of december morning like this one where i'd be doing traffic up at the double three hotel there overlooking us thirty one and often times i would be able to give a live news reports up there and when i was five or six inches of snow on the ground so this morning out i drive in the hall and i see a person running through downtown holland got a t shirt and shorts off and that tells you the kind of the you know twitter we're having here this year but i can tell you that i'm a little bit of a new snow man here in west michigan three different stations but i can tell you one thing for sure it's not  s i'm very pleased to be here this morning the for the or early bird breakfast for the michigan was coast team of commerce we're so grateful to both of our sponsors here this morning thank you first the school work for their sponsorship of day i am also enjoying i love this time of year and i love it even more when it's like this outside i mean i'm one that can do without the white stuff now we've had enough for the past two years i'm so thankful for these a brief moments that i can just share with you i first of all want to say thank you to cory and to the b w team for allowing this time for us to the b a w team has been very gracious partner with habitat and we're so grateful for that habitat has been a part of this community our community for twenty five years now and we are currently building on the north side of holland home one forty six and one forty seven so we're busy and there is still an enormous need for affordable housing in this area i want to tell you one quick story and i want to try to keep a really short a woman came into our facility asking for help through his national prayer handout she was asking for help she needed capital not sure if she needed coworkers not caseworkers and she came to us and she said i need help my marriage disintegrated and i had to get out of that relationship it was an abusive relationship she had three kids she was living in an apartment it was the seventeenth place they had lived in love in the years marriage think about that what impact that would have on you and your kids she came us living in a two bedroom apartment with a three his high criminal density twelve registered sex offenders i think i can go on and you don't have time for all of the gruesome details came to us and we said yes she had a good job we said yes we can help you i'm excited to tell you that as of last fall not this past fall but a year well this past fall actually has really moved into a south side home four bedrooms energy star three point all and she calls that home and we call that whole for a better future for the kids so we are so blessed to be able to do that habitat works with families from all walks of life and we serve families that are in the thirty to eighty percent median income bracket and if they're willing to partner with us and they're able to repay a zero interest mortgage and they're willing to do their share of stars sweat equity goes we're we're happy to work with that so we're blessed and i say awesome i mean us in terms of this room and this community we cannot do this work without the generous people in this community and we have to underscore this this community and west michigan is incredibly unique and that you give generously and i just have to say and this season of the year we are so very thankful for your generosity i hope you have a very joyous christmas god bless thank you very much for now it's time for the door prize as it's the favorite moment here this morning the door prizes provided by the good folks of i will get insurance and the prize is fifty three dollars and sixty five says and just a couple of big announcements for you today a reminder that our breakfast with bill isaac is scheduled for next week monday so i know many of you are already registered we'll have a packed house of five hundred plus but i'm sure you can fit a few more in if you're interested in becoming  sea in the next year we have to really think about  now we see this is the reason it's almost two thousand miles of border with the united states so this is huge and the border is an important border that border we have a real single minutes one million dollars question business  because they think everything is positive things are going really well here over the last couple of years and the president of the w e upjohn institute will be here to speak so thank you have a great day thanks for joining us