Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!The Spirit that urged us to celebrate and communicate inspiredus into greater evangelism. Our frontiers opened out.Mick ‘Temperate’ was church-planting in Liverpool using arented house as a base. His team travelled up from Birminghamgathering new friends and developing links with localleaders, but not without some opposition.Kelly was on the go in Glasgow and others were pioneeringin Sheffield, Norwich and Oxford. We held ‘Beachfire’ missionsin coastal resorts and Pete, our Dutch medic, took ateam to Amsterdam. The English double-decker had to haveits tyres deflated to get under the bridges! Proud thing.At Glastonbury Festival we joined with groups like YWAMand British Youth For Christ as part of Vic Jackopson’s ‘HopeNow’ team. The evangelists provided a real Christian presencethere and more than one searcher was baptised in abarrel of water!Once a month we ran four-day missions in London knownas EDP (Eat, Drink and Pray!) Brothers and sisters wouldwalk the streets well into the small hours befriending nightclubbersand the homeless. At intervals they would return tothe warm bus at Trafalgar Square, sit their friends down witha cup of tea and fix them a hot meal. They shared God’s loveand often prayed with them.Dave Wilkerson once prophesied that God would ‘adopt thelost generation’. We found the young homeless very open toGod. Spiritual experience and brotherly love made a big impacton them. Quite a few came back to community, and theFarm, especially, began to burst at the seams with young menfinding life in Jesus, a family and a cause to fight for.309