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Meet Ron Zwisler

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Welcome Home Project

 Working together to help families into homeownership.

 Church Partnership Program

In 2008 The Welcome Home Project took on a new challenge.  We decided to see if we could do in our own back yard what we had done the previous year in the Gulf Coast region.  Could we use a collaborative model to build an affordable house for a family in need right here in Johnson County?

Our plan was to invite a church from the community to sponsor a house, identify a family from their congregation to live in that house and then work with us to build the house at a price the family could afford.  The cost to sponsor the house was only $5000 and then together we worked with volunteers, donated materials and labor to build the house.  The process starts at a community wall building event that utilizes hundreds of volunteers to build the walls...and ends with a heartfelt thank-you from a grateful family.  Take a look at the video above to see the process from start to end.

    

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Thanks Welcome Home!

 

My family and I are eternally grateful for the blessings you have so generously provided. When we moved back to the Kansas City area after a tough stretch and a difficult situation in Michigan, we knew that our difficulties would not immediately end. We told ourselves that if we could be patient and disciplined, eventually, somewhere way down the road, we would be able to buy a home again.

 

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Miss Simmons

The Welcome Home Project! had it's origins in 2007 when we built the walls for five homes in Olathe, KS and then shipped them down to the Gulf Coast region to help five families still trying to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina.  Miss Simmons, an 83 year old widow from Moss Point, MS was one of the people we helped. 

Consider this.  With the help of over 650 volunteers, at least six churches from Olathe, KS and two from Moss Point, MS contractors from both cities, two area banks, at least eight different businesses, three civic groups and six significant financial donors we were able to give Miss Simmons a new home and a new lease on life.