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A UK JESUS PEO PLE MAGAZINE from the Multiply Network and Je sus Fel low ship/modern JESUS army (mJa) 

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INTO UNCHARTED TERRAIN 

Deb Stockley’s journey into celibacy 

25-26 

JESUS CENTRES 

London Jesus 

Centre opening 

THE JESUS FEL LOW SHIP CHURCH, which is also known as 

the Jesus Army and in cludes the New Cre a tion Chris tian Commu 

ni ty, up holds the his tor ic Chris tian faith, be ing re formed, 

evan gel i cal and char is mat ic. 

It practises believer’s bap tism and the New Tes ta ment 

reality of Christ’s Church; be liev ing in Al mighty God: Father, 

Son and Holy Spirit; in the full divinity, aton ing death and 

bodily res ur rec tion of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the Bible as 

God’s word, fully in spired by the Holy Spirit. 

This Church desires to wit ness to the Lord ship of Je sus Christ 

over and in His Church; and, by holy char ac ter, righteous society 

and evan gel i cal tes ti mo ny to de clare that Je sus Christ, Son of 

God, the only Saviour, is the way, the truth and the life, and 

through Him alone can we find and enter the king dom of God. 

This church proclaims free grace, jus ti fi ca tion by faith in Christ 

and the sealing and sanc ti fy ing baptism in the Holy Spir it. 

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con ten t s 

5-7 

THE 

PROPHETIC 

WORD 

Apostolic 

Church 

PASSION FROM THE PAST 

Aidan and Alopen: Apostles 

RANT AND RAVE - mJa members speak out! 

3-4 Church Alive 

8 Electronic Postbag 

14-16 Jesus In The Capital 

17-21 Multiply Christian Network 

22-23 Spiritual Search - Carmino 

27-28 Inside Story 

29 Radical Bites 

30-31 Rant & Rave 

Jesus Life One/2007 Page 2 

www.jesus.org.uk

Comments from Noel Stanton and 

members of the Apostolic Team, 

Jesus Fellowship UK/mJa 

ALIVE 

ALIVE 

church ALIVE 

Slaves of all 

Noel Stanton 

THE NEW TESTAMENT warns 

of the danger of having spiritual 

gifts without love. Charismatic 

Christians can be guilty of this. 

The gifts are there, but where 

is the fruit of the Holy Spirit? 

Among the virtues produced 

through the fullness of the Spirit 

is meekness or humility. 

Jesus says “I am meek and 

lowly in heart.” He came to 

“serve” and to “give His life”. He 

made it clear that only the meek 

will “inherit the earth”. 

Humility, Jesus said, must be 

the character of His followers. 

The humble would be lifted, the 

proud would be humiliated. The 

first would be the last, and the 

last first. The poor would rise, 

the rich would fade. 


The strength 

of meekness 

His was a radical revolutionary 

word which overturns the norms 

of society. And He showed this 

by the poverty and humility of 

His own life and lifestyle. 

So meekness is not weakness. 

Meekness is spiritual character, 

spiritual strength. The meek 

have nothing to prove. They are 

relaxed and confident, able to 

take their place and play their 

part in the service of Jesus. They 

can be very gifted but have 

learned that to be effective they 

must be meek, servant-hearted. 

The meek are never over-sensitive 

or defensive. They are always 

of a teachable spirit. They 

never grumble, never complain. 

They live “crucified with Christ”, 

with Christ living through them. 

YES, SLAVES and 

servants of all! And 

that means servants 

of those who 

are with us in the 

church and servants 

of those around us 

in society, who need 

the good news that 

Jesus saves. 

The New Testament 

tells us to be 

servant-hearted, 

slaves of all. Jesus 

said it! Paul said it! 

And Jesus demonstrated 

servanthood 

in His compassion 

for people and in the 

way He washed the 

feet of His disciples. 

Our cover picture 

shows the washing of 

feet at a recent mJa 

event. For us it symbolises 

our desire to 

serve, and to show 

love. Jesus said we 

must imitate Him by 

loving one another 

as He loves: His new 

commandment. This 

love must be shown 

in our servanthearted 

willingness 

to share our lives 

with one another. 

And as Jesus said, 

They show the new spirit and 

new heart which became theirs 

through new birth. 

Long ago George Fox, the 

founder of the Quakers, put it 

like this: “I knew Jesus, and He 

was very precious to my soul: 

but I found something in me 

that would not keep sweet and 

patient and kind. I did what 

I could to keep it down but it 

was there. I besought Jesus 

those who are first 

(as leaders) in His 

church can only be 

genuine leaders if 

they are the best 

slaves or servants. 

You don’t have 

to be upper class, 

wealthy, top in your 

profession, or to 

have a good education, 

to be “great” in 

serving Jesus in the 

church. Those with 

little to show in human 

achievement 

can become alive in 

the Holy Spirit, with 

a servant-heartedness 

and love for 

people which gives 

them authority for 

leadership. 

The call of Jesus 

is always to selfdenial, 

to take up 

our cross with Him. 

We are to die to the 

“old self” with all its 

pride, deceit, envy 

and jealousy. And 

this “old self” death, 

followed by our 

“rising with Him” 

is made real in our 

baptism in water 

(burial) and our 

baptism in the Spirit 

(rising). And at the 

same time the Holy 

Spirit baptises us 

into Christ’s body, 

His Church. And so 

churches become 

energised with 

God’s love in a powerful, 

committed 

brotherhood displaying 

real, sharing 

servanthood. 

“Slaves of all” 

means friendship 

evangelism among 

people of all ages 

and all kinds we 

meet in streets, 

homes, pubs and 

clubs. The Jesuslike 

serving heart 

empathises with the 

needs of people and 

shows them how 

their guilt can be 

removed, their hurts 

healed and their 

loneliness replaced 

by real love and 

friendship. 

Yes, let’s be 

like Jesus, full of 

compassion toward 

people, letting them 

know that Christianity 

is not dogma 

but living, servanthearted 

love. 

to do something for me, and 

when I gave Him my will, He 

came to my heart and took out 

all that would not be sweet, all 

that would not be kind, all that 

would not be patient, and then 

He shut the door.” 

Noel Stanton heads up the Jesus 

Fellowship’s apostolic team. 

He lives in a New Creation 

Christian Community house in 

Northamptonshire. 

more overleaf 

 

 


from overleaf 

Huw Lewis 

Prophetic compassion 

THE SUCCESS of the ministry 

of Jesus was largely a result of 

two contrasting aspects of His 

life and work uniting together. 

It was if ‘two arms’ were in 

operation. 

The first arm was one of 

prophetic life. Jesus spoke the 

clear word of God that revealed, 

uncovered, convicted and illuminated. 

He broke through 

the hard places, challenged 

the religious hypocrisy of His 

time and disturbed the settled 

norms. But His life also reflected 

His words, demonstrating the 

power of an alternative way of 

living. He was uncomfortable to 

be with but He opened up new 

ways to those around Him. 

The second arm was His 

compassion. He understood the 

outcast and rejected, reached 

out to the marginalised and 

abandoned and loved all kinds 

of people. He identified with 

broken humanity and brought 

healing grace to many wounded 

people. Touching lepers, letting 

a prostitute wash His feet, weeping 

over the city that rejected 

Him, deeply concerned for the 

‘sheep without a shepherd’ – all 

showed care in action. 

The combination of these 

two arms produced a powerful 

‘prophetic compassion’ that 

impacted lives. Combining truth 

and love in His life ands words, 

He made a deep impression on 

all He encountered – He just 

couldn’t be ignored! 

More than ever, such a combination 

is very much needed 

in the ministry of the Church 

today to ensure that lives are 

changed in a lasting way. 

Huw Lewis is a member of the 

Jesus Fellowship’s apostolic 

team. He lives in a New Creation 


Kettering, Northamptonshire. 

Steve Calam 

Expose to expel 

IN OUR ROOF garden, 

what had been strong 

healthy plants had begun 

to wither and die. 

On investigation I discovered vine-weevil 

grubs eating the roots and adults eating the 

leaves. Shining a torch on them at night 

when they were active – to expose and then 

expel them – proved most effective! 

In a similar way God has been exposing 

those things which prevent us from being 

spiritually healthy and fruitful: deep soul 

issues and demonic oppressions have been 

exposed by the searchlight of the Holy 

Spirit. 

It can be uncomfortable, but the reason 

is that they might be dealt with. Healing 

prayer and a renewed understanding 

and practice of deliverance 

ministry have resulted 

in a new-found freedom and 

fruitfulness for some. 

It will take faith and courage 

as we pray together for a greater 

anointing in the Holy Spirit to 

allow Him to continue to expose 

and to expel so that we might 

become more effective disciples 

of Jesus. 

Steve Calam is a member of 

the Jesus Fellowship’s apostolic 

team. He lives in a New Creation 


central London. 

FINAL MIX 

SINCE THE last Jesus Life we’ve had two Festival 

Weekends with lots of blessings. London Day in June 

was a great time with a colourful mJa march followed 

by the three-hour festival at Trafalgar Square. 

In early August came the first RAW (Real and Wild) 

event run by our younger people. It ran for three days 

and was described as “awesome”! 

Sadly we have to report that our Liverpool leader, 

Dave Brown, was killed in a motorway accident last 

April. Lots of grief, and a united time of thanksgiving 

for Dave before we committed his body to the grave in 

our burial ground. 

Please join us for our coming events see back cover. 

Also, we’re running a nationwide New Friends Course 

(similar to Alpha) from 3 October to 14 November. 

Do contact us if you would like to join us or if we 

could help you in any way. Our thanks for all your love 

and prayers. 

The Apostolic Team, Jesus Fellowship Church UK. 

JL 

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Apostolic 

THE PROPHETIC 

WORD 

Church 

urch 

Jesus Fellowship apostolic team 

leader Noel Stanton reflects 

on Paul’s approach to building 

church, as demonstrated in 1 

Corinthians. And he applies the principles 

he finds there to apostolic church today. 

WE SEE Jesus Fellowship Church as an apostolic 

church; as a key church in the UK, called to impact the 

nation with the gospel of Jesus Christ, to win souls and 

build them into a New Testament lifestyle. 

But what does it mean to be an “apostolic” church, to 

have an “apostolic” heart? We can learn a lot by reading 

Paul’s apostolic letters such as his first letter to the 

Corinthians. 

Called 

It was a letter written to “the church of God at Corinth” 

by one “called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus” (1 

Corinthians 1:2). Corinth, we find as we read, was in 

fact a messy church with many problems which Paul 

had to address. But it was still “the church of God”. 

Apostolic church is not perfect church! But it is church 

with called and visionary leaders and it is church that is 

“sanctified” (1:2), set apart to belong to God. 

Apostolic leadership will create church like this; they 


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Are you prepared 

to be a slave to 

the rough-andready 

lads in 

street gangs? Are 

you prepared to 

be a slave to the 

elderly woman 

next door? Are 

you prepared to 

be a slave to that 

young couple 

with a baby and 

a chaotic life? 

 

 

Continued from overleaf 

will impart “grace and peace from God our Father and 

the Lord Jesus Christ” (1:3). Grace and peace are not 

just words – they are power, imparted and received for 

the strengthening of the church. Apostolic churches will 

know this power – a power that comes from the cross. 

Cross 

The cross will always be central to an apostolic church. 

It was central to Jesus’ teaching. He said: “If anyone 

would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up 

his cross. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but 

whoever loses his life for Me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24) 

It was central to Paul’s message: Christ sent him 

to proclaim the gospel – “not with words of human 

wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who 

are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the 

power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:17-18) 

Apostolic church will have at its heart the call of the 

Cross: die to your old life. Go against the flow of the 

world. Do not seek the world’s education: what has all 

the wisdom of the world produced? Injustice, war, gun 

crime on the increase, a consumer society based on 

greed. The power of apostolic church does not come 

from natural talents or education, but from the “foolishness” 

of the cross. 

Those who have let the cross work in their own life 

will be able to release its power in others. 

Cultivated 

Apostolic church grows. It has growth power because 

“God gives the growth” (3:6 RSV). Its leaders are “servants 

assigned a particular task by the Lord”: some “plant” 

church, some “water” it – but God makes it grow. 

Leaders of this kind of church dare not say, “We have 

the Holy Spirit but we cannot grow the church”. They 

are humble, they cultivate faith, believe in God – and 

grow the church. 

Captives 

Such leaders are captives to the call to love: they are 

“slaves of everyone” (9:19), so great is their passion to 

see souls won and the church grow. 

Are you prepared to be a slave to the rough-and-ready 

lads in street gangs? Are you prepared to be a slave to the 

elderly woman next door? Are you prepared to be a slave 

to that young couple with a baby and a chaotic life? We 

mustn’t condemn people: our job is to love and serve all. 

This will be the character of apostolic church. Identifying 

with people, not arguing with them, not superior. 

Like Jesus, making friends with people. Certainly not 

just poking literature at people! This is the great work 

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of friendship evangelism that God started when “He so 

loved the world that He gave His Son”. 

Compassion 

In chapters 12-14 of 1 Corinthians, Paul writes about all 

the powerful gifts that God gives to enable us to build 

the church. Yet central to this and more important still 

is the call to love. 

We are to desire the gifts to build the church – yet love 

is still the “more excellent way” without which we will 

be fruitless and none of our gifts will work anyway. It is 

this deep compassion for people which will grow and 

build up the church. 

“Love never fails” – that is, it never stops: it always 

carries on giving and believing with great patience. 

Does this describe you? Is that your heart for people? 

There is no power without love. We must “follow the 

way of love” (14:1) if we are to be apostolic church. 

Company 

Paul worked with a great company of others; we read 

about some of them at the end of this letter. He was a 

networker who needed relationships in order to function: 

they “refreshed his spirit” (16:18). 

Apostolic church works like this, with networks and 

teams pulling together to achieve. Paul had his close 

team – Timothy, Titus, Silas, Aquila and Priscilla, and 

others – and his wider network – such as Apollos and 

others. Relationships will always be of key importance 

in an apostolic church movement. 

Compulsion 

Paul’s passionate, compulsive devotion to the cause of 

Jesus comes across at the end of this extraordinary letter. 

It comes across in a kiss and a curse. 

A kiss: “greet one another with a holy kiss” (16:20). 

Paul writes this four times in various letters. There is a 

sacred affection among those who belong together in 

the cause of Jesus. Apostolic churches will always carry 

this kind of heartfelt devotion to one another. 

A curse: “If anyone does not love the Lord – a curse be 

on him” (16:22). Paul wasn’t going too far here! We must 

live in our love for Jesus: nothing else counts but committed, 

self-denying, self-giving devotion to Jesus and 

His Church. 

Paul would give himself a black eye in order to win 

the fight! (9:27). How about us? Are we ready to give our 

all, to work with compulsive, powerful love to see the 

church built and Jesus honoured in our time? 

JL 

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PHILIPPINE 

GREETING 

GREETINGS in the name of our 

Lord Jesus Christ. 

I thank the Lord for allowing 

me to find your website. God 

is doing amazing things in the 

world and I thank you that you 

play a great part in doing God’s 

will in your nation. 

I’m Pastor Brian Baluca, 28 

years old, married to Marlyn 

Baluca. We have a daughter 

named Rachel Mae. We live 

in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, 

Philippines. We planted a 

church in the mountains 

and now we are pioneering 

a church in the city where 

we live. Serving God is full of 

excitement. We have a vision 

of church planting and we pray 

that God will open us doors of 

opportunity to link with other 

churches in our nation who 

have a heart to plant churches 

especially in rural areas. 

I do appreciate your prayers 

for our church here in Tagbilaran 

City, presently named Living 

Hope Church. We hope that we 

can communicate more in the 

days ahead and encourage each 

other in the ministry God has 

entrusted to us. 

Pastor Brian and Marlyn Baluca 

BOHOL, PHILIPPINES 

FIRM BELIEVER 

I JUST wanted to say that I’m a firm believer in God. Your website 

really helped me to strengthen my faith, especially the story where 

God spoke to Dave in a dream. It had made me think that it could 

happen to me one day. I hope it does. 

I admire you for what you do. You are inspirational within society, 

helping homeless people and ex-offenders. Not many people realise 

that Jesus plays an important part in our lives. Without Him I know 

I wouldn’t have been able to cope with the downfalls in my life. 

You should be exceptionally proud of the work you have done. We 

all appreciate it and I hope it continues for many years. I personally 

want to thank you for spreading the word. 

Kayleigh Minton 

BURGER 

THANKS 

HI, I WANTED to say thank 

you for the burgers today. 

The students I was with from 

South America thought it was 

incredible that you were giving 

away free burgers – went down 

really well. 

Also, thanks to your 

Northampton house for 

befriending my two friends, 

Hanna and Frida from Sweden. 

They said you were amazingly 

hospitable and really friendly 

– they loved their stay with you. 

It’s great to hear that other 

people have been opening up 

Christian community houses. 

(Until I heard of you from these 

Swedish girls, I think the only 

ones I’ve heard of have been 

YWAM houses, apart from 

things like women’s refuge 

homes and others specific to a 

need.) 

Isabel Edmunds 

DERBYSHIRE, UK 

CORBY, UK 

ANSWERED 

PRAYER 

HI, I PUT in a prayer request 

for a baby who was only four 

days old called Michal... Well 

he is doing great – the doctors 

are amazed at the complete 

turnaround in such a short 

time: it was within 24 hours. 

Everything has changed for him. 

Thank you so much everyone 

who prayed. 

Sandra McGowan 

LESMAHAGOW, SCOTLAND, UK 

JESUS LIGHT 

YOU ROCK! I was once 

homeless but with the help of 

the Jesus Army I managed to 

get outta prison and off the 

streets and find salvation in a 

small community. I now have a 

lot to thank the Jesus Army for. 

In my times of trouble I believe 

Jesus shone His light and 

showed me the way. 

Continue the good work. 

Long live the Jesus Army 

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UK 

GOSPEL IN 

INDIA 

MY NAME is Rao. I came from 

an orthodox Hindu background. 

In 1987, I accepted Jesus as 

my Saviour and got baptised. 

I received Bible training and 

also got a bachelor’s degree 

in theology from World Bible 

School. 

I have been actively involved 

in the service of God as a gospel 

worker in various missionary 

activities. 

One Sunday morning in 

1992, in worship, I had a vision 

and I was advised by my pastor 

to spend more time for God. I 

obeyed and started doing gospel 

work in my native village. 

In the beginning I faced 

hindrances. As I use all my 

efforts in serving Him, in my 

limitations, I believe it was 

the Lord who kept me safe 

and sound. Now I have good 

relations and rapport with other 

like-minded brothers who are 

doing God’s work in various 

nearby villages which are 

generally dominated by Hindu 

rural folk. In these villages most 

of the people are agricultural 

labourers and workers. 

For several years I have been 

trying to do something for the 

children of our community. In 

this way I started a primary 

school for poor and abandoned 

street children in 1999, near 

our church. To meet the 

school’s expenses, I work as a 

teacher in a college for three 

hours a day. 

If God is willing, I’d love to 

welcome you to visit. I would 

be happy to have some spiritual 

fellowship and encouragement. 

Hence I am lovingly inviting you 

to visit. 

Rao Vkvr 

INDIA 

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Uncharted 

On 1 April 2007, 

Deborah Stockley, aged 

25, made a lifelong 

vow of celibacy. “People 

were a bit surprised 

at my choice of date,” 

said Deborah, “it being 

‘April Fools’ Day’! But 

the date was perfect for 

me – I love it – because 

through natural eyes it’s 

a very foolish thing that 

I’ve done!” 

Terrain 

into uncharted terrain... 


IN 2002, I was engaged and looking at marriage. By 2007 

I had committed myself to lifelong singleness. What could 

be worth giving up all prospects of marriage and children 

for? Here are some extracts from my “God book” which 

charts five incredible years of my life. It is hard to know 

where to start this journey tale... 

August 2002: At the celibates’ meeting someone said... 

“Jesus was focused and clear. He had no distractions. 

The celibate gift breaks through to change things; turns 

things around; gathers the committed; draws and wins 

and reminds us where we’re going. We’re living for 

something that will last forever and called to be as radical 

as Jesus was. To go against the tide of this world, putting 

love for the kingdom of God above all else.” 

This got me thinking... 

15 October 2004: Counting the cost. 

I’ve been challenged over the last couple of weeks about 

the marriage or celibacy issue, especially as marriage is a 

real possibility right now. Tonight I was totally overcome. 

I was in that position of total surrender to God and that 

scared me – I wanted to run like hell. I’ve been fighting 

not to be in that “full and glad surrender” position, but 

the more I’ve fought it the more God has been taking me 

on that journey and the whole thing is blowing me away. 

I know that from now on whatever God asks me to do, I 


 

 

 

 



will do it. Whatever His way for me – He’ll make it very 

clear. Either way it will be red hot! 

1 January 2004: Well God, it’s been a while – really insecure 

today – definite grey day. 

Do I have some serious flaws in myself and my spirit to 

be thinking and feeling like this? Let me be true. 

18 January 2004: After reading 1 Corinthians 7 

God, I want to be “anxious about Your affairs”. Leaving 

marriage behind will always be a wound in my heart but 

God I do need You and want You to heal me and bring 

things to the surface so I can, in You, be whole once more. 

9 April 2004: Sacrifices 

This weekend, a leader said we only know the blessing we 

know today because of the sacrifices and lives laid down 

in earlier years. Within, I know that I want to sacrifice 

and lay my life down in order for our church to be built 

stronger, wiser, more beautiful. 

11 August 2004: Why do I always think I need a man in 

my life?! 

Such a lie but I’m so conditioned into it. 

1 February 2005: Asking God for the gift 

At a celibates’ gathering last night a sister had a vision of 

waves, frothing and moving around – that was the celibate 

life – people were looking down from above and the call 

was to dive into the waves – there was a call to respond – I 

wanted to but I couldn’t – the moment passed and deep 

inside I’m gutted that I’ve missed the opportunity – crazy! 

Then another word was brought – someone waiting in the 

basket of a hot-air balloon for God to release the rope that 

tethered it – but God was waiting for the person to lean out 

and cut the rope themselves. That got me, deep within, 

well and truly – I just cried and cried as God moved in me. 

My desires so mixed with fear of the sacrifice and deep 

respect of God. As we were singing, later, I asked God for 

the gift of celibacy. Felt real peace and joy. 

I was someone who had grown up in “church” and, as 

much as people who are looking to get married are 

disillusioned by the high divorce rate, I felt disillusioned 

by celibates who had broken their vows – there was quite 

a stigma among my generation about celibacy – was it 

really relevant or indeed possible? Surely it was a thing of 

the past and for people who were in their first love – not 

for those of us who had grown up in church. I had to face 

these prejudices in myself and also face the fact that God 

was calling me to be obedient and cross the line. 

1 March 2005: As of today I am a probationary celibate! 

I shared it at our Agape meal – felt sick, scared and 

excited all at once. That’s it God – all out in the open – it’s 

Your time – take me where You will. 

31 March 2005: Not everyone understands 

Saw a friend today, told her about my probationary 

celibacy – she was really cautious with me about it which 

was bizarre. It struck me how I wanted to totally live 

another life to her, not a safe life but a risky life. I’d never 

really seen it so clearly before – God keep confirming 

Your will to me. 

12 October 2005: Am I more excited about bringing 

people into God’s kingdom or bringing babies into the 

world? 

This challenge was brought tonight – Jesus, what is my 

destiny? The lines of a song came to mind: The passion of 

love had conquered her fears. I know it’s that passion of 

love that will set me on my path of unreservedly following 

You; that will stop me glancing back at my past loves 

and passions. 

25 December 2005: That’s it God 

Tonight I burnt a lot of bridges within myself and practically. 

16 February 2006: Shared my heart at a celibates’ meeting 

tonight 

The more I share about it the more real it becomes. Like a 

gift being gradually unwrapped. I’m not really sure what 

is inside but I know You’ve called me to pioneer and 

unwrap Your gift for young people like myself and I know 

it contains wholeness and holiness for me. 

30 October 2006: I sense a change within. 

God – You’re really doing it now. Since I have put my love 

and life back in Your hands I sense that I have given my 

life over to Your wild, unknown, daring adventure. Out 

of the tame safe place into uncharted terrain – it’s You! 

And even in the last few days I’ve dared to acknowledge 

and admit, in all honesty, what I really know is my call 

– deep down I want to be married to You, Jesus, and to 

Your Church! 

My grandad wanted to get me something for my birthday. 

I felt the Holy Spirit say – get an engagement ring to 

outwardly show our commitment to one another. As I 

see it we are betrothed but I know that He still has more 

to do before I make the full vow. Our ring was to arrive 

on Friday, 10th November and all that week I had such a 

sense of excitement. 

9 November 2006: The eve of my “engagement” 

The night before – Jesus, my heart is so excited. I want to 

please You and tomorrow is a really precious day – awesome. 

Already I feel like I know You more than a week 

ago. Oh Jesus – His quest, His journey is so exciting! 

10 November 2006: We did it! 

I hardly slept last night – kept waking up. My day at work 

seemed to go so slow; finally made it, dropped everyone 

off after work, and went to my favourite place – the old 

village church. It was really dark, rainy and windy. I made 

my way in and lit the candles – it was our time. Worshipped 

the Lord, gave Him everything, one by one, piece 


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CELIBACY 

AND 

MARRIAGE 

Some members of the Jesus 

Fellowship have made 

lifelong commitments to 

celibacy, though the majority 

are married and may have 

children. Celibates choose 

to “stay single for the sake 

of the kingdom of heaven” 

as Jesus put it (Matthew 

19:10-12). In some ways 

this is similar to members 

of religious orders. However, 

the Jesus Fellowship’s 

celibates usually live in the 

same Christian community 

house as married people 

and families and have close 

friendships with them. Some 

Jesus Army members who 

become celibate have been 

previously married but are 

now widowed or divorced. 

by piece, gave it all over and I wept. Not really ‘cos I was 

sad but because I was overwhelmed – a totally precious 

moment. I made my commitment to Jesus and Him to 

me and put my ring on. Bathing in His love and tenderness 

and purity. Oh God, You are awesome. 

31 December 2006: End of Year Church Celebration 

Today a lot of older people made their celibacy vows. Inside 

I felt a real excitement that next year when I take my 

vow, young people will be taking the helm – pioneering it 

on! Two sisters prayed for me – to formally acknowledge 

that Jesus has offered and I have received the gift of celibacy. 

One saw a vision of King Jesus with His arms full of 

gifts and I chose one. It was plain and small but I knew it 

was the right one. As I opened it bright light poured forth. 

It is for me! God! So full of the Holy Spirit I couldn’t stand 

under the power, just lay on the floor bathed in God! 

5 February 2007: Nearly there… 

God – we’ve nearly clinched the deal – seven weeks to go 

– awesome, exciting, mind-blowing. 

29 March 2007: Drawing closer… 

God, I feel awed by it all; not afraid ‘cos I know You 

will be with me, every step of the next few days, and of 

course, forever. I never thought it possible – little way- 

ward me – falling so in love with You and Your kingdom 

that I’m prepared to lay at the foot of Your cross of suffering 

all that’s precious within and rise and meet You in 

death and resurrection. 

31 March 2007: The day of my vow 

God! The day has finally arrived – when all will be consecrated 

to You. I feel a deep peace as I begin this day (still 

can’t believe it’s me – that You have chosen me!) It’s Your 

miracle Lord – let Your Spirit rise within me, draw me 

ever close. 

I made my vow on 1 April 2007 in a small ceremony and 

celebration, with family and close friends as witnesses, 

beginning at midnight 31 March. We worshipped, touching 

heaven in our hearts. Kneeling before an old rugged 

wooden cross I made my commitment to Jesus, and to His 

Church. 

JL 

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Aidan and Alopen, Apostles 

Aidan was a fiery Irishman, Alopen a refined Persian. Both were monks, 

both gifted communicators. In AD635, both were, entirely independently, 

commissioned and sent to start churches: one at the North-West frontier of 

civilisation, the other in the far East. Aidan became the Apostle of northern 

England, Alopen the Apostle to China. Despite their extraordinary linked 

destiny, they never met or even knew of each other. Article by Trevor Saxby 

Aidan: Apostle of the North 

BRITAIN AT THE turn of the 600s was a battleground 

of warring tribal kingdoms, most 

of them pagan. A Christian prince named 

Oswald was sent to the Celtic monastery on 

the Scottish island of Iona for his own safety. 

In 634 he felt ready to deliver his kingdom, 

Northumbria, in the north of England. He 

defeated the invaders and was crowned king. 

One of his first acts was to ask Iona to 

send someone to convert his pagan subjects. 

An envoy was sent but returned saying 

that the Northumbrians were obstinate 

barbarians, beyond redemption. At this, an 

Irish monk named Aidan spoke up: it was 

foolish to expect pagans to accept the strict 

rules of a Celtic monastery – they must be 

met on their own level, with grace and humility. 

For this, Aidan himself was appointed 

for the apostolic mission to re-evangelise 

the north of England. It was AD 635. 

Aidan established his base on Lindisfarne, 

an island off the east coast, which became 

known as Holy Island. From here teams went 

out with the gospel, planting churches and 

establishing centres at Melrose, Jarrow and 

Whitby. By the time he died in 651, Northumbria 

was almost wholly evangelised. 

Aidan succeeded by developing key relationships 

with those who helped to expand 

the work and by wise and creative planning. 

He didn't do all the work himself – at 

first, he couldn't even speak the language 

but needed interpreters. He appointed and 

trusted many workers. Other noted Celtic 

saints, Hilda, Chad and Cuthbert, built up 

important ministries under his covering. 

But Aidan was a communicator. He could 

empathise. Any gifts he received from the 

wealthy, he gave to the poor. This included 

a fine stallion given to him by the king. The 

king was furious, but Aidan replied: “Is the 

son of a mare more important to you than 

a son of God?” The humbled king knelt and 

asked forgiveness. 

Aidan's primary witness was through the 

genuineness of his life. He refused personal 

gain, showed no partiality (rebuking kings 

when they needed it), and practised rigorous 

self-denial. If the king came to Lindisfarne, 

he had to eat the same food as the 

monks and beggars. Aidan’s approach was 

“Do as I do”, not “Do as I say”, and because 

his life was open to all, people gladly followed 

and the Church was built. 

If the king 

came, he 

had to eat 

the same 

food as the 

monks and 

beggars 


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the past 

Alopen: Apostle of the East 

IN ANCIENT TIMES, China was better 

known in the West than one might suppose. 

For centuries a trade route called the Silk 

Road had linked China with Persia and the 

West. Arab and Persian merchants settled in 

China, and Chinese envoys reached ancient 

Rome. But by the 5th and 6th centuries, 

tribal wars had shut the Silk Road and made 

China a closed empire. 

The arrival of the T’ang Dynasty (AD 

618-877) changed all this. The Chinese army 

crushed the rebels and a golden age of Chinese 

culture began. The capital, Chang-an 

(modern Xi-an), was the largest walled city 

ever built, with two million inhabitants. The 

reopening of the Silk Road in 632 brought a 

new cosmopolitan flavour. The Emperor, T’ai 

Tsung, tolerated all religions and encouraged 

the discussion of foreign ideas. 

The Church saw its opportunity and took it. 

In 635, the Assyrian archbishop Yeshuyab sent 

an apostolic team, led by a learned and wise 

monk named Alopen. They accompanied a 

traders’ camel train and arrived at Chang-an. 

Alopen had done his homework. He knew 

the very formal Chinese culture and the need 

to avoid open war with the Buddhists. So for 

three years, he and Chinese converts worked 

on the first Christian book in the Chinese language: 

The Sutra of Jesus Messiah. A sutra was 

the way Buddhists presented their teachings, 

as a series of discourses. Alopen was playing 

them at their own game. 

Much reads strangely to Western ears: Jesus 

is “the Heaven-Honoured One”, the “Master 

of the Victorious Law”, who has sent “the Pure 

Breeze” (the Holy Spirit) from “our Three- 

One”. But the Emperor was pleased with what 

he read and in 638 made a decree: Alopen’s 

religion was “wonderful, spontaneous, producing 

perception and establishing essentials 

for the salvation of creatures and the benefit 

of man”. The Emperor commanded that a 

Christian religious centre be built from public 

funds in the Western merchants' quarter of 

the city. 

From this base, with a core of just 21 

Christians, the gospel spread out into the 

land. Four regional centres were built and 

by the time of the next Emperor, Kuo Tsung, 

there were churches in ten provinces. Alopen 

was made bishop (or in the quaint Chinese, 

“Spiritual Lord, Protector of the Empire”) and 

the Church was able to put down firm roots in 

China - which it would need when persecution 

was unleashed by Empress Wu in 690. JL 

The gospel 

spread 

out and by 

the time 

of the next 

Emperor, 

there were 

churches 

in ten 

provinces 



Jesus in the Capital 

In July the modern Jesus army took to the streets 

of London with love, celebration and a lot of noise. 

As we marched through the West 

End no one was left in any doubt 

that the Jesus movement is alive 

and well. 

Trafalgar Square became the 

rally point for proclaiming the 

life and power of Jesus through 

prayer and worship and a demonstration 

of God’s love. 

Here’s the photo album: 

Banners blazing. 

Here we go! 

Smiles all round. 

Filling the streets with songs of love. 


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Loving it! 

Finding new friends. 

Making a scene. 

Jump around - Jesus is alive! 

Sharing the good news. 



Sending a message of hope via balloons. 

Praying for the UK. 

Jesus turned my life “upside down.” 

Not ashamed of the cross. 

Building a strong church. 

We’ll be back next year. 

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Christian 

Network 

Marty Brogan of King’s Church 

Medway talks to AMEN delegates 

in ‘the Basement’, part of King’s 

Church’s social outreach programme 

Sky-juice and two-way traffic 

In June 2007 eight apostolic leaders from Africa and India were invited to join 

the Jesus Fellowship’s Apostolic team for the first AMEN conference which 

was to prove as instructive and inspirational to the hosts as to the guests. 

AMEN stood for Apostolic Men 

Empowering the Nations, and 

it was Matthew Oluwasesin, 

the longest-standing Multiply 

partner and Apostolic Man for 

Nigeria and Ghana, who set 

the scene by saying: “If you are 

among those chosen to be an 

apostle, you have a vision to fulfil. 

Let’s make sure it’s fulfilled. 

We are here to equip ourselves. 

When we are equipped ourselves, 

we can equip others.” 

Such equipping took the 

form of the chance to discover 

more of the distinctives of Jesus 

Fellowship and the UK Multiply 

Network, to deepen relationships 

and to forge effective 

ways to develop Multiply 

worldwide. Over the 12 days, 

the group toured the UK from 

Yorkshire to Kent, stopping off 

for sessions on Christianity and 

brotherhood, setting up and 

running a community house, 

multiracial kingdom church, 

church-based business and 

church planting, and taking in 

a UK Multiply Partner, King’s 

Church Chatham, to see how 

the Multiply vision is worked 

out in practice here. 

Where possible, sessions 

linked directly to the location; 

for example, pioneering in 

Leeds led to a walk through the 

local park (stopping off to pray 

for a forthcoming campaign) 

and multicultural Beeston, 

where Matthew quickly made 

friends in the local African store. 

Present for some or all of the 

time were Matthew Oluwasesin 

(Nigeria and Ghana); Desmond 

Thomas (Sierra Leone and 

Liberia); Gregory Wafulu (East 

Africa); Jan Ellis (South Africa); 

Lal Rodinga Colney (North-East 


 

 

 

 

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India); Pascal Orome (Ivory 

Coast); Satish Chettri (North- 

West and Central India); and 

Stephen Mwakibinga (Zambia). 

Daniel Grimmer (U.A.E), 

who wasn’t able to attend the 

conference, is also a designated 

Multiply Apostolic Leader. 

Stephen, on his second visit, 

was challenged by the Jesus 

Centre vision: “What kind of 

church would Jesus have if He 

had a church? Would He be waiting 

six days for a person to come 

back on Sunday? I don’t think 

so. If Christ would have pastored 

a church, people would have 

followed Him everywhere as He 

was preaching, healing, feeding, 

listening. That’s what I’ve seen 

in Jesus Centres and that’s what 

church needs to be.” 

In the midst of the hectic 

schedule (if it’s Monday it must 

be Leeds!) Certain aspects were 

constant: thought-provoking 

AMEN carried 

the spirit of 

openness and 

transparency 

among 

leadership 

which I think 

is absent 

among 

leaders today 

AMEN delegates worship in a Jesus Fellowship community house 

devotionals, lively discussion, 

provocative questions, and 

refreshment in the form of ‘skyjuice’ 

(water) and an ever-flowing 

and deepening fellowship. 

Multiply Director Huw Lewis 

noted: “The interaction and 

friendships that the leaders 

developed, such as Stephen linking 

up with Daniel soon after the 

conference, were very significant 

– the group themselves were 

building their own identity.” One 

direct outcome was the cooperation 

over the forthcoming Pan 

African Conference, which is 

being shaped by the group rather 

than just one person. 

“This week has been very 

inspiring and very challenging,” 

said Gregory. “It is a week that 

has caused us to come out of 

our own shoes and into neutral 

shoes, where everyone else can 

fit because we have different 

leadership styles.” 

“A vision transfer conference” 

is how Desmond described it, 

and the traffic was very much 

two-way. As Huw said: “We 

were learning and receiving 

from them too, deepening our 

own understanding of what is 

happening in the nations.” 

“AMEN carried the spirit of 

openness and transparency 

among leadership which I think 

is absent among leaders today,” 

concluded Desmond. “It explained 

servant leadership and 

the spirit of sacrifice to a common 

cause which is necessary 

for the fulfilment of every vision. 

“And it demonstrated that the 

above is not only reachable in 

the UK but can also be reachable 

in the areas we all came from.” 

Amen to that! 

The next Multiply 

International Leaders 

Conference is in June 2008 


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Network 

Nothing but the truth will do 

Gregory Wafulu 

from Kenya talks to 

Emma Merry 

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MULTIPLY 

APOSTOLIC 

MEN 

NAME: Gregory Wafula Nalianya 

BORN: 1965, Bungoma, Kenya 

STATUS: Married, with a son and a 

daughter 

CHURCH: Christ Evangelistic Church 

APOSTOLIC MAN FOR: East Africa 

CONTACT: Email: multiplyea@yahoo.com 

“I WAS IN a valley burning 

with red-hot fire,” says Gregory 

Wafula. “There was a cross lifted 

up, and on the cross an open 

Bible, and I could see an angel. 

Next I saw a small light from 

heaven shining on my face and 

my body shook. Then the command 

came: ‘Preach the gospel 

to the people who are in the 

Valley of Decision.’” 

Gregory was just 26 years 

old – and not one month old 

in Christ – when he saw this 

vision and heard the command 

to evangelise. It is a vision he 

has vigorously pursued and a 

command he has continuously 

obeyed in the 16 years since, 

and has led to his current position 

as Multiply Apostolic Man 

for East Africa. 

It could all have been so 

different. With a father who 

was important in the Quaker 

Church, the dominant denomination 

in western Kenya, where 

Gregory grew up, he could have 

settled for a comfortable Christian 

life. A direct word from a 

preacher at a student crusade in 

India shook his complacency: 

“Your father is a founder of 

a church – but that does not 

qualify you for the kingdom of 

God.” Gregory felt the cutting 

word and humbly put up his 

hand to accept Christ. 

To be a disciple takes decisions 

– not just one, but many, 


 

 

 

 



Gregory (left) along with AMEN delegates and friends from the Jesus Fellowship 

over and over and over again. 

This was a lesson Gregory 

quickly learnt as he chose, for 

example, to cut himself off from 

his former friends in order to 

pursue his new life as a child of 

God. 

Within a month he was 

elected leader of the Christian 

Union. 

“That really pushed me on 

my knees because I was teaching 

some really mature and 

able children of God,” recalls 

Gregory. His 5am prayer times 

provided fuel for the day and 

Gregory was soon thrilled to see 

people that he had been praying 

for committing themselves to 

Christ. 

Every disciple has to learn the 

way of working out their faith 

in an alien world, with its many 

distractions. On returning to 

Kenya, Gregory put his Rural 

Industries and Management 

degree to use as a teacher at the 

Kenya National Polytechnic and 

later as a management training 

consultant. In 2001 he knew the 

Lord was telling him to leave to 

pursue ministry full-time – but 

his boss persuaded him to stay. 

It took three deaths in his family 

in one week to pull him back 

in line with God’s call. Brokenhearted, 

he cried out: “God, if 

there’s another price I have to 

pay, let me go through it now.” 

Suffering leads to fruitfulness, 

and now he plunged himself 

into the work of Christ Evangelistic 

Church. Its mission, 

based on Ephesians 4, is to 

equip leaders with the necessary 

skills to successfully plant other 

successful churches. It started 

in 1997 in one member’s house; 

today 70 adult members meet in 

a hall in Nairobi, and there are 

three other churches in Kenya 

- in Mombasa, Tall Station and 

Kitale - and one in Uganda. 

Another key scripture for Gregory 

is 2 Corinthians 4, which 

speaks of “setting forth the truth 

plainly”. 

“If we have to sell truth, 

we ourselves must be truth,” 

Gregory says. The accountability 

and integrity that he saw in 

the Jesus Fellowship leadership 

structure at the first Multiply 

International Leaders Conference 

in 2002 was therefore very 

attractive to him, and played a 

key part in his decision to link 

“If we 

have to sell 

truth, we 

ourselves 

must be 

truth” 

with the network. 

He and the leaders of the 

other churches in the Kenya 

Multiply Network have now 

been meeting weekly for three 

years. 

“It has made a tremendous 

difference,” says Gregory. “As 

a leader you suffer from a lot of 

loneliness, a lack of people to 

encourage and inspire you.” 

The five churches also fellowship 

together once a month 

and work together on crusades. 

“Working jointly means we have 

more impact than we’d have 

single-handedly,” he explains. 

The love that reached beyond 

walls of family, tribe and race 

in Jesus Fellowship also greatly 

inspired Gregory, who has a 

vision to have a church with all 

42 Kenyan tribes represented: “I 

see Multiply as a network that 

assists in the breaking down 

of walls that have separated 

believers in terms of denominations 

and of races. Though we 

have extended families, inviting 

people who are not your own 

relatives to a meal is not very 

common. But I saw that here. 

“And the bringing in of new 

believers, discipling them, that 

really touched me too.” 

As a result, when Gregory returned 

to Kenya he took in a boy 

from the Luo tribe and educated 

him. He now has a job and is 

almost independent. 

What Gregory saw of sharing 

has also been put into practice, 

with church members bringing 

in unused clothes, household 

goods and shoes to share. “The 

church is now full of smartly 

dressed people,” laughs Gregory. 

The ever-present challenges 

of resources when unemployment 

is rife, the need to support 

family, a transient population 

and restrictive regulations don’t 

stunt Gregory’s vision. For 

Christ Evangelistic Church, he 

has his sights set on five new 

churches in Kenya and more in 

Uganda too. And for the mother 

church, he wants 250 disciples 

– and at least 150 seats (currently 

there are just 30 seats!) 

For Multiply, the net spreads 

wider, with four more towns in 

Kenya – Kisumu, Eldoret, Kitale 

and Bungoma – plus Burundi, 

Tanzania, Rwanda as well as 

Kenya and Uganda all in his 

sights. An East African Multiply 

Conference in Nairobi on 

Saturday 2 February 2008 is set 

to draw them in. 

The apostolic path can be 

lonely, but God always produces 

needed encouragement, as Gregory 

found at another desperately 

low time: “I was walking 

with the then president in a cassava 

field. All of a sudden there 

was a small dais. We climbed on 

it. The president was holding a 

microphone and I saw hundreds 

of people running towards us, 

from all directions. But he didn’t 

say anything. He handed me the 

mike and said: “Preach to these 

people.” 

One thing is certain, Gregory 

can be relied on to deliver the 

gospel of Jesus Christ plain and 

clear, whoever is listening. 


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EMBODYING 

VISION IN 

THE UK 

I’D ALREADY been involved in 

organising Multiply Conferences 

with Multiply Director, Huw 

Lewis, and towards the end of 

last year I was appointed as the 

Multiply Coordinator. 

My job is to visit Multiply 

churches and prospective groups, 

mainly in the UK, at least once 

a year and to strengthen and 

develop relationships with their 

leaders. 

So far I’ve visited ten groups. 

We usually chat about what God 

has been doing among us, encourage 

each other, share a meal 

and pray together. 

Multiply is a growing 

partnership around 

the UK as well as 

internationally. Jesus 

Life hears from Multiply 

UK Coordinator, 

Iain Gorrie. 

I felt it was important not just 

to speak about the vision of Multiply, 

but to embody the vision. 

That meant carrying an openhearted 

love and genuine care, 

a passion for souls (including 

all nations), a desire for growth 

and increase, being church of 

the poor, release in worship and 

training the next generation. 

Leadership teams are encouraged 

to maximise the effectiveness of 

their particular spiritual gifts and 

ministries and to increase in faith. 

We want to see the Multiply 

Christian Network stronger and 

more united – and we will! JL 

UP AND COMING 

IAIN’S VISITS SO FAR: 

Tony Oldbury Rishton 

Christian Fellowship, 

Blackburn 

Frank Andrews Hyndburn 

Christian Fellowship, 

Blackburn 

Daudet Lumakangilu Living 

Water Church, Gloucester 

Eugene Tenga Flaming 

Evangelical Ministries, 

London 

Matthew Guest King’s 

Church, Medway, Kent 

Joe McDavid Glorious 

Revival Eagle Ministries, 

London 

Pascal Orome Mission 

Ensemble Pour Christ, London 

Robin Caine Church of 

Shalom, High Wycombe 

Moses Adebiyi Glad Tidings 

Evangelical Church, London 

Promise Ngowe and 

Patrick Zimba Kairos 

Community Church, Harlow 

MULTIPLY LEADERS CONFERENCES 

UNITED KINGDOM 

Saturday 

24 November 2007 

INTERNATIONAL 

Wed 21 May - 

Wed 4 June 2008 

Main Conference 

Sat 31 May 2008 

WHAT IS 

MULTIPLY? 

Multiply Christian Network is 

a worldwide apostolic stream 

of churches, initiated by Jesus 

Fellowship Church. It is a 

member of the Evangelical 

Alliance UK. Multiply now 

has 18 UK groups and 105 

worldwide. 

WHO’S IT FOR? 

Any fellowship, of any size, 

from any culture or race, 

as long as it is basically 

evangelical. The latest partner 

to join was Living Water 

Church, a Congolese Frenchspeaking 

church based in 

Gloucester, UK. 

WHAT DOES IT 

OFFER? 

Relationships between leaders 

are central and are fostered 

through regular conferences, 

celebration gatherings and 

fellowship. Leadership and 

evangelism training plus a 

variety of resources, including 

free literature, are also 

available. 

MORE 

INFORMATION: 

Contact Multiply Director 

Huw Lewis 

Tel: +44 1327 344533 

Email: huw.lewis@jesus.org.uk 

or write to: Jesus Fellowship / 

Multiply Central Offices, 

Nether Heyford, 

Northampton, UK NN7 3LB 

inspiration, challenge and brotherhood 

info@multiply.org.uk 



A Vision for Brotherhood 

Carmino Blunden describes 

his spiritual search 

“AS A CHILD I was bullied. I was frustrated 

because I couldn’t do what others do. But 

God gave me other abilities: I was very 

hard-working and persevering and I had an 

ability to adapt to situations.” 

Both Carmino’s parents were Catholic 

though his Mum was more spiritual – “she 

acted out love” – and his Dad had “more of 

a formal” religion. 

“Whenever I see my mother, I always 

think of Mary, the mother of Jesus,” says 

Carmino. “She has an instinctive trust in 

God. She just knows that He’s there. She 

sees Him all around her.” 

Another early inspiration was the Marist 

teachers at his secondary school: 

“I saw in a very definite way the acting 

out of the religious life. I saw their love and 

dedication. And in each I saw something 

different about the character of Jesus.” 

Carmino wanted to be a Marist brother 

himself but family pressures prevented this. 

Ten years of frustration followed: 

“I knew there was a God but I chose 

to ignore Him. I was lost, with a big, big 

void in my heart that nothing could fill.” 

After a lengthy period of depression, he 

dabbled in photography (“it helped me 

to get out on the streets and be with people”), 

but nothing could fill the gap, “not 

drink, not walking, not TV, nothing”. 

At the end of 2000 Carmino moved to 

England, near Croydon. On his way to 

see a friend, one Sunday morning, he 

decided to pop into the nearby Baptist 

church to pray for five minutes. He 

stayed for the whole service. 

“Something gripped me and I couldn’t 

move. I was just so thrilled.” 

Carmino started attending the church, 

but the questions inside increased: “How 

can I go to the pub on Saturday night, 

have a skinful, and then the next day, 

even with the taste of beer in my mouth, 

How can I go 

to the pub on 

Saturday night, 

have a skinful, 

and then 

the next day, 

even with the 

taste of beer in 

my mouth, go 

to church? 

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Marist 

Brothers 

Teachers at 

Carmino’s secondary 

school, a Roman 

Catholic religious 

order. The order was 

founded in France in 

1817 by Marcellin 

Champagnat, a 

young French 

priest. Champagnat 

was disillusioned 

with the growing 

secularism that 

gripped the areas 

of rural France 

where he worked. 

He decided to start 

a religious order of 

brothers, building 

schools for the 

underprivileged 

where they might 

learn to become 

“Good Christians 

and Good Citizens”. 

go to church? It just doesn’t make sense.” 

Carmino began to sense that God wanted 

him to get baptised – but he struggled 

with this. 

“God said, ‘Get baptised.’ I said, ‘Why 

should I?’” 

A few months later, another crisis loomed 

as his mum became ill with breast cancer. 

This was enough to bring Carmino to his 

knees and God spoke again: 

“Will you get baptised?” 

“Yes,” said Carmino, and he began to 

weep. “Something inside me just knew I 

was born again.” 

With this “yes” came the power to say 

“no” to drinking and other bad habits. In 

their place came an insatiable thirst for 

God. Four months later, on 23 June 2002, 

Carmino was baptised and he began to be 

involved in local mission work with London 

City Mission. 

But still he wasn’t satisfied. In 2004, he 

was in Spain, sitting on a bench with his 

mother when he began crying. 

“Look mother, there’s just one piece of 

the jigsaw puzzle that I need and I don’t 

know where to find it. God must give me 

the last piece to see the full picture.” 

Not long after, a Jesus Army bus was 

parked in Croydon shopping district, and 

Carmino walked straight on board. 

“I just felt I could belong!” he recalls, “And 

as soon as Jesus Army member, Anthony, 

mentioned community Carmino thought, 

“Yes – thank You, Lord!” 

Here at last was the missing piece, “the 

kingdom of God” lived out in a concrete 

visible way, and Carmino moved quickly 

to take hold of it – he became a committed 

member of the Jesus Fellowship and 

moved into Christian community that 

same year, and made a commitment to 

celibacy the next. 

“It’s been a quick and exciting journey”, he 

says, “but it has not been easy. I had found 

church – but there is a price tag attached. 

“God wanted everything. Everything 

meant everything. Each part of the ‘everything’ 

has been difficult to surrender and 

I’ve had to fight and fight and fight.” 

Perhaps the most remarkable part has 

been celibacy. 

“Celibacy has multiplied my love for God, 

for those around me and for the Church at 

large. I can love without measure because 

I feed from the love of God and the love of 

God is completely unstoppable – the love of 

another human being can be quenched.” 

Carmino continues: “My calling is to 

voice in a very humble and simple way 

what is the heart of God and to be very 

clear about it. It reminds me of the miraculous 

multiplication of bread and fish: 

a small, humble offering – five loaves and 

two fishes – transformed into a huge meal 

for a multitude.” 

“That’s where God is at. That is the God I 

love.” 

“My greatest joy would be for people to 

say ‘I saw Jesus through you; I saw God’s 

love and beauty through you and you have 

helped me to find God in a fuller way.’” JL 

Far left: 

Carmino 

breaks bread 

Left: Carmino 

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Bottled water – 

while stocks last 

Jesus Life editor James Stacey recalls a visit to 

London – and reflects on London Jesus Centre, 

due to open at the end of the year. 

IN LONDON for a couple of 

days this summer, I was struck 

again by the vastness of the 

place. It's like 50 cities in one. 

A million people in Westminster 

alone. Just about every 

ethnic group I can imagine. 

Vertiginous wealth and profound 

poverty within spitting 

distance of each other. 

In the baking sun, Oxford 

Street was a mass of hot humanity 

scurrying from shrine 

to shrine in the devotions of 

the religion of the West: consumerism 

(almost definitely 

the fastest growing religion in 

the world). 

But what satisfaction is there 

in this frantic faith? Beyond 

McDonalds “golden arches” 

there are only dying rainforests. 

Coca-Cola is not really 

“the real thing” and people 

know it. 

On this sweltering summer’s 

day (rare, this year!) people 

were thirsty. But it didn’t matter 

– as long as you had enough 

cash. The sellers of bottled 

water were doing very well that 

day (at £2 or £3 a bottle). 

But what about that other 

thirst? The deeper thirst – for 

meaning, for forgiveness, for purpose? 

Does consumerism satisfy? 

And even if it does dull the 

thirstiness of the rich, what 

about those who can’t afford 

Oxford Street’s bottled water? 

What about the have-nots? 

are in the ten per cent most 

deprived wards in the country. 

According to London Jesus 

Centre manager, Rob Bentley, 

“on an average night there 

are as many rough sleepers in 

Westminster as in the rest of 

the UK put together”. 

But it’s not only the obvious 

kinds of poverty – there 

are also many with an aching 

thirst for reality: what Rob calls 

“materially rich people who 

“consumerism, the fastest growing 

religion in the world” 

WESTMINSTER 

ROUGH SLEEPERS 

50% of rough sleepers in 

Westminster are new to rough 

sleeping in the year. 

40% of rough sleepers have 

alcohol problems. 

33% have drug problems. 

40% have mental health 

problems. 

25% are from the new EU 

countries. 

Westminster City Council statistics 

www.jesuscentre.org.uk 

Just around the corner from 

Oxford Circus, the Jesus Fellowship 

is about to open its 

third Jesus Centre. It aims to 

play its part in meeting the 

needs people have in the centre 

of our capital: material and 

spiritual needs. 

The other day someone 

remarked to me “There are no 

poor people in Westminster”. 

Wrong, actually. There are lots 

when you look beyond the 

bright lights and the bottled 

water. Five Westminster wards 

are also in great spiritual need 

and facing problems of a different 

kind”. 

It all reminds me of something 

Jesus said: “Everyone 

who drinks this water will be 

thirsty again, but whoever 

drinks the water I give him will 

never thirst. Indeed, the water 

I give him will become in him 

a spring of water welling up to 

eternal life.” 

London Jesus Centre aims 

to offer this life-giving water 

– free of charge. 

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London Jesus Centre to 

open in December 

Rob Bentley, manager of London Jesus Centre, explains the vision of the place. 

The London Jesus Centre will 

offer a wide programme that 

will provide practical, social 

and spiritual support. 

The specially adapted building 

will include a “drop-in” area 

with services such as: 

· showers 

· laundry 

· food 

· clothing 

· I.T. access 

· luggage lockers 

· phone access 

· mail 

The Centre's programme will 

include: 

· support groups 

· befriending/mentoring 

· “New to UK” group (with 

ESOL) 

· conversation classes 

· “Preparing for Citizenship” 

group 

· arts and crafts facilities 

· ICT suite 

· life skills 

· other training opportunities 

There will also be a tea room 

providing: 

· good-value food and drink 

· a place for people to meet 

And a varied programme of 

spiritual activities including: 

· prayer for healing 

· groups for new believers and 

those seeking faith 

· quiet prayer in the listed 

chapel (which is the venue for 

the Jesus Fellowship’s Sunday 

worship meetings) 

WESTMINSTER IS a place of diversity 

and sharp contrast. From 

the Houses of Parliament to 

Soho, from West End shopping 

and theatres to rough sleepers 

in doorways: wealth and ostentatious 

consumption are side 

by side with real poverty and 

despair. The third Jesus Centre 

is right in the middle of the West 

End: well situated to be a place 

of healing and help to the many 

hurting people in the area. 

On an average night there 

are as many rough sleepers in 

Westminster as in the rest of the 

UK put together. Many others, 

including families with children, 

Building work underway on the London Jesus Centre 

are in temporary or insecure 

accommodation with poor facilities 

and overcrowding. The skyhigh 

property prices mean that 

many have no hope of a home. 

Central London has long 

drawn those who are seeking to 

improve their lives or who are 

escaping real danger. From all 

over the UK, Europe and the 

rest of the world people come 

to London with hope only to 

find loneliness, exploitation 

and depression. Many have no 

entitlement to any state help 

and can find themselves forced 

into crime. For those who find 

work, long hours and low pay 

WHAT ARE 

JESUS CENTRES? 

Places where the love of 

Jesus is expressed daily 

in worship, care and 

friendship for every type of 

person. 

WHAT DO 

THEY OFFER? 

All sorts, including 

showers, friendship, a 

listening ear, IT classes and 

food. They also act as a 

‘gateway’ to other services 

and agencies. 

WHO RUNS THEM? 

The Jesus Army Charitable 

Trust (JACT). Staff and 

volunteers come from Jesus 

Fellowship Church. 

WHERE ARE THEY? 

Coventry, Northampton 

and, from end 2007, 

central London. Eventually 

Jesus Centres will be found 

in other places around the 

UK. 

HOW CAN I HELP? 

We always need money, old 

clothes, food and lots more! 

Check out the website for 

details. 

MORE INFO: 

www.jesuscentre.org.uk 

are common: many hold advertising 

poles for fourteen hours a 

day at £3 an hour. 

In the face of all this need 

(and we must understand that 

many people who are materially 

rich are also in great spiritual 

need and facing problems of a 

different kind) we can only hope 

to help a small proportion; but 

as we bring real love and compassion 

to individuals through 

spiritual ministry and practical 

help we believe the power of 

God will be released into people’s 

lives and the light of the 

gospel will shine in London’s 

darkness. 

JL 


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ON THE INSIDE 

Kieron Richards is 21. 

He will be in prison until at 

least his early 40s. He tells Jesus Life 

his story – and his message for other young men. 


TODAY I’m serving a life sentence 

with a tariff of 18 years. I 

can apply for parole in 2024. I’m 

locked in a cell 22 hours a day. 

On 12 January 2007 I was 

convicted of murder and attempting 

to pervert the course 

of justice, after six months on 

remand. That was the first day 

of the rest of my life and my 

freedom is finished. 

If and when I am eventually 

released I will still be serving 

my life sentence on licence; one 

wrong move would end me back 

inside. 

It is all my own fault. 

My Mum and Dad split up 

when I was about two or three 

years old. I was around four 

years old when my Mum met 

her partner. I can’t say that 

I’ve ever liked him, if he was at 

home from work I would stay 

at my uncle’s until he went 

back away to work. When we 

were in the house together we 

would shout at each other most 

of the time. The problems just 

got bigger, I had been smoking 

and drinking since I was about 

11 or 12 and when I turned 13 I 

started using drugs. 

I was always in trouble 

at school, doing whatever I 

wanted, there was a good few of 

us kicking up a fuss and I always 

did what the others wouldn’t 

dare to do. Someone would get 

something in their head and I 

would end up doing it. 

I always said “what do I need 

Someone 

would get 

something 

in their 

head and I 

would end 

up doing it 

an education for?” From when 

I was old enough to say “army”, 

I wanted to join up and I knew 

I could get in without qualifications. 

Drinking and smoking 

weed every weekend became 

normal. 

I saw my dad every Sunday 

morning. To me Dad was Superman; 

nothing could ever happen 

to him; he was a third dan black 

belt in karate. But in 1999 he 

died; I was told one afternoon 

that he had died that morning. 

My world was turned upside 

down, I started taking hard drugs 

and drinking more than ever and 


 

 

 

 


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getting into even more trouble. 

I was 14 when I lost Dad. Ten 

months later I was kicked out of 

school. 

I started to hang around with a 

group of older lads. That’s when 

I got my first tattoos. I was bang 

into fighting. Someone would just 

have to look at me and I would 

start on them. I never felt guilty 

about hurting people and when 

you get away with something, 

you keep doing it. The gang I 

was in used to go to other towns 

and sell drugs to other people’s 

punters and when the rival gang 

showed up we would start fighting 

like dogs over food. I soon 

got a reputation as a psycho. My 

mates used to call me “Mad Dog”. 

Once I had that reputation I was 

hungry for more and was always 

trying to make a better name for 

myself with the gangs. 

During my stay in a behavioural 

unit after I was kicked out 

of school, they had sent me and 

some other lads on a day trip 

to HMP Walton in Liverpool. 

The idea was to shock us into 

staying out of trouble and at 

first I was scared at the thought 

of going to prison. But after 30 

minutes of the tour I thought it 

was a complete joke and that if I 

did come inside I would just do 

what I wanted, I was thinking, 

“Jail ain’t gonna change me.” 

I was in court for the first time 

in July 2001 facing charges for 

various things from being drunk 

to burglary. I walked out with a 

suspended sentence and a fine 

and was drinking and doing 

Class A drugs that same night. 



Aged 17, I joined the Army 

and felt on top of the world. 

Nothing could go wrong, I was 

living my lifelong dream, but 

trouble was just around the 

corner. One day on a training 

exercise, running with full kit I 

collapsed with stress fractures. 

The sergeant kept bawling 

at me to get up and calling me 

every name under the sun until 

they realised that I had stress 

fractures in both legs. 

After a year I was given a medical 

discharge. I didn’t know what 

to do next; all I ever planned to 

do was to be in the Army. 

I got a few odd jobs; in a pub, 

a tattoo shop. I even got a job as a 

waiter in a hotel, but I was sacked 

after three months when I was arrested 

on a firearms charge. The 

charge was dropped but I was 

back on the drugs, taking whizz 

and drinking. If I had any money 

left over it went on tattoos. 

By the time I was 19, I was 

getting back into trouble with 

the police. 

But I got some work on a 

building site in Scotland. I 

stayed in a hotel with some 

other lads from the site. That 

night I drank Jack Daniels, 

vodka and three pints of bitter. 

I guess I blew about 100 quid on 

drink that night. 

We decided to walk down 

by the River Clyde and finish 

off the bottles of Stella. I can’t 

remember much of what happened 

next except that I got 

involved in a very nasty fight. It 

got too much for me so I split 

the scene and went back to the 

Jesus loves 

me even 

after all 

the trouble 

I’ve been 

in and my 

life can 

change for 

the better, 

even in a 

place like 

this. 

hotel, grabbed a shower and 

tried to sober up a bit. 

The next day, I was arrested 

with one of the other blokes and 

charged with murder and attempting 

to pervert the cause of 

justice. I was remanded at HMP 

Barlinnie for five months and 

then sentenced to life imprisonment. 

I haven’t told this story for 

anyone to feel sorry for me, 

because I know I have to live 

with what I did that night. But, I 

would hope that any young person 

reading this story will realise 

that going to prison is not a good 

laugh. I thought it was when I 

was 15 but I didn’t realise that I 

was going to learn the hard way. 

Take it from me: I am 21 now; 

I will be in my 40s when I am 

released – if I get out that is. 

Pretty soon I will be moving to a 

long-term prison with some of 

the country’s most dangerous 

and violent prisoners. That’s not 

a joke. 

Since being inside I have had 

a chance to think about where I 

have made mistakes in life and 

have started to write to some 

Christian friends. They have 

shown me that Jesus loves me 

even after all the trouble I’ve 

been in and that my life can 

change for the better, even in a 

place like this. 

As for what I do next, I can 

only take things day by day. And 

I want to help to stop young 

people making the same mistakes 

I did. 

So, if you’re a young person 

reading this: don’t mess up your 

life, please! 

JL 

The photograph on page 27 is not Kieron 

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RADICAL 

BITES #05 

Forget yawning 

through it in 

school assemblies 

– the Lord’s prayer 

is hair-raising. 

REMEMBER “the Lord’s 

prayer”? Perhaps you used 

to recite it as part of school 

assemblies. I’d make a wild 

guess that no-one there was 

electrified by its astonishing 

revolutionary impact. More 

of a bored mumble through 

strange-sounding phrases 

like “which art in heaven”. 

Obscure and dull, right? 

Wrong. The fact is that 

this prayer Jesus taught His 

disciples contains the heart 

of His mind-blowing teaching 

about the “kingdom of 

heaven” revolution He was 

bringing about. 

Consider. The prayer features 

in the middle of some 

of Jesus’ teaching about the 

kingdom (Matthew 5-7). And 

in it there is a startling, radical 

definition of the kingdom: 

“Your kingdom come, Your 

Revolutionary 

prayer 

will be done on earth as it is 

in heaven” 

The implications of this are 

mind-blowing. For a start, it 

means a life of total commitment 

to one another – who 

says “I’m off” in heaven 

(“I’m moving out to hell”)? 

It means love, forgiveness, 

grace, fearless truth. 

It means a life of radical 

sharing – who calls anything 

“mine” in heaven? 

Consider. This prayer, 

famously, starts with “Our 

Father”. Note – not “my 

Father”, but “ our Father”. 

In fact, the words “my” or 

“mine” don’t feature in the 

prayer at all. 

This is a drastically communal 

prayer. Jesus teaches 

us to come to God as “Our 

Father”: that is to come 

together as a family, a brotherhood. 

Not that this means 

we don’t have an individual 

relationship with God. We 

do. But the kingdom is 

about a people. 

Furthermore, it’s a family 

which prays for “our daily 

bread”: a sharing people. 

Even the basics – “bread” 

– are shared. And if we share 

our basic subsistence, it 

surely follows that we should 

share everything else. God 

provides; we share. This is 

what the first church did: 

“They devoted themselves 

to the apostles’ teaching 

and to the fellowship (the 

word means “sharing”), to 

the breaking of bread and 

to prayer... All the believers 

were together and had everything 

in common.” (Acts 

2:42&44) 

So go on. Pray it. I dare you. 

But that means you’ll have 

to begin to live it – heaven’s 

lifestyle... on earth. JL 

Our Father in 

heaven, hallowed 

be Your name, 

Your kingdom 

come, Your will 

be done on earth 

as it is in heaven. 

Give us today 

our daily bread. 

Forgive us our 

debts, as we also 

have forgiven our 

debtors. 

And lead us not 

into temptation, 

but deliver us 

from the evil one, 

For Yours is the 

kingdom and 

the power and 

the glory forever. 

Amen 

Matthew 6:9-13 

HAVE YOUR SAY: 

email: 

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judgement 

Mary Davis 

 

 

I’LL TELL YOU what makes me 

angry – “touchline critics” who 

judge things before they’ve tried 

them! 

You know – those people with 

huge, unshakable opinions about 

something they know nothing 

about. And it seems to come 

out especially when it comes to 

God and faith, to Christianity. 

How often people trot out 

the accusation: “Well – that’s 

not very Christian of you is 

it?” or “Ooh – call yourself a 

Christian?!”... 

They’re experts on “right 

Christian behaviour”. 

And I think: “Oh yeah. 

Because you've tried, have you? 

You’ve sought to die to yourself, 

to daily take up your cross and 

follow Christ no matter the cost 

Jesus Life Two/2007 Page 30 

or consequence? You’ve set 

yourself apart from this world 

to do something more real and 

more radical than anyone you’ve 

ever met? I think not!” 

So I’m going to just say it like 

I feel it: Don't make assumptions 

from afar; don't think you already 

know how things tick, without 

ever exploring them; and don't 

judge others without ever judging 

yourself. 

Too many sit back in their 

comfortable life, unwilling to 

change who they are for anyone 

or anything – yet they’re so quick 

to stab a pointing finger at any 

Christian that has the guts to 

stand for truth, to stand for God’s 

pure society, God’s unfading 

beauty! 

I’m not saying no-one can 

challenge me or that no-one 

should ask difficult questions of 

Christians. If someone’s putting 

their money where their mouth 

is then fine, let’s talk. It’s taking 

abuse from “Mr Self-Satisfied” 

that sticks in my throat. 

I even hear God’s name get 

marred in abusive language 

– because people are too quick 

to judge, too eager to slam 

down: and why? Because they’re 

too narrow-minded to explore the 

truth, to actually give it a go, to 

see and taste what it's all about. 

Their god (themself) has been 

challenged and the defences kick 

in. Because it’s so much easier 

to mouth off about Christians 

being “hypocrites” than it is to 

find out what it really means to 

be a Christian, isn’t it? 

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Jesus Life 

hears from mJa 

members, Artemis 

Artemiou and Mary 

Davis: one about what 

makes him bubble with 

excitement - and one 

about what makes her 

boil with rage. 

sacrifice 

SACRIFICE MEANS ‘to give 

up, forfeit, to surrender’: words 

which remind me of Jesus. He 

gave up His life. He forfeited 

His life. He surrendered His 

life. I must do the same. Being 

a “living sacrifice” for the Lord 

is awesome, man. It’s such a 

relief to know that if you give 

it all to the Lord, He’s going to 

watch your back. He’s going to 

fill your life. No worries. 

I’m just starting out. Turning 

my back on the world’s ways 

and giving it all for Jesus. 

The relief and peace I feel is 

immense. Nothing else on this 

planet can make you feel like 

this. I just get so excited when 

I think about what I’m doing for 

God and that He’s going to use 

me for His will. 

So what have I sacrificed? 

Everything that gets in the way 

of God. That means, for me, 

no self-centred independence 

(I’m living in community with 

my brothers), no TV, no Xbox 

(’cos I’ve got no boredom to 

fight), no money of my own 

(sharing it all), no shopping 

days, no cinema, no holidays to 

exotic countries, no staying up 

late listening to ghetto music 

with my mates, talking about 

ungodly things. 

I don’t need these things. 

They don’t fill me, spiritually, 

like Jesus does, so why carry 

them on? 

I don’t fear giving my life to 

Him. The Lord has just filled me 

with peace and such a deep joy. 

I want to tell everyone! Living 

for Him is the only place I want 

to be. I don’t want second best. 

JL 

Artemis 

Artemiou 

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