Jennifer, a 42-year-old single mom of two boys, was born and raised in Rochester. Jennifer came to Habitat for Humanity after all efforts failed to find an affordable home for her little family. 

 

After overcoming adversity in many different avenues during her life, in 2012, Jennifer moved from Rochester to South Bend for 6 years to pursue college to become a Medical Laboratory Technician. Shortly before graduating college, she found out that Hudson was on the way, and she wanted to raise him in the community she was raised in. So, she moved back to Rochester in 2018, the year Hudson was born and has been in the same home ever since. After thinking Hudson would be the only child for many years, Luca came along in February of 2023. Ever since then, the boys have become bigger and the house she currently lives in is getting smaller. Looking far and wide for a bigger place to rent or even buy, there was nothing affordable. After thinking about it for quite some time, Jennifer put in her application for a Habitat for Humanity home as a last-ditch effort to give her boys a place to call home, where they could have their own rooms, a big yard, and even a kitchen table to eat dinner at as a family! In October of this year, God and Habitat for Humanity came through with answers! God has shown His blessings to her family this year in many ways, and she is looking forward to what He has planned for her new home and the future with her boys. 

 

Jennifer currently is employed with Beacon Health Systems as a Medical Laboratory Technician and has been there for 5 and a half years. Hudson attends Columbia Elementary and is in kindergarten. He loves learning. And Luca attends daycare and loves to get into anything he is not supposed to! In fact, his nickname is "Fingers"! Her and her boys attend Heartland Church in Rochester.