Cupidos@Ywam

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

August 2011

Issue, August 2011

Contents
April 2007 Aug 2011: Four years at Youth With A Mission

Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition: A Testimony

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Short Term Goal: Staffing the Event Management School 2012

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Kids Corner

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 is interested in us. Our hearts are warmed! God Bless!

Jerome & Anne Cupido

0733 454 059 / 0799 23 7993

Jerome.cupido@gmail.com

April to August
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, but true, 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 emotional challenges, it almost seemed overwhelming at times.

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April 2007 April 2011: Four Years @ YWAM

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 confirmed some 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 (the Cupidos@Ywam) as well as to each one of us individually, with Hezekiah and Keziah reaching out to those in their friendship and school circles. Secondly, our time at YWAM Worcester, is the training and preparation time for the ministry God is equipping us for. 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 our life-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 Continued on page 4

YWAM Values
To Know GOD And To make Him known

Testimony: Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition

When we bought the Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition in 2005, we realized that the Holy Spirit prompted us 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 paid for servicing of the jeep, and some kept us in prayers for safe journeys and some even washed the car. The following incident is one of many on how God has answered above all that we could ask or hope or even dream of. Continued on page 5

Our Faithful Green 4x4

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Short Term Goal: Staffing the YWAM Event Management School - 2012
Can we ever forget our time in Kona, Hawaii? Hezekiah and Keziah still talk about their wonderful experiences in Hawaii and would love to go 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 into focus. On completion of the school, the Dean of the College, 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 lead it. 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 to the YWAM values. Continued on page 4

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Short Term Goal: Staffing SEM (Continued) Our mission organization has seventeen values that define our core beliefs. Value sixteen is the one God emphasised we had to work on if we want to truly fulfill His call on our lives. It is also imperative that we walk in obedience to the organization He has called us to. The value of relationship-based support allows us to complete Gods work, you the senders and prayer warriors, and us the goers. Team -work. This is the challenge we are facing. Allowing God to lead us to His Support Team for us based on relationship and joint vision. Soguess our plans for next year? Thats right. We were asked to staff the next Event Management School in England, January 2012. Outreaches are planned for July & Aug OLYMPICS 2012. (What greater international event can there be?) We will share more of this in our next 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, business enterprises etc.

Ywam value 16

April 2007 April 2011: Four Years @ Ywam (Continued) completely Glorify God. To train artists to seek creativity and anointing that is generated from an intimate relationship with God the Father, Son and The Holy 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, seminars and camps. We are currently working on our vision and mission statement, as well as the proposal of the ministry called: ARTS CONNEXION. 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 amens out there on this point). Please pray for clarity of Gods 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. Read more of this on page 3.

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 towards us, so we desire to be generous. YWAMers give themselves, their time and talents to God through the mission with no expectations of remuneration

For nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1: 37

That all Peoples may know HIM

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Testimony: Jeep Grand Cherokee (Continued) 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 on our 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 000 to have it fixed. Just imagine our fears, worries and concern on having the Jeep fixed. It looked impossible with the monthly 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 do some 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 exalt Him. A special thanks to Angelo and his wife for their faithful 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 surprised us and we are truly proud of him. His comment: It was nice, but scary. An Interesting Fact: Hezekiah loves DESSERT! His constant question at the table: Whats 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 you and are very proud of you, Keziah. It is because of Keziahs passionate prayers the weeks before the programme, that we had such an awesome time with God, and our congregation. 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 her favourite dishes.

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Sowhat are we busy with?

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 Gods face on what to teach, and how to teach it. 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 an essential part of the teachings. The two-evening seminar turned into three evenings. There was such an air of expectancy, hunger for more knowledge of God, and excitement. We would love to include some testimonies 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 into Gods call for our lives. Our current involvement on our base is more administrative and organizational. We are becoming more involved in discipleship teaching, training, mentoring and coaching of individuals. Changing lives and impacting nations is truly a worthy call!

YWAM Worcester base News

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