Our Founders of YWAM Bethlehem, SA

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Miguel Godoy
Born & raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 22 of August 1964. He started his YWAM journey in 1993 & did a 1 year for God, a DTS in Argentina. He served as staff for 3 years in Argentina, where after he went on a missions project to the North of Argentina to work with an aborigine people group. During his time of pioneering YWAM Equatorial Guinea for 5 years, he & Marlien got married & had their first 2 daughters. Soon after God called them to start YWAM BETHLEHEM, SA. 
They are still serving in Bethlehem now. 

Marlien Godoy
Born & raised in Bethlehem, South Africa. She has been with YWAM for 24 years now with her husband Miguel Godoy. She helped pioneer YWAM Equatorial Guinea. She co-founded  YWAM Bethlehem, SA which started in 2001. Marlien & her husband have 3 daughters. She has been serving with her family in Bethlehem for 17 years now & still going. Marlien completed her DTS at YWAM Argentina, Buenos Aires, in 1994. Her passion is to make things happen, whether its fundraising or helping others to achieve their dreams.

STAFF:

Lorena Abon Cardenas

Administrator, Trainer

Lorena was born & raised in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. She completed her Crossroads DTS in July 2000, at Kona Hawaii. She serves on staff of the University of the Nations, the training arm of YWAM & YWAM Bethlehem. She is a volunteer teacher for YWAM Schools who struggle to afford international teachers by paying her own tickets. She is a very dynamic teacher. Her passion right now is to bring training to help pioneer small YWAM bases & to mobilize & champion missions minded, young leaders to step up into their leadership potentials. 

Amos Letsatsi Mason

Outreach Team Leader, Maintenance, Training, Bambelela & Farm Ministries

Amos was born 23rd of June, 1993. He was born & raised in South Africa. He joined DTS 14th of February, 2016 at YWAM Bethlehem, SA. And he has been serving ever since with schools, outreach teams & on the base for 3 years now. His greatest passion is to work on the farms in and around Bethlehem. He wants to see farms being transformed, its laborers serving Jesus and to see their harvest blessed because of their love for God. He also has a passion for church planting & seeing people grow in their walk with God.

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Joseph Tumo Mofokeng

Operation, Training, Prison & Bambelela Ministry & Chauffeur 

 Joseph was born & raised in Lindley, South Africa in a Sotho community. He was born November 14th of 1990. He completed his DTS in 2014 here at YWAM Bethlehem and has been serving as a leader for 4 years now leading DTS & SOSM schools out of South Africa. He is also co-leading with the base director. His passion is to pioneer new things, to see people being discipled & hearts changed to know God more & to find purpose. He also has a heart for prison ministry & Frontier Missions, going where not many dare to go, together with his lovely wife Elizabeth.

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Dorcas Brenda Uria

Kitchen Manager, Media, Graphic Designer, Trainer & Bambelela Ministry

Brenda was born & raised in Argentina, the land of good meat. Born 3rd of March, 1987, she completed her DTS in 2014 at YWAM Ituzaingo, Argentina. In 2015 she completed her councelling school & joined our team in 2016 leading DTS & SOSM schools. Brenda has a degree in graphic design, councelling & psychological first aid. All of these talents she uses to reach out to the people she is serving. Her heart goes out to see Africans who have gone through trauma & abuse. She counsels them to see interior healing and forgiveness take place. She enjoys challenging people to keep on dreaming.

Gershon 

Base Director at YWAM Lindley, Trainer & Councelor

Gershon was born & raised in Ghana, in the Greater Accra region. He completed his DTS in 2002 at the Ghana Tema base. He served at YWAM Bethlehem from June 2011 to February 2012. Afterwards Miguel encouraged him to pioneer a mini-YWAM base in Lindley, a small town close to Bethlehem. He has been serving at Lindley for 7 years now. In addition to running mini-DTS's, he also runs several ministries & counsels people. His passion is for the whole world to come to the saving knowledge of faith in Jesus Christ and to experience complete freedom.

Nkhata Patrick 

Evangelism & Maintenance Team

Patrick was born in a village in Zambia. He completed his DTS in 1994 at Windhoek, Namibia then joined staff for 3 years and helped pioneer a YWAM base in the north of Namibia. His passion is to preach the Gospel to see people saved & raised as quality leaders in society. He enjoys serving and doing evangelism. Patrick joined our team in June 2019.

Elizabeth Mofokeng

Counselling Ministry

Born in Lincoln, U.K. Raised in Rivers, Canada. She completed her DTS at Bridges of life base in St.Hippolyte du Fort, France in 2018. Then she went to do the Foundations For Counseling Ministry School in  Restenäs, Sweden in 2019. Then joined our team!

Jabulani Miya

Gardening, training, Bambelela Ministry & chauffeur 

Jabulani was born the 2nd of June 1994. Born & raised in South Africa. He worked on a farm for a very long time, until he felt God calling him to come try out a DTS. Which he did in July 2017 at YWAM Bethlehem, SA. After that he was hooked & felt the call of God to be in the missions field serving. He also did his School of Strategic Missions, especially for those who want to serve in missions in the long-term. He has a passion for gardening & farming, and to use this to help disciple and teach others. He is now serving as a staff here at YWAM Bethlehem, SA.

"Darius" & "Ally"

Short Term Admin & Maintenance team. 

Darius was born and raised in South Africa. Ally was born and raised in The United States . They met on the mission field while serving The Lord separately. They completed their DTS in July of 2019 here at YWAM Bethlehem. They have a great love and heart for 'sensitive countries'. They also love working with refugees. For security reasons their identities have been hidden.

Our founders children

Damaris Godoy

Social Media, Outreach Team Leader, Trainer,  Bambelela Ministry
Damaris was born the 27th of April, 1997 in Equatorial Guinea. She completed her DTS in Hong Kong in 2016. She has been serving as staff at YWAM Bethlehem since 2017 as a trainer. She is passionate about working with Kids. She also has a huge heart for the performing arts and entertainment, using it to share the Gospel of Jesus, in a way that people can relate and see God's creativity.

Genevive Godoy

Social Media, Worship Leader
Genevive was born the 30th of January, 1999 in Equatorial Guinea. She completed her DTS in Perth, Australia in 2017. She is very devoted to music and song  writing. Her greatest passion is to reach people through music & share the Gospel in The entertainment industry.

Yanina Godoy

Yanina was born the 4th of September of 2004 in Bethlehem, South Africa. She is a High School student and "Miss Personality" of the YWAM base. She love music & sports. 

YWAM Mercy Ministry Staff at the Bambelela Centre

Vincent

Main Manager at Bambelela

Jonie

Trainer and Sewing Ministry Founder

Maria

Kitchen Manager. Cooks for The Adult ministry on Wednesdays and The kids ministry on Thursdays.

Anna

Kitchen Crew

Belinda

Sewing Workshop & Kitchen Crew

Sophie

Kitchen Crew

Perishell

Kitchen Crew