Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSNEW GENERATIONThis was part of a definite plan for planting the good news inkey positions throughout the Empire. 132Mike ‘Rockfast’ saw a picture of arrows flying out from thecentre of the church and hitting many targets in the nation.One thrust utilised the new coach which could house a wholeteam and had already ‘done damage’ in Yorkshire. Completewith stacks of literature, food, and the wild and inspired, itwas to carry the UK Ignition Gospel Roadshow.Ignition was to travel the land for three years sparking offspiritual fires. The pioneers’ commission was to ‘leaven withthe gospel the strategic cities and towns of the UK, recognisinggroups and planting church households.’ Their adventureswould fill a book.Mary and I had just been wed when we joined the Ignitionteam in the South West. We met the bus at Plymouth where ithad been followed by the Mayor on a carnival procession!Our team (with an age range of 8 to 80) evangelised Torbayand Exeter. We had a warm reception. Anglicans lent us theirchurch hall, an old Quaker invited us to tea, and policemenblessed us. God had gone before and there was an opennessabroad.Many were drawn by the colourful bus and the buzz of lifearound it. One travelling new-age artist joined our ‘churchon wheels’ and later ripped up his occult paintings. A bikercouple, who happened to stroll past the bus in Torquay, returnedthe next morning as new-born Christians, bright eyedand eager. Later Jim and Georgie wrote to Jesus Life:395