Building a better world, one house at a time.
It’s our privilege at St. John’s to again host the 30 or so bicyclists who participate with an annual bicycle ride with the Fuller Center for Housing. This years ride is called the Parks & Peaks Ride and will occur during the summer months of 2019. This is the 12th year of the ride, and St. John’s has previously hosted the group as they have come through Williams.
St. John’s will provide a night of lodging on June 27th and a big dinner for the riders, and on the go-snacks for them as they take off early the next morning. Members of St. John’s are asked to help prepare and serve the dinner and snacks.
The Fuller Center for Housing, faith-driven and Christ-centered, promotes collaborative and innovative partnerships with individuals and organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide. Here are there Foundational Principles from their website:
Foundational principles
We at the Fuller Center for Housing believe that: We are part of a God movement, and movements don’t just stop. We have been called to this housing ministry; we didn’t just stumble into it. We are unashamedly Christian, and enthusiastically ecumenical. We aren’t a church but we are a servant of the Church. We are faith driven, knowing that after we’ve done all we can do the Lord will help finish the job — something that requires us to stretch beyond our rational reach. We are a grass-roots ministry, recognizing that the real work happens on the ground in communities around the world through our covenant partners, so a large, overseeing bureaucracy isn’t needed. We try to follow the teachings of the Bible and believe that it says that we shouldn’t charge interest of the poor, so we don’t. Government has a role in our work in helping set the stage, but that we shouldn’t look to it as a means to fund the building of home.