VOLUNTEER
If you would like to volunteer, please click Volunteer Form to open our volunteer form. Print the form, fill it out, and return it to the address on the form.
Do you have a few available hours? Between builds, volunteers are needed for these projects:
- Web "reporters" to write posts for this website
- Office helpers
- Lunch coordinators for the next build
Call 903-893-0009 with any questions. We're looking forward to meeting you!
Thank you!
We offer a big, big thank you to the following volunteers who have donated more than 100 hours of service to Habitat in the first six months of 2009:
- Carrie Bolin
- Larry Burge
- Charles Byler
- John Denton
- George Gravley
- Sam Knipling
- Gene McElroy
- Bob Montgomery
- Jack Nash
- Greg Thomas
What an honor to have such devoted volunteers! We could not raise houses—and hope—without you.
Hanging sheetrock
An enthusiastic group from Covenant Presbyterian Church in Sherman volunteered a day on House #20. You can tell that they spent the day hanging sheetrock (check out the white knees!)
Gift Writ Large by Local Author
By day, Diana Cosby is a nationally-known writer of romance novels—specifically medieval historical romances. Her books feature “romance edged with danger.” By night, though, Diana longs to pick up a tool belt and swing a hammer on a Habitat for Humanity worksite. And she will, too, as soon as she finishes all those book signings… Until then, Diana contributes with monetary gifts. She recently came to the Habitat worksite to present a check for $500 to help fund the next house.
Mission Possible Kids...
...from First United Methodist Church in Van Alstyne have a heart for Habitat.
They invited volunteers into the church with a big banner of welcome, fixed and served lunch for more than 30 people, decorated and donated nail aprons for use on the work site, and wrote words of blessing on a 2' X 4' that will be used in framing the next house.
Mystery...
These women of love, mystery, and intrigue put down their pens to pick up hammers on the work site. The Romance Writers of America completed the sheetrock for House #20. No doubt they are planning ways to include Habitat for Humanity in a future book.
Texas Instruments Volunteers
Scott Tiede and his crew of engineers from Texas Instruments have helped frame the last three houses. The slide rule guys want to make every corner perfect.
Terex Saturday
More than 30 Terex employees finished decking and papering the roof. They also shored up the lot's south side, preventing a precipitous landslide!
Spring Break Volunteers
In Spring 1997, a group of college students from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago spent their Spring Break week in Grayson County building House #6 in Sherman. One of the volunteers recently sent a photo of their group and said, “I remember the people of Sherman were so good to us. Two churches fed us dinners and everyone was so kind. It was my best vacation ever and I'll always remember it.”
Pictured (above) are the students and former construction supervisor Marvin Miller, crew chief Bill Modisett, and Habitat volunteer Chris Johnson.
Softball Saturday
All 24 members of the Grayson County College Women’s Softball team spent their Saturday morning putting up sheetrock on House #18.
Volunteer News
Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with Texoma RSVP to match up volunteers with opportunities. Texoma RSVP is 20 years old and serves Grayson, Cooke and Fannin counties. The program offers free membership, including on-site accident insurance, to volunteers age 55 and older.
Habitat volunteers who sign up with the program can have their volunteer hours count twice: both for Habitat and for Texoma RSVP.
Call the Habitat office or RSVP at 903.813.3587 for more information.