Grace-filled Business | Matt Parfitt
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Matt is a teacher turned serial social entrepreneur! Inspired by a visit to a church in Kenya, he has started businesses to create jobs for people on the margins. From gardening to cleaning to marquees to biscuits... and with a vision for more. Hear some amazing stories of lives changed, and what happens when you take God at His word and step out in faith!
You can find out how Grace Enterprises creates life-changing jobs here: graceenterprises.co.uk/
Watch the full 14 minute video: 'Why would a church start a business?' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9dLZfrnYyg&t=147s
The three social businesses run by Grace Enterprises are:
Grace Church Nottingham can be found here: gracechurchnottingham.org
Contact Matt via LinkedIn, or email: office@graceenterprises.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | They are finding themselves in the church talking about a job and they just don't understand |
| 0:06.7 | why would a church start a business? |
| 0:08.5 | That seems weird. |
| 0:09.5 | If a church did start a business, why would you employ me? |
| 0:12.2 | I was really frustrated, to be honest. |
| 0:14.1 | There were people I was discipling who'd come to know Jesus. |
| 0:16.8 | So their lives had changed, but they were still living in the same areas, still surrounded |
| 0:21.2 | by the same bad influences. |
| 0:23.0 | And then there were lots of middle class people like me who would help with making someone |
| 0:26.9 | more employable, CV writing or a suit or bus fare or interview practice. |
| 0:32.3 | There was no one who could actually say, I will give you a job. |
| 0:35.5 | Not just I will give you a job. |
| 0:36.7 | I'll help you to keep that job. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Thrill to be back for another fantastic |
| 0:46.1 | week of encouragement. And, you know, it's so needed, isn't it? Because we are relentlessly |
| 0:52.2 | bombarded by negativity in the press. I just, |
| 0:54.9 | oh, I can't stand it. Five minutes a day is all right, but don't get sucked into the 24-7 |
| 0:58.8 | news cycle. It just allows someone else to curate all the negativity that makes you depress and |
| 1:03.6 | cynical and anxious and apathetic. And what we need is good news. There is loads of good news |
| 1:08.7 | out there. And that is why the podcast, I think, is doing so well because we need to hear good news. There is loads of good news out there. And that is why the podcast I think is doing so well because we need to hear good stories. Oh, no doubt this week you're going to be inspired because we've got with us the wonderful Matt Parfit. Welcome Matt. Hi, Simon. It's great to be with you. Yeah, really looking forward to this. You know, everyone's got a different journey. Our paths crossed a couple of years ago. I was doing a faith in business event I was speaking at and Matt got in touch. And what I love is even in the last, you know, |
| 1:32.8 | year, beautiful, further stunning stuff has happened. So Matt's a serial social entrepreneur. He |
| 1:39.8 | runs grace enterprises and I don't want to say anything anything else Matt. Let's just get into it. |
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