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| The House That Love Built is the story of Millard and LindaFuller, founders of Habitat for Humanity, the largest nonprofit housing ministry in the world. Theirs is a journey that spans more than sixty years: from Millard’s upbringing and his serendipitous first meeting with Linda, through the crisis that almost ended their marriage but providentially led them to give away their fortune; the early years and humble beginnings of their housing ministry, to the years of Habitat for Humanity’s phenomenal growth and then becoming a world-wide movement ... and the eventual heart- | ||||||||||||||||
wrenching
takeover that led to the Fullers’ dismissal from
the same ministry they had birthed and nurtured.It is also the
story of their spectacular rebound to establish The Fuller Center
for Housing and their ongoing mission to eradicate poverty housing
from the Earth.Their story is a big one, and a remarkable one. Remarkable
because they’ve
lived uncommon, and truly inspiring, lives. Rare is the person who meets
the Fullers or hears of their amazing journey and isn’t inspired
by them. They’ve built homes for a million of the world’s
poor, amassed more than sixty honorary doctorates between them,
and won hundreds of awards. In 1996, Millard was prsented with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian honor a person
can receive in the United States of America. Also, adjacent to the
U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C., a bronze emblem embedded
in the sidewalk bears the Fullers' images and honors them as prestigious
Points of Light recipients. But for their ... |
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| FOREWORD by Larry King | ||||||||||||||||
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