Kirk Lyman-Barner is director of U.S. field operations for the Fuller Center for Housing based in Americus, GA.
Kirk founded Almost Heaven Habitat for Humanity in Pendleton Co., W. Va., and was its executive director for 11 years, leading it to be recognized as the most productive rural Habitat affiliate. Kirk develops, organizes and nurtures newly forming covenant partners in cities in the U.S. and Canada, where concerned groups have come together and asked to join the Fuller Center. He also assists covenant partners with construction, administration, organization and training.
The foreclosure crisis is a national disaster. The Christian Church should treat it as such and respond.