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Institute News
Volume 2,
Number 1
August 2009
One full year has past since our inaugural website
newsletter last August. It has been a full and blessed year for The
Overton Institute.
On November 1st we celebrated BurneyFest 2008. This
gathering in Atlanta of about 30 family and friends was a special occasion
to mark the 10th anniversary of Burney's last sermon. We shared our
stories of the impact of Burney's life and work in the past, present and
future, and recognized how The Overton Institute's mission to keep Burney's
work alive is important to so many of us. We plan to link
an edited video of the event to our website later this year, so keep
visiting!
This year we have also been able
to transfer eight of Burney's Sermons from audio tapes to digital format.
Plans are in the works to link these files to the website, which will launch our
"Burney Collection," an archive of Burney's work, which is the central program
of our mission.
While we have not officially
obtained 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status this year as we had planned, we have
discovered that we are tax-exempt "by default" since we do not yet possess
assets that require us to file a tax return! Blessed are the poor!
As we continue to grow - slowly but surely - we will engage every resource
available to use wisely the assets we possess in order to further our mission.
As we continue to develop the work
of The Overton Institute, I hope you will be in touch with your stories of how
Burney impacted your life. Future plans include
establishing a blog on the website for “Relational Communication™ Conversations” where we can share with each other lessons learned from Burney
and from engagement with his work. If anyone is a "web guru" please
consider offering your talents in this area. We are on a learning curve to
turn all these visions into realities.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions you have
about The Overton Institute or our mission.
We look forward to the future of The Overton Institute’s important work,
and to sharing with you the impact Burney has had, and continues to have, on all
our lives.
Katie Davis
Director
The Overton
Institute
3285 Paces Landing Drive
Lawrenceville, Georgia 30044
Phone: 404-226-5129
E-mail: info@the-overton-institute.org
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