About Burke Care
Jim and Donna Burke
Gleaning the Harvest
Burke Care uses a ministry soul care model bringing the "one anothers" of Scripture to smaller, rural church contexts that historically have not had access to Biblical Counseling. We provide relational, compassionate discipleship care by being Biblical-informed, heart-centric and kingdom-accessible.
We are not a professional counseling center and are not attempting to duplicate that model.
At Burke Care, we are “gleaners” in our approach to Discipleship Care.
Like Ruth, the great-grandmother of King David, we come to the harvest and glean where God has called us in a posture of identifing with and caring for the widow, sojourner, and the less fortunate. We engage the edges, corners, margins and fringes to “glean” what God has provided.
As we glean we bend, extend a hand, and walk alongside other image-bearers in the heart level sustaining work God has provided to bring in His harvest.
Biblically-informed, heart-centric, and kingdom-accessible
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” Mark 4:26-29 ESV
And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech. Ruth 2:2-3 ESV
When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.” Ruth 2:15-16 ESV
And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.” Leviticus 23:22 ESV
“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. Dueteronomy 19:21 ESV