{"id":4138,"date":"2009-02-04T10:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T16:56:52","slug":"habitat-for-humanity-founder-buried-in-shipping-crate-without-headstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/habitat-for-humanity-founder-buried-in-shipping-crate-without-headstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat for Humanity Founder Buried in Shipping Crate, Without Headstone"},"content":{"rendered":"
During the moments I take to write this blog entry, Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity<\/a> and an international beacon for the poor and the do-gooding prosperous alike, is finding his final resting place at Koinonia Farm in Georgia. He died earlier this week at 74<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Millard Fuller impacted my life profoundly — lastingly — as he did countless others.<\/p>\n [social_buttons]Eleven years ago, as a college student, a young American from the Midwest, I traveled to Honduras on a Habitat for Humanity International building opportunity. It was my first experience outside of my home country. It shed light on worldly truths I had never before been able to so accurately imagine. <\/p>\n In 2006, on a personal pilgrimage of sorts, living in a 1973 Volkswagen bus while driving thousands of miles of the American interior, I happened across Fuller (and his often-times partner, President Jimmy Carter) at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.<\/a><\/p>\n