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IBU logo with text "This monumental movement brings together volunteers from a variety of different backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths. We are putting aside our differences and working together in unity to help build affordable homes in El Paso County.

Overview of the Interfaith Build for Unity

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.

In 2021, Pikes Peak Habitat started bringing together congregations, groups, and communities from a variety of faith traditions, spiritual practices, and beliefs who worked side by side to build affordable homes for families in El Paso County. In March 2022, Pikes Peak Habitat and our valued partners celebrated the completion of the 1st Interfaith Build for Unity (IBU) home. We've followed it with the 2nd IBU home in April 2023, the 3rd IBU home in February 2024, and the 4th IBU home in February 2025.

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.

Fill out the 2025 Faith Community Involvement Form (PDF)!
Studs on house signed with blessings

How the IBU Works

  • Invite members of your faith community or group to participate in an IBU volunteer day. (No experience is necessary, but volunteers on our construction site must be at least 16 years old.) You can also volunteer as an individual.
  • Volunteers from two different faith traditions are paired for the day. The groups work together, share lunch, and stand unified as friends and equals.

Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Build is an opportunity to not only lay a physical foundation but also 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.  We Muslims work hard to seek out charitable opportunities that reap great rewards with God, we strive for peace and harmony with our neighbors and lend a helping hand anywhere we can.  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.

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Feda Jodeh Member Islamic Society of Colorado Springs

“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 Walking Eagle
Sandra Walking Eagle Lakota representative

Meet the 2025 Interfaith Build for Unity Partner Family

Amanda loves public speaking—and she has an incredible story to tell.

Homeless at age 14, she has honed her professional skills and built a career. She’s sober. And she has regained custody of her three children, who were placed in foster care following a dangerous incident that threatened Amanda as well.

Read about Amanda's family!

"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."

Previous IBU Partner Families

Family sitting on a bench

Isxel's family -- the 4th IBU!

Mom and son in front of lake

Jessica's family -- the 3rd IBU!

Anna, her mother, and one of her daughters

Anna's family -- the 2nd IBU!

Smiling mother and son

Ms. Andino's family -- the 1st IBU!

Resources

Community Partners

We would like to recognize this 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.

Contact Us

If you would like to learn more about how you or your community can get involved with the Interfaith Build for Unity, or engage with Habitat through our various Faith in Action Programs, please e-mail

FaithProgram@PikesPeakHabitat.org

A Note about the Land

We acknowledge that the land on which we build is the traditional territory of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Peoples. We also recognize the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to the lands that make up this region.