Gary Burns
Gary Burns is the pastor of the Dakota Adventist Academy church, Bismarck, North Dakota.
Articles by Gary Burns
Work in Sparsely Settled Districts
February 1945
In the State of North Dakota alone, there are at least two hundred small towns with a population of five hundred or less. The majority of these towns are in areas in which there are no churches. This situation is probably repeated many times…
Testing Methods of Advertising
September 1949
There is a multimillion-dollar organization, employing thirty thousand persons, which spends an estimated one hundred thousand dollars a year in advertising campaigns, which have apparently never been tested.…
Engineers as Well as Repairmen
February 1956
A nationally known magazine not long ago claimed that a certain preacher probably "did more to mold American thinking than any other single influence except the Bible."—The Saturday Evening Post, Jan.…
Revival through the youth
October 1997
When I was a teen, I lived with an urgency that Jesus would come before I finished academy certainly before I had a chance to marry. So I remember wondering why the school administration was planting little trees around the new academy building.…
Beyond social media: Embracing the next digital frontier
January 2026
The emergence of social media was a game changer. It remains the dominant way of building community in the digital space. From the rise and fall of Myspace to the evolution and merger of Facebook and Instagram, the global adoption of WhatsApp,…