We arrived back in Michigan at the early part of this month and what an amazing thing to be here, now you would think by the title of this post and that we travel so much that I was speaking about what time zone we might be in, but that is not what I am talking about.

Burton Prayer Letter – May 2012
 
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Dear Friends, Pastors and Faithful Supporters,
Psalms 35:18a – I will praise thee among much people.
We are now entering our 6th month of deputation, and in that time we have been in 40 churches and have presented our [...]

The Blessings from above…
We are now in our 6 month of deputation and God truly has been blessing, but as you know blessings do not come without tests and trials.
We were recently given a trailer from a church in Arizona and they installed a whole new suspension just so we would not have a problem [...]

I believed by faith, God had our family step out into deputation with only a skeleton schedule five months ago, and with zero supporting churches at the time.

This month we were looking for a game to play with friends and chose Gestures, a game where you use gestures so people can guess words, when Drew said, “Wouldn’t it be fun to play Gestures after you inhale helium?” we laughed as one of our friends told Drew, “You do not speak, you gesture”!

Well I am on my last day of Pastor’s Training School this is not a normal Pastors Conference but a school. We have class from 8:00am to 5:00pm everyday in a variety of subjects and all of them extremely helpful.

Over the month of January we have been all over the United States, but in a organized manner of course. One thing I say often is, “we want to be wise steward of God’s resources”.

 Alot of the posts I do, I generally try to use a catchy title that makes you want to read it. This time though, I decided to use a non-catchy title. HaHa…
 
It has been a while since any of us kids have posted, but if you read our prayer letters it kind of explains what [...]

Burton Family Prayer Letter – February 2012

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Dear Friends, Pastors and Faithful Supporters,
Phil 4:10a: But I rejoice in the Lord greatly…
Last month was one of the busiest yet. Again we were in the frigid cold of the North and in [...]

In October 2011 we started packing everything we had, well what we did not sell. Everything had to be put into four categories what we were going to sell, what was going to Papua New Guinea with us, what was going to charity and lastly what would go on the road with us in our 200 cubit foot van. (I think it might be that big).

Your typical deputation process may vary in time, it could be as little as 1 year and should not be more than 3 years depending on your field of service and what lessons you and your family may need to learn. We are tested in areas such as faith in God, dependence on God, and even trust in God.

I always used to be frightened of going up to missionary kids when I was younger. Missionary kids were my heroes, along with Pastor’s and evangelists. Going up to a missionary kids was like walking up to a movie star. I know poor comparison , but hopefully you get what I mean. They were important to me. they were somebody’s in my eyes. They still are. I still get a thrill going out to lunch with Pastor’s or getting to know different missionary families. My brother , sister and I still get so excited when a Pastor invites us to go out to lunch with him or to spend time with him and his family. I hope I never get over that. Because Pastor’s , Missionary’s , evangelist’s , These are who we should be having as our role model’s

This month as we were traveling and looking for places to eat on the go, we leave the deciding factor up to the kids. “What would you all like to eat?” when from the back of the car one of the kids said, “No Asian food and no Chinese food!”

 
Before I get to the topic let me start with an update of what has been happening since the last post. There hasn’t really been too much going on, except for Christmas of course. My family and I had a really great Christmas this year.It was a little different, but we all had a great [...]

His look was a look of being perplexed and I know he was thinking, how do you buy things? How do you but food? How do you live? Then all the sudden the words came from his lips, so then how do you get food? Do you hunt for it

We left Ohio and traveled to Marion, North Carolina, where the kids got to visit one of their favorite preachers, Pastor Tony Shirley. We enjoyed going out to lunch with Pastor and Mrs. Shirley and be able to sit under his preaching for that Sunday where God ministered to us.

We have gotten a couple people asking us where to send Christmas cards or how to get a hold of us since we are always on the move and since we will be in the Midland, Michigan area till January 1st. Here is the address…

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, I know I am a little late in posting this, but Pastor Curry and his family to us to Pensacola, Florida to spend Thanksgiving with his family.

Two Hats is a movie that is about the life of Brad and Deborah Wells. Brother Brad Wells is a veteran missionary in Mt. Hagen Papua New Guinea he is the founder of Bible FM – Christian Radio in Papua New Guinea.
I have seen the trailers to this movie and thought it might be a [...]

Have you seen the RSS button at the top right hand side near the search bar?
You may not know what RSS is so I thought I would put a quick post up.
RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary” I know still does not help, let me help you out because it is a great tool for [...]

We first met this small, but growing church in April of 2011, it was just by chance that Jason had told us we needed to go to (MTS) Missionary Training School through Good Shepherd Baptist Ministries

Prayer Letter – November 2011

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Dear Friends and Supporters,
Ezra 8:18a: And by the good hand of our God upon us.
As we have now started Full Time Deputation, we have been in two missions conferences and two scheduled meetings. I was able to preach and [...]

You know when you are young you make some mistakes and you hope they never survive to be found out?

We honestly didn’t even have time to think we had to act so quickly to remove the now broken trailer from the van. Once we did that and were able to pull everything off to the side of the road we looked back and saw God’s hand in protecting us.

I know what you are thinking… Where is the post for problem #1?
I will be posting that shortly, but it is a longer story than this one and I know your dying to hear how it is going.
Well here we go…
We left Arizona on Sunday afternoon at about 3:00pm to head to Uncle Chris’s house [...]