Millard Fuller continues to be eulogized in great articles across the world and country…if you want to be rich, wrote Regina Brett, you have to give away your money..she writes. An article about a family in Newark in the Star Ledger talks about the family on Sussex Avenue…a place I know well…where two famous Christians visited…Millard Fuller and Mother Teresa….i had the blessings to both with Habitat on Sussex Avenue after it had been transformed from a war zone back when I Met Mother Teresa there with her sisters on Sussex Avenue. I had volunteered on that street in Newark helping the homeless there, with a school made into a womens shelter and soup kitchen at St. Augustines Church….you would make sure you left by a certain time of the day…or else, things could happen…but I had worked most Saturdays helping there..helping to make sure that a good meal could be had by all…they kept people alive…and then later…15 years later, I would see a neighborhood transformed with Habitat for Humanity, with homes being built all over the area…..homeownership has kicked out drugs and prostitutes in many areas I have worked in and stabilized neighborhoods with increased caring, communitcation, taxes, and the love of families and the equity of the bank of the American Dream, a home….
This Sunday morning.. I go to see Iona College students who are working on our Brush with Kindness project in Mt. Vernon, inspiring..to see people working on helping another place where formerly homeless men live in a shelter..in a city that needs help and caring…here in Westchester County and where we may be getting a home donated to us to move in a family….so pray today for Millard and Mother Teresa, for the families in Sussex Avenue in Newark, and Howard Avenue in Peekskill and 3rd Avenue in Mt Vernon….Gods creation has come anew because of people like Millard and Mother Teresa and with your prayers and with your hearts and hands and help..it will continue to be renewed on this earth..so all may go to bed at nite in a simple decent home.. God bless, jjk
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