office, take a bus, get a Social Security card, a driv- er’s license, fill out job and apartment applications, how and where to shop, how to get their children in school, etc. Howard said the Annie Armstrong offering and money from the California Southern Baptist Convention provide the Karen refugees with Bibles.
“Everybody needs Jesus. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, what language you speak, where you came from or where you live. Everybody needs Jesus and it’s our job to communicate that in a language they can understand.
“We would ask Southern Baptists to pray for us because we need to identify a Japanese church planter for San Diego and several Vietnamese church planters for 10 churches that need to be planted in California. We also need partners for several new churches being planted in the San Francisco Bay area.” OM
PAGE 33: Howard Burkhart and Hispanic Pastor Tony Vargas pray for the growing Hispanic popula- tion of San Francisco. ABOVE: Howard Burkhart with wife, Tina, and children Nathan, 20, and Victoria, 18. FAR LEFT: Burkhart spends much of his time encouraging international church planters, like Mongolian pastor Otgonbaatar Ochir, who are reaching the many refugees who come to Cali- fornia. LEFT: One of the people groups Howard is working with is the Karen people. Here he prays with Karen layman Kitchener Tun.
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