2 Corinthians 4:6  - "For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

 Mark 16:15 – "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation" (Only 3% of missionaries go into the unreached places, when Jesus didn't just die for the reached but for them all).

My name is Max Burke a missionary for Jesus, I am a 20 year old man with a twin sister and a family who doesn't know Jesus but who was caught ablaze by Jesus when I was 17, in the place I was born Rhinelander, Wisconsin. I just finished a 6 month Discipleship Training School, a school to make believers a pillar in the house of God at YWAM Kona (Youth With A Mission) and am now stepping out into further ministry. However, BEFORE ever believing in Jesus, a voice came to me and said Philippians, my friend told me it was a book in the Bible, so I went and read the Bible for the first time ever when I was 17, and a verse flew off the page that changed my life forever,

 Philippians 1:21

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

I instantly was thrusted into full devotedness to Jesus, a call for missions and ministry that was on my life forever and burnt so deep inside of me, it was a cry to see every knee know and bow to Jesus. The Holy Spirit lit me up and took me from my family, and everything that I knew was life or what was the pattern of it and threw me into His depths and gave me the eyes and heart of seeing Him exalted in every situation, surrendered at His feet. God told me "There's a torch in your hand", from that point on I am nothing but a man chasing after the glory of God but specifically burning for missions and ministry in the extreme places of the world and watching His kingdom come, with His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

JAR OF FIRE - When the Lord was giving me a direction, He took me in a vision and took me into the sky, I looked as He opened a massive jar of fire with a gold line in the center of it. As the Lord said He was opening it through me it came down to the earth and hit right in Southeast Asia, then the world began to burn up and catch on fire, becoming ablaze.

I am stepping into a season in Chiang Mai Thailand which will be for years to come. This all happened because God lead me to a man named SunAwh, a global leader for Christ and as I shared my vision with him of the Jar of Fire he told me something that shook me. SunAwh said, "I had that same dream 17 years ago." So I am stepping into a major calling and Thailand is a place that is not known for the Gospel. In fact only 1% of the Thailand population is Christian, that is 99% of people who are going to hell. I am going to be going into ministry with YWAM but also more... The Lord is calling this place into a foundation building place to be a hub into the most unreached, dangerous places of the world, for the sake of the Gospel. I will have a role, in helping pioneer, as the Lord has put on my heart to build organizations that go global for His sake and setting the world ablaze for Him. My part in ministry will be taking believers, training them to be set on fire for Christ, and creating them lighthouses in the nations to preach the gospel to all. God says through John in Rev 14:6 "Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people."

I will be taking teams of believers into those places that include every nation, tribe, language, and people; of the goal for all to hear and bow to Jesus.

So, I pray that people will take my hand in this time. The Lords will must be done, and the people I will be training and leading, may or may have not ever done something like taking the gospel into the unreached before. I am called into His fire and have only been for nearly 3 years, but the Lord has a ship and He is the captain. I am just a passenger, but fully devoted to Him.

With that said in order to set out and achieve the call He has on my life, I need people to partner with me in this time to support me in prayer and finances. However, to really see His kingdom come and His will be done. ALL support goes directly to up keeping my life as a missionary, but also to the ones around me, and the organization the Lord is building up. When I pray and see what God is doing I see a castle that is on a high hill, untouchable by anything but His glory as he stands in the entrance with His hands wide open and a smile on His face.

I am so thankful for all who have and will support me, and know the Lord has great plans for all who believe and pray earnestly into his direction, Jesus loves you.

Max

May the world know him by name. "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." - Philippians 1:21.