Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSON 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 11.15am. It was 11.00 am and raining. It was a forty minute walk,so she prayed and set out. The Lord seemed close and shefelt unusually light. When she reached the hospital, she lookedat her watch and gasped; it was 11.15 am! Then she noticedher clothes — they were dry!Healings, deliverance and the supernatural were increasingalong 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 theJesus Army!’ The next one read: ‘Urgent! Join the Jesus Rebellion’and showed a grinning street lad with a cross aroundhis 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 stickersalso appeared inviting people to ‘Join the Jesus Army!’We wanted to plant twenty church-households at short distancesfrom the thirty we already had. LEAP teams (LocationEvangelism And Planting) would evangelise and hold meetingsin these areas. Supported by Marquee Missions andchurch evangelism, they would form a core and build othersin. 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 andMargate. We also sent historian Trevor with our Dutch brethrento Holland.In June we were campaigning in Birmingham, where faithwas running high, and visitors often outnumbered members.273