Church Planting: 
            The Barraclough family is presently engaged in church planting.  We believe that the local church is the focal point of all that we do as foreign missionaries.  We have spent the last three years active in the church-planting work among the Naso Indians.  Through the efforts of several Global Missionary Taskforce missionaries, the work is maturing under national leadership. 
            During December 2007 through January 2008 we surveyed an area of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.  We are presently itinerating to return to Perú and work among the tribal groups scattered throughout the southwestern jungle region of Madre de Dios.  Please visit our News page for more information about current events, and to view our most recent or former newsletters, or visit our Blog.

Pastoral Conferences:
          In addition to church-planting efforts, one of our major focuses in CY2007 was the conducting of pastoral conferences in foreign nations for the training of national ministers.  Working with Missionary Chuck Akers and Rev. Gene Canter of Ozark Bible Institute, we conducted pastoral conferences in Panama in 2007 and plan to extend this ministry into other foreign countries.  It is our aim to teach ministers about biblical holiness as a way of life, morality in Christian character, and to promote God-pleasing worship. 

Children’s Crusades:
            The Barraclough family in conjunction with other GMT missionaries and short-term M-28 Taskforce(tm) participants are active in children’s crusades in Latin America.  Five such crusades were conducted in 2006 in Naso Indian villages along the Teribe River, complete with puppets, dramas, Scripture memory, altar services, and fun & games.  Additionally, children's crusades were conducted in Monterrey, Mexico in August 2007.

 
Short-Term Mission Trips:
            In 2006, Global Missionary Taskforce, Inc. formed M-28 Taskforce(tm), a ministry designed to promote missions involvement of our youth and others in the United States through short-term foreign mission trips.  The first short-term trip, Passport to Panama 2006, was executed in the Summer of 2006, taking a group of 14 to the jungles of Panama for pioneer evangelism and the conducting of revival services and children’s services.  Bookmark our website for the announcement of future trips, and your chance to become personally engaged in impacting this world for Jesus Christ through foreign missions service.  See our Go page for all of our missionary opportunities.

Missions Mentoring:
            Beginning in 2004, veteran missionary Chuck Akers, President of GMT, & Joe began developing a mentoring program, with the primary goal of training national leaders through hand-on experience and ministry exposure in a program they called “Plan Timoteo” (The Timothy Plan).  Since that time this program has mushroomed to become the major thrust of GMT’s recruitment and field placement strategy, whereby veteran missionaries train first term missionaries through a mentoring relationship.
            Under this plan, Joe has assumed the responsibilities of providing accounting, administrative and banking assistance to GMT missionaries, in addition to training them in budgeting, and field-related topics, and plans to be active in hands-on field training in 2007 and beyond.

For more information on joining GMT as a Plan Timoteo Missionary or other ways to become involved in foreign missions work with Global Missionary Taskforce, check out our Go page.  

   [Page last updated on July 27, 2008.]