Passion for Paraguay

Bella Vista means, beautiful view. Town entrance pin the pic. Community of 14,500 inhabitants. Today the capital of Yerba Mate, our national tea which many of you know how it works. If you have not seen this unique tea and a traditional cup It is in this community that a few families from Brazil and Germans began establishing in 1918 when the region was a dense rainforest. During those days, things were getting rough in Europe with WW1 looming.   We were invited by local pastors Omar and Mariel Borque to come and visit the congregation. The Borques immigrated from Argentina and are now leading this congregation which has great potential.  Honoring mothers with a gift, words and prayer. Our sermon was directed to women of God who had an influence in history and today. It's always a joy to visit a new place and share with people we have never met and with leaders (which is our calling). We want to encourage and support those who are in active ministry. O...

My mother turned 70 years old last week. Born Tabitha Mary Meier, she grew up as a missionary kid in Brazil. She speaks four languages and plays the accordion, flute, piano, guitar, and clarinet. She attended college at Anderson University in Indiana and later earned her master's degree at Purdue University. She returned to Brazil to continue the missionary   work that her parents started in 1935, and it was there, at a youth convention in 1968, that she met my dad, Martin Kurrle, a young man who had just returned from Germany and was initiating his ministry as a single pastor. They were meant for each other and were married a year later. Today, after 45 years, four countries (the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay), five kids, and several grandkids, they continue loving each other and serving as missionaries in southern Paraguay. Together they have been involved, directly and indirectly, in starting 12 congregations, a school, and a radio station, which until recently was ...