Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
‘I was snorting coke and heroin, smoking pot, and eating
hash cakes,’ one lad told us, ‘...it was getting me nowhere but
high! I believed in God and called him Jah, but hated him
when things got heavy. I dabbled in witchcraft, travelled
around, and ended up in prison. The first time I heard about
Jesus, I thought it was crazy, but I was moved by seeing these
Jesus People really cared.’
He went to the Marquee and cried for the first time in two
years. ‘I knew my sins were washed away and my guilt was
gone. The Jesus People are the sort of friends I’ve always
been looking for.’ 89
Teams visited the beaches at Hastings, Weymouth, Blackpool
and Brighton. We were loaned a farmhouse in Luton and
bought more houses: Standfast in Birmingham, Trumpet in
Northampton, and New Wave in Yarmouth. In Birmingham
we made friends with Muslims and Sikhs and now established
a terraced house in the heart of the Asian population.
In Nottingham, a local paper reported:
A fanatical Christian group has set up a tent mission on Nottingham
Forest’s site. And its extreme stand against ‘today’s
sick society’ has seen petrol bomb attacks on the marquee and
guy ropes slashed. The Jesus Fellowship campaigns against
crime, unemployment, drugs, the occult, sexual permissiveness,
marriage breakdown, abortion, child abuse and other social ills.
The members, who share their possessions, intend to march
through the city centre. 90
The media hadn’t finished with us. That August a journalist
came to our Bank Holiday Conference at Cornhill, and stayed
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