Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
The Spirit that urged us to celebrate and communicate inspired
us into greater evangelism. Our frontiers opened out.
Mick ‘Temperate’ was church-planting in Liverpool using a
rented house as a base. His team travelled up from Birmingham
gathering new friends and developing links with local
leaders, but not without some opposition.
Kelly was on the go in Glasgow and others were pioneering
in Sheffield, Norwich and Oxford. We held ‘Beachfire’ missions
in coastal resorts and Pete, our Dutch medic, took a
team to Amsterdam. The English double-decker had to have
its tyres deflated to get under the bridges! Proud thing.
At Glastonbury Festival we joined with groups like YWAM
and British Youth For Christ as part of Vic Jackopson’s ‘Hope
Now’ team. The evangelists provided a real Christian presence
there and more than one searcher was baptised in a
barrel of water!
Once a month we ran four-day missions in London known
as EDP (Eat, Drink and Pray!) Brothers and sisters would
walk the streets well into the small hours befriending nightclubbers
and the homeless. At intervals they would return to
the warm bus at Trafalgar Square, sit their friends down with
a cup of tea and fix them a hot meal. They shared God’s love
and often prayed with them.
Dave Wilkerson once prophesied that God would ‘adopt the
lost generation’. We found the young homeless very open to
God. Spiritual experience and brotherly love made a big impact
on them. Quite a few came back to community, and the
Farm, especially, began to burst at the seams with young men
finding life in Jesus, a family and a cause to fight for.
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