Robert Burbatt  into a non-Christian home. It wasn’t until his sophomore year in high school; his father was saved, delivered and transformed. It was seeing the power of God bring deliverance and restoration to family members; Robert received Jesus Christ having a personal encounter with him.

While in a college and career class in his church, he wrestled with what he should do with his life. He felt strongly the call to ministry so with the encouragement of his family and church he enrolled in Bible College.

While in his first year, Robert began reading the works of Charles G. Finney in preparation for a Church History class. While reading in his dorm one night, the autobiography of Finney, Robert felt the presence of the Lord come upon him mightily as he read of Finney’s experience with God. During this time, he would rush to his dorm after class to be in the presence of the Lord this continuing for weeks at a time. These times of refreshing in the Lord solidified his purpose and direction for the rest of his life. The following year he moved to Southern California where he completed his training.

Immediately after graduation, Robert and a team left for East Malaysia were he co-pastored a Filipino congregation for a year and a half. In addition, he traveled throughout Malaysia preaching and teaching itinerantly.

In 1999, Robert spent six months with a mission’s team in Nepal. He along with team members conducted training seminars for pastors and leaders throughout Nepal. Rather than having a few come to a centralized bible-training center, it was more effective to bring the bible-training seminar to pastors and church leaders to train them.

While in the Philippines in 2001, Robert was an instructor and missions director in a bible college. He also taught an hourly radio-teaching program that was effective as it unknowingly reached pastors and leaders in tribal areas of eastern Mindanao. Through the broadcast, doors opened in these tribal regions for the students to preach in churches, conduct training seminars, and hold evangelistic crusades in the town center, in which many signs and wonders occurred.

In the summer of 2002, Robert returned to the states and married Wendy Lewis. In 2004 both returned to the Philippines to teach in the Bible College as well as teach short term in a bible school established in the tribal area of Mindanao. In 2005, they traveled to Mongolia to teach in a Bible college on a short-term basis and continued ministering throughout Southeast Asia.

Wendy Burbatt grew up in the Pacific Northwest, a granddaughter of a Free Methodist minister. Although she always believed in God and heard about the death, burial and resurrection the reality of God was not there. She continued her teen years and early adult years still believing in God but not knowing him and lived life the way she wanted too.

Upon graduation from college, Wendy left for Southern California to complete her internship in dietetics. During this intense training season her emotional and physical health declined, she prayed to God to help her and made a vow, if He answered, “I will follow you wherever you go”. Wendy’s life took a drastic turn after that prayer. God immediately answered her and never again did she suffer from depression nor the illness that plagued her.

Soon after the desire and passion to know him more grew stronger and her career as a registered dietitian was meaningless to her. This desire led her to take part in short-term missions to Mexico and Slovakia. Being reminded of the vow she made she knew inside herself that she needed training to fulfill what God had for her. Praying diligently for the right preparation Wendy found herself back in Southern California attending a Bible college.

The summer between her junior and senior year she married Robert Burbatt. The following summer Wendy graduated and they prepared for ministry overseas. In March 2004, they ministered in the Philippines teaching in a Bible College; Wendy was the Praise and Worship director for the Bible College as well as a newly planted church. In 2005 they traveled to Mongolia to teach in a Bible College short term, and then traveled though Southeast Asia ministering itinerantly.