House in a Box

Over here at Creekside we are going to take part in an initiative to build houses for people in Mississippi displaced after Hurricane Katrina. Throughout Mississippi there are little towns who have added a few hundred or thousand residents, only many of these residents have nowhere to live other than parks, alleys and possibly hotels. A large group of local churches in the Bay Area will build the frames for 1200 square foot houses on their parking lots and then ship the frames to McComb, Mississippi to be finished and sold to families so that they have a mortgage of $150-$200. The big idea is to have the first batch of 16 houses then pay for the next batch and roll this thing forward from town to town. Many towns have actually offered plots of land for free for the next groups of homes. At Creekside we will announce the idea this Sunday and actually build the frame March 4. I am grateful to those who orchestrated this plan to provide long term assistance in the name of Jesus.