Spring of Life’s 21st Habitat for Humanity house will be celebrated with a public dedication event Saturday in Elgin. The Rev. Jack Wheatley of Elgin’s Greater Grace Community Church will be on hand at 10 a.
m. to bless the 1563 Mark Ave. residence, and the new homeowners will be presented with flowers, candles, a prayer shawl and a memory book of photos, organizers said.
“Events like this frequently draw people currently living in Habitat-built homes,” said Laura Johnson, a Habitat volunteer from Inverness who helped build the house. “It will be a beautiful experience for everyone.” When starting construction on a new Habitat for Humanity house, Spring of Life volunteers — seen here working on the Mark Avenue house in Elgin — always start with the garage in order to have a place to store tools and supplies.
Workers pictured here, from left, are Mike Rekruciak, Dave Wilson, Bob Rufatto and Craig Swanson. (Spring of Life) Spring of Life, mostly made up of congregation members from six churches in the Palatine and Arlington Heights areas, has been partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley for almost 30 years, Johnson said. Of the 21 houses they’ve built so far, 18 have been in Elgin.
Johnson is a nurse by profession, and became involved in the effort seven years ago she was looking to do volunteer work outside of her comfort zone and friends invited her to give it a shot, she said. She’s worked on seven homes thus far and has found she’s p.
