Millard Fuller's Life

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Millard Fuller was an ambitious and driven businessman that became a millionaire by age 29. But his life was empty and his wife Linda threatened to leave him if things don’t change. Together they tried to save their marriage, by giving away their fortune and focus on helping the poor and lives to God’s work with a revived and dramatic sense of direction. The Fullers set out to change lives by being kind to others, speaking out, and picking up a hammer whenever and wherever they could and put someone in need in a

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