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.jpg) March 8, 2009
Guest – Allan Tibbels
Program: The Staying Power of Focus
Allan Tibbels served as a
founding member of New Song and Sandtown Habitat for Humanity near
Baltimore, MD. He and his family relocated from Howard County to the
inner-city West Baltimore community of Sandtown-Winchester in 1986 along
with a core group of several others. There they began an interracial
church (New Song Community Church) and began to address issues of
education, health care, jobs and economic development and development of
the arts.
Sandtown Habitat for Humanity has completed 250 homes and has 25 more
under construction toward the goal of completing 350 within the next
several years.
An added challenge for Allan is the fact that he is confined to a
wheelchair as a quadriplegic, the result of a spinal cord injury
sustained in a 1981 basketball accident. He continued both his work and
his education, however, graduating with honors from Towson State
University in 1988 with a B.S. in history and sociology.
Allan has been married to his wife, Susan, since 1974. They are the
parents of two adult daughters, Jennifer and Jessica and grandparents to
Nehemiah. |
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