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Matthew Goltl
  • Class of 2020
  • Wichita, Kan.

Ten Concordia University students, including Matthew Goltl, serve on Habitat for Humanity trip.

2018 Apr 4

Ten students from Concordia University, Nebraska, spent their spring break serving in Colorado on a Habitat for Humanity trip, along with two Seward County Habitat volunteers.

The students stayed and worked in Woodland Park, Colorado with the Teller Habitat for Humanity's Brush with Kindness program, where they helped to repair and improve a habitat house that had become run-down. Additionally, they worked in the Habitat office as they prepared for celerations and cleaned up rooms at the Colorado Lions Camp.

"Habitat for Humanity just has such a good ideology of putting other people first," said Concordia senior, Hannah Gillet, the leader of the trip. "It was great to serve another community and the manual labor and skills that can build them up."

"It's nice to give back in this way," said freshman Bethany Gillet. "We don't just build a house and leave either, but we focused on how to help people long term by teaching them how to manage their finances, get jobs, and keep the house running."