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Another great week, so many volunteers all over, our Retirees HOPES group, our volunteers from West Point, our high school volunteers, all ages, all wanting to help build simple decent homes!

With that in mind we continue….our #Chappaqua homes are moving ahead in great progress..lots to do, lots of funds to raise, lots of fun, changing the history of families lives forever..not only the family partners,

But our own lives as we volunteer.

Success is measured in how we help one another…what we do to give and serve..be it in our congregation, or in our family or personally.

We are in a crisis of affordable housing right now…we have to change that no question. NY is the highest and hardest place to live in the country, yet a drop in the bucket of affordable homes are being made, while

Luxury continues….our leaders say they care with lifetime pensions and political contributions, while people are stuffed into basements, burned out of apt buildings and saying, when can we leave.

This is a God movement, no question, a ministry, an effort of love of swinging hammers and helping to build! or riding a bike..like Ken Fuirst who rode across the country to raise money on his bike and built a home with his company.

Or like Patrick Molloy who helped us in Mamoroneck in the floods and 7 years later a retired carpenter , came back and says I need to help…now in Chappaqua deconstructing,

Like Mary Bonner, who comes in daily for 25 years helping us run our operations and restore, with prayers, persistence and love.

Like Josh Collado a senior in Newrochelle high school, who said, let me help you Jim run your event..help you build.. help you make it happen, help you run a Harlem Wizards event, to help support all we do in NewRochelle..

Like the thousands who help us from Congregation Kol Ami, to Holy Family, to First Presbyterian MtVernon, to upon this Rock, to Fordham University and so many

We continue..what are you waiting for,…get habititis,. Get the Ruah, the Holy Spirit the theology of the Hammer….lives depend upon it, joy comes from swinging and giving…

God Bless you!

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

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Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester on February 6 at 4p.m. for a Mardi Gras celebration at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801! We will have live music, authentic New Orleans style food, and much more! All proceeds for the event will go towards the revival of a home in New Orleans!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Be part of the “Soulution” today..i think God gives us Soulutions everyday..its up to us to listen and act on them, to see every human you meet as part of them and to join in making the world better daily..

May sound funny, but that’s how we roll here in Habitat of Westchester  …all things intentional for our good, the goodLord does it for us, according to the song..we believe it.

If not Habitat ofWestchester should have been gone years ago..no affordable homes, yet we still build.

Hud Lawsuits, though we have built in Somers, Larchmont, Bedford Poundridge, without any monitor.

Few resources overshadowed by nycs constant attention, yet we have worked on 2000 homes from here to the rockaways and Peekskil

We need a solution in our life daily,..it starts with Prayer..like Nehemiah who said he would rebuild cities..like our Lord who knelt to pray in the garden, or mother Teresa who I met years ago in Newark, who would pray, orlike Millard and Linda Fuller founders of Habitat..then we need to act! The answers come every day but we need to act.

We need to pick up a hammer,we believe every youth of all ages, 10-100 should know how to build..

We believe that everyone is a philanthropist to donate one dollar or 1000 or yes 1 million dollars..

We are all put on earh to change the obscene situation that 75000 people are in shelters tonite within ten milles ofmy office..

That 2acre zoning continues to stop simple decent homes being built in towns like harrison…

That politics hides soulutions as we follow leaders with little action.

That faith in action needs to happen, be it Iona or Shiloh Baptist, or Temple Israel of Kol Ami.

We need to change things now..

 

With that in mind is Soultion Saturday! What are you waiting for..call me 914 403 4821, or donate today http://www.habitatwc.org God bless you

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester as they honor our Veterans who have served, and are serving. Habiat for Humanity of Westchester’s 3^rd annual “Love a Veteran” celebration is this Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm  located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801.

 

Donations are always appreciated: carepackages and valentine cards will be done at the event….food will be provided.

 

 

 

 

 

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Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

Spring into action; the next 25 years!