Perinton Congregations Habitat for Humanity was started in 1998 when Flower City Habitat asked Ecumenical Ministries of Perinton, 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.

In 2008 the same group of churches, with the addition of First Congregational United Church of Christ, raised $65,000 to build a fourth house on Grape Street. Groundbreaking for our fifth house will take place this spring.

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.