GENE . . . was born and
raised in Martinsburg, West Virginia where he met and married his
preacher's daughter, the former Alice Ring. They have three children:
Marc, Robin and Jon (who is with the Lord), and four grandchildren.
Brother Gene was saved at the age of nine, called to preach at the age of
sixteen and began preaching at age seventeen. By the time he was nineteen
and a sophomore in Bible College, he pastored his first full-time church
which he served for four years. While there he and his wife yielded their
lives to missions. They served in Mexico as missionaries until Gene
contracted chronic hepatitis which forced them to return to the United
States. During the next twelve years he pastored two great churches. The
heartbeat of these churches was soulwinning and worldwide Faith Promise
Missions.
In December 1980, he was one of the founding board members of Baptist Missions To
Forgotten Peoples, Inc. In May 1983, Dr. Burge resigned the pastorate and
became the full-time Executive Director of the board and on June 12, 1997
he was elected President of the organization.
Dr. Burge is engaged in preaching Faith Promise Mission Conferences around
the world. He is being greatly used for the Lord in leading the cause of
missions throughout the world. Because of his burden and compassionate
preaching, Christians are being challenged to do their part in reaching
the forgotten of the world with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. He and
his wife Alice love missionaries. Their heart beat is to encourage
missionaries as well as recruit new missionaries. Independent Baptist
missionaries around the world call the Burges ''their friends.''
ALICE . . . was born in
Martinsburg, West Virginia to Rev. & Mrs. David L. Ring. As a preacher's
kid, she grew up in the churches where her father pastored in Maryland and
West Virginia. Alice was saved at the age of six. While in West Virginia,
she met and married Gene. She is a graduate of Shepherd College in
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with a B. A. in Speech and Drama and Library
Science.
She worked in several high school libraries, taught Spanish and was the
High School Administrator in the Christian schools that were part of the
churches her husband pastored. She established the deaf ministry in the
church in Virginia as well as being active in the choirs, teaching,
counseling, etc.
Since their return to mission work in 1983, she has stayed by her
husband's side to do whatever was needed to help him. She is being used
greatly to speak to women groups as she and her husband travel in
missionary conferences around the world. She helps her husband conduct
Missionary Retreats in Europe and the United States for missionaries and
is ''mom'' to many missionary families worldwide.
"The Lord Is Good, All
The Time!''
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