Northern Meets Burpo Family

Feature

By Elena Nguyen

Husky Herald Reporter

  A trip to heaven and back? The Burpo family has experienced this all too well when their son Colton went to heaven and came back while during an emergency appendectomy.

  At just four years old, Colton Burpo had an experience that would last a lifetime, and changed his entire family’s life. And this experience made an impact on people’s lives everywhere.

  With a movie and book about their son’s experience, the Burpo family made an appearance at Port Huron Northern High School. There were two separate events at Northern, one where the family spoke to the students during their lunch hours, and the other a movie event in the PAC where you could watch the movie then ask the family questions after.

  “These events were a great way for the students to interact with the family,” says Mr. Farnsworth. And if you wanted something more, the family did a live performance at Landmark, which went more in depth with the story.

   Of course this opportunity was very inspiring to many people. “This really inspired me, how this kid could go to heaven and come back and tell the story all over again,” says Cole Galbraith (‘18).

  Meeting the family was also very exciting, “I felt amazing, it felt so nice meeting the family, it’s like they’re famous,” says Alexis Cribbs (‘17). “When I met the family, I realized that these were really nice people for who they are,” Galbraith (‘18) says.

  Being able to talk to the actual boy who went to heaven in person was a very great experience for some students. “I was excited to meet Colten because he is the actual person who witnessed heaven himself, I can’t believe he can even describe the angels,” Cole Galbraith (‘18) says.

  Not many schools would be able to have this opportunity to do something like this, so it’s amazing that Northern did. Many students appreciated this opportunity.