(From the Fall 2024 print newsletter) Each year, El Paso County church congregations join Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity for the Apostles Build, constructing a home in partnership with a local workforce family. This fall, we’re putting the final touches on the 2024 Apostles Build, where Bernadette—a childcare worker originally from Fountain—will live with her […]
IBU Bench: Christ City Church
This is Part 1 of a 7-part series featuring Pikes Peak Habitat Interfaith Build for Unity subcommittee members, who discuss their faith community’s involvement in creating an interfaith unity bench for 3rd IBU homeowner Jessica. Jeff Mawhirter from Christ City Church engaged his congregation in decorating boards and also led the effort to put the […]
Catching up with Karmen
When Colorado Springs Utilities staff volunteered to landscape two Pikes Peak Habitat homes recently, they were joined by a future Pikes Peak homeowner who will be living next door to the yard she was helping beautify! Karmen, our 4th Veterans Build homeowner, was working on sweat equity hours that day. Her own home […]
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It Takes a Village… by Kris Lewis
It takes a village…. to create “a world where everyone has a decent place to live.” In May, it was a “village” of Pikes Peak Habitat Global Village volunteers with a trip to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Together, the Pikes Peak Habitat volunteers, the future homeowner, and three Trinidadian construction site […]
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Upcoming Blessings and Dedications
House Dedications Cruz-Rodriguez Family Saturday, August 26 at 10:00 AM 203 Red Finch Lane Fountain, CO 80817 O’Brien Family TBA Ground Blessings-NEW TIMES! Welch Family Friday, July 14 at 11:00 AM 211 Red Finch Lane Fountain, Colorado 80817 Tongate Family Friday, July 14 at 11:30 AM 207 Red Finch Lane Fountain, Colorado 80817 Directions here […]
National Women Build Week is coming up!
In honor of Women Build and International Women’s Day, Pikes Peak Habitat is proud to be a part of National Women Build Week May 6-14 this year! Thank you to Lowe’s, our longtime partner in the event. Pikes Peak Habitat is one of 300 Habitat organizations nationwide hosting Women Build projects during the week, and […]
Make a Global Impact
In October 2015, I traveled to Budapest, Hungary as part of a Habitat Global Village team. My team worked on the future home of Gabor, a homeless Hungarian man. Each day of our trip, Gabor rode his bicycle to our construction site from his cardboard shanty. Upon his arrival, he donned his hard hat, picked […]
Youth Training Program
Pikes Peak Habitat is working with students from Harrison School District 2 on our construction site as part of their Career Readiness Academy. Atlas Prep Charter School is building sheds for our homeowners, too. These ventures allow at-risk students age 16 and older an opportunity to learn from our construction staff and experience hands-on job […]
Women Build 2017
Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s invite women to build alongside future homeowners during the 10th annual National Women Build Week, May 6 through 14. Pikes Peak Habitat is one of 300 Habitat organizations nationwide hosting Women Build projects during the week with support from Lowe’s, a longtime partner in the event. National Women […]
Builders Blitz 2016
Check our time-lapse video of the Home Builders Blitz sponsored by Aspen View Homes! What normally takes us months to complete, Aspen View Homes and their subcontractors completed in less than a week! Here you can see this house built in 3 minutes.