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”!
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
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
I have for the longest time Endeavored to write a short book titled. Missionary life through the eyes of a Missionary Kid. When I started to write this book I asked a couple of missionary kids that lived in different countries if I could write them asking different questions of their life on the mission [...]
