John Jacobs is an American evangelist. He is best known as the founder of The Power Team and The Next Generation Power Force. Like other ministries in which Jacobs has been involved, The Power Team and Then Next Generation Power Force performs feats of strength in conjunction with their evangelism pursuits. 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 Jacobs' lawyer denied the incident and the charges were subsequently withdrawn. In 2001, his second marriage to a Sara Bonham ended in an annulment. Jacobs left The Power Team in 2003 to form a new strength-based ministry, John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force. Jacobs lives in The Woodlands, TX, where his present ministry is based. His hometown is Evansville, IN. Jacobs had a guest role in an episode of the television series, Walker, Texas Ranger, whose star Chuck Norris is a friend of Jacobs'. 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.
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“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
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