It is winter season in Paraguay, but it has been hot and dry and there have been some grass fires in the area where missionary Wes Goddard lives and serves. Praise the Lord that He sent some rain which has extinguished the fires. The Pai people are wanting to get their gardens started, but it has been too dry for the most part, to do any planting. This past month, Wes and some Pai co-teachers were able to go to two communities in Brazil and do some more Bible teaching and training of potential Bible teachers. They are slowly teaching through the evangelistic foundational Bible teaching lessons, in order for the people to become familiar with the lesson materials. They teach from the book of Acts during those sessions, looking at how the apostles and Jewish believers carried out the command of the Great Commission. The pastors from these communities’ churches in Brazil seem to have a good understanding of the Bible and were taught by an evangelical mission organisation in Brazil.
In Paraguay, Wes continues to travel about once a month to visit the Pai church at the location where he and his parents ministered for many years. With the invitation of the local church pastors, Wes and the Pai co-teachers are planning to hold Bible teaching sessions once a month at the church, starting the 31st of August. They plan to teach a study through the book of Genesis, with application for mature believers. Please pray for the church and for the upcoming teaching sessions.
Wes continues to teach a Pai couple at a nearby community twice a week. They have just finished up a study of the life of David and will be starting a study on the life of Elijah.
At the community where Wes’s co-teacher lives, they had been teaching on the book of Daniel, and more recently started on the life of David. Please pray for this teacher and his wife, who are heavily involved in evangelism in their community, teaching several classes each week. Recently, Wes was able to help this teacher with Bible lessons the man had written. Please pray that this couple could get an extra room added to their house, to be used as a print shop, to produce Bible lesson books. They have a printer/photocopier, but more space is needed at the house to be set up for book production. Thank you for your prayers!