Abilene Houses for Healing to expand community impact

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — It has been nearly six years since the nonprofit Houses for Healing began. Now, the organization is working to expand its facilities and impact on the community.

Brain Massey, the organization’s founder and president, told KTAB/KRC he is happy to see its impact grow.

“We’ve passed the equivalency of what’s been given, over $1,000,000, and that’s primarily with just four houses. Now we’ll be doing much, much more,” Massey said.

The property on Hickory Street currently has 20 houses adopted by churches across the Big Country. They are finishing up the work on a workshop that will serve as the headquarters for the operation team on-site.

The nonprofit has also acquired the lot next door and plans to expand with a unit dedicated to NICU or Renal failure. Massey said that is where he sees a need they can fill.

“We’re hoping that it will be something maybe for NICU needs, or kidney failure, renal failure needs. That’s something that we’re now aware of that is a great opportunity,” Massey said.

With the expansions, Massey wants to continue helping the sick, something he says Abilene has been lacking.

“There’s no place like Abilene. Abilene has been doing things for unity for a long, long time. Long before Houses for Healing. But the one thing that was not being done at the grassroots level is caring for the sick,” Massey said.

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