We also believe in our founder, Millard Fuller’s, ‘Theology of the Hammer’ which says:
“The hammer is the understanding that our Christian faith mandates that we do more than just talk about faith and sing about love. We must put faith and love into action to make them real, to make them come alive for people. Faith must be incarnated; that is to say, it must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.”
Without the support of local churches, organizations, businesses, and individuals we would not have the funds to put our faith into action. Since our inception in 1988, the Fuller Center for Housing, formerly known as Habitat for Humanity, has constructed or renovated over 40 homes in Martinsville-Henry County and we are currently holding the mortgage on 11 homes. Applying our concept of ‘The Economics of Jesus’, we offer these no-profit-made mortgages at a 0% interest rate (Exodus 22:25). As mortgage payments are made, the funds are saved to apply toward the next build for our next deserving family.”
Fuller Housing Center for Martinsville-Henry County
932 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112
(276) 638-6484.
National website: Fuller Center for Housing