This came up in discussion with friends the other day. The Power Team used to take up, like, half of Trinity Broadcast Network's air time once upon a time... late 80s? early 90s? maybe both?
Anyway, I thought they were worthy of a thread because while The Power Team were not a product of TBN, they were probably the only thing on TBN that was like no other show throughout the broadcast/cable spectrum (with the exception of Paul and Jan Crouch's personalities of course, but that's another story.) I have to admit that when nothing else on TV was happenin', you could always default to The Power Team.
wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Team
and lotsa YouTubes: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+power+team&search_type=
I didn't know that they split up into three competing factions! What the hell happened?
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:16 (eighteen years ago)
I have seen these guys live!!!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:24 (eighteen years ago)
They are awesome!!! Jesus helps them run through ice!
The Holy Spirit gives them the power to rip up phone books!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:25 (eighteen years ago)
An ex-PT dude lifted me over his head and spun me around once!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:26 (eighteen years ago)
strength based evangelism
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:27 (eighteen years ago)
oh man.
the power team did an assembly at my high school anti-drugs day (it was called choices & challenges). they were kind enough to leave out the jesus-y stuff, unlike this pro-abstinence drama troupe who did a show for us at a different assembly.
i was deeply involved in our award-winning school newspaper, and took it on myself to do a hard-hitting editorial takedown of the whole thing for next month's issue.
fast forward 4 weeks to the friday that the newspaper came out. turns out that on fridays, the special ed class would spend an hour or two reading the paper out loud to each other. so at the end of lunch time, the special ed teacher and the counselor who arranged for the assembly come storming in to the journalism room (i would eat lunch in there because it was my 5th period class).
the special ed teacher is frantic and on the verge of tears, the counselor is all red and angry. she stabbed a finger at my chest and announced "YOU'VE MADE A BIG MISTAKE, BUSTER". apparently the special ed kids had LOVED the power team, and my editorial had made the whole roomful of 15-20 severely developmentally disabled kids burst into inconsolable weeping.
true story!!
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:29 (eighteen years ago)
y u brake harts dawg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:32 (eighteen years ago)
13 years later
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:34 (eighteen years ago)
two in two days
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:35 (eighteen years ago)
joeks ;_;
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:36 (eighteen years ago)
they're good snaps! i fault u not
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:39 (eighteen years ago)
these guys would come to my alabama christian middle school once a year to break through ice and whatnot. They left all the Jesus stuff in.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:42 (eighteen years ago)
yeah the ice breaking was pretty awesome to my 7th grade eyes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:46 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.thepowerteam.com/
Meet The Team
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:59 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, I also saw them at a de-Jesus-ified school assembly. The stunts were pretty low-end, too - some phone book ripping, some concrete-block breaking, but no walls of ice or anything like that. Altogether one of the better assemblies we ever had.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:58 (eighteen years ago)
This would have been in 1996 or '97 btw.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:59 (eighteen years ago)
Best line from that Wiki article: "The Power Team, Team Impact and John Jacobs' Next Generation Power Force currently compete in the specialty area of feats of strength based evangelism." Specialty area, indeed!
I recently found a Power Team comic book at a thrift store in Raleigh! I used to be totally obsessed with these guys because they didn't really have much game in the way of preaching - every other sentence in their altar-call began "How many of you know," it was like the only rhetorical move they knew - but still preached forever & ever & ever once they got done breaking bricks with their heads
― J0hn D., Sunday, 17 February 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)