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Noel Stanton
ChurchBugbrooke Jesus Fellowship
Installed1957
Term ended2009
SuccessorMick Haines
Other post(s)Leader of the Jesus Army
Personal details
Born(1926-12-25)25 December 1926
Died20 May 2009(2009-05-20) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
DenominationChristianity
ResidenceBugbrooke
OccupationPastor

Noel Stanton (25 December 1926 – 20 May 2009) was the founder of the Jesus Army.

Life

Stanton was born in Bedfordshire in the East of England,[1] and educated at Bedford Modern School.[2] His parents were farmers.[3] When he was 18, he was conscripted into British military service with the Royal Navy.[4] The navy sent him to Sydney, Australia,[1] where he was approached by evangelist Frank Jenner, who asked him, "If you should die tonight, where would you go? Would it be heaven or hell?" Stanton felt convicted for several months afterwards and consequently converted to Christianity the next year.[5]

When

Charismatic Movement and then of the 1960s counterculture.[9] In 1973, he began turning the church into an intentional community modelled after early Christianity, and the resulting movement became the Jesus Army.[10] He wrote the book Your Baptism Into Jesus Christ and His Church, which was published in 1998.[11] Stanton remained the Jesus Army's leader until 2009, when he named Mick Haines the new leader before dying on 20 May.[12]

After Stanton's death in 2009, the Jesus Army supplied allegations to Northamptonshire Police of sexual offences against Stanton and others, and as of 2019 there are 43 complainants of historic sexual and physical abuse.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Noel Stanton (1926-2009)". Jesus Army. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  2. ^ "School Of The Black And Red-A History Of Bedford Modern School" by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated by Peter Boon, Paul Middleton and Richard Wildman (2010)
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  6. ^ Chryssides 1999, p. 149.
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  8. ISBN 978-0810879676
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  10. ^ Fiona MacDonald-Smith (29 April 1995). "The Jesus Army Wants You". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
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  12. ^ "Funeral of Jesus Army founder to be screened". Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  13. ^ Ironmonger, Jon (19 July 2019). "Jesus Army sex scandal: The dark secrets of life in a commune". BBC News. Retrieved 19 July 2019.

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