IBLP : Anthony Burrus ?

[Marianne]

So, I read on the IBLP boards of directors, this :

 

Anthony Burrus has an amazing life history. When he was a young boy in Oklahoma the laws did not allow him to attend a white school, and his parents were too poor to buy his clothes and shoes so that he could attend a segregated school. His father was falsely accused and put into prison. When his mother moved the family to California, they were forced to live in a neighborhood in which most of the children spoke other languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese. Anthony learned these languages and shocked his college language teachers with his abilities. He graduated with honors in the National Foreign Language Honor Society. He has studied 32 languages.

 

Anthony attended his first Basic Seminar in the late 1960s. He went with our team to Russia and taught in the public schools of Moscow. Then he went with us to New Zealand and thrilled the Maori attendees by speaking to them in their own language (which he learned while traveling there on the plane). He and his wife, Lula, were a part of our ministry team to Mexico and also Peru. The spiritual insight and practical wisdom that Anthony has brought to the Board is extremely valuable. It is significant that the state that barred Anthony from the white public schools as a boy later recognized his achievements by designating him as an honorary Lieutenant Governor of the State of Oklahoma.

 

 

Does someone know more about him ? I'm curious.

[TXGirlInAMaterialWorld]

No, but that is an amazing life story.

[Palimpsest]

Ah, yes. Anthony Burrus = IBLP's token minority board member.

He may well have had an amazing life story, and be a polylinguist, an autodidact and even a genius, but remember that he's been steeped in the Gothard Kool-Aid from the 60s. He was there from the very beginnings of ATI. His hands are dirty too.

He is well into his 80s these days. He seems to have been a pastor in Waco, Texas for a long time and he's written a book available as both an Ebook and in dead tree form. I haven't read it.

Born to Lose, But Bound to Win

An inspirational victory over poverty and bitterness!

Category: Religion & Spirituality » Christianity | Work: Other

Keywords: Struggle, Hardship, Slavery

This is the fascinating life story of Reverend Anthony Burrus.

This is the fascinating life story of Reverend Anthony Burrus who was born in the roaring twenties, to a sharecropper and his wife in the tiny dust bowl town of Castle, Oklahoma, Reverend Burrus was given the unique "gift of languages." A polylinguist, with a God-given ability to converse in more than 30 languages, Pastor Burrus has ministered to people around the world.

Once saddled with racial hatred and bitterness, his heart was transformed and filled with a deep deposit of God's love for ALL people. Today, in his eighties, Anthony Burrus is an "apostle of love" who knows no barriers. He loves the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the "red and yellow, black and white" with the tenderness of a father. You will enjoy this message of love.

I think his late mama is much more impressive. Here's her obituary. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/contra ... &fhid=2268

[Rhetorica]

FWIW, here's a link to an earlier FJ thread about Anthony Burrus: viewtopic.php?f=129&t=21556&p=722775&hilit=burrus#p722775

[doggie]

of course they don't say that Christianity was pretty much directly responsible for his situation.