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R.E.S.T.  Real Estate Solution Team.. we are blessed to have Marty Burger heading up this committee for us, this vital team of building homes.

As we speak at 7am Rogers Construction, Tony, is out putting up two forms volunteering with us, with Marty’s whole team, putting up forms, building, getting ready for two families

We are moving ahead, strongly..because everyone needs a place to R.E.S.T.  another veteran and their family are the first ones to get on board, our 5^th habitat family in this neighborhood.
praise God! So as we go into Passover and Easter season, can you pray for our work, can you help everyone have a place to R.E.S.T.  like Marty and Dave and Tony, and the Murphys..

God wants it, be part of the solution, God love you. j

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Pat Lanzas birthday today…last year, having to work in the Hurricane area…flowers were sent..but once a week or more Pat always gave time to me to help hear who needed help…..fire victims need help Pat, kids need scholarship…we are going to haiti, New Orleans, our trip is on, can you help sponsor a Katrina house. Pat the Mamoroneck floods are devastating, can you help us with tool containers around the village….on and on and on….from Worcester, to Africa, to Haiti to here…always she was ready to give.  Not shy she would go into the “worst”  neighborhoods, which had some of the best people.  She celebrates in heaven with her husband Frank today…playing tennis, laughing, hoping her seeds of goodness and greatness, philanthropy and love, prudence and guidance, continue on…..we will Pat we will…you taught us all. God bless the Lanza family..j

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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This morning, we remember our dear friend and supporter Mrs Patricia Lanza….

A friend who loved us, who helped work with us, who supported us, she passed last nite peacefully.

We are devastated, but we are rewarded to know that she is in heaven.  

Pat came to us by volunteering, walking in the office.  I want to help.  Not knowing who she was, she started helping me write letters.

We  had no funds for a secretary, for help, for anyone. She kept coming.  I used to meet her for breakfast once a week, tell her our work, share about those in need, and she would share her wisdom her humor, her love. Out of the blue one day, a check came…from there it helped us to make it so we could begin to get strong…and more support and much more.  She also was quick to support other causes we knew people were in need for.  A policeman would die, I would ask her to help the family…in Mt Vernon, immediately support no question.

Fire victims on Pelham Road in New Rochelle, no question here.  School needs for inner city kids with no toys, or no after school program.  She was there.
We would go to the hood….and she would be working there, in the garden with us, painting, going for tours, meeting the people who needed a home.  Her faith was a witness, from faithfully going to a church that only inner city kids would go to, to reading scriptures and praying, to giving me Christian cds that were there for us, her love of Christ never stopped, her love of life, her fun spirit, her leprechaun laugh with me for St Pats, her support of Haiti, New Orleans, Banda Ache, floods in Mamoroneck, Hurricane Sandy…..the list goes on and on and on and on.   to Jim, Louie, Anthony, my surrogate brothers we all grieve her loss and celebrate her together.  Her last words to me were you are a special person.  Are you kidding Pat….you made everyone you met feel special….

In memory, and in prayer and in love to a most special person, Pat Lanza.

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Earth  week earth week, every day is earthweek..in Habitat of Westchester! We are always thinking green intentionally..how do we bike, how do we recycle cars, how do we insulate homes, how do we paint homes with no chemicals..how do we recycle and work our Restores so we save landfills…everyday is Earthday..! no question…

You might see me early mornings, putting our signs, in our land, in our street corners, on our headquarters!

For our Carsforhomes efforts, for our Restores, for our series on sustainability!   Stay tuned..

Every day is Earth day, go from Gray to Green, from concrete to grass, to wild flowers, to community gardens…the future of our lives and kids and grandkids lives depend on it…see http://www.habitatwc.org for more info…under sustainability. God bless you!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Early morning, getting ready for our work, our event, our life, a year of kicking off the next 25 years…life events come..

A life comes and moves closer to heaven…from the second we are born, we are put on earth to help one another.   St Augustine wrote about the City of God, dream with us on developing cities of God, no more ugly…NMU, about no more shootings,about every child a home…

We see some of the best and some of the worst in this county..no question.   We see people in need and we see people with greed. We see people who care and those who don’t…or as the song goes, “that’s life”..but there is another life..that is within us..as mentioned so many times..the Hebrew word, the Ruah..the breathe of God.  From the second we live, the Ruah is giving us life..to do good, to smile, to help to love and live….that Ruah is within us, and calls us to Tikkum Elum. To heal the world, to help us to make the world better…

Like building the city of God….like St Augustine wrote, a Saint, who changed from sinner to saint…and his mother St Monica prayed for him, like so many mothers of all backgrounds, jewish, irish, African American, Latinas, all praying for the Ruah to be within each son and daughter, for a great life…and the great life, is to help heal the world….building with Habitat across the world, like I have done, in El Salvador after earthquakes, in S. Central los Angeles and the Lower East Side, in central ward Newark, in Belfast in Glencairn and iris Close, in so many parts of the world…we look to heal the world, with Walls of Love and sweat equity…wont you join us? This Lent and Passover season..dont let the season pass us over as one that is not spiritual….on the contrary may it be one of the most spiritual season..followed by Faith in Action….you have ever had…let the Ruah give you breathe…God bless you

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Framing up a house in Union Square, building a house in a week on National television, taking down the Regis and Kelly house, hitting the floods in Mamoroneck, hitting Hurricane Sandy hard…seeing youth come out and build, having groups come and build with us from across the country..hilites..hardlites too, hard hits hard hitting…

Our Volunteers are hard hitting…Millard used to say, the founder, we hit nails seven to ten times so they go in stronger..also we believe we have a higher power…

To that end, we move ahead with thousands of volunteers, to change the face of NY.

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Day of Days, a Friday..but a blessed Friday..the blessings of Friday is that for many the end of the week, for us it begins our building weekend!  Seven days a week, the Holy Spirit, the Ruah (Hebrew) blesses us in our work….people call from churches synagogues, companies, veterans group, to come by, to support us…college students come in on Friday from two colleges today, Monroe and Domincan, both eager to help change the world.. a neighborhood with their sweat equity.

We are moving ahead, with strength, reserve, focus to change the face of NY, from Sandy relief to Westchester….Affordable ownership housing is Godly,biblical, mitzvah in origin, and vital for economic success of NY State, no question.

With that in mind, our week begins..on Saturday, sounds funny right…God bless us, you and yours..join us..donate today

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Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Saturday, we are off and running…early morning has us meet our #Sandy team..used to be 6am daily, now more like 645…

Our ride, thirty plus miles, is nice when no traffic..reflection, prayer, K Love, thinking of what #Sandy families still need help. Channel View High school comes out again today..the first habitat club I started in the Rockaways…amazing..kids helping to rebuild their community..

Back in Yonkers, we work on our Vets homes…for Mike and Nikki, off and running looks good, we will be making it happen, moving them in late April or May…they fought overseas for us, in Iraq, we fight on the ground with boots on..construction boots, to get them in their new home,….

Another blessed Habitat Saturday….hello what are you waiting for ..join us!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Creo en Dios Creo en Dios..la cancion…un vida…I believe in God, the song goes I believe in God.  Habitat started as a ministry and still is..we believe in God, in Faith in Action. The ability to change the world for the better…with Gods help.   So often people don’t think that the world can change, that things cant…with God anything can change. We know we can change any neighborhood. We know we can win the War on Poverty…its time..Creo en Dios, ayudar nosotros hoy! Join us!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Christ Community Church, our command center in Breezy..for months no heat, no showers, just a place to be, gutted walls, signing up hundreds for #Sandyrelief help, it has been a beacon of light of us, for volunteers, for families, for the church itself.

I remember bringing the Menorah in for the IsraelAid group who helped us during eight weeks or so of relief, my brothers from Israel and I worked together,a great blessing helping people in disaster relief.

Then we had groups from SAI who came with hundreds to Fordham University to groups that were new religions, or non denominational, like I had never heard.  Companies, people with no faith, all came to help….we still NEED YOUR HELP!  The winter was harsh for rebuilding no question. Our volunteer base went down..and donations went down….yet many are not back in their homes from Sandy relief…Today I give hats off to CCC and all the groups that came, from Forest Labs and Bank of America to Goldman to Sai to St Bonaventures, to Channel View High, to SAR and Bnai Akivah, the disaster of Sandy brought us together like none other……except for

 

Our day to day work in the Theology of the Hammer….this profound simple phrase has impacted the world…no Protestants No JewsNo Catholics No Muslims No hindus, just all One in the Same when we hold hammers together on sites.  The one God sees us all together….like yesterday on site…andtoday.   Mike and Nikki two Marines with their volunteer vets group helped work with French American School, Briarcliff High, Relig,. And indidivuals like Max and Leanne and Chuck who all made up the mosaic quilt of sheetrocking walls of love on homes.

What an amaing thing to happen,. No question. It is what God wants to happen…to see us all working together in the theology of the hammer…so imagine if all the churches this Sunday,all the syngagoues, all the temples and congregations went out this afternoon to build on homes…stay tuned…the Theology of the Hammer is growing not in religious books, but on Sandy homes and Vets homes and seniors homes and affordable homes…and in your heart and mine. God bless you!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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