PARTNERS IN MINISTRY:
PRESBYTERY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE
& HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Presentation of Keys

Imagine, if you will, that you and your spouse are in your late 60’s and early 70’s, surviving on a very small income, and living in a house that has no heat or running water. Each morning, chopping wood for the wood stove and going to collect your water for the day is a part of your regular routine. While that scenario was a daily reminder of the poverty in which they lived, it is now only a faint memory for an elderly Wilson County, TN couple, as on Sunday, November 24th they received the keys to their new home built by Presbyterians in Middle Tennessee, in cooperation with Wilson County Habitat for Humanity.

This mission project was sponsored by the Community Ministries Task Force of the presbytery’s Outreach Mission Unit and was coordinated by Tom Lovell, Pastor of Bellevue Presbyterian Church. The project was endorsed by the Presbytery in October of 2001, and involved the participation of twenty churches plus students from the Vanderbilt Presbyterian Campus Ministry, who provided builders, lunch for those who worked, and gifts of building materials and supplies. Of the $42,000 required to build this home, Middle Tennessee Presbyterians also provided $23,077 in financial support.

“Those who participated in this project were doubly blessed,” said one participant. “Not only were we able to share the gospel in a tangible way by building a home for this family, we also had the opportunity to work with and get to know other Presbyterians from across our Presbytery, who are also committed to helping our church serve as an ‘exhibition of the kingdom of God,’ to our community.”

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