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Here we are a week before Holy Sat and Easter..our volunteers are out here and in five towns and cities…building loving life, changing the history of Westchester’s housing needs.

Every day we get closer to building away, to help another family, another neighborhood be whole, we are motivated that much more to  continue….we are in #Yonkers and in #MtVernon today.

We build in #Chappaqua today, an honor to move ahead to help two families have homes and Friday, we close on two more homes to be built in #Millwood…an amazing thing.  The county is filled with contradictions…

#NY is the hardest place in the country to have a business and to live to have a home.  At this point in time it is our mission to change that…God is with us, and gives us strength like

The David Psalmist said….and you strengthen us..please make your donation this week to help us continue! Stronger than ever…may you and yours be blessed in all you do! http://www.habitatwc.org

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This Wednesday of Holy Week we work in deconstructing in Rye..we are building in Yonkers, painting in MtVernon, we continue all over

Our work is vital, we are blessed in all we do…we help we work we pray we believe that poverty can be ended in this amazing county and country and world.

To that end join us in prayer, pick up a hammer, get your family out, your company or congregation..its time!

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Another great week, so many volunteers all over, our Retirees HOPES group, our volunteers from West Point, our high school volunteers, all ages, all wanting to help build simple decent homes!

With that in mind we continue….our #Chappaqua homes are moving ahead in great progress..lots to do, lots of funds to raise, lots of fun, changing the history of families lives forever..not only the family partners,

But our own lives as we volunteer.

Success is measured in how we help one another…what we do to give and serve..be it in our congregation, or in our family or personally.

We are in a crisis of affordable housing right now…we have to change that no question. NY is the highest and hardest place to live in the country, yet a drop in the bucket of affordable homes are being made, while

Luxury continues….our leaders say they care with lifetime pensions and political contributions, while people are stuffed into basements, burned out of apt buildings and saying, when can we leave.

This is a God movement, no question, a ministry, an effort of love of swinging hammers and helping to build! or riding a bike..like Ken Fuirst who rode across the country to raise money on his bike and built a home with his company.

Or like Patrick Molloy who helped us in Mamoroneck in the floods and 7 years later a retired carpenter , came back and says I need to help…now in Chappaqua deconstructing,

Like Mary Bonner, who comes in daily for 25 years helping us run our operations and restore, with prayers, persistence and love.

Like Josh Collado a senior in Newrochelle high school, who said, let me help you Jim run your event..help you build.. help you make it happen, help you run a Harlem Wizards event, to help support all we do in NewRochelle..

Like the thousands who help us from Congregation Kol Ami, to Holy Family, to First Presbyterian MtVernon, to upon this Rock, to Fordham University and so many

We continue..what are you waiting for,…get habititis,. Get the Ruah, the Holy Spirit the theology of the Hammer….lives depend upon it, joy comes from swinging and giving…

God Bless you!

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

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Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester on February 6 at 4p.m. for a Mardi Gras celebration at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801! We will have live music, authentic New Orleans style food, and much more! All proceeds for the event will go towards the revival of a home in New Orleans!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Be part of the “Soulution” today..i think God gives us Soulutions everyday..its up to us to listen and act on them, to see every human you meet as part of them and to join in making the world better daily..

May sound funny, but that’s how we roll here in Habitat of Westchester  …all things intentional for our good, the goodLord does it for us, according to the song..we believe it.

If not Habitat ofWestchester should have been gone years ago..no affordable homes, yet we still build.

Hud Lawsuits, though we have built in Somers, Larchmont, Bedford Poundridge, without any monitor.

Few resources overshadowed by nycs constant attention, yet we have worked on 2000 homes from here to the rockaways and Peekskil

We need a solution in our life daily,..it starts with Prayer..like Nehemiah who said he would rebuild cities..like our Lord who knelt to pray in the garden, or mother Teresa who I met years ago in Newark, who would pray, orlike Millard and Linda Fuller founders of Habitat..then we need to act! The answers come every day but we need to act.

We need to pick up a hammer,we believe every youth of all ages, 10-100 should know how to build..

We believe that everyone is a philanthropist to donate one dollar or 1000 or yes 1 million dollars..

We are all put on earh to change the obscene situation that 75000 people are in shelters tonite within ten milles ofmy office..

That 2acre zoning continues to stop simple decent homes being built in towns like harrison…

That politics hides soulutions as we follow leaders with little action.

That faith in action needs to happen, be it Iona or Shiloh Baptist, or Temple Israel of Kol Ami.

We need to change things now..

 

With that in mind is Soultion Saturday! What are you waiting for..call me 914 403 4821, or donate today http://www.habitatwc.org God bless you

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester as they honor our Veterans who have served, and are serving. Habiat for Humanity of Westchester’s 3^rd annual “Love a Veteran” celebration is this Sunday, January 31, 2016 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm  located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801.

 

Donations are always appreciated: carepackages and valentine cards will be done at the event….food will be provided.

 

 

 

 

 

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I have been blessed to have been helping for Martin Luther Kings birthday in service for more than 15 years.. my counterparts have followed our lead, to now perform a  day in service. We now dedicate ten days of service.

We  have a dream for a better NY, we have a dream for one Westchester, we have a dream for fair education for all, we have a dream for homeownership for all New Yorkers, from the cradle to the grave.

The mass exodus of New Yorkers to states with less taxes, more affordability, more pro business areas, in other states than here,

Its time this changes..as I get off a phone call of a church who says lets help the homeless. the root of the issue is there is no housing, no affordability.No rooms at the inn…we have to change this,

Join us..

 

 

 

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Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester as we kick-off our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon (January 18-January 26) with a MLK Jr. Dinner Sunday, January 17^th at 5:30 pm.  located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

 

 

 

 

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We have a dream that everyone will live in a simple decent home. This mission now more than ever, is vital for America and the world.

With that in mind, we are blessed to help those rebuild their dream in @Sandy relief and advocate, we continue to help rehab and repair homes in MtVernon, Yonkers, NewRochelle, Peekskill and throughout the county, we start two Passive homes of four in Chappaqua Millwood area, and help disaster families from fires get permanent housing often with furniture from the Restore.

we “believe unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality..”

“Weve been in the mountain of war, weve been in the mountain of hatred, weve been in the mountain of violence long enough.”

 

Dr King spoke many words, with meaning and from the heart and from the Holyspirit, the Ruah, the same Spirit that people ask for to come in the Koran Torah and bible,

Not a spirit of violence but of love.

 

For years, we have been building..and rebuilding with love and diversity…

 

I remember cleaning up a school yard helping Mother Teresas sisters in Newark…and the kids asked, who you working for Reagan, I replied, just for you to have clean place to play…

I continue to paint parks and clean up school yards…gladly so kids can play.

On the Lower East Side when homeless were everywhere and are coming back again today, I remember giving out clothing and working with the homeless..as well as helping to reach out to those that lived in the squatters buildings which now go for millions while people are on the streets again.

 

I remember seeing people turn red in a town in Westchester recently when I sat with my diversed staff and we were building a home and the committee said, you aren’t bringing those people in are you..

 

I remember people moving away when my multicolored diverse family, Hispanic, black irish, moved into the neighborhood…

We have a dream..God celebrates diversity, God asks our faith communities to be intentionally diverse, God asks us to to help all have a single decent home.  No Question..

When I visited Ebenezer Baptist with presidents and paupers, with the founder Millard Fullers service being celebrated, I remember feeling what it must have been in 1964 with FBI and racists…all waiting for Martin to come outside his door…today God waits for us to let the Spirit into our hearts the spirit of diversity and love the spirit of the theology of the hammer, to build and rebuild! Stay tuned for more…

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester as we kick-off our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon (January 18-January 26) with a MLK Jr. Dinner Sunday, January 17^th at 5:30 pm.  located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

 

 

 

 

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The year of the bike 2016…it is 60 degrees here in balmy new England dec 30..what..how come,

Global warming, seems to be real….ya think…lets have less cars and more bikes in 2016.

There is so few people biking all the time, and no bike lanes in Westchester, crazy..for sure..bikeability increases affordability..

No question, saving money from a car, means saving money from gas, pollution, insurance, tickets, and more..

Get on a bike this year…I am pushing for a number of initiatives that should help us change a number of areas.

Join us in advocating for neighborhoods again, for lives, for affordable homes, for seniors not to be stopped from living here,

For an intergenerational ny and for a non corrupt new york…its time.

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Habitat ReStore’s Christmas shop is now open! Don’t miss Santa Claus located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

Don’t forget your end of the year Holiday donation to Habitat J

 

 

 

 

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The Christmas week is here, its what we live for, faith in action..helping to bring stability and love and hope to our families, assisting fire and sandy victims still, and having the joy of His life in our hearts….The Earth is the Lords and all that is within, we work to help our veterans have homes and jobs, to help neighbohoods revitalized, to help work in building bridges cross ethnic racial and religious lines..for years our Martin Luther King buildathon has led the way about doing service kicking off the year…(our 15^th annual) 

For years our theology of the hammer efforts to change and to enhance our neighbors lives has us helping so many in cross communities. We are so blessed.

Now we build in Chappaqua too, we move ahead, we help to start to see our work in a way that will help begin our building in this great town…and we wlll move to Millwood following that.  The earth is the Lords and all that is within…The crisis of affordable housing in NY is causing people to live in droves..to lands where they can afford and not have to pay the highest taxes…and see politicians go to jail…its time we pray over this great state, over this great county over every town and city…and act with a hammer and with love, to  rebuild NY with the theology of the hammer…with habititis, with the Hannukkah and Christmas spirit, the Sai spirit the spirit of America…wont you join us?

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Habitat ReStore’s Christmas shop is now open! Don’t miss Santa Claus located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

Don’t forget your end of the year Holiday donation to Habitat J

 

 

 

 

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Last nite visiting my homeless friend, on Main St in NewRochelle, it was cold…hot beef stew, I brought and his kindness to me, of thanks made me selfishly feel great. Homeless in Westchester come on, they are only down in the Bronx in potts, or in nyc right?  When coming to NY and moving here, everyone says, we go help NYC, we go here there, we also go to Tennessee and Nicacaragua..but they wont come to Main st, they wont come to Mt Vernon, they wont reachout locally.. Part of it is our religious institutions often just  leading people to write a check for an agency that says they help, but don’t reach out directly, Leadership of our faith community needs to know what the needs are on their street, in their community, within two miles and more…many don’t, many drive in and out, and we have many silos, political silos, faith silos, govt silos, not for profit silos, its time to make it real..

Lets go…the ultimate manger story in Westchester is that many don’t have homes and many do. Its time to help right here..

Its time to change this. Bendiciones

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Habitat ReStore’s Christmas shop is now open! Don’t miss Santa Claus located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

Don’t forget your end of the year Holiday donation to Habitat J

 

 

 

 

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Every second is gift.. we move ahead, we fight for the American Dream, we are blessed with interest free mortgages and no down payment.

Last nite the move to take over and move in 11000 luxury rental units…which will not help the citizens of new Rochelle, get ready for a battle.

The paid for written reports for an end conclusion, that they developer wants will hurt the schools and  the citizens and our Main St. 

We are not against development.  But the need for us to help families have a home, condos coops, etc, help them to live decently, help them to be able to work hard and locavest into their own communities, these are the things that have to be done! Join the fight..

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Habitat ReStore Christmas shop Candy cane ribbon cutting this Thursday November 19^th at 5pm. Don’t miss Santa Clause located at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY  10801

 

Don’t forget your end of the year Holiday donation to Habitat J

 

 

 

 

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