Mike and Trisha Goddard Mobilizing local churches in Paraguay 
We praise the Lord for each of you who are a part of our ministry here in Paraguay, South America.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Who can meet a ministry need?
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Mike and Trisha together have committed to participate in an international youth missions event where there will be the opportunity to challenge 2,000 Latin American young people to be a part of reaching tribal people with the Gospel. This event will be held in Argentina during the 3rd week of January 2010.
Mike and Trisha had planned on taking their 3 children with them, but they found out this past week that this event is closed to children.
Who can meet this ministry need and watch their 3 children for 8 days?
Mobilizing the national Paraguayan church continues
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
The ministry of mobilizing the national Paraguayan church continues to take more and more shape and steadily gets more exciting and interesting. Recently, we combined two trips into one by first visiting an Ache village and later attended a missions conference. Mike has been highly interested in the idea of mobilizing tribal churches simultaneously with the national church so that missions in Paraguay can take on a three-way partnership between the expatriates, nationals and tribal people. Imagine the Body of Christ putting aside cultural norms for the sake of the Gospel!
During the missions conference that was held not far from the Argentine border in southern Paraguay, Mike was given the opportunity to lead discussion at one of the tables during the forum as well as a 15-minute opportunity to challenge people to become involved in tribal church planting. Often Mike walks away from these meetings wondering why so few people are willing to join God’s Plan to see the nations hear Truth in their own mother tongue. One of the keys to unlocking this door in Paraguay is a clear-cut plan laid out to mobilize the Church.
Trisha and the children also traveled with Mike during this 4 day trip and met new friends as well as touched based with friends that they had met at other events. Michael Dean is the true social bug and was immediately out playing with the Ache children and later made friends with the Paraguayan teenagers.
The missions conference was a tremendous help to Mike and Trisha. It provided a context where they could interact with other mobilizers and compare strategies in the mobilizing, training and sending of Paraguayan missionaries.
