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Fuller had two half-brothers by stepmother Eunice, Nick and Doyle. Nick died in He married Linda Caldwell of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in A successful businessman and lawyer, Fuller became a self-made millionaire by age In , after giving up their wealth to refocus their lives on Christian service, Fuller and his wife, Linda, moved with their children to an interracial farming community in southwest Georgia.
Koinonia Farm, founded by Clarence Jordan in , became home to the Fuller family for five years until they moved to Zaire now the Democratic Republic of the Congo as missionaries in with the Christian Church Disciples of Christ. Upon returning to the United States, the Fullers began a Christian ministry at Koinonia Farm building simple, decent houses for low-income families in their community using volunteer labor and donations, and requiring repayment only of the cost of the materials used.
No interest was charged, as it is with traditional mortgages, and no profit was made. These same principles guided the Fullers in expanding this ministry, called Partnership Housing, into a larger scale ministry known as Habitat for Humanity International. That vision was expanded in in the founding of a new non-profit housing organization, The Fuller Center for Housing.
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By November of , he realized his symptoms had spread into his relationship with his family as well. His wife abruptly left for New York City to seek the counsel of a pastor and examine her commitment to her marriage. That event was Fuller's wake-up call.
He followed his wife to New York and they had many soul-searching conversations. The couple finally decided they would sell almost everything they owned. According to the Shirley Barnes of the Chicago Tribune, they returned home to Montgomery to "sell their home and give away their possessions, donating the proceeds to mission projects worldwide and church-related organizations. Dees eventually followed Fuller's lead; he sold the business and cofounded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Residents had only enough possessions to support a meager lifestyle.
Jordan was soon to wield great influence on Fuller's life. Beginning in , Fuller was a fund-raiser for Tougaloo College, a small, church-funded, and predominantly African-American school in Tougaloo, Mississippi. Though based in New York, Fuller traveled frequently for the school. He also took a two-month leave of absence to visit Africa with a group from the Church of Christ. The burgeoning city of Mbandaka, Zaire, made an impression on him at this time.
In , the Fuller family returned to Koinonia Farm to find it much-changed due to the harassment of neighbors. Only six inhabitants remained. Yet, the Fullers and Jordan resolved to rebuild the community somehow. They decided to start a housing partnership plan which would build small houses on plots of one half-acre each. The homes were to be built on a corner of the Koinonia parcel, and were to be sold to poor, rural families. Additionally, their faith dictated they follow the biblical edict in Exodus "If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.
Fuller and Jordan began building in , but unfortunately, Jordan was unable to see the project through. He passed away that same year. The Fullers and the other residents of Koinonia kept the dream alive, erecting 27 houses by mid Thirty-two homes were scheduled to be built on another site as well.
With the great success of the Koinonia community, the Fullers remembered the citizens of Mbandaka, Zaire, and decided to turn their attention in that direction. They spent six months preparing for their stay in Zaire, including three months in Paris to brush up on their French, which was the official language in Zaire. Fuller became the Church of Christ's Director of Development for the entire equatorial region of Zaire.
First, his team constructed several small cement-block homes. While not luxurious by any means, they were far superior to the crumbling huts the natives had previously inhabited. The Fullers and their church group also raised money for prosthetic limbs and eyeglasses for the people of Mbandaka who desperately needed them. In , Fuller and his family returned to Koinonia Farm, determined to use their experience for even bigger and better purposes. As Fuller later commented to Barnes of the Chicago Tribune, "We want to make shelter a matter of conscience.
We want to make it socially, politically, morally, and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. Government help would be enlisted for land acquisition and utilities, but the houses themselves were to be built from the donations of individuals. Habitat homes are sold to families or individuals living in substandard housing who do not earn enough to buy a home through conventional channels.
Some people mistakenly believe that Habitat gives people free homes, but as a Habitat volunteer commented to Christian Science Monitor, "We give away nothing but a great opportunity. The mortgage payments go into a fund that perpetuates the program.
Additionally, all buyers invest a set number of labor hours in their own home. Fuller calls this "sweat equity" and points out that it builds a sense of pride and ownership in the individuals. The organization has grown each year: in , the organization had eleven U. Fourteen years later, they boasted 1, affiliate groups in the United States, plus college chapters in North America, and over affiliate groups in Hungary, Poland, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific region.
In their first 15 years of operation, Habitat for Humanity built 10, homes.
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