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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

 

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Great things in from the Restore, things that are needed to be able to help build homes, to be able to sleep on , beautiful mattresses and more.

Come see our restore at 591 Main Street and 524 Main street there.

Every purchase helps to be able to build a home…

 

Today we will be in Mt Vernon where we will be able to help rehab homes…help to build a new home there as well…also we looked at a warehouse there as well.

 

Every day is gift for sure..we have plenty to do, we have plenty of work from Mt Vernon to Chapaqua…

 

 

 

 

 

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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a day that makes me happy, i speak to Tony Guzman..Tony you graduated college, yes i graduated with degree in accounting...what are you doing..i am working in a tax office...

we have some scholarship support that is available for you...no question....

i will stop by today.. we have support that we give to our kids in college..support that aids them to keep moving ahead...Tonys sister had been killed about 12 years ago..in a tough neigborhood by a snipers rifle..

she was three..we moved the family out of a tough neighborhood into a good neighborhood...no question..their life is better...they have not replaced the child..though they had a new baby girl...but thank God Tony is doing good, the family is good, and they have a great Habitat home..with gratitude to God for Tony, Julio, their family, for our safe neighborhood and more...

God bless you...

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WESTCHESTER!

 

 

Did you know everyday is Valentines day at Habitat for Humanity of Westchester?  Its true, because of people like you....we have so many great people who have said..let me share my love, our gift to others, so they can have a home full of Love, of success, of walls built with friends,neighbors, families and volunteers and safe neighborhoods.....

 

We are so blessed to have you, help us.  May your day be filled with Love, and know you are in our prayers, of gratitude. and for each of you...remember Everyday is Valentines...with Habitat for Humanity of Westchester and you.

 

May God bless you all.

Your support is greatly appreciated....

 

 

Sincerely,

 

the Habitat families

Jim KIlloran Executve Director

 

ps if your gift is for our work in Haiti..every dollar is doubled today with the generosity of the Lanza Family foundation, up to 100,000 dollars...One Hundred Homes now for Haiti..from here to Haiti and back everyone a home

 

 

FW: writing from Haiti..

finally got on email..the little things we take for granted, a bed, water electricity..a blanket,, i stopped at tent city outside the palace that had falled in the square..somone begged for blankets..begged for support..

begged for help..what do we do..

driving thru the streets of Port Au Prince, you can smell horrible smells outside buildings that have been crushed, where bodies and souls now lay..you know death had hit there..people live in the streets at nites..making not only the parks tents cities, but the streets tent avenues...tons of concrete from homes is being brought to the outskirts of towns now...

towns being brought to their burial grounds. The people are hurting, medicines, blankets, etc..People are migrating out to the outskirts of the cities, and to towns that will now house new residents..We brought medicine to an outskirt town and found many needed it, the mayor had made an extensive list there, for supplies...

Habitat is going to be giving out transitional shelter kits first, then transitional shelters, that the supplies can be made into core houses, permanent homes. I visited homes today that Habitat had built..in the outskirts of Por Au Prince, strong homes, 200 inone neighbhorhood had been bjuilt  Please spell check Ron and Wayne as it is hard for me to read with no lights..invertors are running the computer...here..

God bless everyone, take nothing for granted anyone..each second, each minute is gift...Join us in Habitat, we will make a long term difference here in Westchester and in the world, because of your hands, hearts and help...for Haiti and everywhere....

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A great Saturday in the vineyard..in the fields, in the relief areas, on our homes, with volunteers, with hearts..in this the DECADE OF SERVICE….so many are hoping to have life, hoping to have great helping opportunities..today in New Rochelle a big Brush with Kindness project exists..

A big project exists to be able to paint the housing authority. I am blessed to know many people where thousands live with hope..only rentals had they been ownershiop familes equity would have been unbelievable..and kids in college and kids moving ahead

We looked at our COLLEGE HONOR ROLL. Where we now have many college graduates now out of our Habitat homes. Thanks again to the Lanza family foundation who is backing our students with scholarship monies again, backing them to be able to make it , to be able to succeed, to be able to move ahead!

What a great opportunity it is…to be able to see these kids move ahead….no question.

Today we welcome Iona Prep, New Rochelle Methodist Church as well as many others on our sites.. God blesses us so much with volunteers!

 

Today I also get ready to go to Haiti with Emmanuelle and Pastor Pierre…the end of our Martin Luther King Buildathon, 12^th annual..leaves us with

A call to MISSION..MISSION HAITI- HABITAT OF WESTCHESTER..we have many signed up for our first trip already and we will be leaving Sunday…and follow up with mission there…thank you TF Andrew Carpet One, the Lanza Family Foundation, Mary and many others who are donating to this trip.

God bless us all in our trip and our work. When we return, we will take our subcommittee and plan aggressive building trips and sending trips.. to help.

Praying last nite at Leglise De Baptiste..Ainge brought me a Bible in French..we sang songs of praise, worship in Creole and French…

We will see many rise up with hope, homes, help and health from all of our prayers, work and building stay tuned…if you want to write a check for these efforts right on the memo MISSION HAITI!

 

Yesterday I was blessed also to be in Chapaqua with Gerry Faiella and Barbara Gerardi, great people..with the board they are leading people ahead with me to build in Chapaqua… a local project committee is being made, and we have many build opportunities. Thank you to local Citibank managers from there.Nancy Lex and Steven Tvert, who are offering to help as well.

 

Stay tuned..the DECADE OF SERVICE, WILL BE BLESSED FROM CHAPAQUA TO YONKERS, TO MT VERNON TO SOMERS, TO PORT AU PRINCE TO YOUR HEARTS AND HANDS…God bless you!

 

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org

 

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A great kickoff to our MLK buildathon last nite..

A filled Church, spirit filled, the Governors office..Don Bennett Peeksill, andmore. The Holy Spirit is working..congregations from Yonkers Mt Vernon New Rochelle, Blessed in every way, our friend Pastor Pierre from Haiti..crazy for Jesus he says we all are..no question..a dance group..You are God the crowd shouts..

We work so hard..so many people working together..to help be able build..tomorow so many will build! So many will help…build in honor of Dr. King..

And then we plan our Haiti trip..this Sunday Morning I talk to my friend, rev.. from a church in the Bronx, he will call me when he arrives in Haiti..we got shots the same day, typhoid hepatitis and more.. to help..a world to change..

 

James Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

Cell: 914-403-4821

Fax: 914-636-8592

Email: Jim@habitatwc.org