4 November 26, 2014 2014 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS MAGAZINE LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com
Ray White Park serves as the summer base for His Hands Outreach. The city of
Lincoln chose the park for its annual Community Night, and working with HHO saw the
best turn out ever for the event.
Reaching out to the community
Ed credits a quote by Craig Groeschel to show
what the group is trying to do. Groeschel
wrote, “To reach people no one else is
reaching we must do things no one else is
doing.”
Tibbits says “His Hands Outreach” is “trying
to be Jesus’ body out in our community. If he
were here in the flesh, we believe he would be
hanging out in the poorest neighborhoods --
[outreach] doesn’t happen within most church
walls.” He wants to “communicate the love,
in
A couple years ago, Ed Tibbits
started a group called “His Hands
Outreach” as a way to reach out
to people in our community.
Originally, the group with the help of
four nurses ministered in Springfield
doing foot care for the homeless.
Ed has long had a passion for
reaching out to “the least of these.”
He soon realized that “His Hands
Outreach” was limited in what they
could do in Springfield as they only
did the foot care once a month. Ed
says it was then that “we decided to
do more locally, and started a non-
profit. We want to encourage people
to get outside the church buildings
and reach out.”
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