For first-time Vicksburg homeowner and Habitat for Humanity home recipient Regina Shelton, “Nothing is like owning your own home.”

Shelton and her three children cut the ribbon to their new home at 1005 Stadium Drive Saturday after a two-year process, thanks to the Warren County chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit Christian organization that aids people in attaining homes worldwide.

“This is a dream come true,” said the 39-year-old Shelton.

The Sheltons’ house dedication is for the second of three Habitat houses on Stadium Drive and the chapter’s 22nd house built since its inception in 1991. The first of the three on Stadium Drive, at 1009 for Towanna Anderson and her family, was in June 2009 and the last, at 1007 for Helen Hardges and her family, will be dedicated Saturday at 10 a.m.

“The work is still in progress,” said Abraham Green, executive director of the Warren County Habitat for Humanity. “We hope to have it completed within two weeks when we can take it to the city for the final inspection.”

He said the kitchen cabinets and the home’s central heating and air still need to be installed, and the bathrooms need some final touch-ups.

As Habitat recipients, Shelton and her children, Canesha, a freshman at Hinds Community College, Desmond, a junior at Warren Central High School, and De’corian, a second-grader at Sherman Avenue Elementary School, helped build their own house.

“We did some of everything,” Shelton said. “We helped put down the flooring. We helped put up the insulation. We painted the walls.”

They had some help from community volunteers, too.

“We had some professional builders come in, like plumbers and electricians, but from that point, we had the community help,” Green said. “The fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi, the social science and criminal justice departments at Alcorn (State University) and Bowmar Baptist Church came and helped. But the core group who came out every Wednesday night was First Presbyterian Church.”