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RAAAAAW!
Nov 9th, 2010

Youth event was real and wild

"IT MEANT everything to me" enthuses John Danila about his recent Christian baptism at the Jesus Army's "RAW" youth event. He adds "I feel free to live for God now."

"RAW (Real and Wild)" is the Jesus Army's action-packed event for youth. Young people from all around the UK crammed into ...

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Oxford Olympics
Jun 7th, 2010

Torch: Oxford fun

AN OLYMPIC style torch was carried through the streets by an intrepid Jesus Army team recently.

Members of the Jesus Army in Oxford had decided to take their faith out of their Sunday church event and demonstrate it publicly. So they organised their paper torch relay to demonstrate “carrying the fire ...

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Prayer prevents crime
Mar 8th, 2010

Street level: prayer changes lives

“GOD TOLD us we were going to meet a gang member on his way to commit a crime” says Jesus Army team leader, David Meakin, 26.

The Jesus Army had parked its double-decker bus, equipped with on-deck “café” in Central London. The Jesus Army team were there until the small hours ...

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Thou shalt shoplift!
Feb 18th, 2010

Chain: poverty trap?

FATHER Tim Jones, a York vicar, recently told his congregation “My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.”

He claimed that shoplifting from national chains was sometimes “the best option for the vulnerable”. UK society had failed many needy people, making it “far better that they shoplift than turn to ...

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Hope in Belfast
Dec 7th, 2009

Belfast boys: mJa friendship in Northern Ireland

IN BELFAST, the Jesus Army recently held a five day long outreach “campaign”, with lots of different people from around the UK getting involved.

In a city with a painful history of sectarian division the Jesus Army's “friends of all without prejudice” approach aims to bring healing and help bridge some ...

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Battered!
Nov 9th, 2009

An mJa street drama: Jesus takes a battering; we go free

WE SO easily feel pressurized by all the things that bombard us in life: broken relationships, money worries, empty sex, alcohol to “drown our sorrows”, despair. We can be left feeling empty and confused.

We need to stop and realise that Jesus has died on the cross for us. He frees ...

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