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A great day in Yonkers, busy weekend.non stop..for the time spent in Yonkers at the St. pats day parade, to welcoming Kutztown College, University of Pittsburgh, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and also St Josephs college of Maine..all working hard, helping us, assisting us, working to help change the face of the county..

50 plus student strong working a whole week can change a number of areas..Peekskill, Mamoroneck, Yonkers, all working together.

Along with that, meetings over our warehouse, speaking to a group, and meeting with many over helping us we are so blessed.

Tonite DC9 comes out and works with us on the site, helping us build ahead, helping us to move ahead, in taping on our Mamoroenck Homes..awesome!

Tomorrow is our Corporate Luncheon should be packed..so we continue on.

Also a private donation for a house in Haiti came yesterday at the Parade..here Jim, here is your support for a home..one says.

Last thanks to Jim Landy and in his leadership from Hudson Valley Bank at the parade..its all good..he does so much in the community…Up Sligo.

Remember pour mes amis..Kembe Fem! Jim

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Each day is a great one..the Psalmist says..Praise the Lord who is so good,Godslove endures forever;

Praise the God of gods; Gods love endures forever, Praise the Lord of Lords God love endures forever!

 

How exciting it is for us to know we can Praise the Lord, help one another, and move ahead together…during tough times and good times..

We are commissioned to Praise the Lord, no question.

With that imind, we have so much to do, so much to be able to be grateful for..Last nite I had dinner with 14 Beloit students from Wisconsin as well going to our High School advisory board meeting at Iona College, INSPIRING TO ME ALWAYS!

The future is there, bright and hopeful, and helpful!  Thank you all for all you do.

This weekend there is a silent auction at congregation Kol Ami by Scarsdale High School..amazing.!

We then have my alma maters. St Josephs of Maine coming in Sat as well, what a great group.

We continue with Worcester Polytech and others..again thank you so much..

 

Today I go to look at neighborhoods in Yonkers with the planning dept..revieweing different land opportunities..we can do change the whole neighborhood into a green neighborhood..join us!

 

It will be an exciting Spring..the Spring of Youth has sprung in all of our no matter what age, the Spring of helping is ahead..and we will change the county together…

 

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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We have a great day..Edson calls me from his church and from his work at 7am..this morning…college kids are rising above us on the third floor..

We speak to him ..a great guy..let me get my team out..

There are so many people..helping us.. the Hugenot Church calls, how are you Jim, can we get some dates..

The Lions club calls, Jim do youhave gift certificates..for the event..

Thank you God for all who help us , and join us..

 

At this point we see the leaders of our country and state..in hot water…we need to pray..for our leaders and new leaders from all congregations, all faiths to help change the country and the world..and the county..stay tuned..

jjk

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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To what do we owe our world, our life our success.. our hopes..

I returned from Washington Dc ..first I want to thank Mercedes Marquez asst secretary  forCommunity Development, HUD, Derek Douglas, Whtie House Domestic Policy Council, UrbanPoolicy Advisor

Sonal Shah, Director of the Whtie House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Partcipation, and John Kelly, Strateic Advisor, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships..for their panel with Habitat for Humanity at the White House. Also our NY friend, Adolfo Carrion, former Bronx Burrough president, Director White House Office of Urban Affairs.

 

As a partnership, we help to change neighborhoods together..in Neighborhood Revitalizaiton all over the country and the world.

 

As I reflect on my time in Washington, from my first trip there as a young child, when thousands of families like mine, driven by moms and dads like mine God rest their souls, to DC to see the Kennedy White House…and to have a sense of pride and History.

 

From there, realizing that Washington is only as good as we are the citizens, the habitats, the community organizations helping…it is a true partnership when it works…..like I realize I am only as good as my construction managers, families, volunteers.board.donors, and all..

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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We are working hard..welcome to Boston College, Lebanon, and also Beloit College of Wisconsin..All week long they will be working on homes in Westchester from Yonkers to Peekskill,..from Mamoroneck to New rochelle..all working together helping in Service!  Amazing..

 

An interesting week..from Washington DC to New York..from the White House to Habitat Houses..from an engagement party on site to college students from all over. God continues to bless all we do! 

We are so blessed..let me say that again. WE ARE SO BLESSED.

Lets look at Chile..we need to pray for those in Chile..lets look at Haiti..Claude Jeudy just emailed me and stated. Pray for him..and we are brainstorming on a number of initiatives..

We also want to thank the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and the Bible Way church for putting up college students…

For this week..thank you

Reminder this Monday March 9^th we have our Corporate Luncheon at the Top of the Avalon, exciting Join us!

So in all we do and say let us give thanks….

God is working in amazing ways…let no building go empty, no family inhoused, no person without a job..we can do this!

Your help is needed today May God bless each of you! Join in MARCH MADNESS..Habitat Style!

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Lets go get bagles..hwo did you all sleep..throughout our office, and third floor of our headquarters..students are waking up..having bagels, getting ready to build..down the street is boston college, waking up..tonite we will have a joint meeting of the colleges.. a great thing..whats your major, what do you believe about health care..who is your governor, how do we get it right..whats the best thing about your college.

Always inspiring to see the world change, to see the world improve to see students in service!

Today Monday is land day, lets get it done, donate land now, we have projects all over the county now..get ready MARCH MADNESS BEGINS..

God bless

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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If we look at different events in our life you can see the hand of God in all..yesterday I met with two pastors, and we discussed just that, what brought us to the point we were in that day..We work together in this area to help our area be a better, stronger more positive area..no question..we believe God has led us to this point to help one another…

One Pastor compared his life to Moses, being send down the river..in a basket, and God ended up taking him to a good place…saving him from crocodiles in the river, from trials, from challenges..I believe you might see that in your life..

 

Mark Twain once said..”To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain plow had gone over before. To be the first that is the idea..”  what idea is waiting for you to plow, and to help bring to fruition..

 

Last nite I was plowing with the Junior league of Pelham. Thank you for your time ladies..thank you for brainstorming, thinking ,offering to help.

They want to get involved..they heard about how this is the year that people must be involved with thinking about buiding in their own town, this is the year that they want to build with us, help us..thank you Junior Leaguers..what great idea is about to come and be brought to fruition…

 

From here today we hope to get warehouse space, we hope to be able to get more land, we hope to be able to get more money for our building..new ideas are born here every day.

Tonite I travel on train to Washington with other Habitat directors..pray for this trip as we talk with leaders there, and even a meeting in the White House about how we can help more homes in our country and world be made..stay tuned.

 

Join us, shake off the dust, unearth new ideas..help Habitat build in your community..the Excitement is building!

 

 

Last nite the Junior league  

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Last nite a woman is crying, singing, praying..she survived the earthquake....imagine that you survived and the people next to you did not..imagine that you walked away after a building fell on you, and your neighbor passed..imagine, walking thru immediate rubble..would you thank God then..no matter what faith you are..someone gave me a hard time over asking people to sacrifice for Lent..or Passover, or whatever..religion no religion, help us rebuld Haiti..sacrfice and donate change, donate a dollar a check or more...just help...Imagine...

 

Thanks to Polytechnic Institute, and Lamda Alpha Chi for volunteering with us today..

for helping us, for being with us, also to the Ethical Cultural Society for helping..tiling on Purser.

also for members of St Johns and Paul

 

Very excited by the way, i got a call from the Archbishops office, he will be coming out to our sites soon, stay tuned...Habitat is not too fancy a place for him..after all, theres no place like a home..theres no place like a place..where His Boss was and is a Carpenter....

 

what a world we live in..so grateful..this week i go to Washington briefly..to the White House with a number of directors and then to meet with Congress leaders..can we change the country..all of us together, back to simple basic green communities?  you betcha we can..

 

with all we say and do Let us Give Thanks for each other..thank each of you who read this..so many say they read it, follow it, cant understand me, like it, dont like it..wonder why..or get involved...whatever it does to you, thank you for reading this blog and may God bless each of you..i am blessed by you..

 

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Psalm 62 talks about being strong in faith..being strong during challenges..we hope you are strong and blessed in all you do..very grateful for Community Capital Resources talking about getting rid of debt,not getting into debt at a talk to our families at our Yonkers office..Thanks to Doug Young and all the team there..it was a blessing to help teach our families on how to stay strong…for sure…with that in mind..we want our families to be debt free. They have such a step up on all of our work..they do amazing things to survive..now it is time for them to thrive and also you too…

Lets get this country back on track..lets get out of debt. Work hard, support one another, pray, have fun and be so grateful we have a roof over our head.

Also thanks to all those who are giving to our Haiti program..so far many are bringing in their sacrificed meal money for a day..stay tuned..

A taxi driver stops at the red light..Jim I am going to Haiti Sunday..another person writes, Jim when can we go..Kembe Fem..stay strong Haiti..

Stay tuned..

Last our work here sees us with our LPC. Local committee meeting in Chapaqua this Saturday, as well as our White Plains committee today in White Plains..jon us. God bless each of you today…the Mustard Seed is growing! jJK

 

 

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote..

To reach the port of heaven, we m ust sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor….

 

Get involved and do something today..

God gives every brid his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest..

 

Time to get involved..in the dead of winter, seems like we drag, stay stagnant, and wait, or put down anchor..

Go out and get involved..reach out to a senior citizen..come  out to our Habitat site on Sat..go get involved with a service club..help raise support for a cause…visit a nursing home..help at a soup kitchen..build a home with habitat

 

Life is too short to drop anchor..we drop anchor at the end of our trip..not during it..at the end of our lifespan, not during it..otherwise we will get stuck in the middle of the ocean..

 

Today we have a President of a company coming by with an engineer..Jim I have to see you, I have a new design for a home..honored he will be with me..he comes by.

Then tony Guzman, whose sister was killed 12 years ago, now graduated college and he comes by for some Habitat scholarship money, thanks to the Lanza family foundation, to help as a gift for his new accounting manuals..he has been successful in light of a time he and his family could  have dropped anchor..

Then I go to Orchard street this afternoon, a street that was given for naught..and we look at new land.. there, a street that people had no vision for ..but I see one of the Greenest Streets in America in Yonkers….wait and see, we will do our Zero Energy Home there..we will work to make it happen.

 

Today sacrifice lunch and dinner with me..for Haiti..the monies for homes are piling up..

So don’t drop anchor..start Sailing…God bless each of you! Jim Killoran

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Office:914-636-8335 ext 101

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org