Millard Fuller shares the faith on Humankind
Posted by tom | Jul 30, 2009I don't often have the opportunity to listen to Humankind, but recently I tuned in and received the blessing of hearing Millard Fuller share the Christian vision of Habitat for Humanity. What a testimony! For an excerpt click here.
NPR's Remembrance of Habitat For Humanity Founder Millard Fuller (All Things Considered, February 3, 2009) shares the story of his transformation:
... Fuller was a country boy from Lanett, Ala., who started raising pigs at age 6, launched a marketing business, became a lawyer and was a millionaire by the time he turned 29. He began having health problems and his marriage was breaking up, so as Fuller told the National Press Club in 1996, "After spending most of my adult life in the pursuit of success in law and business, I wanted to make my life count for something of more lasting value. So I made a radical change. Linda and I divested ourselves of our wealth and sought a very different kind of life — a life of Christian service."
Fuller believed people of faith must put their faith into practice. He and his family moved to Zaire in 1973 to build homes, and in 1976, he returned to the U.S. and started Habitat for Humanity with his wife. Fuller said the key principle was to build simple, decent houses. ...
But it's hard not to grieve over the allegations of sexual harassment and the fight for control of Habitat for Humanity, which led to Fuller's departure from "his" nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry (after which he founded The Fuller Center for Housing). I guess we'll never know the truth as to what happened. At this time, leave these issues to the judgment of God. But I am going to place Bettie Youngs' The House That Love Built on my to read list. Anyone have a copy which I can borrow?
