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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro Successfully Ends World of Hope Campaign

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro is proud to announce the successful end of the World of Hope Campaign. This multi-year fundraising effort surpassed the $ 4.5 million dollar goal, raising $ 4,769,263. The successful campaign was led by honorary co-chairs, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter and Dr. Joseph Mullin, and Campaign Chairman, Brad Thompson. Bishop George Brooks, Pastor Emeritus of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, served as Campaign Chaplin.

The Campaign Cabinet included Kevin Bullard, Communications Chairman; Gerard Davidson, Annual and Planned Giving; Mike Schulte, Corporate Giving; and Ann Morris, Charitable Foundations. Additionally, Brad Thompson served as Campaign Chair and Faith Communities Leader.

We are encouraged by the overwhelming community support that we received through this campaign. It helped us raise awareness of the need for affordable housing here in Greensboro and to educate our community on the difference safe, affordable housing can make in a familys life. We appreciate and thank all who participated in this campaign with their generous donations of time, money and resources, said Campaign Chairman Brad Thompson.

The World of Hope campaign goals were: to increase affordable housing in Greensboro and in partner countries Honduras and Jordan through building and renovating homes; repair older low-income houses; acquire land for building; invest in neighborhoods with community projects; and to mobilize 15,000 volunteers.

The Campaign was launched in July of 2011 as a three-year program and officially closed on July 30, 2014. During that time, Habitat Greensboro built and renovated 48 homes in Greensboro and an additional 30 homes in Honduras and Jordan. With the funds raised, Habitat Greensboro was able to purchase new lots in the Village at Northside for building new homes and participate in neighborhood projects, like Shade and Save and the Cottage Grove Initiative. Additionally, over the past three years, Habitat Greensboro has worked with over 18,000 volunteers building and repairing homes, working at the ReStore and supporting the administrative offices.

About Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro

Habitat Greensboro was formed in 1987 by four Christians in response to their Habitat experience in Peru. Twenty-five years later, Habitat Greensboro has expanded to almost 5,000 volunteers and 30 staff who build, renovate and provide critical repairs to 30 to 35 homes each year, serving 433 families in Greensboro and 412 internationally.

How the Habitat Model Works

Habitat for Humanity partners with families who have steady employment for one year, participate in a thorough credit analysis, attend educational classes on budgeting and home repair, and contribute 300 hours of sweat equity. Homeowners purchase their homes from Habitat at no-profit and with interest-free financing. Habitat then serves as the mortgage lender providing life of the loan 0% financing and loan servicing to Habitat homeowners.

About Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat for Humanity International is a global nonprofit Christian housing organization that seeks to put Gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. Since 1976, Habitat has served more than 600,000 families by welcoming people of all races, religions and nationalities to construct, rehabilitate or preserve homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions.

Habitat for Humanity is an on-going organization and could start another major campaign at any time.

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Great Lakes Christian College Welcomes New Director of Student Success and TESOL Professor

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In an effort to further improve the academic assistance offered to students, Great Lakes Christian College (GLCC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Brandy Shooks as Director of Student Success and Adjunct Professor of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Shooks is joining Great Lakes after seven years of teaching English and theatre to middle and high school students in the surrounding areas of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Brandy recently earned her M.A. in Liberal Studies with a major in American Culture (July 2014) and is working toward completion of an M.A. in TESOL, which she plans to finish by December. She has previously earned her B.A. in Business Administration from Rochester College in 2001 and her B.A. in Secondary Education from the University of Michigan in 2009.

Shooks says that she has seen huge growth in literacy with students using innovative new reading and writing strategies, and is looking forward to implementing those tactics with her students at GLCC. She will be able to apply the specialized expertise shes acquired from her academic and professional background in both of the roles she is set to fulfil at the College, effective immediately.

The Student Success Office at Great Lakes Christian College is committed to helping students reach their full potential- both as students and as individuals, by offering them access to the best resources for academic assistance, such as tutoring and study aid. The office is available to help all students, including those with learning challenges and any student that wishes to receive extra help in order to achieve academic success.

The TESOL Minor at Great Lakes provides a certified, high-quality, and innovative program that enables individuals to become highly competent instructors of English to speakers of foreign languages. The program focuses on gaining skills to teach English in a way that demonstrates the schools core values of servant leadership.

The TESOL Minor and certification program will prepare our students to teach English as a second language in a variety of contexts and in association with a number of ministries, including urban and refugee services, displaced people groups, exchange students, and international campus ministries. It may also provide an opportunity for students to enter restricted nations, as teaching English has been a gateway for completing mission work for many years now. In fact, GLCC has already had students serving in this capacity at international locations, including Korea.

For more information about GLCC, or its recent hire of Brandy Shooks, please contact Lloyd Scharer, Vice President of Enrolment Management, or visit http://www.glcc.edu/.

About Great Lakes Christian College:

Great Lakes Christian College originated in 1949 as Great Lakes Bible College in Rock Lake, Michigan. After several developments along the way, in 1970 the College purchased the 40 acres in Lansing that it currently resides and in 1992 the name was changed to Great Lakes Christian College. As a Christian academic community, GLCC’s mission is to educate men and women to make a difference in the world around them as well as for careers related to the church or other institutions in the public sector. In all instances, preparing students to be servant-leaders is central to the College’s founding character, history, curriculum, and campus ethos. It was accredited as a member of the North American Central Association in 2002 by The Higher Learning Commission, and reaffirmed in 2007. It has received additional accreditation by the Association of Biblical Higher Education, which also was renewed in 2007.

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