Key Ministries
- Outreach to Paraguay’s interior communities
We are a group of mission workers with a passion to reach the towns and villages that have no access to a local church and/or have no believers in their community. - Equipping churches and leaders in interior communities
This team is currently focused on the shepherding of rural church leaders and the development of a Paraguayan Bible camp. - Paraguay First Nations partnerships
This team works alongside indigenous believers, growing, equipping, and encouraging them to reach out to their people. - Paraguay leadership and services
People using gifts of administration, accounting, people care and leadership to provide the essential services which will enable mission workers to flourish as they serve across Paraguay. - Alliances for unreached communities
Joining forces with other ministries in Paraguay, we cross barriers to those living and dying without the gospel in socially-defined communities. - Mobilising Paraguayan churches for mission
Working with Paraguayan churches to see equipped, godly leaders encouraging the expansion of the church into the next community, the next generation and into all the world.
Spiritual Landscape in Paraguay
Around 90 per cent of the population is Roman Catholic, and the priests are generally highly respected in their communities.
Superstition, spiritism, and the ancient Guaraní deities also influence the religion that most Paraguayans practice.
Protestant churches have seen significant growth in urban areas since the 1990s, particularly Pentecostal, Mennonite, Baptist, and independent congregations. However, rural regions, where 40 per cent of the population live, remain largely unreached. Guaraní is the heart language and preferred medium for ministry. The First Nations peoples remain a spiritual frontier, often mixing animistic beliefs with limited Christian understanding.
Please pray
- For outreaches through Bible studies and education in communities where Bible-teaching churches do not yet exist
- For trained youth leaders to continue using what they have learned and be successful in their local youth ministries and regional camps
- For Paraguayan believers to be equipped to lead their churches and organise local ministries
- For both new and old SIM Paraguay families to continue learning the local culture and language, in order to demonstrate God’s love effectively and collaborate successfully with local partners
- Pray for partnerships with many others to further mobilise Paraguayan churches to send Paraguayan workers nationally and internationally
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