Richard Edwin Burson

Richard Edwin Burson was formerly a Baptist pastor who, in the early 1940's, discovered Brethren principles, and converted a former Baptist chapel into what is now known as Hutchinson Gospel Chapel, in Reno Co., Kansas which has supported many ministries including, but not limited to, Immanuel Mission (Teec Nos Pos, Arizona), Emmaus Bible College, Kansas Bible Camp, and many other ministries.  Richard is also credited as the key founder of Kansas Bible Camp which started gathering in 1946, and meeting at their present location since 1956.  Richard was born in 1917, and died in 1976.

Cars

According to his son Dan, Richard didn't own a car prior to 1950, but in that year acquired a 1950 Studebaker which he put 200k miles on traveling to minister at conferences. In 1957, Grant Engle collected monies from various KS brethren to purchase him a 1957 Chevy 210, which it is remembered that when Richard visited Abilene to minister at Grace and Truth Gospel Chapel, Grant hid the car inside his barn, and then rallied many brethren out to Kansas Bible Camp a couple weeks later to present the surprise gift.

Five years later, Richard acquired a 1962 Ford Galaxy from a Christian car dealer somewhere in eastern KS that gave him a good deal, and allowed him to trade the car in every two years (1964, 1966 & 1968) for a new one, until after 1968 when the dealer's business failed. His last car from this dealer was a Rambler.

Publications

• Light and Liberty, ed. by Lloyd Walterick. Published monthly by Walterick Publishers, Kansas City, KS.
  • 1962-8: Running The Christian Race
  • 1963-4: A Breakfast Devotion
• The Word devotional 1943-1953+

Sources

• Dan Burson 2022