Working Vacation

Working 10-hour days, sleeping in a church and eating lots of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Payne and his crew of 15 rebuilt two homes that Habitat had started before the storm, installing plumbing and wiring, and putting up walls, siding and roofs. They also put in slabs for two new houses.

“I found it to be very fulfilling,” he says. “I just came away feeling really great.”