At the Kids on Fire summer camp in Devils Lake, it's about "taking back America for Christ."

Children as young as 5 squirm in spiritual ecstasy, speak in tongues, sob for salvation and dance with faces painted in camouflage as part of "God's army."

Fischer is convinced the children in her ministry will help fix this "sick ol' world" -- so sure that she allowed filmmakers an inside look at her work, the result of which is the documentary "Jesus Camp," released last month.

Since then, the film has received generally good reviews, and Fischer, a charismatic Christian, says she thinks it's a fair if not entirely accurate portrayal of her ministry. But the movie has also exposed her to attacks from both the right and the left, she said in an interview at her F.I.R.E (Families Ignited for Revival & Evangelism) Center in downtown Mandan, just outside Bismarck.

"It's not just wackos ripping me for child abuse -- I'm taking hits from the Christian community," Fischer said, calling Christian conservatives who dislike the film "knuckleheads."

"The one thing that people are really tripping over is the emotion they see in those kids," she said. "It's unbelievable for someone who doesn't know Jesus."

The 55-year-old former art teacher and sign business operator is an animated, outspoken woman who acts as a drill instructor for her religious recruits at the summer camp. She uses stern lectures, and props such as globs of goo to show what impure thoughts do to a child's brain.

"Harry Potter would have been put to death," she tells the children at one point. "Warlocks are the enemy of God!"

In one scene, teary-eyed children pray to a life-size cutout of President Bush and ask God to place "righteous judges" on the U.S. Supreme Court. In another, children are shown at an anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C., their lips sealed with red tape.

"I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam," Fischer said in an interview.

New York filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady shot the documentary over a year starting in April 2005. The summer camp part of the film was shot during a weeklong session in Devils Lake, in northeast North Dakota.

"We were looking for a film that would let us explore faith and religion through the eyes of children," said Grady, who is Jewish.

The Kids on Fire camp has averaged about 150 campers a year.