"God's love calls us into service on behalf of those in need."

(John 3:16-18)

God’s love invites and empowers each of us to journey to the Father and with the Father, through Jesus Christ who makes us sisters and brothers in our journey. It is because of God’s love for each of us that God calls you and I to serve Him. DuPage Habitat for Humanity® is first and foremost a “ministry” and by definition is based on “the act of Serving.” DuPage Habitat for Humanity® is the “Christ-driven” local affiliate, in “covenant” with Habitat for Humanity® International. founded to serve the people and families of DuPage County. Like Jesus Christ, who came “not to be served, but to serve.”

• One of the greatest blessings in the United States is our right and responsibility to participate in civic life. 
• We are called to be a community of conscience, to consider and respond to issues based on the wisdom found in Scripture and consistent with the best of our nation’s founding ideals — “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. 
• The lack of safe affordable housing is a national crisis. 
• Despite record levels in home sales, and gains in employment and income levels, both nationwide and in our Community of DuPage County, more than 24,000 families pay more than 50% of their income towards housing costs: 7.100 households live in substandard housing; and 5,000 residents live in over-crowded conditions.
• Together, we have built or rehabbed houses with twenty-three families, the new homes to 39 adults and 78 children. 
• More families are in need of the “hand-up” offered through partnership with DuPage Habitat for Humanity®. 
• 6,500 households are potential applicants to the DuPage Habitat® housing program. 
• Habitat is so much more than building houses. Habitat’s housing program consists of both “building” and “family services”. For every hour on the construction site, it takes three hours serving on the eight operating committees and in the office. “Family Advocates” serving on the Family Support Committee are needed for each of these families to guide and support their “partnership” with DuPage Habitat. 
• Money is needed to fund the program: to purchase home sites and building materials, pay related building fees, and program expenses and administrative expenses. “Servant-Volunteers” on the Faith Relations Committee, Corporate & Foundation Relations Committee, and the Special Events & Fund Raisers Committee raise cash donations and recruit more volunteers by presenting the needs and benefits of DuPage Habitat to faith-based communities and businesses, organizing fund raising events, and grant writing. 
• Public awareness of the mission of DuPage Habitat® and events including groundbreakings, house dedications, fund raisers. etc. must be raised through media relations, the website, and the newsletter by volunteers on the Marketing & PR Committee. 
• Members of the Site Selection Committee serve the ministry by identifying and recommending desirable properties for acquisition. and identifying and securing financing sources.
• Family Selection Committee “Servant-Volunteers” will conduct application sessions, process the applications, and recommend “Partner Families” to the Board of Directors. 
• The Construction Planning Committee is always in need of construction supervisors and project coordinators; skilled trades people, engineers and architects, and in-kind donations of building materials. 
• Student-leaders of our Campus Chapters, at local high schools, and colleges or universities bring an energy and enthusiasm for the work of Habitat for Humanity® throughout DuPage County. 
• Volunteers serve by running the committees and making recommendations to the Board of Directors. 
• And finally, “Servant-Leaders” are needed on our “working” Board of Directors to set goals, to inspire, and to lead.

Families and supporters of Habitat for Humanity® are members of every race, ethnic background, and faith tradition. We are retired, students, teachers, union members, health care providers, housewives, CEOs. factory workers. lawyers, sales people, and business owners. We are called to a common commitment “...to provide opportunities for home ownership to limited income families and individuals and to put the reality of substandard housing in the minds and hearts of DuPage residents... DuPage Habitat reaches out to the economic, cultural national, and religious diversity of the DuPage County Community and blends the “God-given” talents and gifts offered by members of the community to serve the mission of DuPage Habitat by raising funds, building houses, and empowering families. Women and men of integrity, courage, determination, faith and hope accomplish the work of Habitat for Humanity® in DuPage County. Through God’s love, our Faith is transformed into compassionate action. A safe affordable house matters and makes a difference in someone’s life. God’s love transforms the lives of our Families through you, and in turn your life is transformed by God’s love through our Families. Please give your prayerful consideration to take the ministry of Habitat into your heart and make it your own, and join us as we together answer God’s call and respond to God’s love by serving..