Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
This was part of a definite plan for planting the good news in
key positions throughout the Empire. 132
Mike ‘Rockfast’ saw a picture of arrows flying out from the
centre of the church and hitting many targets in the nation.
One thrust utilised the new coach which could house a whole
team and had already ‘done damage’ in Yorkshire. Complete
with stacks of literature, food, and the wild and inspired, it
was to carry the UK Ignition Gospel Roadshow.
Ignition was to travel the land for three years sparking off
spiritual fires. The pioneers’ commission was to ‘leaven with
the gospel the strategic cities and towns of the UK, recognising
groups and planting church households.’ Their adventures
would fill a book.
Mary and I had just been wed when we joined the Ignition
team in the South West. We met the bus at Plymouth where it
had been followed by the Mayor on a carnival procession!
Our team (with an age range of 8 to 80) evangelised Torbay
and Exeter. We had a warm reception. Anglicans lent us their
church hall, an old Quaker invited us to tea, and policemen
blessed us. God had gone before and there was an openness
abroad.
Many were drawn by the colourful bus and the buzz of life
around it. One travelling new-age artist joined our ‘church
on wheels’ and later ripped up his occult paintings. A biker
couple, who happened to stroll past the bus in Torquay, returned
the next morning as new-born Christians, bright eyed
and eager. Later Jim and Georgie wrote to Jesus Life:
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