“You Are God-Sent”: Black Teacher Methany Thornton And Her Family Surprised With Furnished Home

“You Are God-Sent”: Black Teacher Methany Thornton And Her Family Surprised With Furnished Home

  • A Marietta Middle School educator has been surprised with a fully furnished home after closing on her new Habitat House
  • Methany Thornton and her husband also received $500 (GH¢5,000+) in addition to the house from the iTHINK Community Foundation
  • The mother, grandmother, and wife thanked her benefactors and prayed for God to bless them for the kind gesture

Methany Thornton, a Marietta Middle School teacher, has been surprised with a fully furnished home after closing on her new Habitat House.

The gesture was made public by Habitat for Humanity Northwest Metro Atlanta in the United States of America.

Photos of Methany Thornton and her loved ones.
African-American mum and teacher surprised with a new home. Photo credit: Wsbtv.
Source: UGC

A cash surprise

Thornton was surprised by the iTHINK Community Foundation of iTHINK Financial. The educator received keys to the newly furnished home in the presence of her family.

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The mother of a daughter, two grandsons, and her husband also received a cheque of $500 (GH¢5,000+) from the credit union for any essentials they might need when moving in.

Grateful mum

Thronton is a Social Emotional Learning Teacher at Marietta Middle School, where she has taught for more than six years. She also serves as a Cheer and Lacrosse coach.

“Thank you for all you do for people like me in the community. You truly are God-sent, and I pray that as you continue to bless others, God will bless you even more,” says Thornton, per WSBTV.

The family formerly resided in Cartersville in a townhouse with no yard for the grandchildren, but they now have a larger home just minutes from work. Congrats to them.

Man builds house

Previously, YEN.com.gh reported that a woman shared a video of her husband building a house for their family as she congratulated him.

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The rich man poured an expensive drink on the floor during the foundation work of the family home.

Blocks needed for the foundation were arranged around the perimeters the bricklayers had dug out and outlined for the house.

Ghanaian man builds wooden house

Also, YEN.com.gh previously reported that a Ghanaian man called Kingsley impressed many when he shared with the YouTube channel Build with Amoaa how he managed to build a wooden house for GH¢5,000.

He explained that the house was made of plywood and had been painted over with emulsion and water-based paints.

Kingsley added the base of the structure was made of blocks, but the house itself was made of wood.

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Source: YEN.com.gh

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.