The Power Team

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The Power Team is a group of Christian Evangelists, based in Mobile, Alabama, who incorporate their preaching with displays of strength and martial arts skills. They were was founded in the late 1970s by John Jacobs. Their performances, usually taped at large megachurches, were broadcast on TBN and other Christian television stations in the United States in the late 1980s.

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  • The Power Team often conducted performances in secular venues such as schools, to encourage audiences from outside church communities. As performances in public schools could not discuss religion, these performances instead promoted social responsibility and abstention from drugs and alcohol.
  • In 1999, The Power Team portrayed themselves in "The Principal" episode of Walker, Texas Ranger to motivate a high school of wayward students.
  • Power Team leader John Jacobs divorced his wife in Ruthanne in May 2000. Around this time, many members of his Power Team left and formed a similar organization, Team Impact.
  • Jacobs married a 2nd time, in 2001, to a Sara Bonham, in South Africa, but this has since been annulled. See External Links section, John Jacobs vs. USA Screen Printing & Embroidery, Incorporated.
  • In 2002 the Power Team filed for bankruptcy protection.[1]
  • Jacobs resigned from the the Power Team organization in May 7, 2003. He soon formed another group, John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force.[2] The Power Team regrouped under new leadership.
  • The Power Team, Team Impact and John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force currently compete in the specialty area of feats of strength based evangelism. Other former members started similar ministries, including; Mike Hagen's Strength Team[3], and Keith Craft's Strike Force.[4]
  • The Power Team's President as of 2006 is Todd Keene, a long-time member of the ministry.

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  1. ^ Power Outage, Dallas Business Journal, 30 August 2002.
  2. ^ SRJ Launches New Company for Power Team Founder John Jacobs.
  3. ^ Mazer, Sharon (Winter 1994). "The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion" 38 (4). TDR. 
  4. ^ Our Story: The birth of Celebration Covenant Church. Celebration Covenant Church. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.

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