Chowan Perquimans
Habitat
for Humanity's Mission Vision
"A world where everyone has a decent place to live."
MISSION STATEMENT
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity
brings people
together to build homes, communities and hope.
MISSION PRINCIPLES
1.
Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ.
We undertake our work to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus,
acting in all ways in accord with the belief
that God's love and grace abound for all, and that we must be "hands
and feet" of that love and grace in our world. We
believe that, through faith, the minuscule can be multiplied to
accomplish the magnificent, and that, in faith, respectful
relationships can grow among all people.
2. Focus on shelter.
We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God's love, to create
opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate
or preserve homes, and by partnering with others
to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation
for breaking the cycle of poverty.
3.
Advocate for affordable housing.
In response to the prophet Micah's call to do justice, to love mercy
and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent,
affordable housing for all, and we support the global community's
commitment to housing as a basic human right. We
will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the
constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in
all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in
such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes
socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.
4. Promote dignity and hope.
We believe that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in
dignity. We believe that every person has something
to contribute and something to gain from creating communities in which
all people have decent, affordable places to
live. We believe that dignity and hope are best achieved through
equitable, accountable partnerships.
5. Support sustainable and
transformational development.
We view our work as successful when it transforms lives and promotes
positive and lasting social, economic and
spiritual change within a community; when it is based on mutual trust
and fully shared accomplishment; and when it
demonstrates responsible stewardship of all resources entrusted to us.