Our Story

Our Vision:

To lead and inspire others to fulfill their dreams and goals.  

This is our vision for both employees and customers. For our employees, it means creating a work environment that supports their personal and professional growth. For customers, it means helping to build your dream home, or simply helping to fix a leaky faucet.  

Our Mission:

To provide exceptional service to our co-workers, customers, and community while honoring our Creator.  

Our Values:  

• Christ-like servant leadership.  

• Uncompromising quality.  

• Building relationships.  

Community Businesses have several characteristics:

1. Built on trust. Just like our tagline says.  
2. Community members listen deeply and work together. Together, community members share more information, get more feedback, and make decisions as a group.
3. Built around the unique gifts of their members. Keim is committed to training and developing skills within its employees and community.  
4. Uses contracts, but also covenants. In a covenant, members don't necessarily expect something in return like one does with a contract. Covenantal relationships lead to reliance on each other, which is a hallmark of true community.  
5. Focuses on care for God’s creation. Community Businesses work to develop their energy and food locally, as well as to eliminate and recycle their own waste.  
6. Focuses on local culture and economy. We invest in and work collectively to provide markets for locally-produced products and enable local entrepreneurs to have access to markets that would not otherwise be available to them.  We also care for our employees’ families by developing policies and practices that give our employees time to spend with family and community activities.* 

*For example, people often wonder about our unusual hours for a home center (closing at 4:30 PM Tuesday – Friday and noon on Saturdays).  At Keim, family dinners and community activities are important to our community and a foundation of home life. Closing our doors at these times allows our employees to be at home for dinner or attend local events.