About Morning Star Builders and Southern Living Custom Builder Program

Morning Star Builders is a member of the Greater Tomball Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau.

Morning Star Builders supports the following charities:

Outback America

Outback America is a weekend retreat for couples and families. The weekend includes outdoor activities, speakers, music, and intentional time with your loved ones.The goal of Outback is to provide a weekend of building, restoring, and strengthening relationships with your family and/or spouse.

Ted and Yvonne Cummins, owners of Morning Star Builders, have served with Outback America, alongside their children and friends, for many years. They greatly enjoy being a part of the Outback experience and being able to serve their community in that way.

Dinner and A Marriage

Operation Finally Home

Operation Finally Home is the Southern Living charity of choice. This non-profit organization serves military veterans and their families by providing them with mortgage-free homes. Using their large network of home builders, Operation Finally Home is able to build a home customized to the needs of the honorary veteran.

HomeAid Houston

HomeAid Houston is a non-profit organization that serves the larger Houston area. They are focused on helping the homeless population in Houston by providing them with shelter and necessities. HomeAid Houston works with stable, long term homeless care providers to help build and supply more facilities for the homeless.

Ted Cummins

Chief Creative Officer, CCO

Ted Cummins serves as the CCO (Chief Creative Officer) for Morning Star Builders LTD. In this position Ted brings his creative passion for award winning design to the custom home building process. He is a Graduate Master Builder (GMB) and a Certified Green Professional, a designation specified by the National Association of Home Builders which requires the completion of educational courses and experience in the building industry.Ted is a member of the Greater Houston Builder’s Association and the Custom Builders Council and for 2014 served as the President of the Custom Builders Council. He has worked with the Builders Blitz with Habitat for Humanity project in the Houston area. Ping Pong is his all time favorite sport. He is a passionate camper and kayaker.

Yvonne Cummins

President

Ted and Yvonne attend Houston’s First Baptist Church in Cypress. They volunteer as couples coaches for Outback, a ministry inspired to reconcile relationships.
Yvonne, a Certified Aging in Place Specialist (CAS) assists in universal design and creating barrier free custom homes for Morning Star clients. Other duties for Yvonne include sales, marketing, and financial administration.

Yvonne has retired as a home school teacher to sons, Heath and Blake. Heath is a sales rep for Tex Brite and Blake is a graduate from Texas A&M and financial rep for Northwestern Mutual. Yvonne’s hobbies include grand-parenting Noah and Luke, reading and scrapbooking.

Blake Cummins

Director of Business Development

Blake graduated from Texas A&M in 2014 with a Leadership degree and a minor in Business from Mays Business School. Blake’s background is rooted in relationship building and business development. He brings over 6 years of sales experience to the team. He has a strong passion for helping clients bring their dream home to life and values building relationships with each client. Blake married his wife Kelsey in 2017. They live in the Northwest Houston area with their Rhodesian Ridgeback “Crew”. Blake is an outdoor enthusiast and loves cars, motorcycles and anything with an engine. Blake and Kelsey are also very involved in their church at Bayou City Fellowship.

Angie

Office Manager

Angie came to Morning Star Builders with over 15 years of Office Management and Construction Accounting experience. She learned the ropes from her father, working side by side with him for 14 years running a General Contracting Business specializing in Commercial Construction out of Cypress, TX. Not only did her father teach her the ins and outs of the construction industry, but he also taught her how important it is to have good work ethic and valuable lessons about teamwork. Angie lives in Tomball, TX with her husband Stephen and their English Bulldog Bailey. Her favorite pastimes include evenings at home cooking and dancing in the kitchen with her husband, summer days on the lake with her family, nice evenings with friends listening to live Texas music and weekend getaways with her sisters touring the many wineries the Texas Hill Country has to offer.

Mike

Project Manager

Mike grew up in the intermountain west and after graduating from the University of Utah in Business Management/Entrepreneurship, he and wife, Kim, moved “back” to Texas, which has been Home, Sweet Home now for more than 15 years.
His building adventure began at age 21 by spending almost an entire summer framing a three-story custom farmhouse with a basement, in a small, remote southeastern Idaho rural community, apprentice to a veteran builder (Jerry), while hulled up in a century old run down shack with no running water or other amenities such as heating and air conditioning, for an uncle and his family who were relocating to the area.
Since that time, his journey of building houses has become a sort of calling – to build practical, strong and beautiful homes. He attributes his years of hands-on experience building and remodeling high end and historic homes as providing him with an intimate knowledge of how a home is constructed and, is a firm proponent of Make[ing] Craftsmanship Great Again.
He and his wife Kim, and their five children enjoy spending lots of time together both at home and in the outdoors – hiking, camping, learning, exploring, playing, serving and, of course, …sitting around the campfire!
“What We Build Defines Us.” – Brent Hull

Wes Christian

Director of Construction

Wes came to Morning Star Builders with 20 years of Construction and high-end remodeling experience. Wes is originally from East Texas where he graduated and played baseball at Angelina College. He then went to serve in the Army as he started his family. Wes has a strong passion and pride in building the highest quality home he can for each client. He is a natural teacher and loves to help people understand the process of building. Wes has a servant heart, and when you meet him, it’s extremely apparent that he cares about others. From our clients to our subcontractors, he treats everyone with same level of respect. Wes takes his work personally with pride and holds himself to the highest standards. This is one of the reasons when people ask what makes Morning Star Builders so special, our secret weapon is our team and men like Wes that represent us!

Wes has 3 children of his own and has recently been blessed with marrying his best friend Tess who also has 3 beautiful children. Their home is built from love and respect with God at the center of their household. Outside of spending time with his family, Wes is a true outdoorsman and loves to take his family hunting and fishing. Wes lives his daily life around the same core values that Morning Star represents. Our Director of Construction whose extensive knowledge as a builder paired with his profound relational skills are so rare, we are blessed to have him as part of the Morning Star Family!

Elizabeth Aubuchon

Selections Coordinator

Elizabeth graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and dedicated nine years to teaching while pursuing her passion of design and construction part time. Elizabeth has over seven years of experience in the interior design & decorating industry and has spent the past three years working in the custom home building industry as a Project and Selections Coordinator. She loves serving and building relationships with clients while helping them finalize design selections and bring their dream home to life. Elizabeth is the “favorite”, fun aunt to eight nephews and nieces! She lives in The Woodlands with her cute dog, Harley. Her favorite pastimes include traveling, trying out new restaurants around town, interior design & decorating projects, summer days at the lake with family and volunteering in the children’s ministry at her church, Grace Bible in The Heights.

Jake Rayburn

I was born in West Texas and grew up enjoying all of the outdoors and all Texas has to offer. The sunsets in West Texas are worth the trip, but other than that, its mostly wind and dust. We moved to Denver, CO when I was in 4th grade, and I learned all about winter sports. I enjoyed learning to ski and snowboard, and got really big into bike and motocross. I also played baseball as a first baseman and pitcher. Moving back to Texas in 2002 got me back to my roots and closer to home with. We have been in the Houston area ever since and got into the construction industry soon thereafter.

I have been in the home building industry for 20 years, and my favorite part of this business is getting to know people and all the relationships that I’ve built over the last two decades. I still speak with clients whom I built homes for decades ago, and I look forward to making many more connections in the future. My wife and my three boys live on the west side of Katy in Fulshear, and when I am not at work, I enjoy doing CrossFit and anything outdoors. Our boys are involved in all the sports and also enjoy participating in cub scouts. Our house if very full of action and while it can be stressful at times, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Frank Sifuentes

Frank is proud to be a part of The Morning Star Team! He brings with him 18 years of experience in home building where he has worked in several areas for example, Senior builder, Purchasing Manager as well as Project Manager. Frank is relationship driven, having a passion for working alongside his colleagues, subcontractors and his clients in order to build a high quality product. Frank is committed to serving others as he moves about his day being grateful, kind, joyful, honest and selfless! Frank is a graduate of Texas A&M in College Station, Texas! Frank is extremely knowledgeable within his craft and body of work. He continuously grows professionally by reading and learning about new and innovative building materials and techniques.
Frank was born and raised in Houston, Texas and graduated from Texas A&M in College Station, TX. Frank is an outdoorsman enjoying saltwater fishing on his kayak in the Gulf of Mexico. He is an Aggie football fan and loves watching the games alongside his oldest son! Frank has been married for 20 years to his childhood sweetheart Erin. Together Frank and Erin have 2 sons, Cruz who is 16 and Mateo who is 12. Both of Frank’s sons keep him busy and his greatest joy is watching them grow and flourish. Cruz is a scholar and football player at his high school and Mateo has brought his family joy as he has special needs. Frank is blessed to have a beautiful family as they surround him with the gifts of love every day! Frank stands firm as he lives his daily life around Morning Stars Core Values.

In today’s world of 30-minute home building and home improvement TV programs, building a home is often portrayed as an uncomplicated process where following a series of pre-determined steps leads to a finished project. However, this simplistic thought ignores the fact that the construction process is inherently fluid with weather impacting schedules and circumstances often changing daily. What separates Morning Star from most other builders is that we approach our jobs as building professionals; by calling upon our years of experience in designing and building and our pursuit of continued education, our collaboration with other professionals so we can complete your new home in a manner that is superior in design, materials and workmanship.

We understand that good design goes beyond individual products or ideas combined haphazardly with inspiration from HOUZZ or Pinterest. Rather, it more closely resembles a musical theme: an underlying melody that is displayed in such elements as an elegantly placed arch, sophisticated details, proper proportion of ceiling beams, or the crisp intersection of lines. However, we’re not content with designs that are simply architecturally pleasing; they must also function in a way that works for you and your family’s needs.

The difference is in the details… We view your home’s details as part of an overall effect. Details that applied properly, and with the utmost attention to craftsmanship, combine to complete the whole of your custom home. Details like these: a hidden room in a study, a groin ceiling in a foyer, a pocket door opening to a closet, the use of exterior door frame protection, motorized screens to enclose a porch or a sliding glass door extending your living space outside are hallmarks of a custom home.

Morning Star could build your project to the minimum standard as required by local and national building codes. Yet we are in the practice of providing projects that are built from materials of the highest quality, by contractors of the highest caliber and through methods that are of the highest standard.

Morning Star is not hoping to simply keep you satisfied through the building process. We are working toward that day—perhaps years from now when, with the benefit of hindsight, you can look back and truly appreciate the care, quality and innovation that went into building your home.