Photo by Mimi Maddock Members of Forest Lake Presbyterian Church work on the Habitat for Humanity House. Forest Lake Presbyterian Church, joined by Westminster Presbyterian Church and North Trenholm Baptist Church in Columbia are all building Habitat for Humanity houses in their parking lots, right across the street from each other on Trenholm Road. Part of the October Habitat for Humanity building blitz, both houses will soon be moved to sites in the Rockgate Community where they'll be completed at the final home sites.

Forest Lake and Westminster Presbyterian Churches have built their house on three consecutive Saturdays and finished Saturday, Sept. 20. This is the second year in a row that Forest Lake Presbyterian Church has built a Habitat house, but the first partnership with Westminster Presbyterian Church. Trenholm Road Baptist Church built its first Habitat house during a four- day period beginning Wednesday, Sept. 17, and finishing Saturday, Sept. 20.

The churches held a cookout at noon, Saturday, Sept. 20, to celebrate the final stages of construction by both work teams. More than 100 volunteers were on hand to complete the necessary construction on the houses to ready them for the move to Rockgate.