Carolyn Pankalla Ministries is an international non-profit organization dedicated to:
This year Carolyn is focused on providing much needed aid to children in Zambia, Africa, delivering food and constructing a rescue crisis center. To raise the necessary funding for this project, she has launched her new eBoutique. “We call this Shopping with a Purpose,” she says. “All of the proceeds will support the ministry and the Zambia project.”
At the age of 19, Carolyn's father Jack was homeless. A kind gentleman ministered him. He turned his life around and met his wife Martha. Together they had seven children. Carolyn was the baby of the family. They started a music ministry, Goad Ministries, and traveled the world singing and encouraging others to embrace Christ.
When Carolyn was six years old, her family was on their way home from a performance when they were in a car accident. Their mom was thrown from the car and killed. Carolyn sustained brain injuries and was not expected to live. Her stood vigil by her bedside and prayed to God to heal her. "I'm living proof that He can perform miracles," says Carolyn.
Seven years later, her father was killed in an explosion at his home. Rather than retreat in sorrow, these tragedies strengthened the Goad family and they formed Goad International, and organization dedicated to helping others worldwide.
Recently, Carolyn also lost her brother, Rick Goad, to pancreatic cancer. While the family continues their music ministry, Carolyn has embarked on her own solo career with the debut of her new album "Broken into Beautiful".