Mentone Mother, Daughter To Receive Habitat For Humanity Home
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
Approximately 50 Habitat For Humanity of Kosciusko County volunteers, partners, sponsors and Stutzman's friends and family gathered Sunday in Mentone for a groundbreaking ceremony.[[In-content Ad]]Stutzman was chosen by a family selection review committee of Habitat to be the new homeowner of a home that will be built in Mentone.
Habitat For Humanity of Kosciusko County is a Christian-based, non-profit ministry governed by a board of directors.
It helps lower-income families have a decent place to live in a decent community. The organization's mission is to build homes and lives.
Construction of the home will begin today at 516 N. Tucker St., Mentone.
The land on which the home is being built was donated by Midwest Poultry Services in memory of Glenn Hawkins. Hawkins was an employee of Midwest Poultry Services and was a volunteer for Habitat For Humanity for more than 12 years.
He was the chairman of different committees and served as vice chairman of the Wabash chapter of Habitat For Humanity. He had worked on more than 30 homes in Florida and Indiana and turned a shovel of dirt in Alaska for a Habitat home.
Stutzman will be required to make a 1-percent down payment on the home. It will be sold to her at building cost with a no-interest loan.
She also will be required to complete 250 sweat equity hours by assisting in the building of the home or other services for Habitat and the community.
She also will be required to take family life management and budgeting classes taught by Lori Harman, Habitat's family services director.
Harman works directly with all Habitat partner families before, during and long after the homes are built.
The home will take two to three months to build depending on weather, according to Ned Van Nostrand, Habitat executive director.
This will be Habitat's 18th home they have undertaken in the county, and the home is the first constructed in Mentone.
Van Nostrand said it will be a 1,100-square-feet one-level ranch three-bedroom home with a bathroom.
Volunteers watched as Jill and her daughter Anessa Sunday afternoon dug shovels into the ground where their home will be built.
Stutzman, 25, has lived with her daughter and her parents Randy and Mary Stutzman in their Mentone home for the past three years.
Jill graduated from Tippecanoe Valley High School in 2002 and attended Huntington University where she studied graphic design.
She moved to North Carolina after her first year of college and was a nanny for three years. She moved back to live with her parents, and has never married.
Jill said she received a phone call Tuesday. She said she had just finished dinner with her parents and she was standing in their kitchen when she received the news that she was selected for the new home.
"I am still so excited and very overwhelmed, and I don't think it has sunk in yet that I will have a new home," Jill said. "I think it was all God's plan that I qualified for this home. I don't know how else to explain it because by His grace we now will have a home and it is such a huge blessing."
Jill is employed at Stephan Baby, Pierceton, where she has worked for the past nine months.
Jill's parents, daughter, and sisters Jenifer Brown and Joy Martz attended the ceremony. Jill also has a brother, Josh Stutzman, who lives in California, but was not able to attend the ceremony.
"It is a blessing that my daughter and her daughter are getting a new home. God is so good and it is an answer to prayer," Mary said.
Jill's dad Randy was excited for Jill and her daughter to receive a new home.
"It's great for Jill and Anessa to have a place to call home," Randy said.
Terry Vanlaningham, a Habitat volunteer who will assist build the home, said he has wanted to help build a Habitat For Humanity home for a long time.
Vanlaningham said he has been close friends with the Stutzmans and attends church with the family at Olive Branch Church of God, Roann.
He said he has built homes in the past and looks forward to using his experience to build a home for Jill and Anessa.
People who want to assist with the construction of the home or contribute financially can call Habitat For Humanity at 574-269-4104.
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Approximately 50 Habitat For Humanity of Kosciusko County volunteers, partners, sponsors and Stutzman's friends and family gathered Sunday in Mentone for a groundbreaking ceremony.[[In-content Ad]]Stutzman was chosen by a family selection review committee of Habitat to be the new homeowner of a home that will be built in Mentone.
Habitat For Humanity of Kosciusko County is a Christian-based, non-profit ministry governed by a board of directors.
It helps lower-income families have a decent place to live in a decent community. The organization's mission is to build homes and lives.
Construction of the home will begin today at 516 N. Tucker St., Mentone.
The land on which the home is being built was donated by Midwest Poultry Services in memory of Glenn Hawkins. Hawkins was an employee of Midwest Poultry Services and was a volunteer for Habitat For Humanity for more than 12 years.
He was the chairman of different committees and served as vice chairman of the Wabash chapter of Habitat For Humanity. He had worked on more than 30 homes in Florida and Indiana and turned a shovel of dirt in Alaska for a Habitat home.
Stutzman will be required to make a 1-percent down payment on the home. It will be sold to her at building cost with a no-interest loan.
She also will be required to complete 250 sweat equity hours by assisting in the building of the home or other services for Habitat and the community.
She also will be required to take family life management and budgeting classes taught by Lori Harman, Habitat's family services director.
Harman works directly with all Habitat partner families before, during and long after the homes are built.
The home will take two to three months to build depending on weather, according to Ned Van Nostrand, Habitat executive director.
This will be Habitat's 18th home they have undertaken in the county, and the home is the first constructed in Mentone.
Van Nostrand said it will be a 1,100-square-feet one-level ranch three-bedroom home with a bathroom.
Volunteers watched as Jill and her daughter Anessa Sunday afternoon dug shovels into the ground where their home will be built.
Stutzman, 25, has lived with her daughter and her parents Randy and Mary Stutzman in their Mentone home for the past three years.
Jill graduated from Tippecanoe Valley High School in 2002 and attended Huntington University where she studied graphic design.
She moved to North Carolina after her first year of college and was a nanny for three years. She moved back to live with her parents, and has never married.
Jill said she received a phone call Tuesday. She said she had just finished dinner with her parents and she was standing in their kitchen when she received the news that she was selected for the new home.
"I am still so excited and very overwhelmed, and I don't think it has sunk in yet that I will have a new home," Jill said. "I think it was all God's plan that I qualified for this home. I don't know how else to explain it because by His grace we now will have a home and it is such a huge blessing."
Jill is employed at Stephan Baby, Pierceton, where she has worked for the past nine months.
Jill's parents, daughter, and sisters Jenifer Brown and Joy Martz attended the ceremony. Jill also has a brother, Josh Stutzman, who lives in California, but was not able to attend the ceremony.
"It is a blessing that my daughter and her daughter are getting a new home. God is so good and it is an answer to prayer," Mary said.
Jill's dad Randy was excited for Jill and her daughter to receive a new home.
"It's great for Jill and Anessa to have a place to call home," Randy said.
Terry Vanlaningham, a Habitat volunteer who will assist build the home, said he has wanted to help build a Habitat For Humanity home for a long time.
Vanlaningham said he has been close friends with the Stutzmans and attends church with the family at Olive Branch Church of God, Roann.
He said he has built homes in the past and looks forward to using his experience to build a home for Jill and Anessa.
People who want to assist with the construction of the home or contribute financially can call Habitat For Humanity at 574-269-4104.
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