North Texas residents reflect on former President Jimmy Carter’s work with Habitat for Humanity.

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Reflecting on the life and ministry of former President Jimmy Carter, CBS 11 looked at the impact he had on North Texas.

On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that after several hospitalizations, the former president is now in hospice care at his home, where he is surrounded by family.

“He is busy. He doesn’t sit and chat, he goes to work,” said Gage Yager, CEO of Trinity Habitat for Humanity.

In 2014, at the age of 90, former President Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter did just that. They chose DFW Metroplex as the site for their Habitat for Humanity International project by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in 2014.

Wearing a red bandana and tool belt, he set to work. Working alongside hundreds of Habitat for Humanity volunteers in Fort Worth and Dallas, the 98-year-old helped build 30 homes in the East Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas and 20 homes in the Central Meadowbrook neighborhood of Fort Worth.

“When families start crying for joy, we almost always cry,” Carter said while volunteering in Fort Worth in 2014.

Yager remembers what it was like listening to the former president’s speech.

“The electricity in the room gives me goosebumps,” Yager said.

But Carter’s work with Habitat for Humanity spoke even more than words.

“Me and all Habitat affiliates across the country stood on the shoulders of a giant,” Yager said.

Not everyone can say the president helped build their home, but the Wills can.

“They had houses on this street numbered one through ten, and ours was number one, and they called it the Carter House because President Carter himself worked on it,” said Jacqueline Wills.

She says she is grateful to Habitat for Humanity and the Carters for their work.

“It’s been such a blessing, everyone knows there’s a need for affordable housing,” Wills said. “It just gave us, as workers, a chance to become homeowners.”

She remembers what it was like to help build her home with the president and first lady.

“It was a humiliating experience, but we are honored that he and his wife are working here with us,” Wills said. “I will never forget this and will be in full debt to him for the rest of my life.”