Home Works announces new Program Officer

Home Works of America announced the addition of Dr. Sam Marcengill to serve as Program Officer. He will be responsible for helping guide and build the Home Works model in rural areas of South Carolina and its goal to facilitate home repairs while providing learning and leadership opportunities for youth throughout the state. Sam will also help oversee day to day program ministry efforts throughout the state, bolstering Home Works’ Gospel-first approach to home repair.

Sam is a native of Greenwood, South Carolina and earned a B.S. from Lander University. He has served over 40 years in Christian ministry with a background in private counseling and Parish Ministry. Most recently, Sam served as the Pastor of Lake City United Methodist Church. He is a strong community leader involved with Self Memorial Hospital, Rotary, Pee Dee Salkehatchie and is a former board member of the Darla Moore Foundation.

Throughout his time in Lake City specifically, Sam served alongside Home Works, ministering to neighbors throughout the Pee Dee. He developed a heart for this ministry and its goal to serve local residents and is looking forward to developing Home Works, communicating its mission, and building relationships with donors, volunteers and the homeowners this program impacts each year.

Joe Huggins, Executive Director, stated “We are very proud and so excited to have Dr. Sam join our team at Home Works. He shares our passion of ministering to the community through service while building relationships with our next generation. Dr. Sam knows compassionate construction, having served with Salkehatchie for over 40 years. He brings us more capability for more ministry coupled with repairs, helping Home Works do our part to increase Affordable Housing and enhance Workforce Development the right way. Home Works has been blessed to forge new and unique friendships in the rural areas of our state, allowing us to help more homeowners in need who are out of reach. Dr. Sam will help us greatly in showing the great return on investment for donors as they give to our mission.”

About Home Works

Since 1996, Home Works, a home repair nonprofit ministry serving the citizens of South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia has provided construction services to vulnerable homeowners with a model that includes mentoring and discipling students in the process. More than 50,000 student and adult volunteers have provided hope and free home repairs to over 3,000 homeowners across the southeast region.
Home Works provides a trifecta of services: repairing the homes of low-income seniors and those in need, intentionally mentoring students, and consciously protecting the environment through energy-efficiency weatherization in partnership with utility providers. A typical homeowner served by Home Works is a widow living off $12,000 (Social Security, pension) annually. Home Works brings middle school, high school, or college youth and adult volunteers into this person’s often isolated world to provide repairs. Projects include the replacement of roofs, construction of wheelchair ramps, gutting and replacement of bathrooms, repairing ceilings, painting walls (interior/exterior), and other general home repairs.

To volunteer or donate, please visit www.homeworksofamerica.org.