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The world we live in..is a great world…yesterday Roosevelt High School volunteers helped us on site..tomorrow more than 50 Goldman Sachs vets assist us…this Mothers day weekend..about 7 years ago, a mom writes,the house I was living win with my 3 sons was part of a mortgage scam..sold from the owners leaving them along with their tenants homeless…Because I was on a fixed income, and did not have the best credit, I was forced to splt up my family and move in with a friend…sleeping in her living room, the boys to live with their father. This wast he most difficult thing I had to do. The I applied for Habitat housing, and after a year of waiting and losing hope, I receive a call from Mary Bonner. I still recall the surreal feeling when she told me I was to going to be a new home owner. Your generosity here today will give someone else this feeling.  Since Partnering with Habitat I was inspired to return to school and recently received my Masters in Soicial work. My boys are doing great, one of them now serving with the US Navy, my youngest just started college, this is what habitat does for families.   I want to thank everyone who made my dream a reality, all the volunteers who donate their time, for you who donate your money and services, and for all the hard working staff at habitat…..Hapy Mothers day, wont you donate to us today for another mom and family….

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Its Wednesday..yahoo…we worked last nite on a Brush with Kindness project with someone who needed help in Montrose..thank you Momentive company for assisting..no question. It was a great nite of transforming two rooms into new life.  With that in mind we continue..i am on my radio show wvox.com  and thank you to that station for allowing me to help spread the news about our work…from discussion about solar, to national bike month, to affordability, it all comes together..vital to our success, is our work…our work to move ahead, our work to change the county  in the face of an affordable home ownershiop crisis..our work to help make neighborhoods whole again….our work to help us recover from Sandy .  People to this day don’t have a clue about how many families still are not in..

It is abominable.  Our team is still there,  we need your help

We want to thank Rob Pepe and Porsche of Larchmont for their great work in helping us make it, In helping us move ahead to raise more support with their raffle gifts of Porsche items on May 21^st.  On May 25^th our Bike ride for homes continues..

And I would be remiss in not recognizing Marty Berger, and his family and Larry Silverstein of Silverstein properties for helping us in our

Putting in two more foundations on Purser place.

God is blessing our work no question..join us in our vital mission.   From Peekskill to Portchester and Mt Vernon to Mt Kisco, and Breezy to Broadway, everyone a simple decent place to REST

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Mothers day week..Memorial day Month, National Bike Month..all of the above in May..and yes even 70 degree weather..

Our building is in full force!!!!! No question…we are moving ahead…this weekend from Friday until this morning..we had

TIAA Cref, the Board of Rabbis, Hastings High, Con Edison employees, IonaPrep, Silverstein properties and the Berger family…all amazing!

We have moms of great strength..like most mothers, they work, they do it not just eight or ten hours, but 24/7  …be it a single mom in her home, or our married couples..moms rule…no question..their strength is indescribable….thank you to all our moms..

Come visit us this week,…volunteer with us this week..join us in helping moms have a home.in honor of your mom, could you help to

Assist another mom with a donation…http://www.habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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We stopped building the ark and started building homes again today…all kidding aside, we see flooding on the River parkways  (makes sense right, Hutch, brx river, etc) as well as some flooding in Mamoroneck, Howard beach and sandy areas.  Gray to Green, less concrete and cars, more water running into homes.

The Sheldrake river has been fixed better, only some homes on n barry flooded and first, water on howard basements, but some has been fixed.

We have to make more earth again and less concrete, cars and roads cause flooding, no question…water goes over concrete into homes….stay tuned…

 

May is National Bike Month, we have opportunities to bike with us on our first tri  city bike ride…from New Rochelle to Mt vernon to Yonkers…

Amazing…along with that we have information sheets in our Restores on safe biking…how to bike safely..in our communities..we need more bike lanes no question…

Save the earth,exercise, more green streets.   We also will have rides weekly here and you can donate your bike to  our restores as well.

We will also be sponsoring a bike safety day with kids as well…. It relates to our world, because neighborhoods need kids in bikes…..does your kid bike or skype, does your kid know how to pedal, or  push buttons texting, does your neighborhood have bike racks, or blocked places stopping them….its time to change Westchester….

 

Today we welcome the #BoardofRabbis from Westchester …amazing…Rabbi Morgenstern..one of my rabbis, a brother, comes out and takes the lead.. he has been volunteering with us for years.

What mitzvah, how amazing…TODAH! .  THE Torah talks all about building rebuilding, from Nehemiah and Isaiah to rebuilding communities………….thank you #Nehemiahbuilders!

 

Last
#HORACEMANNSCHOOL sponsors its first HOME! In yonkers for a vets family….amazing!!!!!!!! their sports teams, the Habitat club, the teams all are helping us build this first home on Purser Place…amazing..thank you Mohit, Ms. Kraus, Tom Kelly, the  board and more..for helping…awesome! God bless you and your service..they have helped us for ten years!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Iona strong, Ardsley strong,  volunteers strong..

We continue to work in ways that are going to help us move ahead with thousands of volunteers..no question.

We had Ohio and California volunteers this past two weeks.

We had our gala….

We had two foundations filled with gravel, we taped another home.. we helped fire victims from Pelham Road,

We helped kick off another restores beginning..

With all that’s simple neighborhoods deserve simple things..

Slow traffic, walkable area,walking police, green space, home ownership and much  more..

In each neighborhood we are in….we see time and time again…when the above exist,life exits..

When it does not…we see challenges, be it on Main St. In SoNo New Rochelle, or

In a neighborhood where cars rip thru…we have to change these things now..

Join us in creating green, safe, clean, neighborhoods for families in need…its time..

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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=-7ake a prayer walk or run today or bike ride…pray for each other, our familes, ny our country.  Two of my favorite places to walk and pray at NYC, SoNo New Rochelle, and Five Island Park.

At nite often I walk to the world trade center, and pray ..for the lives lost, for the hope of a better tomorrow, for a better ny. Today five island park, I walked to and around in NewRochelle, amazing…beautiful (see photos Instagram) rediscovering our local area, with gratitude is spiritual and I am blessed to have our HQ and center here.  And also walking around our neighborhood in SoNoNew Rochelle is something so grateful to walk and pray and then work hard to help get families home! Pray and act..Faith in Action..its time!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Yes we have built in sandy and in Haiti and in belfast and in el Salvador and in s central la and more..but don’t you think its crazy people go to bed at nite in substandard housing in Westchester…join our revitalized ministry.

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Easter Sunday….today I feel like  I saw St Francis, Rabbi Heschel, Mother Teresa, Millard Fuller, Martin Luther King, RFK, all working on a site together at our Habitat home…

Visions of He is Risen, Visions of communities rising, of this country rising and the world.  What a blessed world we live in.

I am honored to have met Mother Teresa and Millard Fuller, two who took to heart the gospel message in their own way…one a Bandaid approach to keep people alive, the other to end poverty to help people have wealth.   Both utilizing the Torah and Gospel to help put Faith into Action.   Prayer being the Key in Mothers life, a Holy Hour, then acting to reach out to those we often try to stay away from, homeless, mentally ill, smelly people on the street….those who are outcasts,…those others denied, saw Millard, who prayed often , take to heart that all should live in a simple decent home!

I am so blessed then to meet many like you, like Mary Bonner, like Pat Lanza, like Rich and Ron, on sites, and others, who prayed, who witnessed who loved and love, in giving

May you Rise this day in prayer and love..each person in front of you, is a gift….you are too. 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Heres to a great Passover week, and Holy Week, What a blessing, our work continues…we helped with our work in breaking  Matzah and remembering how blessed we are , and to give back

To others, is the heart of the Seder, or every religion, tikkum elum.

We are are also preparing to remember our Passion of the Lord, on the sites….of Marines who gave their blood and return and have no home, of those who dream of trying to make it in NY, but are burdened by high costs, of those who are hoping to have a great future, but also see violence.

One of our families walked in yesterday…came to pay her mortgage, on time,religiously .   She asks how she can help stop violence in some of the neighborhoods..

Are you going to have a march….please.. violence, guns, shooting, remember that many live in fear..

Lets pray for a better safer Westchester and community, more affordable…and Then join the FATIH IN ACTION TEAM! Its time!

Email jim@habitatwc.org                  May God bless you and yours this Holy Week….take nothing for granted.  Please donate today http;//www.habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Hard to sleep, thinking of today, praying, for Pat, and her family..shes already in heaven..her memorial service, celebration today…

From walking into my office to help volunteer letters, to having breakfast every Friday at Fountain Diner, to her giving check after check for

Policemans familys, for Worcester schools, for Habitat on Willow, for fire victims on Pelham, for our Restore, to help assist us with our Veterans initiatives,

To Haiti, to new Orleans, to Hurricane Sandy and much much more..the giving kept on giving…..and as I smell the Easter flowers on my desk, and spring, often we would go to

Nurseries on Saturdays for our community gardens..a master gardener she loved to help get flowers, and plants.  Her seeds of Gods goodness in her heart will continue in her sons, her grandsons,

Her family..no doubt..

More importantly everything about her giving, the blessings she bestowed because she knew she was blessed, is the message of Holy Week, or Pesah, of the Resurrection, of Habitat of Westchester and in the world….so be a blessing to others…help give…familes lives depend upon it…Pat did, wont you..no matter how large or small, we are all put on earth to give! God bless you.

Pat we love you and our Lord is with you and you with Him..the essence of your faith in action.

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

Spring into action; the next 25 years!

 

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