Pamela J. Goodwin

Pamela Jean Goodwin was born March 26, 1951, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was raised in Lowell, Arkansas, attending school in Lowell and Rogers. She received a deep conversion experience at the age of 12 in Houston, Texas at a church convention. At 16, she received the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues in Paducah, Kentucky at a youth meeting.

Following the leading of the Holy Ghost, she moved by herself to Des Moines in October, 1969, to be a part of the Gospel Assembly Church. She loved the church and loved working in many different areas of the church. She learned to play a trumpet so she could play in the church band. She also sang in the girls’ choir, worked in the library, transported saints to church, waitressed in the dining room and helped with cleaning.

She married Glenn Goodwin in 1976. As a married couple, they put God first and were faithful in the church. They were blessed with three children, Joshua, Adina and Daniel and raised them in the church and they attended the church school. She worked many hours in the church nursery and served as a nursery supervisor for five years.

She took care of their three small children, aged 1, 3 and 5, and was supportive as her husband attended law school. At the passing of Bro. Vernon, Bro. Glenn became pastor and she became a pastor’s wife. She felt very insufficient but determined to love the people and be led of the Lord. When the church needed an organist, she attended Drake University to learn the organ. She worked in the church office. She loved preparing food for the bake sales, potlucks, work crew breakfasts, picnics, missionary meals and entertaining in her home.

She traveled with her husband extensively throughout the United States visiting assemblies, ministers’ meetings, and conventions. They also traveled overseas to UK, Europe, Africa, India and Singapore visiting many churches and helping God’s people wherever needed and asked. She loved talking with pastors’ wives overseas and providing them with books and materials they needed.

She loved her family dearly – husband, Glenn; children, Joshua & Haley, Derrick & Adina, Daniel & Kate; and grandchildren, Julia, Esther, Keira, Emma, Maria and Eden. She also loved the saints of God in the church and carried them on her heart. In wakeful nighttime hours, she would pray many prayers for the saints.

The church was truly her life and she tried to always put it first.

Services will be held at Gospel Assembly Church, 7135 Meredith Drive, Urbandale, IA 50322. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Monday, October 3, 2022. Funeral service will begin at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 4, 2022. There will be a private family burial at Highland Memorial Gardens. For those unable to attend in person, the funeral service will be livestreamed via facebook.com/gospelassemblychurch or at dmgac.org.

Memorial contributions may be given to the Gospel Assembly Christian Academy.

Condolences may be expressed at www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com.

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