 Six years ago, I auctioned off my tiny house in San Diego, California to raise funds to help to build a community for people experiencing homelessness. I'm so excited to say that I'm here today at this community that is nearly complete thanks to the hard work of Amika's and the Meridian Baptist Church and the City of Alcohol. There are six sleeping cabins behind me and I am excited to show you one of them as well as the garden and introduce you to a little bit of the team. So, come on in. The purpose of these units is to provide housing for women and their children who are experiencing homelessness. And you walk in here and you can feel the sense of peace that you have having your own space to heal and to have time to yourself. You can really feel it inside here. It's truly beautiful. So the units are 12 by 12. They're not really big but they provide the basic needs. Inside is 8 by 12 and then the outside is 4 by 12. Each of the cabins has a porch and what you'll notice about the porch is that they're all facing in towards the center. And the idea of that is to create a sense of community that brings people together. And towards the back there's a garden that's being built right now to be able to grow some of their own food and just to be able to heal with the beauty of nature. So I want to introduce you to some of the people who really have made this all possible over the last six years of hard work. And I'm really excited to say that this is going to be fully complete. It's looking like the summer. So, hey everyone. Hi Ram. Good to see you. Hi there. I'm Lisa Cogan with Amicus. Hi, I'm Roland Slade. I'm a pastor here at Meridian Baptist Church and a board member with Amicus. Chris Scott involved in the program for building these houses. One of the most important concepts in these emergency sleeping cabins is this door with that lock. Having privacy, a quiet and safe place to rest once head is the first step in getting one's life back on track. With the shortage of housing and places for people to stay that are living unsheltered, it's time for us to be creative. And so this is a creative venture on the property here at Meridian Baptist Church. I'd like to go inside and show you a little bit about the construction system. You see how there's a groove on each side. The material that we take out of there means that we don't have to go into the forest again to pick up cartons for Amazon and wood for Ikea furniture. And it makes everything go together. This is much stronger. You've got more insulation than the conventional houses. That's about 5% and that's probably close to $100 a year every year forever. That means there's less fuel going into all of these houses. You notice how quiet and cool it is compared to the outside. It's very useful for volunteers because it's much easier for them to put something together. If you notice there's no machinery here at all basically you're just using an electric screwdriver. So it's just a very different approach. You know these cabins are safe and secure unlike people living on the street where if they were to leave to go to a medical appointment or try to find a job, their things will be stolen or thrown away. Now people can lock the door. They can go to the much needed doctor's appointments. They can meet with their case managers. They can go out looking for jobs. It's going to change people's lives. Feeling safe and secure is the first step. One of the beautiful things about this is it's a community that's within the community. It is, yes, here on the church property and the building community here they're also going to have support of the community that's our congregation and then again extending out to the prayer community around us in the city. As we say it takes a village and this village is really going to be it's being birthed out of the efforts of all of us together to make a difference in the lives of people. It's so exciting and hopeful to see this coming together with six years of hard work and I'm so excited for the months ahead for people to start moving in and for this community to be a place of healing and happiness and community ahead. So thank you all for the hard work you've been putting in.