He even told his parents what they were doing in the other part of the hospital during his operation. "That's when we first realized the significance of the other things he'd been saying to us," Todd recalled.įinally, Colton told them he left his body and went to Heaven. When Todd and his wife, Sonja, brought Colton home from a grueling 17-day stay at the hospital, they noticed their young son began saying strange things like, "Daddy, I almost died," and when asked about the hospital, "that's where the angels sang to me." In the book, Todd, the pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Neb., tells the story of rushing then-3-year-old Colton to the hospital five days after his appendix ruptured and making it just in the nick of time. They'll be talking about the story detailed in the book, "Heaven Is for Real," which hit the New York Times best-seller list and has been there for more than 200 weeks.
"You have to set some boundaries."Īlthough he said they only take about one-50th of the requests to speak, they're making the rounds through Texas in November and will be speaking Thursday at Trinity Fellowship Church in Pampa. The kids are still in school, so we can't be gone a whole lot at one time," Todd Burpo said.
The Burpos have been traveling the country whenever possible to tell their remarkable story. It might sound like a strange question to ask a 13-year-old, but Burpo has been regarded as something of an expert on Heaven since the release of his father's 2010 book, "Heaven Is for Real." That's the million-dollar question Colton Burpo hears everywhere he goes.
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