John Jacobs (Power Team Minister)
- John Jacobs (Power Team Minister)
John Jacobs is an American evangelist. He is best known as the founder of The Power Team. Like other ministries in which Jacobs has been involved, The Power Team performs feats of strength as a means of evangelism. [cite web|url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1054-2043(199424)38%3A4%3C162%3ATPTMCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E|title=The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion] Jacobs divorced his wife in Ruthanne in May 2000. Also that year Jacobs was charged with assault against Jeff Audas, a former Power Team member. This incident was alleged to have occurred on May 19, 2000. Jacobs' lawyer denied the incident and the charges were subsequently withdrawn. [cite web|url=http://www.charismamag.com/display.php?id=1181|title=Charisma Magazine, July 2001] In 2001, his second marriage to a Sara Bonham ended in an annulment. [cite web|url=http://www.charismamag.com/display.php?id=6001|title=Charisma Magazine | month=June | year=2002 | accessdate=2007-12-11 ] Jacobs left The Power Team in 2003 to form a new strength-based ministry, John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force [cite web|url=http://www.srjmarketing.com/newsroom/1030801174035.html|title=SRJ Launches New Company for Power Team Founder John Jacobs] . Jacobs lives in Fort Myers, Florida, where his present ministry is based. His hometown is Evansville, Indiana. Jacobs had a guest role in an episode of the television series, "Walker, Texas Ranger", whose star Chuck Norris is a friend of Jacobs'. [cite web|url=http://www.johnjacobsnextgenerationpowerforce.com/about_john.htm|title=John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force: Quick Facts] Christian metalcore band Maylene and the Sons of Disaster wrote and performed a song with the title "Tough as John Jacobs" on their debut album, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
See also
* The Power Team
References
External links
* [http://www.johnjacobsnextgenerationpowerforce.com/ Next Generation Power Force]
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