About Robert

Robert Goddard is a retired missionary after serving over 44 years in Paraguay, South America. Born in Nebraska in 1917, he participated in the transition from the horse and buggy days to the machine age and more recently the computer age. His father was a farmer and because of the great drought of 1934 his family was forced to move west to Montana. Robert was a jack-of-all-trades until entering missionary training in 1951 in California. Over a period of 44 years he and his family worked with six different indigenous tribes in remote regions of the country. When this book was written in 1997, Robert and his wife Helen were retired but actively involved working with a tribe in eastern Paraguay.