And so it has happened yet again. I had to take a 21-year-old's funeral service. The lad died on Christmas Day from a heroin overdose, a victim of society's ills.

Crossover's work sees Brighton and Hove as being in a desperate plight.

We are in need of a moral and righteous revolution, otherwise I shall be burying more addicts, trying to help more victims of child abuse, comforting more who have been victims of violence and emotional pain.

I understand the city has the highest suicide rate and most deaths from drugs and alcohol in the whole country. It is a city of fear and poverty, brokenness and pain. It is not a fun place any more.

I know this city can change but only if we mobilise those who really care about their neighbours and who are willing to get on their knees before almighty God on behalf of the city and plead for mercy.

If not, without doubt, you, your neighbours, your family and your friends, will experience yet more violence, pain and brokenness.

Crossover is calling for a moral and righteous revolution in this city. Our worst enemy is apathy, when "good men do nothing". How about Brighton and Hove taking the lead in the clean-up of our nation?

-David Pavitt, Project Co-ordinator, Crossover, North Street, Portslade