I am Pastor Gary Burney. I am an Ordained Minister through CLI.

My mom led me to Jesus Christ when I was six years old. By the time I was eight years old, Jesus had called me into His ministry. Jesus would require me to wait fifty-five years before He made His calling upon my life a reality. It wasn't until I was retired and relocated up to upper-Michigan and began studying at CLI that God placed the calling once again upon my heart to begin a ministry.

I have always been interested in the nursing home ministry due to having served in a nursing home ministry as a child in a Baptist Church.

As an Ordained Minister, it is interesting, I insist that I am a volunteer minister like the Apostle Paul. I placed an ad in our local newspaper advertising for a position as a non-paid minister, in any small church. I ran this ad for a month in the church section and never received a single call.

After that failure, I called nursing homes and the Lord God opened doors and placed my ministry, Choose Jesus Ministries, in three nursing homes each week. We do full worship services and serve the Lord's Supper weekly. I am a non-denominational minister. I make the services comfortable for everyone.
Recently the Lord has opened the door for Choose Jesus Ministries to take the gospel into another nursing home. This gives us four facilities weekly to spread God's word and lead people to Christ.

We also go into people's homes and perform worship services for people who are shut-in's, and who are ill.

One man is an ALS patient. His family attends the service.

People like it when I go into their rooms and homes and sing to them and play my red electric guitar. That seems to bring them joy. Singing and playing the guitar is a talent the Lord has blessed my with.

One patient, his name is Greg, he is on life supports, his wife's name is Jan, He gives me a thumbs up as I sing a few songs for him.

My mom and I perform a worship service at this nursing home weekly where Greg and Jan are in upper-Michigan.

God has called me to this ministry. He has given me special gifts for this work. He gives me opportunities frequently to lead people to the Lord, as my first calling is to be an Evangelist. All the work I do for the Lord, I do as a volunteer minister.