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”.

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.

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!”

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…

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 arrived at my car for my 40 mile drive home (yes, I commute 40 miles) and turned on the radio to check traffic. Ahhh! Radio my communication to the world for the next 8 hours, 2 of which were spent driving that 40 miles home.

God has abundantly blessed us with people all around us who are extremely talented and gifted in the areas of helps. They have all been a great asset in the foundational phase and we thank God for putting them in our lives. God has used them to help build and edit our web site, make our video presentation, design our prayer cards and they have stood behind us in assisting us to get to this point.

We have been waiting on God’s timing to leave and have been preparing for the last 10 months. Our home should be closing escrow between October 1st and October 15th so now in anticipation for that and due to the fact we do not want to rent storage space we have begun to sell all that we have.

They are currently scheduling meetings for deputation to fulfill their desire to help us establish Baptist Churches in the Western Province. If you get any amount of time to visit with the Burtons, I know you will agree that God has raised them up for such a time and for such a ministry as this. I ask that you give the Burton family a sincere consideration in your missions program and then send them to us quickly. You can reach him at (619) 944-1086 or check out their website at www.uttermostbaptistmissionspng.com

We will teach them about the field and the weather, the struggles and even the blessings that each field has we will encourage them to pray for their missionaries and take up a change offering every week to give to the missionaries at the end of the summer.