ANYERINS JOURNEY TO QUEST

Anyerins Journey to Quest

After lots of Curiosity and many questions on how Anyerin got to Quest as their Worship Director..I thought it would be easier to repost an earlier blog I had posted...So here it tis..........
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I thought I would share a little of the journey our God has taken me on with my first born son, Anyerin.
When Anyerin was about 4 years old God spoke to me through a passage in the bible in Samuel. It is where Hannah(who was barren) prayed to God for a child.
Hannah was desperate for a child and promised God that if he gave her a child that she would give him back to God. After he was weaned she took him to the temple and gave him to the Priest Eli to raise in Gods service.


In Verse 26 she says to Eli, 'As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. 27 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. 28 So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.'

When I read that verse God illuminated it to my spirit ...(some would call it a light bulb moment)..but for me my heart beat faster and I knew that God was asking me to give my son, Anyerin ,completely to Him,for his whole life to be dedicated to the service of the Lord.

I sat down in my loungeroom in Unanderra ,NSW , ....Australia.... and gave him to my God. I cried as the reality set in of what God would require of him. Hannah gave Samuel to Eli the priest to raise at a very early age , I knew that I would not have to do that but I always knew that Anyerin had been set apart from that moment on.
God had big plans for my Son.


Now , at the right time , I dedicated each of my 7 children to the Lord and I promised my God that I would bring each one up teaching them about him and his love for them.

Over the years , each one grew up beautifully ...we had our hardships, including the 4 eldest childrens Father leaving when they were very young. Anyerin was 5 ,Rhys 3, Seth 15 mnths and Bethany yet unborn 3mnths in my womb.
It was at this time God was the most evident in our lives. With so much heart ache in our lives ...the little people and myself clung to God. If the children were crying , missing their Daddy ..we would go to God and ask God to talk to Daddy and show Daddy what he was doing was wrong. Doing that gave us so much comfort as we had someone who could work for us on our behalf. The presence of God would settle on the children. You could actually feel his presence in the room there with us. It says in the bible ...Psalm 68:5-6
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families .....
and Psalm 27:10 says
Though my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
These scriptures came to life as I prayed them over the children continually.


Anyerin was the big brother , the patient one, the understanding one,the helper..he listened to me as he would find me crying over his Father and he would have wisdom beyond his years as he prayed for his Daddy and I. God gave him to me as a very special gift. I never forgot about the prayer of Hannah that I prayed , giving Anyerin to God and I kept it in the back of my mind. I knew that God had bigger plans........

It was around this time that Anyerins gifts in music became apparent .
He picked up the piano quite easy and he had a little ukelele that he loved playing, thus began his love for music.
ANYERIN AT 4

ANYERIN AT 6




When Anyerin was about 10 years old, I moved up to ....Newcastle.... and remarried.
I gave birth to 3 more children, Meg and our twins Benjamin and James.

In Anyerins early teens he began worship leading at his schools chapel services.
He , Rhys ,Seth and Bethany become a huge part of the chapel services until they all left the college .
Anyerin was School Captain 3 years running as the school entered into Yr 11 and 12 for the first time.
During this time Anyerin joined the youth worship team and ministry team at our church. His first youth Pastor saw the gifts in Anyerin and took him along with him to minister to people in jail through song. He sang and played at youth and Sunday nights and also the main Sunday morning services.
But...God had bigger plans....



He continued at school chapel and once a year would worship lead at a combined schools ministry conference called Empowering.
But still God was not finished with him ...he had Bigger plans....
Finally when he left school he was given the opportunity to be part of the worship team leading worship at an annual Conference held in the....Newcastle.. ..City.. ..Town Hall.... ,called 'Unleashed'.
The following year he was asked to be the Music Director of Unleashed and has been doing so for the past 3 years.

Still God said BIGGER......
During this time he was also asked to lead a team in worship to go tothe Underground Church of Vietnam and teach the youth modern worship songs and worship techniques as well as music dynamics. Jamie Lea, Rhys and Seth accompanied him along with a team from ....Australia..... He has just returned in 2008 from his 3rd year and is overwhelmed at the work God has done in these beautiful people since the first year he met them.
God had not finished with Anyerin yet...He still had BIGGER PLANS.....
Now Anyerin started dating Jamie Lea in Yr11 . They dated for 4 years and December 2006 they were married.
MARRIED AT 19


During their courtship I would often share with Jamie Lea, the story about the prayer of Hannah, that I had prayed for Anyerin all those years before. Year by year I felt that God was preparing me more and more for the time that God would take him from me.
Especially in the past 3years at various times I felt the time was near. God was speaking to my heart at every Unleashed Conference and I would tell Jamie that it wouldn't be long and God would take him. I had the impression from God that God would take Anyerin to a Big church somewhere to lead the worship . I did not know where, but I used to tell Jamie quite often ,as I felt each time, it would be soon.
Once I thought it was with Phil Pringles church (CCC), once with Hillsong ....and once even to CapeTown, South Africa. Each time I was mistaken but I knew that it would be a Big church somewhere. I was just mistaken each time on where. I had a real feeling from God that the time was near for Anyerin to be taken.

As any Mother does , she often takes matters into her own hands , and I began searching the internet for job vacancies for worship leaders /music directors.
All the Australian jobs were part time and mainly voluntary. God had clearly told me that Anyerin would be able to use his gifts and talents that He had given him in a full time capacity.
I clicked on a side link on the page that talked about overseas jobs...and then I clicked another link and then another and there I came across a list of about 30 positions at various churches. The first was a stiff collared ,Anglican looking church and I passed..no Lord , thats not the one..I can't see Anyerin there.
I clicked to the next one..........Quest Community Church.. ..Kentucky..,..USA.....
Everyone was wearing jeans and seemed to be very down to earth ..Oh my Lord I thought , this looks like a bigger version of our church. I clicked on the job description and there it was ...it was almost as if the job was custom made for Anyerin. Everything he had ever done was in the must haves for this job.
I felt my heart sink.....this is it, Isn't it Lord!
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During this time was the lead up to Unleashed and Anyerin was leading a team of about 10 and having many rehearsals etc.. in between working and doing our own church worship. He was really tired when I told him about it. Thanks Mum he told me , but right now, at this time I am called to our church here in Medowie and to Unleashed. I told him that I would send the info to his email anyway to have a look.
He continued with his busy schedule ...church, work, unleashed etc...
Then Jamie talked to him about it and they prayed together.
One night Anyerin came over and asked me if he could use the computer .He said to me' Mum , I don't want you to make a big deal of this but....I am going to send my resume to ....Kentucky.... about that job'.
Gods plans were oh , so much bigger than I could have ever thought or imagined......
I turned to Jamie on the lounge and raised my eyebrows...I took a deep breathe and just for a second the world stopped. I let out my breathe and said 'Oh thats good ....(yike! I thought ..this is it...)
Several months .. after much patience, much endurance , another trip to....Vietnam...., many prayers ....and several web cam interviews .Anyerin was told he was on a short list of 7.
He had first put in the application in November and it seemed to be taking such a long time.....It was now June.
People would tell him to pull out as it was taking too long...after all what were the church waiting for ?
But you see..they didn't know , that Our God Had BIGGER PLANS.
Anyerin said to me ..Mum , I'm not waiting on the church ..I am waiting on God. Its all in his hands......
God was teaching him and us so much in all this. To be patient ..teaching us endurance, wisdom and to trust in him alone.
All the while Anyerin and Jamie felt that God was telling them yes, the job was theirs.
It was just a matter of time.
Around July 23rd , 8 months after his first application for this job,Anyerin was offered the position of Music/Arts Director of QuestCommunity Church, Kentucky, whilst he was in ....Vietnam.... he graciously accepted.
How Awesome is God.He knew the plans that he had for Anyerin and Jamie and they were Bigger then Big they were huge!

In the bible,it says in ..Jer 29:11 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you,plans to give you hope and a future.'

God is so a God of His word!

(Just a footnote to this blog...Anyerin and Jamie are now in Kentucky at Quest .

I asked them the other day..'Is it all that you expected it to be?'

They replied , ' God has blessed us so much more then we could ever hope or imagine. We really can't put into words what God is doing over here..except to say that everyone we talk to breathes fresh life into our spirits .'.

If that was not enough God has chosen this time to pour out even more blessings to Anyerin and Jamie

In March 2009 ...Jamie will give birth to their first child....Now how awesome is that!!!!!!

God is truly amazing and I know he has been preparing them for such a time as this.I know that God will use Anyerin to lead people into His throne room to worship God as He truly is . It will be wonderful to watch this journey unfold before our eyes.


WELL HERE WE ARE THE 23RD FEB 2009 . I HAVE JUST FINISHED WATCHING ALL 3 SUNDAY SERVICES AT QUEST WHERE THEY HAVE ANNOUNCED ANYERINS FULL TIME APPOINTMENT AS WORSHIP DIRECTOR. IT HAS BEEN AN AMAZING JOURNEY AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING OVER IN EARLY MAY TO VISIT THEM AND THEIR LITTLE BUBBY (WHOM THEY NOW CALL "LITTLE FOOT".)

I WILL ADD ANY UPDATES AS THEY ARISE.

OK ... WELL HERE IT IS 4TH JUNE 2009.
LAST WEEK I GOT BACK FROM VISITING ANYERIN AND JAMIE AND LITTLE FOOT WHOSE NAME IS NOW ZEV JACOB DRURY.
I CANNOT PUT INTO WORDS HOW IT FELT TO HOLD MY FIRST GRANDCHILD. HE IS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND LOKS SO MUCH LIKE HIS DADDY.
I WILL UPDATE IN A LITTLE WHILE , AS MUCH AS I CAN. MY JOURNEY TO QUEST ANDHOW, SINCE THE TIME I HAD THERE , GOD HAS LITERALLY TURNED THE TABLES ON MY LIFE.
I JUST WANTED TO POST A FEW PICS OF LITTLE ZEV AND ANYERIN AND JAMIE.
UNTIL NEXT TIME..GOD BLESS, JEWELLXXX



Another update...
In regards to my note on Anyerins journey to Quest.Thank you so much everyone who wrote a response to my post. You bless me so much. I take no credit for this story what so ever ..it has all been an amazing work of God. What is so beautiful to me is that it wasnt until I wrote the story down that I could see Gods complete handiwork in it. Isnt that just God though.. he leads us just a little step at a time.. I guess if we could see HIS plan from beginning to end our heads may blow off in amazement of Him. To all of you from Quest.. I feel that we have all been cut out of the same batch of cookie dough and I cant wait till the day that I get back there with you all to share the next season of this journey.. already we are in our 6th week of Quest Outreach here on Sunday nights at our local community Centre. It is there that I have been able to share the messages that you have all sat through.. we are in our last weeks of Loaded Questions. It has been amazing as I see people back here at home respond to Gods word through the ministry of Quest. Already 9 people here have already given their lives to Jesus through the ministry of Quest. (7 in one week alone!) Thank you all for everything you do.. from your servants heart . to your obedience with tithing, your prayers for your church there has enabled people all around the world to have fresh living water available to them through the internet and recordings. May the Lord provide for you everything you need to accomplish the work that he has called you all to do. I thank God for you from the bottom of my heart. God bless, Jewell x


OUR LAST FAMILY CHRISTMAS

TRADED IT ALL FOR LOVE

LEXINGTON ~ QUEST COMMUNITY CHURCH

PETE AND JACKIE HISE PASTORS

ANYERIN TODAY AT QUEST



IN THE MEAN TIME PLEASE GO TO www.questcommunity.com and watch previous services through media player or log on to the website 5 times a week to watch the services live. Ask me what the times are in Australian time if you are interested.
May God bless you , Jewell x
ANYERIN AND THE TEAM AT QUEST COMMUNITY CHURCH TODAY






Some of the songs I have come across since Anyerins been at Quest are available on albums through the links below....
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