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August 2011

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up o s@YwamGod’s Faith ulness

Heartwarming Thought

Thank you for letting us know that you are missing

us, and missing out on our news. It is really

encouraging to know that people truly care and isinterested in us. Our hearts are warmed!

God Bless!

First and foremost I need to apologise for the lack of

news over the past few months. I (Anne) have been

assigned to do the newsletters for this year, and I

have found myself at a “loss for words.” (Strange, buttrue, for those of you who know me well).

I have slacked in sharing what has been happening

in our lives (the good and the bad).

The importance of keeping you (our network) up to

date with what we are doing, results in a prayer

support, which allows us, Cupidos, to overcome

challenges and to joyfully do what God called us to

do. I now understand why the past few months,

when facing spiritual, physical and emotionalchallenges, it almost seemed overwhelming at times.

April to August

Issue, August 2011

Contents

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April 2007 – Aug 2011: Fouryears at Youth With A Mission

Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition:A Testimony

Short Term Goal: Staffing theEvent Management School 2012

Kids Corner

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Ask of Me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. Ps 2 vs 8

Jerome & Anne Cupido

0733 454 059 / 0799 23 7993

[email protected]



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When we joined Youth With A

Mission, Worcester four years

ago, we had no idea that God

had a longer term in store for us.

Looking back over the past four

years have really confirmedsome things for us.

Firstly, the call of God on our

lives has been highlighted and

stressed to the point where we

believe it to be full-time and on a

long -term basis. This call is to

us as a family (theCupido’s@Ywam) as well as to

each one of us individually, with

Hezekiah and Keziah reaching

out to those in their friendshipand school circles.

Secondly, our time at YWAM

Worcester, is the training and

preparation time for the

ministry God is equipping usfor.

Thirdly, to be relevant disciples

of the gospel of Christ, to our

fellow missionaries, family,

friends, church and everyone we

meet. When we recently did a

short seminar at our church on

discipleship (more later): the

basics, we were truly challenged

by God to make this part of ourlife-call.

Our ministry call is to disciple

artists, to know Christ (in their

daily walk) and make Him

known to their audiences. To

organize and plan events which

April 2007 – April 2011: Four Years @ YWAM

YWAM ValuesTo Know GOD

And

To make Him known

When we bought the Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition

in 2005, we realized that the Holy Spirit promptedus to buy this particular car.

The Jeep has faithfully served us the past six years,

without any major glitches. Fuel prices have

escalated over the past years, yet God has provided

(through you) for our daily transportation costs and

for regular maintenance of the Jeep. Some

supporters have paid the licenses, some have paidfor servicing of the jeep, and some kept us in

prayers for safe journeys and some even washed thecar.

The following incident is one of many on how God

has answered above all that we could ask or hope oreven dream of.

Testimony: Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition

Our Faithful Green 4x4

Continued on page 4

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Can we ever forget our time in Kona, Hawaii?Hezekiah and Keziah still talk about their

wonderful experiences in Hawaii and would love togo back.

For those of you who can remember, we went to

Kona Hawaii, April 2009 to do the YWAM Event

Management School (a three month course) and we

completed our practical outreach at Worcester by

assisting with the University of the Nations

Conference at Goudini Spa. This was a two months

planning and organizing of music, song, dance,poetry and sport for the conference.

This experience was truly a highlight of our time in

YWAM, not because we went to Hawaii (it was

lovely of course) but because our vision became

more focused and clear. It was like looking at a

photo that was blurry, but brought sharply intofocus.

Short Term Goal: Staffing the YWAM EventManagement School - 2012

On completion of the school, the Dean of theCollege, Julie Spence, asked us to pray because

YWAM was looking for somebody to pioneer and

run the school in AFRICA. It is YWAM policy that

we first have to staff the school, before we can leadit.

When Julie asked us to staff 2010 in Switzerland, we

truly felt that God wanted us to staff the school, but

due to lack of finances we could not go. The same

thing happened beginning of this year for the

England school.

It is then God spoke to us about our calling, vision

and purpose. He specified that He has called us

long-term to this mission and that we need to work

on our prayer support and fundraising according tothe YWAM values.

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Our mission organization has

seventeen values that define our

core beliefs. Value sixteen is the

one God emphasised we had towork on if we want to truly

fulfill His call on our lives. It is

also imperative that we walk in

obedience to the organization Hehas called us to.

The value of relationship-based

support allows us to complete

God’s work, you the senders and

prayer warriors, and us the

goers. Team -work. This is thechallenge we are facing.

Allowing God to lead us to His

Support Team for us based onrelationship and joint vision.

So…………guess our plans for

next year? That’s right. We were

asked to staff the next Event

Management School in England,

January 2012. Outreaches are

planned for July & AugOLYMPICS 2012. (What greater

international event can there be?)

We will share more of this in ournext newsletter).

We would love to share with

you what God has called us to

do, and what we are currently

busy with. Please feel free to ask

us to share with you, at

churches, cell groups, youths,prayer groups, businessenterprises etc.

“For nothing is impossible

with God.”

completely Glorify God. To train

artists to seek creativity and

anointing that is generated from

an intimate relationship with

God the Father, Son and TheHoly Spirit.

It is also our desire to mentor

leaders, to encourage, motivate,

inform, direct, inspire and help

sharpen their vision and call. We

are praying for opportunities to

do this formally, as well,

through workshops, seminarsand camps.

We are currently working on our

vision and mission statement, as

well as the proposal of the

ministry called: ARTSCONNEXION. Jerome is

working on it constantly. It is

hard going and really tough

trying to put onto paper what

we sense God has deposited in

our spirit. (I hope there are some

amen’s out there on this point).

Please pray for clarity of God’s

vision so that we will be able to

share clearly and concisely with

others.

Part of our short-term goals is to

staff an YWAM Event

Management School, so that we

would be able to lead or pioneer

the school here in Africa. Readmore of this on page 3.

Short Term Goal: Staffing SEM(Continued)

April 2007 – April 2011:Four Years @ Ywam (Continued)

Ywam value 16

PRACTICE DEPENDENCE ON

GOD FOR FINANCES

YWAM is called to practice a life of

dependence upon God for financial

provision.

For individuals and YWAM

corporately this comes primarily

through His people. As God and

others have been generous towardsus, so we desire to be generous.

YWAMers give themselves, their

time and talents to God through the

mission with no expectations of

remuneration

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A few months ago, a friend of Jerome from New

Zealand, informed us that God lay on their heart(him and his wife) to bless us with some money.

We were so excited. Thanking God, we were

already planning on how to spend the money onour current needs.

Well, a few days later, the Jeep broke down, soon

after Angelo spoke to us. We were very worried

because we received estimates of R6 000 to R10 000to have it fixed.

Just imagine our fears, worries and concern on

having the Jeep fixed. It looked impossible with themonthly support we receive.

At this time Jerome felt he had to take the car to

Porters Repair shop (and not the individual

mechanics that work on our base vehicles) for

repairs. The quote we received was for R2100,

leaving us with extra money (from Angelo) to dosome other minor repairs on the Jeep.

People could not believe that Porters could charge

us so “little”. The timing was perfect. This is what

God has done for us and we truly want to exaltHim.

A special thanks to Angelo and his wife for theirfaithful obedience. God Bless you richly.

Hezekiah

Our family had the opportunity to do a

missions programme in our church on the 26th

June. Hezekiah played a solo on the keyboard.

His favourite song “An Ode to Joy.” He surprisedus and we are truly proud of him.

His comment: “It was nice, but scary.”

An Interesting Fact:

Hezekiah loves DESSERT! His constant questionat the table: “What’s for dessert?”

Keziah

Keziah was going to do the welcome at the

church, while waiting she turned to me and said“Mommy you do the welcome, I am feeling too

shy”. So sitting in the bench we could see her

smiling and radiant face supporting us while we

each did our part of the programme. We love youand are very proud of you, Keziah.

It is because of Keziah’s passionate prayers the

weeks before the programme, that we had such

an awesome time with God, and ourcongregation.

An Interesting Fact:

Keziah Adores CHEESE. Melted cheese (if she

can eat that every day) otherwise Pizzas and

pastas (with melted cheese on top) is herfavourite dishes.

Testimony: Jeep Grand Cherokee(Continued)



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YWAM Worcester, our home for the past four years!!!

We want to congratulate our base director and

his wife, Bruno and Judy Guntelach, on their

tenth Wedding Anniversary. God has blessed

them with three children Noah, Johanna and Jemima

The highlight of our year so far

was the hosting of a two-evening

seminar at our church on

Discipleship: the Basics. We

prayed and sought God’s face on

what to teach, and how to teachit.

Having a good understanding of

the gospel is the essence of being

a disciple of Jesus Christ. How to

share the good news with others

clearly and concisely is so

important that it will help us to

be more effective witnesses for

Jesus. Practical sessions were anessential part of the teachings.

The two-evening seminar turned

into three evenings. There was

such an air of expectancy,

hunger for more knowledge ofGod, and excitement.

We would love to include sometestimonies in our next issue.

It was truly an opportunity to

sow back into the church. Thank

you to Southern Hills Baptist

Church, for your faithful prayers

and support over the past four

years. Thank you to our

leadership for standing with us,

and allowing us to step out intoGod’s call for our lives.

Our current involvement on our

base is more administrative and

organizational. We are becoming

more involved in discipleship

teaching, training, mentoringand coaching of individuals.

Changing lives and impactingnations is truly a worthy call!

So…what are we busy with?

YWAM Worcester base News

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