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Transforming dreams into reality
Published: 12th Jun 2013
WE HAVE become accustomed to bad news: faltering banks, a double-dip recession, once-firmly established businesses folding up, large scale redundancies in the public sector and the resultant increase in unemployment, house repossessions, homelessness and child poverty. And that doesn’t include the unrecorded psychological damage inflicted by the loss of jobs and the uncertainty, even...
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Cold nights, warm hearts
Published: 20th May 2012
IT'S HALF ten on another cold night. Helen and I are armed with hot water bottles, walking the streets of Coventry. Where are all the homeless folks tonight? Let's hope they've found somewhere warm for the night.
We find some, sitting at a bus stop, two men hungrily eating chips. We approach them and offer the hot water bottles. One of them, Billy, tells me his story.
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Life on the streets
Published: 19th May 2012
"WE'RE all in the gutter," quotes Bertie in a sweeping theatrical manner, "but some of us are looking to the stars. That's Oscar Wilde that is," he tells us while he strums his battered guitar and sings a little ditty to the passers-by.
Bertie was one of a crowd of people that Mary Golding and Lisbeth Johnson bumped into when they decided to base their cell...
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Charity award
Published: 17th May 2012
LONDON Jesus Centre was named "Charity of the month" by their local Waitrose recently, as voted for by Waitrose customers. They also received a generous donation from the superstore.
Centre manager, Rob Bentley, was delighted and somewhat bemused: "It's all a bit amazing" he said. "The store isn't very near and we don't have a lot of Waitrose...
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Make a profit for the poor
Published: 3rd Sep 2011
YOUNG people in Coventry have been finding inventive ways to raise money for the work of the Coventry Jesus Centre, including its drop-in for disadvantaged people.
Each was given £10 after a collection at the Coventry Jesus Centre. "The challenge was to reinvest it to make a profit for the poor!" explained Jesus Army leader, Iain Gorrie.
One enterprising young man...
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