Our Founders of Ywam Bethlehem

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, 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. After he helped pioneer YWAM Equatorial Guinea for 5 years, in that time he & Marlien got married, & their first 2 daughters. After God called them to start YWAM BETHLEHEM SA. 
Still serving in Bethlehem now. 

Our Founders of Ywam Bethlehem

Marlien Godoy
Born & raised in South Africa, Bethlehem. She has been in YWAM for 24 years now with her husband Miguel Godoy. Helped with pioneering YWAM Equatorial Guinea & YWAM Bethlehem SA which started in 2001, with their 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.

Lorena  Abon Cardenas

Administrator, training 

Lorena was born & raised in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. She completed her Crossroads DTS in July 2000, at Kona Hawaii. She is a staff of the University of the Nations, the training arm of YWAM & YWAM Bethlehem. She volunteers to teach at 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 at small YWAM bases & to mobilize & champion missions minded, young leaders to step up into their leadership potentials. 

Joseph Tumo Mofokeng

Operation, Training, Prison & Bambelela Ministry & chauffeur 

 Joseph was born & raised in Lindley, South Africa in a Sotho community. Born 1990 November 14th. He has completed his DTS in 2014 here at YWAM Bethlehem. And serving as a leader for 4 years now leading DTS & SOSM schools out of South Africa. 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.

Dorcas Brenda Uria 

Kitchen manager, media, graphic design, training & Bambelela ministry

Brenda was born & raised in Argentina the land of good meat. Born 1987 March 3rd.  Completed her DTS 2014 in Argentina, YWAM Ituzaingo, 2015 completed her councelling school in YWAM Argentina & joined our team from 2016 leading DTS & SOSM schools. Brenda has a degree in graphic design, councelling & first emotional aid, & all of this is used to reach out to the people she is serving. Her heart goes out to see Africans who have gone through hurts & abuse to counsel them & to see interior healing & forgiveness take place. She wants to challenge people to keep on dreaming

Amos Letsatsi Mason

Teams, maintenance, training, Bambelela & Farm Ministries

Amos was born 1993 June 23. Born & raised in South Africa. He joined DTS 2016 February 14th at YWAM Bethlehem SA. And been serving ever since with schools, outreach teams & on the base for 3 years now. His greatest passion is to work on the Farms since Bethlehem is surrounded by them. He really wants to see farms being transformed & laborers serving Jesus. And to see their harvests being Blessed because of their love for God, since many of our produce come from Farmers. He also has a passion for church planting & seeing people grow in their walk with God, discipling others. 

Grace Junior Munthali

Hospitality team, training, Bambelela ministry

Grace was born 1994 October 20. Born & raised in Zambia. She joined DTS at YWAM Bethlehem SA, January 2017. And been serving with us staffing & leading DTS schools in and out of Africa. Grace is very passionate about music & worship, her vision is to use this gifting God has given her to bring healing to all the nations through prophetic worship in every language. Music is something that brings so many people together & a powerful tool that God uses to bring joy, transform hearts & nations.

Jabulani Miya

Gardening, training, Bambelela Ministry & chauffeur 

Jabulani was born *** June the 2nd. 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.

Felicity Gordan

Kitchen manager, training, admin & kids ministry, Bambelela Ministry

 Felicity was born 1967 October 31. Born in Boksburg, South Africa. She joined DTS at YWAM Bethlehem SA, July 2017. Been serving as a staff and leading a DTS school. Felicity has such a gifting in working with her hands & she loves to use her hands to make new things to Bless people around her. She is a very hard worker ready to jump in wherever needed. Her passion is also music & dancing using it to share the love of Jesus. And she loves missons, doing what God has called her to do. To mobilize a community, together with her husband loving God.

April Mofokeng

Maintenance team, training, Bambelela Ministry

April was born on a farm close to Clarens & grew up in Bethlehem, South Africa. Born 1985/August/06. He completed his DTS, 2017 in Bethlehem. April,"It's where I started seeing God transform my life." His passion is to know more about God & to teach & counsell other people to help them experience a good life with God.

Gershon 

Base director at YWAM Lindley, training, councelling

Gershon was born & raised in Ghana, at the Greater Accra region. He completed his DTS in 2002 at the Ghana Tema base. He has been serving at YWAM Bethlehem from June 2011 up to February 2012, afterwards with Miguel was encouraged to pioneer a mini-YWAM base in Lindley a small town very close to Bethlehem, where many have completed their DTS school & don't want to go back to their old ways. So he has been serving 7 years at Lindley & still serving. He runs mini-DTS trainings, he does different ministries & helps counsel people. His passion is for the whole world to come to the saving knowledge of faith in Jesus Christ, to experience complete freedom.

Our founders children

Damaris Godoy

Social media, teams, training & Bambelela ministry
Damaris was born 1997/April/27 in Equatorial Guinea. She completed her DTS in Hong Kong in 2016. And has been serving at YWAM Bethlehem from 2017, helping with training. She is passionate about working with the Kids. She also has a huge heart for performing arts & entertainment using it to share the Gospel of Jesus. In a way that people can relate to & to see God's creativity.

Genevive Godoy

Genevive born 1999/January/30 in Equatorial Guinea. She completed her DTS in Perth Australia in 2017. She is now very devoted to music & writing songs. That is her greatest passion is to reach people through music & share the gospel in the entertainment industry.

Yanina Godoy

Yanina was born 2004/September/04 in Bethlehem South Africa. She is currently still in High School & Miss Personality of the YWAM base. She also loves music & sports. 

YWAM Mercy Ministry Staff at the Bambelela Centre

Vincent

Over sees & runs the whole Bambelela ministry.

Jonie

Started the sewing ministry & training others.

Maria

Kitchen Manager, part of the team always cooking food for the Adults on Wednesday & Kids on Thursdays.

Thembi

Kitchen crew

Anicia

Sewing workshop & kitchen crew

Sophie

Kitchen crew

Perishell

Kitchen crew