Green Pastures is an award winning Christian Charity and Social Enterprise releasing the Church to end homelessness in the UK. Jeff Short chats to co-founder Pete Cunningham about the work they are doing.
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We'd like to start hitting £1,000,000 a month; it would be good to spend £12,000,000 a year on housing homeless people. This year is looking very, very positive. We've already got 5 new partners on board; we're looking for another 5.
Jeff: Every time Jesus spoke there'd be people on the edge of the crowd who would have a bit of a grumble. I'm just putting on my Pharisee hat to say you can't help some of these people and they've brought it on themselves and they smell and swear. What do you say to them?
Pete: I'd say, Jesus said the whole of heaven rejoices over one sinner that repents. We're getting a few more than one sinner repenting. At the end of the day, if the job we're doing brought just one in a year that would be phenomenal. The church of Jesus Christ should be rejoicing over sinners coming to salvation and coming to know Jesus. We probably had 700, 800 people come to know the Lord last year, which is fabulous, isn't it?
Jeff: That's wonderful. Who wouldn't want to be involved with
a group who are doing that?! ![]()
Jeff has lived in Stoke-on-Trent for 20 years and considers himself an adopted Stokie! He even follows Port Vale FC! He was once Mayor of Newport, Shropshire and has appeared on TV's The Weakest Link, The Chase and Brainteaser. He beat The Chaser for the higher amount, but lost the final Chase! By day and some evenings he looks after four Methodist churches, but once a week between 11am and 2pm on a Wednesday he presents Community Choice on Cross Rhythms. He loves dogs and has very old Yorkshire Terriers and birds giving a home to three budgies! He is also a bit of a twitcher! Loves books, talking and music, so they feature on the programme! He is married with six daughters spread around the country plus the middle east and Australia!
