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Its Habitat Tuesday…getting ready to raise support for our  work,…Ask Ask Ask..we have to..God gives us the power to Ask to be BOLD TO BUILD..can you help us be BOLD TO BUILD!

By askng for a sponsorship for our Oct 19^th event..for our golf tournmant, for sponsorship of a home!  For that plumber to donate ..to help us, the electrician..that is what happened…to us all..

We are in need of your help today to finish so many homes..just a BOLD ASK to that friend you know can help….God will bless it..BE BOLD TO BUILD TODAY!

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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Today an early Sat before our board meeting..like I have written before, thousands across the world go to volunteer on Habitat homes today..its HABITAT SATURDAY!!! So many help us..

Like Grenwich High school..today as well as others..we all work together..no question..we make it happen..tomorrow Iona Prep, and volunteers..what a great world.

This Habitat Sat..homes are being built in Paterson NJ New York city, Haiti, El Salvador, S. Central La, Belfast, DR, Cornwall Ct, Puerto Rico, Mexcio and all over the world…those are some of the Habitat sites I have helped build on..as well as so many more…so its Habitat Sat…our board meets, then out to the sites, then a meeting with Mary and Sobeida of our local lpc committee for Yonkers..then a meeting with Bronxville Reformed Church…..our Hurricane Appeal letter just went out too….God is so good to us..

We appreciate all you do to help us..join us a Habitat Saturday wont you..ifyou haven’t.or a Sunday or a Mon..or anyday../every day is a blessed day in Habitat! God bless you…we are Repairers of the breach..

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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Is govt too big..can we solve problems…sometimes when I go to local meetings like the village of Mamoroneck..things such as home rule and army corps of engineers work or lack thereof, seem to logjam possible solutions for local communities..not by us, we are happy to be able to see people move ahead..with our volunteer work, with our volunteer sweat equity..one of the solutions that can move things ahead..or too political. I believe this is a time that we need to change the way we operate, a time of volunteerism, and unpaid politicians..lets see what happens.. we have to fight. God bless you…

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

FW: 911 blog tenth anniversary

The world as we know it has changed…forever  because of 911..

May we be better and blessed in all we do.

I just come from my Muslim friend.Ahmed..salaam I say..at the local deli..can I help today he says..build with you..i say of course…

Christiain Jew Muslim, hindi, no faith..all welcome in the Theology of the Hammer, the Theology of loving one another, of working together, of changing communities, ..together and in turn our own live..dont you think God wants this..

 

We are not here to tear down but build up, not to let run down, but rise up…not to let spirits fall, but HOPE arise.

We dedicate this to our Veterans, returning and here, like Douglas Stephen Hall, who was an amputee last nite..who I met prayed with and gave support..he gratefully said, please pray for me…I told him we were building for him…are you building up or tearing down.

 

Are we building up daily in our lives or tearing down..that is the 911 question, with each other, within our homes…and  more.. we will rise, we will be Repairers of the Breach…we will see a new Jerusalem, a new Westchester a new life..may we take this clarion call this tenth anniversary of 911.. pray for us, help us support us..

http://www.habitatwc.org God bless and keep you and build you up today…..

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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Ok Tuesday after Labor Day..all weekend..we worked.I worked…all good, all blessed, proud and honored to be able to work with families who need help, who need support who needed our hurricane help..thats what we did, that’s what we do, as well as changing neighborhoods all together,    changing lives all together..changing volunteers live…thanks to Darlene, and Tina, to Chuck and to George, to all who helped so much..what a weekend, to J Teen and Relig..

We couldn’t have made progress without you..to that end, we continue..we pray, we act, we need your support..email Hurricane@habitatwc.org …and also ifyou want tohelp for 911 email jim@habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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What a week..seems like a month..hurricane hits last Sunday..stayed up whole nite..thru..helping to see so many suffer…seeing people underwater, rivers flow thru streets…see our YouTube Habitat of Westchester channel as well as CNN I report…we recoup, we deploy staff, troops..we have no money for it, but we do it..

We move ahead..we continue..then 911 comes..we have five hundred volunteers ready to help..ready to be deployed on hurricane homes, on homes, on sheetrock delivery and more..

We are so blessed to walk to have food to help others….think of Somalia, think of Haiti, think of how much we still have…God bless you all…we need your support and donations now..…http://www.habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

FW: tenth anniversary of habitat blog

Our volunteers for ten years of service for the tenth anniversary have now included Roosevelt High, Iona Prep, Iona College, IBM Homesite insurance, Normandy real estate, Navy recruits, software guidance, woodland temple, Dobbs Ferry Lutheran and many more..what a blessing.

 

Chris Smith called, I want to get my soccer team out…he brings them out this Wed thirty strong, helping us..moving ahead..

What a great blessing this is! Thanks Chris!

 

Yesterday Sunday I worked with Ivan, Junior, Ramseys, Christopher, local residents and family members of Stewart Place and Ashburton, working on our community garden again..helping out, making it look beautiful again. What a great day..we also worked with Zaih who helped us..all afternoon. Cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant peppers were all given to community neighbors.  What a blessing!

Why community gardens..there is no fresh food in our neighborhoods. Over the yeasr I have developed a “third eye” if you will, looking at the whole neighborhood…our homes get built but there may no supermarkets..only bodegas.  We want our families healthy  and believe every student should grow food in the hood..while living in decent homes.  To this end we grow!

 

Would you sponsor one of our gardens? Would you sponsor a window today, would you help us? God bless you all, God bless my friends in the hood..my brothers..my sister Zaiah, all who help make this a better place!

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

FW: blog

Each day is gift..last nite I walked down to the WTC again..the same day we had an earthquake here in NY…..a post  from California writes..a small tremor..get over it…

I remember walking down to Canal St..seeing dust on absolutely everything..dust of buildings…of bodies..of rubble or paper…as i walked to Canal last nite, I saw the lights of Silverstein properties..amazingly    moving up..the WTC builders..the spirit of positive blessed energy of all those construction workers..the world looks watches..

We have not been bombed here, we have not been blown up..I really thought by now terrorists would have hit here by now..honestly..thank God for the police, the secutiry, the Veterans..the soldiers, the country..and other countries ..we take so much for granted….so much! Pray today folks, we all need it, no matter what faith..then act with us in rebuilding our WTCenters…our community centers, our gardens, our homes, our solar factory, our jobs, our community building…if we can rebuild WTC, we can rebuild this country..with everyone, no matter what faith or faith a simple decent home! God bless you all..America and every country in the world!

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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The Daily News announces two penthouses going for 98.5 million dollars each, less than those on 15 Central Park West > I could house more than 2000 NY families with that money changing their life forever..what price greed at this point.

At a time we look at our communities, our world..people without jobs, 911..we ask those who might be in amazing brackets of wealth to  share, sponsor a home for a family…at least one home…there seems to be rhyme or reason to this all..

With that in mind, we pray today this Thursday..this Holy Thursday..for our families, for our neighborhoods, for safety and security, for holiness, and health, for more homes…

This we ask you to join us in.

Today we welcome teenagers from the neighborhood…from Queens as well, changing ..in this the Summer of Change…stay tuned..our work is vitally changing neighborhoods!

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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Recently I have been asked to write for a couple of newspapers, an honor, to blog…I still don’t know what a blog is..except a stream of consciousness for me, of lifes challenges, blessings and hopes..guided much thru the eyes of one who loves Habitat, its deceased founder, and wife Linda…and the love of Jesus motivating me to move ahead where none go…

Henry and I talk tonite..Henry we have to take it back..where are the churches the faith community…we did the Nite Out against violence, I was mc, but then where are people..

Anyone shot should be a shot to the heart of any spiritual person in the county..not a simple disdain of a newstory but a call for prayer and action…Henry and I both have worked on Lawrence and Purse Place where two youth were killed over the last month…killed is just a word to many of us…what would it mean if it was your own son, our family member or neighbor..your student, or relative..we get hardened…if today we hear His voice, harden not our hearts..may the Love  of the one God that unites us call us to action in love together….

 

For the next month you will see much of my writings reflected from a 911 survivor, responder, believer in change, an American, a world citizen..a nyc lover, a Habitat director…

On 911 the world was changed forever this 911 come  out and change the world….our tenth anniversary..tonite I walked six miles from 42^nd to world trade center and back…I email my good friend, Marty Berger..Marty I am here at the WTC at ground zero, praying for your work.. you see Marty is a leader at Silverstein properties, along with his workers, his co workers, like Dave Worsley and the construction workers. Needless to say Mr Larry Silverstein, a great man, supports Martys efforts..and deserves prayer..

Marty and his sons build homes with us in great Tzedekah.. charity of the love of God to help others.

 

I walk the route, remembering the debris, the soot, the attempts for me to get closer and closer to GZ, the concerns, the Habitat volunteers filling every corner of the armory building with relief supplies..and much more…Holly Silva and her family, crying over their lost husband, David, and so many….for ten days..we will build and rebuild..

TEN DAYS OF SERVICE..FOR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY..TEN DAYS OF WALKING OF BLOGGING OF PRAYING OF ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT, PRAYERS, HANDS, TO RECREATE NOT ONLY GROUND ZERO, BUT THE GROUND ZEROS IN OUR COMMUNITIES HERE…THE JOURNEY BEGINS…..May God bless you this day.

 

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101