PETE FINNEY is an Athens native and is currently working as a night shift guy at the Timothy House while finishing up his degree at Ohio University where he is studying Psychology and Social Services.

While growing up in Athens, Pete was always aware of the impact that Good Works had on Southeastern Ohio. His parents, Mike and Julie Finney, have been close friends with Keith Wasserman ever since college. Although he had often heard about and visited the Good Works' Timothy House, it wasn't until the fall of 2009 that Pete began volunteering regularly.

The experience that Pete had the Timothy House led him to spend a month volunteering at Cornerstone Community Outreach in Chicago, IL. Although this experience with urban homelessness was quite different from anything Pete had done or seen in Athens, it fostered in him a renewed passion for serving the rural homeless.

In addition to his position at Good Works, Pete enjoys working as a peer tutor at Ohio University, playing the guitar, and working outdoors.

Sharing in the work of God can be both an exhilarating and trying experience. This poem demonstrates the comfort we can find in knowing that God is sovereign and actively working towards the glory of His great name.  

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

-William Cowper