Family to Celebrate ‘Life-Changing’ Move to Cornerstone Creek with Home Dedication at 2 p.m. TODAY, May 15, 2025, in Oklahoma City.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Audry C., a paralegal and mother of three, describes moving into her new Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity home as “life-changing” for her and her children after more than six years of renting a less-than-ideal home with faulty wiring, sagging floors, and rodent and bug problems.
“I want a nice, safe and stable home for my children,” Audry said. “Buying a Habitat home is life-changing for us and while our living conditions haven’t always been great, I have made the best of it to keep my children in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Providing a safe, stable new home for my family will be such a blessing for us.”
Audry and her children, Kayden S., age 13, Kingston S., age 10, and Korryn S., age 7, will celebrate the dedication of their new home with Habitat staff at 2 p.m. TODAY, May 15, 2025, at Cornerstone Creek in Oklahoma City. Comfortworks Inc., a long-time contractor for Habitat that also sponsored the home build, plans to have representatives attend the celebration. They will join a clergy member offering prayers and blessing the new home and community members who will bestow housewarming gifts.
Audry said that part of fulfilling her required 100 sweat equity hours building her own or others’ homes with Habitat meant she was onsite when Comfortworks Inc. volunteers framed her home in late January 2025.
“It was a great day – they are all so kind and helpful that I sent them a thank-you card and invited them to the home dedication,” Audry said. “I want to thank them for coming and for all their great support! My home is the first one they’ve ever sponsored, and I greatly appreciate it.”
Comfortworks Inc., a top geothermal HVAC contractor, has installed geothermal systems in hundreds of Central Oklahoma Habitat’s affordable homes for nearly two decades. Comfortworks Vice President Chris Ellis started the company in 2007 and recalls personally installing ClimateMaster geothermal systems in Habitat’s first big green neighborhood, Hope Crossing, in northeast Oklahoma City.
CUTLINE 2: Comfortworks owners Chris Chavez, Chris Ellis, Dan Ellis, and Wes Wostal are pictured at their Oklahoma City headquarters. (Tom Fox is not pictured.)
Today, Comfortworks has grown to 55 employees with an ownership/leadership team comprised of Ellis, his father, Chairman Dan Ellis, President Chris Chavez, Vice President Wes Wostal, and Principal Engineer Tom Fox. Chris Ellis said Comfortworks had a successful year in 2024 and decided to sponsor the home build as a company.
“It was a really good year for us as a business, and for the first time, we were in a position to sponsor a home build,” Chris Ellis said. “Naturally, we wanted to give to Habitat first.”
He said over 25 Comfortworks Inc. employee volunteers helped build Audry’s home in Cornerstone Creek, Habitat’s newest and largest affordable housing development.
“It was a great day for Comfortworks’ first sponsored home build,” Chris Ellis said. “Our employee volunteers shared camaraderie and fellowship, got to meet Audry, the homeowner, and got to know her story – we feel like part of the family.”
Habitat Chair/CEO Ann Felton Gilliland said Comfortworks’ hard work and sponsorship reflect the company’s dedication to helping limited-to-moderate-income families become homeowners.
“We highly value our partnership with Comfortworks, but not just because of their home-build sponsorship,” Felton Gilliland said. “Their overall support reflects their commitment to sustainable, affordable housing solutions while fostering community growth and environmental stewardship.”
She said Habitat has built about 25 of the 91 homes slated for the Cornerstone Creek’s Phase I project. The nonprofit is also raising money to fund Phase II of the development, which will pay for installing the infrastructure needed to build 210 more homes. When complete, Cornerstone Creek will have 450 affordable homes, three parks with workout stations and a gazebo. Cornerstone Creek’s residents can send their children to Piedmont, Oklahoma’s excellent schools.
Companies and organizations interested in sponsoring a home build or donating to Habitat should visit www.cohfh.org/make-a-donation/ or call 405-232-4828. Habitat’s two programs, New Home Construction and Critical Home Repair, always need volunteers. To sign up, go to www.helpmyhabitat.com. Media questions? Please contact: Kevan Goff-Parker, director of Communications, 405-595-2809 (Direct); 405-514-3972 (Cell) kevan.goff-parker@cohfh.org (Email)
CUTLINE 3: (L-R) Chairman Dan Ellis and Chris Chavez, company president, set a frame with the help of other employee volunteers