Continued Drought Relief

January 28, 2016

While Jim was in town picking up our truck, he bought more fish and rice to help in the drought relief. The sweet potato plants are growing but no sweet potatoes. Often if not enough balance of sun and rain the leaves grow well but no sweet potatoes. Now it has basically been dry for […]

We have our truck back!

January 28, 2016

We got our truck back! We met up with a fellow missionary in our nearest town to pick up the vehicle. We had been using our coworkers’ truck while ours was in the shop. So our fellow missionary, Bill, drove ours up and we drove our coworkers’ down and […]

January Praise and Prayer

January 17, 2016

Praise: Safety on the road in spite of what could have been a serious accident. Phase 1 of our new solar system The growing interest in the Dom New Testament New requests from family groups for teaching The Literacy students that we have Pray: Safety on the road for us and our fellow missionaries For […]

Literacy Prayer Request

November 20, 2015

Up until now, mostly our church folk have taken literacy. We need a whole new group of students to test out a major change we made in how we write a certain sound in the Dom language. We tried to test it before we went on Home Assignment last year, but could get no new […]

Burdetts Have Arrived Back in PNG!

October 17, 2015

We are back in PNG! We left St Louis International on Saturday the 3rd, then four back to back flights and 36 hours later we arrived here on Monday the 5th. It has taken longer this time to recover from severe jet lag. Must be our age. Praise God that we had no hitches at […]

Dom NT’s, Reunion, Wedding, Plans

August 11, 2015

August 2015, #89 What a year 2015 has been so far. We praise the Lord for His goodness, faithfulness and mercy. Here are the highlights. March & April – We traveled to the Northwest to spend time and reconnect with many friends and family we hadn’t seen in nearly five years. We thank God for […]

October Travels

October 16, 2014

Thank you for praying for our time at Sanford, FL. We were there the month of September. We saw many friends, visited often with Judy’s parents who are at NTM Homes and Jim’s brother who is in the area. In between visiting we spent many hours reading through the Dom New Testament checking for mistakes. […]