When Jimmy Carter, America’s oldest living president, fell at his Georgia home Sunday, suffering a black eye and requiring 14 stitches, it would have been entirely understandable if he’d opted not to join longtime Habitat for Humanity supporters Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood and Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford for this week’s house build in Nashville. But he showed up, with a swollen eye and bandaged forehead, and got right to work.
“President Carter is amazing and he is such a role model,” says Reckford. “I got an early morning notice on Sunday that he had had a fall and had to go get stitches at the hospital. And we were of course deeply concerned, first for him. And then I got a note from him saying, ‘Of course I'm coming to build.’ And I rode up with him on Sunday, and he's great. He gave devotions [Monday], he was amazing at our opening, and he built yesterday and is behind us building today.
Brooks laughingly says that even at his advanced age, and even with an injury, President Carter is “going to outwork you. I'm not being modest here, trust me. I'm not being humble. I'm being honest. He's going to outwork you every time he comes on the job site. … Jonathan and I can show you a billion stories. We were down in Haiti, it's a hundred and I don't know, it's boiling down there, and the roofs are metal.
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