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| Front of the march |
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| Running toward the stage |
It's where the Jesus Army march from Hyde park corner to Trafalgar square. To put it in a nutshell; Singing, dancing, shouting and smiling with flags and sticks and banners and a hint of rapping all in an attempt to reach out to the lost hearts of the people in London. We have some of the main road blocked off, so we can march down safely, thanks to our organisers, we're so thankful to still have london day and with much perseverance and prayer we should continue to have them.
I really know that this event is powerful and has such colour and contrast to the world's fallen and empty system. This year as i was at the front, it really heartened me so see the change of people's faces as we, some twelve hundred or more, marched by with about forty dancers in colourful uniform danced by. One of our leader's called Danny prayed out through the mic so that everyone could hear bringing freedom to the captives and releasing the powers of evil from people's lives, people knew we were for real.
The man on the mic had us do different things in unison such as; A huge mexican wave, each of our five colour shouting the letters of the name J.E.S.U.S. Many of the bypassers were reluctant to join in but in the end they gave in to it. Also we were in five different colours; purple, green, orange, red and blue, these all represent our region within the church, in other words what part of the country we were from. London were blue.
The day after the London day I heard the community house we have in London had eight new people join them in the morning and two more for the evening. It's great to know that our efforts bring fruit. Furthermore we march down the wide streets, legs burning, and past picadilly where many are gathered to watch on the corner and finally proceed onto Trafalgar square where the famous Admiral Nelson statue on his pillar is, This is where the fun begins.
There waiting for us is a live band and a stage that we then perform many sketches on and outreach slots, portraying the love of Jesus and our radical faith to the people. Nevertheless people who may have been confused or showed a real interest were certainly not ignored. We had groups of our trusty evangelists who greeted them and showed them friendship. Thanks to our rigging crew we had a well presented stage, an LED screen devoted to advertising purposes, and a gift shop for people to wear our colours and traditional red crosses.
We then pile on the stage at almost every song to dance, I gave up though as i so longed to join the crowd and explore. We had a swiss guy staying over at our community house called Anthem. He had come over in time for the meeting and was awe struck by the how friendly and outgoing our church was, not to mention the size. I felt I should explain what the man was saying at the front...
One of the most popular songs was the 'Get up Get down' song where we had a choreographered dance routine, often leaving everyone exhausted and sweating buckets, but i'd rather not go into the details. I believe there really isn't anything better than giving yourself to help others. All the effort and love that goes into these types of events was for the people surrounding us, not for our own sake. I couldn't recommend anything better to finding purpose and fulfillment in life then showing that we care for people, and in our chuches case, the country we live in.
We long to see change and make change
