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Here is a story that appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about President and Sister Burns, who will direct the Brazil Londrina Mission from July 2004 to July 2007. We pray that the Lord will bless and help them during the upcoming years, and are grateful for their dedicated service.
Couple will direct mission in Brazil
M. Elizabeth Neal - For the Journal-Constitution
Saturday, June 5, 2004
More than 30 years after serving as a missionary in Brazil for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jerold Burns of Lilburn will go back there this month to begin a three-year assignment as president of the Brazil Londrina Mission.
Burns and his wife, Karen, will direct the work of 185 missionaries in an agricultural region of south-central Brazil, about 500 miles west of Sao Paolo.
The Burns' son Matt, a 2001 graduate of Shiloh High, will join his parents in missionary service in Brazil.
As mission president, Burns will oversee the proselytizing and community-service labors of missionaries who serve from 18 months to two years at their own expense. About 40 percent of those called by their church to the Brazil Londrina Mission are native Brazilians; the rest come from many parts of the world.
The 6-year-old mission in which they will serve is a landlocked region with many small villages and coffee plantations. Crossing the area from north to south requires a 14-hour drive.
The Burns family's preparation for the assignment has included five months of tutoring in Portuguese by language experts from the church's Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The family will also participate in a four-day seminar in Utah for new mission presidents before flying to Brazil June 25.
Lilburn has been home for the Burns family for nine years, while Burns directed the church educational system for the southeastern United States and the Caribbean. Jerold Burns holds a degree in zoology from Weber State University, a master's degree in educational psychology from Brigham Young University and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Minnesota. He has worked in church education for 32 years. |
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