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Greg Hands stands on the porch of one of the homes built with the help of World Vision training. |
Equipping Faith-Based Communities to Lead with Heart |
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Rebuilding a Community
Albany, Georgia, has seen some of the worst that nature has to offer. For the past several years the city has been recovering from two devastating floods that wiped out thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage.
In the aftermath of that destruction, good things are rising––not just new homes, but the promise of revitalization for neighborhoods and spirits that were suffering even before the waters rose. The city of Albany offered Mount Olive Outreach Center a $5 million grant to develop low-income housing for people displaced by that year’s flooding.
“We had done some small things––rehab units and small new construction. But now we were looking at doing something greater,” recalled Greg Hands, who runs outreach programs at Mount Olive.
World Vision’s Tools for Transformation training program provided the organizational, planning, and leadership tools Greg needed to help the church build Woodland Heights, comprised of 44 new townhouses and 16 apartments. World Vision staff in Albany also provided additional consultation on contracting and negotiations, and helped Greg and the Mount Olive staff members apply what they had learned to their own vision.
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