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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Praise and Prayer Requests (November 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.
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?
1st Teaching Module on Evangelism and Discipleship
Friday, September 11th, 2009Please pray for Mike this week (Sept. 8th – Sept. 14th) as he co-teaches with another NTM missionary the module on Evangelism and Discipleship at a Bible Institute.
Acercate a las tribus
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
What goes through your mind when you know of over a hundred young people living in your area (and many more in other cities) that love God and want to serve Him in missions, only to discover that their churches are not sufficiently prepared to take on the challenge.
Over and over these young people on fire for God and His heart for the world are welcomed with a cold splash into reality when their vision is not shared by perhaps the Pastor, church leadership, or the church members. Many of these young people become so overwhelmed by the magnitude of bringing along a non-missions minded church into that of a mobilized church, that they literally give up because they can\’t see the “light at the end of the tunnel.”
