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>Title: Jesus Army tributes to founder >Website: Northampton Chronicle and Echo >www.northamptonchron.co.uk >Date: 21/05/2009 >Link : <a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Jesus-Army >-tributes-to-founder.5288454.jp">Jesus Army tributes >to founder</a> > ><b>Jesus Army tributes to founder</b> > >Noel Stanton, founder of the evangelical >Northamptonshire group, the Jesus Army, has died at >the age of 82. >Mr Stanton had been suffering from an undisclosed >illness for some months and handed the leadership of >the organisation over to successor Mick Haines earlier >this year because of his declining health. > >The Jesus Fellowship Church was founded in Bugbrooke >after Mr Stanton became pastor at the village Baptist >church, and spread across Northamptonshire and the >country. > >The sect, commonly known as the Jesus Army, is based >at New Creation Farm, Nether Heyford, one of the >group's communities. There are currently about 3,500 >members in 24 congregations across the UK. > >John Campbell, director of communications for the >Jesus Army, said: "Noel's energy and devotion have >been an inspiration to many over the years. He will be >sadly missed, but he has left a legacy of faith and >commitment that will carry on. > >"What he would most want to be remembered for are the >many who have been helped to find hope and stability >through faith in Jesus and the activities of the Jesus >Army – not least through the Jesus centres around the >UK that were one of his final initiatives." > >Mr Stanton was unmarried and lived within the >community. A spokesman said he lived "simply", in the >same manner as those he sought to lead, and lived his >life dedicated to Jesus Christ as a committed celibate. > >Mr Stanton became pastor at Bugbrooke in 1957 and ran >the village church on traditional principles until >1969 when he had what he claimed was an intense >spiritual experience. > >Writing of the experience, he said: "It was so >intoxicating, so exhilarating, and so intense that I >felt I was just not going to live any more. I became >filled with the intensity of God. > >"This went on for hours and hours. It was a tremendous >experience of life and fullness from which I didn't >come down for a long time, and this was the changing >point in my life." > >On the Jesus Army website forum, Mr Stanton's >followers paid tribute to him. > >One said: "He was a legend and a man of apostolic >vision. May he hear 'Good and faithful servant' and be >an inspiration to us all." > >Funeral details have not been confirmed.
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