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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL LIVE
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Date: May 29 2013 12:26 PM
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL LIVE!ORANGE BEACH EVENTS TO HOST EVENTba seD ON #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but we were told not to give your family any encouragement. They didn’t think Colton was going to make it. And when they tell us people aren’t going to make it, they don’t.” – Hospital nurse In March 2003, Todd and Sonja Burpo were on the verge of their worst nightmare – losing a child. Their 4-year-old son Colton’s appendix had unknowingly burst days before, and he was now fighting a life-threatening infection. To save Colton, surgery was the only option. But what would happen during that surgery was more than healing through modern medicine. On August 23, 2013, members of the Burpo family will be holding an event at The Orange Beach Event Center in Orange Beach, Alabama at 7pm. This event will feature testimony from the Burpo Family, along with vibrant worship led by touring partners Read You and Me (readyouandme.com). Heaven Is for Real has sold more than eight million copies since its release in November 2010 and has been on the New York Times list for more than two years. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the Burpo family and Colton, who during his life-threatening illness and sudden surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He narrowly survives. Several months later while passing by the same hospital that saved him, Colton begins talking about his experiences during surgery and making a trip to heaven. The family didn’t know what to believe, but soon the evidence was clear. Colton was able to describe in perfect detail: * Talking to his sister, a child that was miscarried before his birth that he didn’t know about * Meeting his grandfather, who died 30 years earlier but whom Colton saw as a younger man * Seeing his father and mother pray for his survival at the hospital during his surgery Written in the first-person narrative of Colton’s father, Todd, and by New York Times best-selling author Lynn Vincent, Heaven Is for Real walks readers through the revelation of Colton’s trip, his parent’s initial uncertainties, and the lessons learned by such a small child. Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan and a volunteer fireman. His wife Sonja is a children's minister, busy pastor's wife, and mom. Colton, an active twelve-year-old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby. Lynn Vincent is the New York Times bestselling writer of Same Kind of Different as Me and Going Rogue: An American Life. The author or coauthor of nine books, Vincent worked for eleven years as senior writer, then features editor, at the national news biweekly WORLD Magazine where she covered politics, culture, and current events. A U.S. Navy veteran, Lynn is also a lecturer in writing at the World Journalism Institute and The King's College in New York City.
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