This month, we’re reading The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia Farm Experiment (1942-1970) by Dallas Lee. Koinonia Farm, a community near Americus, Georgia, was founded by biblical scholar and farmer Jordan, who envisioned a place where people could live and work together regardless of racial differences. He persisted with […]
Interfaith Dialogue Includes Remarks from the Colorado Springs Mayor’s Office
This is Part 3 of 3 posts about Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity’s 3rd Interfaith Dialogue, “Who Is Your Neighbor?” Read Part I, “Interfaith Dialogue Focuses on Neighborliness.” Read Part 2, “Interfaith Dialogue Panelists Share Experiences with Housing.” Following the panel discussion at the interfaith dialogue but before participants engaged in a facilitated, interfaith discussion […]
Interfaith Dialogue Panelists Share Experiences with Housing
This is part 2 of 3 posts about Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity’s 3rd Interfaith Dialogue, “Who Is Your Neighbor?” Read part I, “Interfaith Dialogue Focuses on Neighborliness.” At the dialogue, held on the UCCS campus on Sunday, Feb. 4, as part of our observance of the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week Feb. 1-7, […]
Read with Us: Out of Many Faiths
This month, we’re reading Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise by Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith America, which is one of our partner organizations in the Team Up initiative and an ongoing supporter of Pikes Peak Habitat’s work. (Check out this video they created spotlighting our Faith in Action Program Manager […]
Interfaith Dialogue Focuses on Neighborliness
This is Part I of a three-part series on the interfaith dialogue. What do diverse faith traditions say about neighborliness? That was the question at the forefront of Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity’s 3rd Interfaith Dialogue, “Who Is Your Neighbor?,” held on the UCCS campus on Sunday, Feb. 4, as part of our observance of […]
ICYMI: Pi Beta Phi Alumnae, Volunteers Collaborate to Create Library for Pikes Peak Habitat Neighborhood
From the Winter 2024 newsletter Thanks to a Rotary Club connection and a handy volunteer, the Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity neighborhood at The Ridge at Sand Creek has a little library. “We were just talking about ideas we could do in the community, and a little library was brought up,” explains Sam Chapman, a […]
ICYMI: ReStore South Loves Our Volunteers!
From the Winter 2024 print newsletter: In honor of the ReStore South’s 20th anniversary, we’re spotlighting some of the dedicated volunteers who make it possible for us to fulfill our mission. Mary Banner “I’m a miniaturist, and my husband worked with [first ReStore manager] John Veteto when they started it, and so we thought it […]
ICYMI: First Gingerbread Village Event Combines Fun, Festivity, and Fundraising
From the Winter 2024 print newsletter This holiday season, Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity held our Gingerbread Home Build for the fifth time. For this fun competition, groups decorate a gingerbread home, then raise funds in the form of “votes” for their completed home. Proceeds benefit our Veterans Build home. This year, we decided to […]
Celebrating 20 years of the ReStore South
On Jan. 17, we marked a special occasion: the 20th anniversary of our ReStore South! We celebrated with festive balloon arches, cake for staff and volunteers — and a 20-day sale that runs through Feb. 5! Customers can receive 20% off a single item (including new/purchased product with orange tags, but excluding bulk and bundle […]
Read with Pikes Peak Habitat: Race for Profit
To honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and as part of our Building the Beloved Community initiative, we’re reading the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Award Longlist title Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Last year, we read Richard Rothstein’s The Color of […]