BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

PARTNERSHIP Your Voice. Your Victory. Your Ministry. At 90, She’s Been a Partner for Nearly 40 Years ‘KCM is my lifeline.’ by Ronald C. Jordan If you want to know what it means to have a long-standing partnership relationship with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, just ask Mrs. Lyndle Waters of Abilene, Texas. Since the mid-1970s, this energetic, 90-year-old woman has faithfully followed the teachings of Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, first through the 15-minute Believer’s Voice of Victory radio programs, and today on television. But even before then, she had the privilege of attending Bible study groups led by Brother Copeland’s parents, A.W. and Vinita Copeland. “I may not have been the first Partner they ever had, but I was probably one of the first,” says Mrs. Waters, who adds she still watches the BVOV broadcast on TV nearly every day, and usually begins her day reading from one of the Copelands’ popular daily devotionals, "From Faith to Faith" or "Limitless Love." The first Partner? Probably not. But that doesn’t bother this feisty woman, who says what’s most important to her is that her decision to partner with KCM has been the best thing she could ever do. “They have given me such fullness in life,” says Mrs. Waters. “Brother Copeland has taught me so much that I would never consider not being part of this ministry. It’s a part of me, and who I am.” Though she sometimes struggles to recall exact dates and specific details, Mrs. Waters is clear about her early years as a believer, and the first time she heard Kenneth Copeland on the radio. “I got saved when I was in sixth grade, but growing up there was so much I didn’t know and understand,” she said. “I went to church, but all I knew was that I didn’t want to go to hell. I believed that if I accepted Jesus, then He was going to keep me out of hell. “When I was about 30 years old my late husband, who was in the military, was shipped overseas and was going to be gone for 18 months. I knew I didn’t want to live the kind of lifestyle I had seen other women live when their husbands were shipped out.” Mrs. Waters said she began to learn how to live a godly lifestyle when she started listening to Brother Copeland on the radio. “His command of the Word was one of the most impressive things to me,” she said. “I wasn’t that well-versed in the Word. I wanted to be, but I wasn’t that knowledgeable. Over and over, time and time again, he would teach and help me understand the Word. Brother Copeland taught with the same intensity as his mother, Mrs. Waters recalls. “I remember the intensity of her desire to get the Word into people,” she said. “That was who she was. She wanted you to get the Word, to live the Word. It was your life and she wanted to get it into you. Just listening to Kenneth teach the Word, my husband and I were very much in agreement from the very beginning that we needed to be Partners with this ministry.” The Meaning of Partnership While some ministries cloud the subject of partnership with suggestions that partnership is connected with how much money someone gives, Mrs. Waters said she learned through KCM that partnership is much more. “It’s about us being one together,” she said. “I’ve never been overseas, or to any of those foreign places they go to,” she said, “but I get excited when I hear what the ministry is doing because I know that I’m part of it. I give my little ‘widow’s mite’ each month and I can know that I have a part in what KCM is doing. I have gotten to be a part, even if it’s a tiny, little part, because I am a Partner with this ministry. It’s a part of me. Even though my little bit is a tiny part, I can rejoice that I am part of what KCM is doing. Brother Copeland has gotten that through to me more clearly than anyone else, and I rejoice when I sit and hear what the ministry is doing.” Today, nearly 40 years after first connecting with KCM, Lyndle Waters says she could not have survived were it not for what she has learned through KCM. “I’m just a little sharecropper’s daughter from Oklahoma, but I’m a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries. KCM has become my lifeline,” she said. “There have been many times when I needed guidance and I would pick up one of their books and it would give me the direction I needed. “Had I not found them, my life would not have been as full as it is today. Listening to them, and following their teachings through tapes and books has given me such a fullness and understanding. It has helped me to be a better servant, and to overcome some things that I needed to overcome in my life.” Nearly 40 years ago, KCM helped change Lyndle Waters’ life through partnership. And today, at age 90, she is still experiencing change. Partnership does make a difference! V *************************************** God wants you to be part of something big—right where you are. Partnership is more than just commitment—it’s a covenant relationship. Our Partners mean the world to us! The whole basis for us being in this ministry and on this earth is to teach people, primarily born-again Christians, how to live a victorious life in Christ Jesus. That’s our calling. The mission is to help people realize who they are in Christ and understand the authority they’ve been given. Our goal is to love people—to meet their needs. Love is what makes the difference. We believe God can change someone’s life through faith and love. John Copeland CEO Become a Partner with us today. 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) +1-817-852-6000 ************************************* BVOV : 25

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