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Interfaith Build for Unity

The Interfaith Build for Unity brings together diverse faith communities to construct affordable homes for families in El Paso County. This initiative promotes unity, tolerance, and cooperation as volunteers from different spiritual backgrounds work side-by-side to help local families in-need achieve homeownership.
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The Interfaith Build for Unity

Coming Together for a Common Good

In a time of division, uncertainty and fear, Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity is working together with our community to build homes, unity, and hope. While El Paso County is home to diverse political opinions and theological beliefs, we can all agree that everyone deserves a safe and decent place to call home.

Since its inception in 2021, this initiative has successfully completed four homes, creating stable foundations for deserving families while fostering meaningful connections across religious boundaries.

IBU volunteer days are times of celebrating tolerance, cooperation, and love for our neighbor, as volunteers come together to help make homeownership possible for a local family.

Volunteer Testimonial

“Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Build is an opportunity to lay a physical foundation, as well as an emotional and mental foundation, for all faith groups to come together as one, united for one common cause: humanity.  I joined the Interfaith Build because I wanted to show our community that Islam is built on a foundation of compassion for our neighbors, regardless of their faith… To see a family walk into their home for the first time and be able to call a permanent place home makes every minute of hard work worth it.” – Feda Jodeh, Interfaith Program Coordinator

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Building Bonds Across All Faiths

The Interfaith Build for Unity welcomes volunteers from all faith communities to participate in meaningful construction projects that transform lives through affordable homeownership. Construction volunteers work Wednesday through Saturday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at our active build sites, with no prior building experience required.

When you volunteer for an IBU day, we intentionally pair participants from different faith traditions to work alongside one another.

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Volunteer Testimonial

“There are what, 500 religions in the world? And most all the good ones talk of tolerance and understanding and wisdom to learn, but above all is love…. When you come into an organization and say, ‘Where can I help?’ and they immediately welcome you, you know you’re in the right place.” – Sandra Waking Eagle, Lakota Representative

Current IBU Family

Faith, Resilience, and Strength

“I’m just truly grateful that you and God have chosen us for this house and that I’m going to have somewhere for my kids to grow up, and we’re not going to have to move. It’s just amazing.”

Amanda’s journey from teenage homelessness to becoming the 2025 Interfaith Build family exemplifies extraordinary resilience. Despite unstable housing and constant displacement threats, she created a loving home for her four children, guided by unwavering faith. This opportunity represents divine intervention for Amanda—a blessing that will finally provide her family the stability they’ve desperately needed.

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World Interfaith Harmony Week

In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first week in February annually as World Interfaith Harmony Week, with the goals of showcasing the importance of interfaith dialogue among people of diverse faith backgrounds, belief systems, and spiritual practices, and of spreading the message of goodwill and respect for others.

Pikes Peak Habitat’s Interfaith Build for Unity subcommittee,  a group of individuals from diverse backgrounds and faiths who unite to build affordable homes in partnership with El Paso County workforce families, invites you to join us in celebrating this initiative each year.

Interfaith Dialogues

As part of Pikes Peak Habitat’s celebration of U.N. World Interfaith Harmony Week, we hold an annual interfaith dialogue event on the first Sunday in February. These dialogues, which are free and open to community members of all faiths and no faith, feature speakers from diverse faith traditions and provide an opportunity for participants to engage in a facilitated interfaith discussion.

Community Support and Sponsors

We would like to recognize the ever-growing list of partners, friends, supporters, volunteers, and donors. The Interfaith Build for Unity project would be nothing without the participation and enthusiasm of our local faith leaders.

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