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The House That Love Built: The Story of Linda & Millard Fuller, Founders of Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing

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I work with Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal and I was at the meeting described in the book where Millard Fuller and others launched the effort in Shreveport to build houses for Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Not only did Millard lead us in singing "Higher Ground," but he also had us stand on chairs to do it! It felt a bit awkward at first. But by the end of that meeting, I was as inspired as I have ever been. I knew something special was about to happen in our city and indeed it has!

Two years later, reading the book has inspired me all over again. It provides a new insight into an amazing life through anecdotes, quotes and detailed accounts of both heartwarming and painful chapters in the Fullers' ministry to others. Most of us in the Fullers' position would have quit or given up after they were fired by Habitat. Not this couple. They just put down the old hammer, picked up a new one and kept on building! Not just building houses, but building hope. If you feel like you've ever been treated unfairly and wanted to give up: Read this book! I highly recommend it, but I do so with this warning: Don't be surprised if you find yourself volunteering for the next Fuller Center blitz build after you finish reading it!

An American Dream fulfills 300,000 American Dreams. One families journey through challenges and disapointments fascinatingly told in anecdotal format and including a virtual who's who in the the modern world of significant movers and shakers.

300,000 families so far are the realising the dream of owning their home thanks to the journey of Linda and Millard Fuller.

This book should be read by all high school students, especially those who say to themselves how can I possibly make a difference in this crazy world.

The House That Love Built is an incredible story of love, selflessness, determination and faith. Bettie Youngs is an amazing writer. This is a book that you can't put down!

From a lonely moment when a TV movie spoke prophetically to the state of Millard's heart, to a heartbreaking moment when Millard and Linda saw their marriage in jeopardy, to a moment of discovery when they met Clarence Jordan and Koinonia Farm, a holy spirit seemed at work to draw the Fullers into one of the great service ministries of the past century. Their story is an inspiration, and Dr. Youngs' story telling suits it well. The Fullers are truly American heroes, warts and all, and this book chronicles what just one gifted and inspired couple or individual can do to change the world.
--The Reverend Dr. Randal B. Gardner, Rector of St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, CA

As an author of parenting books, I'm in the business of helping families lead better lives. Linda and Millard Fuller have profoundly changed the lives of families around the world, tending to their goal to ensure that children aren't caught up in the deadly cycle of poverty. This life-changing book will inspire you to consider what you, too, can do to improve your community.

The House That Love Built:

The excellent true story of the greatest example of totally selfless dedication to humanity, not for any reward of recognition, but strictly for the sake of giving.

This is incredible love story that spans a period of time of over 50 years, I have watched the carrer of Bette Young from writing self-help books for our teenage population which I read while raising two teenage boys to this incredible love story...as she has proven in the past she has some awesome & incredible literary skills...This is one of those great books of our time that one can relate to and once you start reading it is hard to put down...I highly recommend to all...

If you only read one biography in your life--this is the one! Bettie Youngs has done a masterful job catching the heart and passion of one of the most important world-impacting passionaries alive today: Millard & Linda Fuller. The story of how they started the two largest home building nonprofits in the world is awesome (Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing which Millard started at age 70!)This biographical love story spans 50 years and weaves Southern charm with the force of two people committed to ending poverty housing in our world. Enjoy every page.
Barbara Metzler, author of "Passionaries: Turning Compassion into Action"

Millard and Linda Fuller and their call from the Holy Spirit within is one of the most heart-felt, moving manifestations I have had the privilege to vicariously witness through the power of the spoken word. Their story recounting their most prosperous moment's that resulted from undaunted service to humanity is riveting, as their inner-wealth floweth over with pure service. Truly he and his wife are one of life's gleaning examples of The Prayer of Jebez and the miraculous results of how one's boundaries and territories are blessedly extended to do God's work.

The House that Love Built is a warm-hearted extension of Bettie Young's compassion, and charismatic enthusiasm that showcase exemplary individuals like the Fullers who, indeed, help us all remember the beauty and magic of a Spirit-lead and conscious life.

Paula Marie Jackson, Founder, Love and Light From Within, Inc., La Jolla, California

The House that Love Built is truly a gift. Ms. Youngs follows the story of the Fullers and their founding of Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center with care and dignity in a way that makes you want to keep reading long after you finish the last line. It's not only a book that tells, it is a book that teaches us how faith, love, and trust are really what turns this world around--not money, property, and investments. In what is sadly becoming a "what's mine is mine" world, the Fullers shine like a rare jewel, showing us what the world could be with a little hard work and a lot more kindness and warmth among humankind: "what's ours is everyone's."