Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
AWAKE O ZION!
Cyril, the architect, was trying to direct the exploits of the
building team. They were young and zealous and did everything
with abandon. At times he was desperately worried.
One day he was discussing the new heating system with John
Thom. Cyril asked him where he’d learned his plumbing. ‘I
never learned it, bro!’ said John. ‘I just got a book out of the
library.’ Amazingly, it worked!
People kept coming. Car loads of students visited from Oxford,
among them Piers, my old friend from the Zoology Department,
now doing a PhD in dung beetles, and Mike Farrant,
Ian’s old ‘prayer partner’. Talk of Bugbrooke buzzed
around the Oxford colleges, especially after one girl prophesied
in a prayer meeting! Some of the Christian Union
thought we were great. But not all the executive were so keen
when students disappeared off to Bugbrooke for the weekend.
Another set of visitors was a group of girls from Wimbledon.
Liz and Janie had already lived in a community in Coventry,
founded by the Redeemer church. Now Liz, a secretary,
and Janie, a teacher, had gathered six other girls with them
and were working out the principles of discipleship and community.
They were attracted by the fellowship and within six
months had moved up into extended families.
One family came from Aylesbury. ‘Here, read this, Mum,’
said Maurice, one Saturday evening, tossing a copy of Nine
O’Clock In The Morning on to the table, ‘I’m off to Bugbrooke.’
Mum read it and was enthralled. ‘Lord,’ she prayed, ‘We’ve
been seeking this for years!’ The following week Marion and
Lionel, her husband, drove to chapel with their two sons. All
of them were baptised in the Spirit that night.
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