Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
‘I’ll soon trace those pills with a blood test!’ he said.
The test revealed no trace of pills — or leukaemia!
One story was of a sister who had to be at hospital for 11.15
am. It was 11.00 am and raining. It was a forty minute walk,
so she prayed and set out. The Lord seemed close and she
felt unusually light. When she reached the hospital, she looked
at her watch and gasped; it was 11.15 am! Then she noticed
her clothes — they were dry!
Healings, deliverance and the supernatural were increasing
along with our faith!
We were now enamoured with the Army image. Join Us!
carried a photo of an Irish lad: ‘Sign Up! Mark has joined the
Jesus Army!’ The next one read: ‘Urgent! Join the Jesus Rebellion’
and showed a grinning street lad with a cross around
his neck, badges, army jumper, and a broken nose!
That summer Operation Mark ran a small ‘Jesus Army Camp’
for our teenagers in the Peak District. Badges and car stickers
also appeared inviting people to ‘Join the Jesus Army!’
We wanted to plant twenty church-households at short distances
from the thirty we already had. LEAP teams (Location
Evangelism And Planting) would evangelise and hold meetings
in these areas. Supported by Marquee Missions and
church evangelism, they would form a core and build others
in. So we would ‘leap’ from one location to another close by.
However, a survey showed new activities as far afield as Newcastle,
Liverpool, Chester, North Wales, Sheffield, London and
Margate. We also sent historian Trevor with our Dutch brethren
to Holland.
In June we were campaigning in Birmingham, where faith
was running high, and visitors often outnumbered members.
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