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Thrivent Financial Partnership to build two habitat homes in St. Cloud

Submitted Article
Central
Minnesota
Habitat for Humanity
(CMHFH) is excited to
announce that they have
received a grant from
Thrivent Financial to help
build homes for two local
low-income families in
2015. Construction will
begin this summer and the
homes will be located in
Saint Cloud.
One of our strongest
partners both locally and
nationally is Thrivent
Financial, said Bruce
Johnson, Executive Director of CMHFH. Through
our partnership, we will
have built and sold 23
homes to low-income families in Central Minnesota
by the end of this year.
The grant, a part of the
Thrivent Builds program,
provides half of the financial support needed to
build a home. The rest of
the support is raised from
local businesses, churches,
and members of the community. The homes are
built mostly by volunteers
from sponsoring businesses, churches, and the general public.
The Thrivent/Habitat
partnership is a great fit
because it engages the
whole community and
gives them the opportunity
to live out the values of

ers communities to transform lives through affordhomeownership.

able
Since 1989, 83 families
have purchased their very
own home through their
homeownership program.
CMHFH sells simple
homes to qualified families
with a mortgage they can
afford. Each partner family
goes through 15 hours of
homeownership education
and completes 200 hours of
sweat equity per adult
before they can purchase a
Habitat home. This important work would not be
possible without the generosity and dedication of
the incredible donors and
volunteers in the Central
Minnesota community.
About Habitat for
Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity
Internationals vision is a
world where everyone has
a decent place to live.
Anchored by the conviction that housing provides
a critical foundation for
breaking the cycle of
poverty, Habitat has helped
more than 4 million people
construct, rehabilitate or
preserve homes since
1976. Habitat also advocates to improve access to
decent and affordable shelter and supports a variety
of funding models that
enable families with limit-

connecting finances with

faith and living generously, said Steve Reetz, a
Thrivent
Financial
Representative in St. Cloud
and Board member of
Central Minnesota Habitat
for Humanity..
The $140,000 grant is
part of a $12 million commitment Thrivent Financial
has made to Habitat for
Humanity in 2015 to support the Thrivent Builds
with Habitat for Humanity
partnership.
"It's inspiring to see
Thrivent members and others continuously give of
their time and talents to
help families in local communities and around the
world have safe, affordable
housing,"
said
Brad
Hewitt, President and CEO
of Thrivent.
Construction on the
Thrivent Builds homes will
begin this summer and
some volunteer opportunities will be available to the
public with no previous
construction experience
necessary.
For more information on
these and other CMHFH
projects and upcoming
events, visit cmhfh.org.
About Central
Minnesota Habitat for
Humanity
Central
Minnesota
Habitat for Humanity gath-

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ed resources to make needed improvements on their

homes as their time and
resources allow. As a nonprofit Christian housing
organization,
Habitat
works in more than 70
countries and welcomes
people of all races, religions and nationalities to
partner in its mission.
To learn more, donate or
volunteer visit habitat.org.

About Thrivent Builds

With Habitat for
Humanity
Since 1991, Thrivent
Financial and Habitat for
Humanity have built more
than 2,900 houses across
the globe. With Thrivent
Builds, the goal is to build
hundreds of homes each
year
with
Thrivent
Financial
members,
Lutheran congregations

Submitted Article
The author of an awardwinning memoir will help
Central Minnesota recall
the Armenian Genocide of
1915-1923.
Meline Toumani, the
Armenian-American author
of the "There Was and
There Was Not," will speak
7 p.m. April 15 in St. Cloud
State Universitys Ritsche
Auditorium. Shell also
host an informal conversation 10 a.m. April 16 in
Voyageurs Room, Atwood
Memorial Center. The 2002
film drama "Ararat" will be
screened 6:30 p.m. April 22
in Atwood Theater.
Toumanis 2014 book
about living in Turkey was
a finalist for the 2014
National Book Critics
Circle Award. Among the
book's other awards are a
Kirkus Reviews Best NonFiction Book nod.
All events are free and
open to the public.

Participants in the April 16

conversation must register
an
email
to
with
chge@stcloudstate.edu.
Parking is $1.50 an hour at
the 4th Avenue Parking
Ramp.
Though it began a century ago, Armenian Genocide
remains a source of pain
and conflict. That the genocide happened is a matter of
historical record. As many
as 1.5 million Armenians
were systematically exterminated in the Ottomon
Empire, with many dying
on death marches and in
concentration camps.
Some nations recognize
the Armenian Genocide.
Others, led by Turkey, chief
heir of the former empire,
do not. Turkey does not
have diplomatic relations
with its neighbor, the
Republic of Armenia.
Toumani moved in 2005
to the capital, Istanbul,
because she believed her

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communitys quest for

genocide recognition was
all
other
obstructing
aspects of Armenian identity. "There Was and There
Was Not" is a blend of
reportage, memoir and
essay that probes timeless
questions: How to belong
to a community without
conforming to it?
How to acknowledge a
tragedy without exploiting
it and most important?
How to remember a genocide without perpetuating
the kind of hatred that gave
rise to it in the first place?
St.
Cloud
States
Armenian
Genocide
anniversary events are
sponsored by the Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Education.
For more information
contact the center's director,
Dan Wildeson, at dlwildeson@stcloudstate.edu and
320-308-4201.

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