Lonnie J. and Damarys Burton
Lonnie James Burton, the son of Lonnie R. and Gail Burton, arrived in Venezuela as a two and a half-year-old child and was raised in Venezuela. He was youth pastor and musician in Barcelona and in other churches in eastern Venezuela where his parents ministered. He returned to the States when he was 18 to attend Indiana Bible College, graduating in 1997. He then returned to Venezuela in the following fall as an AIMer, working in the Bible school in Valera, opening new works, and pastoring four churches. He married Damarys Martinez, whose father was a pastor and sectional presbyter. Together they worked at the Bible school in administration and as teachers. They received their missionary appointment to Venezuela in