St. Andrew’s Episcopal named as Home Repair Champion

March 1, 2024 – St. Andrew’s Episcopal named as Home Repair Champion

St. Andrew’s has made outstanding contributions to our organization through both volunteer service and financial support, helping us to sustain our mission, and transforming homes and lives in our shared community. 

Our staff and board of directors were pleased to present the Home Repair Champion Award to their congregation at a recent service. The Home Repair Champion Award is an honor our organization bestows upon a person or organization that embraces our mission and has contributed substantially to our work.  

St. Andrew’s has a historical practice of meeting the needs of their community. In 2018, their congregation launched a capital campaign to complete the restoration of the church. They decided to go the extra mile and tithe 10% of their capital campaign funds to a local charity. In deciding what charity should benefit, they determined affordable housing was the community’s biggest need. They honed in on what Rebuild Upstate was doing to keep people in their homes and felt it was clear that they could make a difference in that way.

In total, St. Andrew’s tithed $40k of capital campaign funds to Rebuild Upstate, enabling us to complete repairs critical to the health and safety of many low-income neighbors. Beyond this generosity, volunteers from the church have swung hammers and demo’ed old decks on multiple occasions, again going the extra mile to ensure our neighbors are safely housed. Since 2018, their parishioners have volunteered more than 250 hours for neighbors in the Greenville community.

“The parishioners at St. Andrew’s take “Love thy neighbor” to a new level, whether it’s clothing, feeding, or housing people in need,” said Rosey Davis, Community Engagement Director. “We are proud to call them our Home Repair Champions this year, and even more proud to have their longstanding support of our home repair program.”

We are grateful for every member of St. Andrew’s who voted to support our organization during a critical growth period and showed up consistently on-site, recruiting volunteers and advocating for our mission all the way.