degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Tomorrow we mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day in which we remember Dr. King's dream of equality for all. The MLK Day of Service is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service – a “day on, not a day off.” The King Day of Service is a way to transform his life and teachings into community service that helps solve social problems.
There are many ways you can put Dr. King's ideas into practice. Have you volunteered with Habitat for Humanity? Here in Santa Barbara there are many opportunities to serve. Habitat relies upon volunteers to help run our ReStore. The ReStore is open Tuesdays through Fridays - that's a lot of volunteer hours that we need to fill! Additionally, we complete A Brush with Kindness home repairs regularly. We need volunteers to donate one of their Saturday's to help low-income homeowners make necessary repairs to their home. And lastly, later this year Habitat will begin construction on 12 new low-income homes on Canon Perdido Street. We rely on our corp of volunteers to compete construction on these homes. This makes the process both affordable to build and affordable to the future homeowners.
We'd love for you to join Habitat for Humanity's mission of ending substandard housing in our community. Sign up to volunteer online, or attend one of our monthly volunteer orientations to learn more about our work in Santa Barbara.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ ”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
