Thrivent Builds WorldwideFR Ambassador Trip – El Salvador

April 26 – May 4, 2014

Our team

Thrivent Financial

• Not-for-profit organization of Christians.• 2.4 million members.• Fortune 500 organization.• Products and services to help members

protect their financial security and provide for their families.

• Programs to help members give back to their congregations and communities.

Habitat for Humanity International

• A nonprofit, Christian housing ministry that builds decent, affordable homes.

• Has built more than 500,000 homes through affiliates and volunteers throughout the world.

• Completes a home somewhere in the world every 24 minutes.

• Families selected based on level of need, partnership, and ability to repay their no-profit, no-interest loan.

Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity• Mission partnership between Thrivent

Financial® and Habitat for Humanity® International.

• Since Thrivent Builds began, over $200 million dollars has been given to Habitat.

• Provides a “hand up” to people who lack decent shelter and helps them achieve greater economic independence.

• Offers many ways to get involved.

Thrivent Builds Worldwide

• Travel domestically or abroad to work with Habitat affiliates and partner families.

• Volunteers immerse themselves in another culture.

• Build simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with the families who will live in them.

• Trips last a weekend to two weeks• Enjoy free time, local tours and outdoor

activities.

A hand up, not a hand out

• Volunteers work side by side with homeowners to build homes.

• Homeowners put in hundreds of hours of labor building their home, as well as homes for others.

• Homeowners buy their homes with no-profit, no-interest mortgages.

• Their mortgage payments are used to build more homes.

Where We Traveled – El Salvador

El Salvador Housing Need

Many families struggle to meet basic needs

Nearly half of the population lives in substandard housing

Habitat for Humanity El Salvador

A typical Habitat home for a partner family

Thrivent Builds Worldwide El Salvador Community

Arrival - Saturday

Worship at a Lutheran Church - Sunday

Our hotel for the week

Starting to Build - Monday

Each home has: two bedrooms, a main living room, a back

patio with a sink, and a small bathroom.

Tour of a typical Habitat home

On the Build Site

Not a typical day at the office!

On the Build Site

Visit to Villa Esperanza - Tuesday

Time with the children

More Building

Saying Adios - Friday

Fun Times Together

At the Beach!

My Thoughts

Help build with Thrivent Builds Worldwide!El Salvador Community costs: • Members of Thrivent Financial: $675

– Receive a $355 discount (+ travel)– It’s the power of membership in action!

• Nonmembers: $1,030 (+ travel)• Your donations will help build more homes.

– Go to www.habitat.org/donation/ and click on “Donate Online.” Before you submit your donation, please “Designate Your Gift” to the Habitat National Office of El Salvador.

Other trips online at ThriventBuilds.com!

To learn more

• Visit ThriventBuilds.com

• Call me at [PHONE NUMBER]

• Read our team blog at http://frap13.blogspot.com

¡Gracias!