Perinton Congregations Habitat for Humanity was started in 1998 when Flower City Habitat asked Perinton Ecumenical Ministries, Inc., a coalition of 13 local churches, to hold an informational meeting. Within a year, ground was broken for two homes on Cuba Place, formerly a drug-infested neighborhood in Rochester. The parishioners of the church of St. John of Rochester raised $50,000 and provided the workers to build one house. Four other churches—Church of Assumption, Fairport United Methodist Church, Church of the Resurrection and Perinton Community Church--combined efforts to raise $50,000 and provide workers to build the second house.

In 2004 Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Church of Assumption, Fairport United Methodist Church, Mountain Rise United Church of Christ, Perinton Presbyterian Church, and St. John of Rochester Church worked together to raise $55,000 to build a house on Fulton Avenue. That same year Perinton Congregations Habitat for Humanity was accepted as one of the ministries of Ecumenical Ministries of Perinton, Inc., sponsored by the same 13 churches that organized the informational meeting in 1998. For the past two years, the same group of churches, with the addition of First Congregational United Church of Christ, has been raising $65,000 to build our fourth house. Groundbreaking will take place this spring near Paetec Park.

Perinton Congregations Habitat for Humanity plans to continue the cycle of raising money and recruiting volunteers to build homes for Flower City Habitat every few years.