“Anyone who ever prayed with Mark Buntain would never forget it; he was a weeping prophet whose heart must have been continually hurt with the pain of India.” In 1953, Mark heard the Lord tell him he would go to India. Fifteen months later we received a letter asking us to go to India for one year of evangelistic services. Mark and I both came from families of ministers. His father pastored a large church in Winnipeg, Canada before moving to Toronto to become the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Canada. My great grandfather was a Presbyterian minister in England and my grandfather a minister in our church in Vancouver, Canada. My mother and father lived for many years as missionaries in Japan before my father returned to Vancouver to pastor the church after my grandfather’s death.
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