ALEX NEWSON, 20, talks about the day his mate, David, found him as good as dead.
“I woke up with a bit of a headache and felt queasy. But I should have been dead.” Alex had taken 20 paracetamol and 40 antihistamines in an attempt to end his life.
Amazingly, no treatment ...
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A JESUS Army house in Coventry have been getting experimental in bringing life to the people they meet.
They gave out free bottles of mineral water to runners at a local fun run. One came back, after he'd finished, to tell them that he was really refreshed by their generosity and ...
LOADED with cookies, hot chocolate and free magazines, young people from the Jesus Army set up a stall at the SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies) University in London recently.
They received a great deal of positive interest and made friends with the Christian Union. One young man came to ...
IS THE church feminised? Is Jesus usually seen as a bit of bearded lady type?
Think of some of the songs Christians sing. “You’ve stolen my heart”... “Hold me close, let your love surround me. Bring me near, draw me to your side”... “I’m desperate for you…I’m lost without you”... “Jesus ...
LIVEWIRE BETHAN Scullion, 19, is a larger-than-life character who's unashamed to follow Jesus. But she's blowing a hole through religious moulds and says:
"I cringe at the stereotypical 'Christian' image - waving a tambourine, all syrupy sweet. I want to stand out from the crowd by sailing against the tide of ...
JEN WAS “kicked out of school” at 14. After that, in her own words, she “went pretty wild”: drugs, festivals, parties – everything possible not to conform.
In 2001 Jen was 16 and out clubbing. She met some young people who had grown up in the Jesus Fellowship; they became good ...
HE’D HIT rock bottom. After an evening of snorting coke at a mate’s, Pete staggered down the street hearing a babble of crazy voices inside his head, blabbering nonsense.
“This is it” he thought, “I’ve lost it. Time to top myself.”
A whisper of childhood faith surfaced. In desperation, Pete prayed, “God ...
FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MySpace, blogs: there's no end of ways to get yourself connecting with friends and the wider world these days, all courtesy of "t'internet".
People scramble to expand their social network and express their views - whether that's by writing comments on YouTube or a news site, or by uploading ...
“IT WAS like standing in a shower of love; all my fear was washed away” says Inna about her experience at “RAW (Real and Wild)”.
22-year-old Inna from Germany described the experience she had when two friends prayed with her at RAW 2009, the Jesus Army’s annual three-day youth gathering. “I ...
“A BOTTLE was lobbed through the window. Lads were outside, giving me the finger” says Sam Cullum, 20, a young leader in the Jesus Army in Coventry.
He was in his house, when local youths threw the bottle through the open window and started swearing at him.
But enthusiast Sam wasn’t going ...
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