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Bay to Beach Builders break ground for Home for Hope

September 25, 2016

At a recent groundbreaking ceremony Sept 13 near Bridgeville, local home builder Bay To Beach Builders Inc. celebrated together with their trade partners as they began construction on the first Home for Hope ever built in the State of Delaware. 

Bay To Beach Builders Inc., along with their trade partners, will be constructing this home with the goal of donating the proceeds to Homes for Hope, a nonprofit organization that, together with HOPE International, provides financial resources and support to help alleviate physical and spiritual poverty in 16 developing countries around the world. 

“It’s an honor to have been selected to build the first Homes for Hope in Delaware. This is an amazing program,” said Deric Parker, owner of Bay to Beach Builders Inc. Founded in 1999, Homes for Hope works within the homebuilding industry, forming partnerships with builders and their trade partners to create revenue generating projects which provide financial support for HOPE International’s microeconomic development programs across the globe.

To date, homebuilders and trade partners around the country have completed over 100 homes, raising over $10 million in charitable contributions. With their assistance, HOPE has been able to offer an estimated one million loans aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty for aspiring entrepreneurs in 16 countries around the world. 

Bay to Beach Builders was started and runs on Christian principals, and their Amish-built homes offer clients a level of quality they just can’t find anywhere else. The owners, Deric and Carla Parker, are a fifth generation Delmarva Peninsula family invested in their community. Not only are they invested in their local community, they are also investing in their global community. They know that families living on less that $5 per day aren’t able to provide for the most basic of needs, but it’s not because they aren’t capable. It’s because the capital needed to start a business is not available. At least not at a fair rate, and they are doing something about this injustice. 

The Parkers believe “God calls us to love our neighbor whether it’s right here in our ZIP code or on the other side of the world. The best way we have found to do that is through Homes For Hope. We are loving the poor by sending a clear message through the services of HOPE International.” 

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