Matthew 25
The Hand Up for Housing Walk returns in 2025 for its fifth year of raising money for housing assistance in Omaha!
To date, we have raised close to $90,000 through donations and matched funds!
This year, we will be supporting inCOMMON Community Development. This agency and their services align with the goal to help families and adults who deal with these issues.
With your help, 100% of the funds raised will support the work of:
- Partners with neighbors to strengthen vulnerable neighborhoods so that every child has the chance to grow up in a safe, thriving and opportunity-rich environment to include safe streets and play spaces as well as affordable housing.
- Rapid redevelopment in certain neighborhoods have made it challenging for low-income and minority residents to secure housing. inCOMMON Community Development purchases and renovates buildings to provide affordable housing for low income families and adults.
All are welcome:
Congregations, Youth Groups, Mission Teams, Individuals, Families, Businesses, Agencies, Everyone!
So … Let’s Go and Walk for Youth Housing!
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Location: 34th and Farnam streets
Route: 1.25 miles through Dewey Park and Blackstone neighborhoods
Registration: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Agency Talk: 12:45 PM
Walk Begins: 1:00 PM
Walk Festival: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Walk Festival includes:
Booths – Table Grace Food Truck – Raffle – Music – GaGa Ball – Games – Bouncy House – Ice Cream Sundaes
Walkers who donate will receive an event t-shirt!
For more information, please contact:
Susan Kawamoto @ 402.689.6200
Rebecca Nichol @ 402.672.1586
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
Walk Level Sponsorship ($500+)
Community Level Sponsorship ($250+)
Read more about First Presbyterian Church’s commitment to Matthew 25:
First Presbyterian Church Omaha is a Matthew 25 Church
“Matthew 25” is an initiative of the Presbyterian Church (USA) that encourages congregations to take on Jesus’ calling from Matthew 25 in the Bible’s New Testament:
I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me. – Matthew 25:40 (NLT)
What is a Matthew 25 Church?
Matthew 25:31-46 calls all believers to actively engage in the world around us, so our faith comes alive and we wake up to new possibilities. A Matthew 25 church is called to act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned or poor. Churches work toward one or more of three goals: building congregational vitality, dismantling structural racism and eradicating systemic poverty.
Did you know …
- One in 5 households make less than $25,000 per year
- 50% of local renters spend more than 1/3 of their income on housing
- The average cost of a 1-bedroom apartment is $665 per month. A renter needs to hold a full time $14 an hour job to pay rental costs
- A residence is considered overcrowded if there is more than one person per room in the home
- Approximately 2,000 individuals find themselves homeless every night
What does a Matthew 25 church look like when…?
… building congregational vitality?
A Matthew 25 church that strives for congregational vitality is active and deeply involved in the mission of God in their community and the world. The church is powerfully focused on growing as disciples in the way of Jesus Christ.
… dismantling structural racism?
A Matthew 25 church addresses structural racism by actively working with policymakers to change laws and policies that promote housing discrimination, deny access to quality education, employment, adequate health care, food scarcity, mass incarceration, school-to-prison pipeline and environmental racism.
… working to eradicate systemic poverty?
A Matthew 25 church becomes aware and works to eradicate structures in society that all but guarantees that people living in poverty will stay that way. Systemic poverty refers to the economic exploitation of people who are poor through laws, policies, practices and systems that perpetuate the impoverished status.
