The Hundred Story Home, Kathy Izard
The Hundred Story Home, Kathy Izard
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The Hundred Story Home
A Memoir of Finding Faith in Ourselves and Something Bigger

Author: Kathy Izard

Narrator: Ginny Welsh

Unabridged: 6 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 06/26/2018

Synopsis

What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart?Kathy Izard was volunteering at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with a homeless man changed the course of her life. She realized that serving at the soup kitchen was feeding her soul, but not actually solving the needs of the homeless population.Rather than brush it off and avoid what she now felt called to take on, she quit her job and took on what seemed like an insurmountable task—building housing for Charlotte’s homeless.Woven together with this uplifting story of social action is Kathy’s personal struggle with faith, forgiveness and fulfillment. In telling her story, Kathy invites you to consider rewriting your own.What’s calling you? As crazy at it seems, it may be crazier not to try. This book will push you to do so much more than you ever thought possible.

About Kathy Izard

Kathy Izard was an award-winning graphic designer for twenty years in Charlotte before launching the pilot program Homeless to Homes for the Urban Ministry Center in 2007.  She successfully demonstrated this Housing First program could succeed and led the city-wide effort to build Moore Place which now houses over one hundred chronically homeless men and women.  Kathy has written about her path to finding faith and a calling in The Hundred Story Home which received a 2017 Christopher Award.  Her community work has also earned the Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Local Hero Award and the NC Housing Volunteer of the Year Award.  Kathy, her husband and four daughters have made Charlotte, N.C. their home for over thirty years.  www.kathyizard.com 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda on October 25, 2016

Kathy Izard strikes three poignant and viable chords with this from-the-heart memoir. Those who have dealt with mental health issues in their family will certainly identify with the author's first-hand account of growing up with a mother with mental illness. Those who have had a heart for the homele......more

Goodreads review by Denise on October 21, 2016

This story tugged at the strings of my heart . Kathy Izard has reached into the abyss of the hard topics of discernment , homelessness and mental illness with candor and grace and pulled them into the light . The vulnerability of her story invites us all to listen for the whispers and prompts on a m......more

Goodreads review by Cara on May 20, 2017

True story of the author's unlikely involvement in becoming the main catalyst behind building a place for Charlotte's homeless to call home. She starts out as a volunteer at the Urban Ministry Center, mainly as a way to avoid going to church. She involves her husband and daughters and has a smug con......more

Goodreads review by Jill on August 14, 2018

This is a story about Kathy Izard's life that was inspired by the book "Same Kind of Different As Me" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, about their story of meeting when Denver was homeless. Kathy starts the book off by talking about her life growing up, how she met her husband, and her children. She th......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on October 22, 2017

Kathy Izard does a wonderful job describing her personal journey to help the homeless population in Charlotte, NC. The story of her faith, her family, and her accomplishments is inspirational. It is deserving of a 4.5, if Goodreads gave such an option, and definitely is a read worth discussing in fa......more

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