Mike and Trisha Goddard Mobilizing local churches in Paraguay 
Read below our ministry update for October 2009.
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Goddard Grapevine – October 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009Praise & Prayer Requests (October 2009)
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
We praise the Lord for answered prayers and how He continues to work through us in Paraguay.
Below you can read the up-to-date Personal and Ministry Prayer Requests for October.
Goddard Family Update
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Mike and Trisha praise the Lord for His faithfulness during their first 5 years of ministry together in Paraguay. Truly He is worthy to be served!
Mike has been very busy lately do to the Paraguayan church’s steady advance in the Great Commission. In the next 4 months, he has scheduled over 20 different church meetings, events, teaching seminars, and camps, where he enjoys challenging people to look beyond their borders to a world full of tribal people who have not yet heard even once the Good News of salvation in Christ Jesus.
Trisha loves taking care of her home and family, enjoys preparing a meal for any guest that stop by unannounced. She helps Mike by doing secretarial work and running errands downtown. Next year, she plans to home school Michael and Lea (starting in February 2010), so that they can travel more with Mike as well as be prepared for later in the year, when we will be in the USA for a few months to visit our support team and family during a Home Assignment.
Michael Dean loves people and recently asked: “When do I get to go visit my Ache tribal friends again? Because when I go back, they will know who I am and they will say, “Hola Michael!” For Michael, school isn’t easy, especially when he and Lea are trying to keep 4 languages straight. AMARILLO CAMPEÓN! The soccer tournament has begun at Michael and Lea’s school. They are on the yellow team, and Michael gets really excited when he makes a goal!
Lea is an A+ student, and she can’t get enough of languages. She is our grammar and pronunciation cop and helps Mom and Michael to conjugate their Spanish verbs correctly. She loves going to the park on the weekends, and then afterwards, she begs daddy to stop by the local ice cream parlor to buy a ½ kilo of 3 different flavors for $2.40. The dulce de leche (caramel) flavor is her favorite.
Kaleb is believed to be the cutest, little boy by all the Paraguayan ladies, and they try everything possible to get him to give kisses on both cheeks (a traditional greeting). Often he will accept a bribe of candy for the kisses. Kaleb enjoys riding his scooter and once he got it down, there was no stopping him from trying to go faster than his big brother and sister.
As our children grow older, we see each of them grasping truths from God’s Word and desiring to apply them to their lives. Michael loves to read the Bible during our story-time before bed. We are now on the life of King David.
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Spending winter break in bed
Friday, July 24th, 2009
"How sick are we?" I wonder to myself, almost afraid to entertain the thought that we might have come in contact with the H1N1 virus.
Our oldest son, Michael, started with a fever right after church on Sunday. Later that week, Kaleb and Lea became ill. Worse yet, Trisha began showing the symptoms of a really nasty flu. I didn’t get the flu as badly, but was miserable for quite some time.
Meanwhile, on the local news the H1N1 virus threats were escalating and were beginning to claim lives. Our children’s school extended their winter vacation from 2 weeks to 3. We canceled trips that we had planned, speaking engagements postponed, and hibernated in our home. It was a prime opportunity for me to make some updates to our Mission Board’s Spanish website.
We are still coughing, but are over the worst of the flu. Did we have H1N1? Perhaps we will never know, but thanks to so many people who stand behind us daily in prayer, we are back in business and the children will be starting up school once again on Monday.
