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Yesterday as we a great success with our Walk for Homes Now!  This important walk, is one which has been annual and St. Augustines and all the group has done a wonderful job in helping us to be able to get off the ground makng this an amazing feat for all of us...with our FEET.. more than 6000 was raised yesterday, vitally important to help us move ahead with our work in Mamoroneck..Excitingly Linda was there, the homewowner, who has survived so much, a flood, a home being ripped apart...as well as her mom being in the hospital yesterday, pray for their family and all our families...she was so happy..

with that in mind we had walkers from Iona Prep and St. Raymonds, St Augustines youth group and Lincoln High school, Scarsdale and Horace Greeley High School...all walking along with Mamoroneck High School, and many many more.. GREAT SHOUT OUT TO JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CENTRAL WESTCHESTER..walking on mass their kids, with their feet, wtih their dollars..all great for us as of this time...no question  and thanks so much to Anne Avenius, to Susan to Msgr Reilly and to State Senator Suzy Oppeinheimer who helped us so much by coming. she didnt have too ..just elected, but she came and walked with us..thank you Suzy...

so thank you all, to all who came out in the cold who walked for homes during a tough time!!!! but during a great time!!! no question!

 

We pray for our family member, who is applying for a home..he was shot this past weekend..friday nite...and is in fair condition ..please pray for safety over our families. they are to move into a Habitat home..we have to get them into their new home SOON!!!! WE NEED TO STOP THE VIOLENCE AND THE GUNS AS WELL!!!!!!

pray over our youth, our neighborhoods, neighborhoods, that families want to move out of into our homes..all so important!!!!!!! the key to everything during these times....

and humbly throw my staff, all volunteers and myself in a prayer. you are in mine today. ]

God bless, jjk

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our walk for homes is this Sunday...the Junior league is out in full force..the walkers from my high school, the high schools, the parishioners, themotivated people to help us help Liz and Linda get back in their home..we need the help....

with that in mind, please join us...also the economy bouncing like a yo yo..every dollar every cent, every five ten or one hundred is so important..daily i think do i lay off, do i stop work,..its up to you to help us..

we will move ahead with your help.

God bless, jjk

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Today fox teen news comes out and covers a segment on us, we have so many great things going on, thank God.. we have teens working and on this Veterans Day we celebrate our Veterans no question…we put them in the highest limelight…my uncles who fought in the big War, my cousin who died in Vietnam ..the man who came into our restore and we gave him furniture…to start his apartment…we will announce a special commitment today for Veterans coming back for 50 per cent off of our furniture and clothing and if they have no money we will give it to them free, like we did to the veterans recently…God has blessed us with freedoms, with life, with goodness, with joy…so much we cant even imagine.. I got an email today from the founder of Habitat, what doyou want on your sign..Dios es bueno, todo el tiempo I tell them..

God is good all the time.. all the time God is good..

We have so much to be grateful for…with little we have much.

WE do need green vehicles..I just got done my conversation with my staff worker Drew from the Restores, where we are recycling, we are working hard, where we hope to have bio diesel vehicles or more…solar, or Zap vehicles..would you help donate to us.. we need it..

Also we have a hope to be able to change the face of the county in the way people thnk or commute..todays headline goes along with a couple of things..first, it talks about the legislative aide who abused his position, aka we need a COMMON SENSE party where local officials will donate their salary..

Next we see also the TAPPAN ZEE BRIDE WITH steel plates is still anightmare to cross over..no question…all of this matters so much because accountability and affordable home ownership for our workers..needs to happen now!!!! Stay tuned..

All I know is that my team the Habitat team is hard at work every day at 7am, trying to help this county and world a better place..wont you join us in this endeavor, wont you join us in helping to change the face of the future.. it can be done now and our world will be better off..Last a shout out to my sons Danny and Joey God bless you both I love you and am so proud of you, give your kids a hug today…or someone elses kid, HUGS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND. JJK

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ANOTHER SATURDAY..THREE HOMES WORKED ON, THREE RESTORES, MANY TOUCH THE HABITAT MISSION IN WESTCHESTER..LIFE IS GOOD.

From Grenwich High school, to Horace Greeley to Polytechnic University to other individual volunteers, many are working with us to get it done..helping us to move to the next level..helping us, and others are sending their end of the year support..Our work is so vital..our mission so essential...one of  our homeowners, Eileen and her four children will move into their new home before the end of Thanksgiving..no question..the closing happened yesterday, it was a blessing to be able to see how happy she was with her father there...

the lawyers are happy even and the title company..our work brings joy to all, when we celebrate another victorious family, blessed family, blessed work..the signing of the closing papers, i sign, represent all of you, your hours of sweat equity, your volunteerism, from Bedford Presbyterian to Rippowan school, to the Bedell Fund to St. Mathews, from Fox Lane High to Harvey High school..all so blesseds!!!!!! so the ink of a pen, represents the blood and sweat of so many, the culmination of the last nail in the home, the walking over the threshold..the dreamakers in children who now sleep in warm rooms, and the love and prayers of all ofyou who helped to make it so possible....in all we say and do let us give Thanks to the Lord, for all you have done~!!!!

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Gratitude infused outlook...thats what we need to have states Deborah Norville..for sure..we need to be able to have an attitude of gratitude..King David always stated that in his psalms..how much we take for granted...

an attitude of gratitude was in order for so much on Sat. and Sun whe i saw hundreds touch our homes...touch our Restores volunrteer from westchester to the S BRonx...

from NYC they came from NYU from Katonah to Yonkers...from Harvey, from Chappaqua and Horace Greeley to Mamoroneck, from Grenwich Ct. to Rye NY, three different areas, volunteers came to work our sites...that is an attitude of gratitude I have for what we have created with a dedicated team and lots of hard work, community organizing and sharing the word on what needs to be really done to fix our communities..then this morning Dave Litzky calls, after seeing me yesterday on his bike, lets get a high school club in Mt Vernon going...lets make it happen...he calls the principal and a meeting is set for the school..so an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE..last ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE TO RON PINELLA, FROM STRUCTURETONE, AND POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY..sending future construciton leaders onto our sites to get practical experience, like FX architects want to in a 100 plus firm..its all good, actually its all GREAT!

God bless, jjk

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A great day, a closing for a mom and her four kids today..no quesion, in Bedford, yes, a beautiful home there, built with love, by Chuck an d Wayne, and rich and steve and Juan, and Fox Lane and Bedford Presbyterian and Rippowam School and St. Mathews and the Bedell Fund and in partnership wth Blue mountain and the town..to give is to be blessed, is the belief and reality, and those who give..are blessed... a neighbor in Bedford stated, I am a good neighbor, make tall trees so i cant see the house..this person who said he went to church, has to look long and hard..if he thinks he will be blessed..after a heated discussion with him, i told him i would pray for him, that his faith was a joke if he believed that was being a good neighbor, and that a new day was coming....this is kind of whast we need to think about in westchester..i will help in nicaragua, i will help in yonkers, i will help and be a good Christian, jew Muslim in Mt Vernon or NYC, but wait..put the trees up and the fence and economic,ethnic and racial barrier in my town, on my plot line, in my school walls, in my street...in my pew....what do we think God will bless that???? so now in the time of CHANGE, WATCH...those who had much will have little those who gave much will have lots, those who embraced will survive, those who planted trees, will see them die...God bless you all, pray for that person, pray for Westchester, and real change, in your congregation, school, pew, town, home, and heart...jjk

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In all we say and do let us give Thanks!!!! A new day, a new direction we all hope…let us see, plant a seed today of donation to help for the future.. like a farmer planting, plant a seed of donation for a better tomorrow.. 1 billion dollars was planted in the election, for a better tomorrow..what about now on the ground, common ground of community support and real community building with Habitat…I was blessed to speak to the founder of Habitat this week..like our President, he has inspired millions to believe that it is unacceptable that anyone goes to bed at nite in substandard housing..we too believe that here in Westchester …that in this great county NO ONE, NO ONE..from the cradle to our elderly , from the worker, to the health care nurse, should have substandard housing…now is the time for real change..not just one of political will, but of individual responsibility and volunteerism, or sacrificing or giving to others…no question…whether there is a new president, a new state senator, or council person, it is up to us on the streets where we work and live, the offices and factories we participate in, and the faith we all bring as one community to now get it right. God bless, jjk

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Nehemiah and Isiah in the old Testament talk about the rebuilding of our world, prophetically...we need to start TODAY...time for our youth and our interested population to rebuild our world, to talk about

getting involved, to take that great election effort and now put into direct action...we have no time...also to create new shifts of power from the big guy to the small business person..from the star of Wall street to the heroes of Main Street..to the ways we all work together....

 

Here is what our quest is, to rebuild our communities again .. to rebuld our world again, to set this world on fire with the right alignment...I am so blessed with my two sons, with my friends, with all of you...today text right now or email five friends, why now people need to get on the Habitat Express!!!! the new challenge..the train for better communities...we can do this...our life watching wall street, never moved our communities really ahead...now it is time for change...

 

Yesterday i was honored to speak to Governor Patterson about real change..doom and gloom budget cuts, look liked apocalyptic times for westchester....the fat has to be cut, but lean and mean, we at Habitat know this time will be the Best of Times to get back on track.. .with your help..your donation of one, five ten dollars, will help us move ahead..your donatoin...of your car for Homes..will help us build... your donation of your prayers, your sweat your labor your furniture, will change us all now for a better future.. your donation to think Green and build green wtih us and support our inititiaves will be amazing for the real rebuilding of the future.. with that in mind.. we celebrate our corporate partners and large donors...but really do need Joe the Plumber..yikes...seriously, we can use plumbing donations we can use electric donations, we can use your labor...we will do profound things with your help. God bless you all the time for REAL CHANGE IS NOW...on the ground again, in the communtiy again, starting an lpc again..jjk

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election day...what a day, Historic voting, praise God, exciting no matter what side you fall on, to see people particpating..and then tomorrow, after 2 billion dollars....in advertising for media and campaigns, the hammer falls tomorrow...the hammer comes down on us..on the taxpayer, on the budget..fortunately tomorrow, i have been asked to meet with Governor Patterson, in a PBS special town meeting on where to cut the budget...THE CRISIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY... in that vain, we see that the Governor has called for budget cuts, he had the wisdom before the hammer fell, too ask for cuts..he did it in march of last year...and now he is calling for more cuts.. a wise man, he is also calling for increased volunteerism...thru thick and thin we at habitat and here, have always believed in Volunteerism..always believed in getting ourselves up by the bootstraps and helping community, the litany of projects from painting post office benches, to helping fire victims, to helping with a variety of other areas such as rehabbing food pantries, under our Brush with Kindness program has been extensive.. i commend the governor and also I have proposed a COMMON SENSE PARTY run for office, like we ask people to give of service, our youth in americorp, peacecorp and in times of war and peace, we need to ask  people to volunteer their time, in public service, to get elected..

this will save taxes and save our state and county in a  big way...and increase our volunteerism...

so heres to Governor Patterson, budget cuts, a new spirit of fresh volunteerism, asking not what your country or county can do fo ryou, but what you can do for your county and for Habitat..and for brush with kindness projects..heres to much success...God bless us all during these interesting times, the worst of times, but the BEST OF TIMES, if we all help out...stay tuned...

jjk

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THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WORKING, WHAT A HISTORIC WEEK IT IS, SO MANY BLESSINGS, A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, VOILUNTEERS COMING WITH US FROM ALL OVER, FORDHAM, BRONXVILLE HIGH, MAMORONECK HIGH SCHOOL...THE NY MARATHON RUN OCCURED YESTERDAY, AND REMINDS ME OF RUNNING FOR HABITAT..TEN YEARS AGO AND GETTING ME EXCITED TO RUN IT AGAIN FOR OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PLEDGES, STAY TUNE FORA BUILDING FOR TEN FAMILIES..

WE HAVE SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES GOING ON...RIGHT  NOW..TO HELP GET IT RIGHT.. OUR SLEEPYTHOLLOW TARRYTOWN, WORK IS STARTING AGAIN WITH AN LPC MEETING.

MAY GOD GUIDE AND BLESS US ALL, WE HAVE OUR CHALLENGES, BUT OUR WORK IS GROWING BECAUSE YOUR SUPPORT AND PRAYERS!!!!!

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