Day Two - Sheds and Siding

During the second day of construction, Week Three volunteers divided into small groups to work on projects at five of the houses.

A couple of groups began constructing doors and adding roofs to the storage sheds that accompany each Habitat house.


Lore Lynch from the Church at Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia, builds a shed door


Several other groups prepared homes for siding or began attaching siding. By the end of the day, siding was almost complete on one of the houses.


Allen and Beth Garner of First Baptist Church in Lee's Summit, Missouri, spent the day preparing houses for siding

Doug Jaeger of Columbia Baptist Church in Falls Church, Virginia, adds siding to a house


Adam Williams, Richard Buerkle and Bill Wodatch from Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, VA, attach a piece of siding

Suzette Bonin stands in front of her house built by Habitat volunteers and funded in part by the Baptist World Alliance and First Baptist Church of Wilmington, North Carolina. Suzette and her family were living three miles from Vermilion Bay when Hurricane Rita hit, inundating their home with 17 feet of water and destroying all of their belongings.

Like all the other future Habitat homeowners, Suzette must contribute 300 hours of "sweat equity" by helping with the construction of her own home or other Habitat homes. She also fulfills her hours by volunteering at the Habitat ReStore in Lafayette, Louisiana.

She is excited about the progress on her new home and looks forward to moving in soon.