Inaugural Home in a Month: The Acostas
The Acostas
A local couple’s daughter called Hometown Missions to see if we could help her parents with some repairs on their home. Roy and Louisa Acosta had lived in their original home for 60 years. The home was no longer safe with the kitchen sink and cabinets having crashed through the floor of the house as well as other major concerns.
After Hometown Missions determined these issues could not be repaired, in fact the whole house was beyond redemption, it was decided that a new home would be constructed with family and community, and it would be done in 30 days.
Thus Home in a Month was born.
Planning for the project began in March 2021 and in mid-August the Acostas old home was demolished.
Everything was pre-built and then constructed on-site in just one month.
The Acosta family moved into their new home on October, 4th 2021.
This project brought a community together. A community in 2021 still dealing with a global pandemic and how best to recover and return to normal. A community divided and some loss of trust in their neighbors. What a new safe and healthy home provided to Roy and Louisa and their family is clear to see by anyone passing by, but what this home provided the community of Drippings Springs as whole, bringing neighbors together to share talents, time, and treasure to accomplish a major feat of love and generosity, is probably even greater.
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