Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSCOMMUNICATE!Glasgow and Manchester which produced their own homegrownleaders. All this encouraged initiative.Then there was the ‘Multiply Network’. Multiply waslaunched as a new stream uniting Jesus Fellowship churcheswith other groups with a similar vision. King’s Church,Chatham, was one of our first open supporters and ‘friends’who eventually joined us in Multiply. They also released afew of their people to us who were eager for community. Oneyoung family lived at Battlecentre for a while before headingup our work in Brighton.Many still came to us from far and wide hungering for aChristian alternative. Cornhill Manor, (led by Pete the Dutchman),had a European flavour and a daughter household inSweden. The Farm had members in Spain who were interestedin community. We were also friendly with a number ofcommunity groups in Europe and one dynamic youth-churchin Germany, led by Walter Heidenreich, joined us in the MultiplyNetwork.Relating to others was very healthy. Some of our seniormen spent more than one enjoyable afternoon with TonyMorton and team from Southampton. We found Tony down toearth, humorous and very brotherly. But he didn’t lack punch:‘God uses zealous, idealistic, sacrificial people who are outspoken,possibly obnoxious’ was one of his comments in JesusLifestyle. 122We probably fitted that description! But we didn’t relishisolation. It was encouraging to be invited to talk about ourwork at London Bible College. We also spoke at Spurgeon’sCollege where Steve ‘Capable’ and I bumped into Nigel348