About

The following is a partial list of things Bud
accomplished for the Kingdom of God:

· Raised up over 140 churches across Central America.

As God would lead him to a new area, Bud would turn

the churches over to local established ministries to care for them.

· He wrote and published a Bible School and ran a correspondence

Bible School that had students from as far away as South America.

· Distributed over 1,250,000 pieces of Gospel literature over a 5 year

span in Southern Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. Keith Green’s

ministry (Last Days Ministries) and T. L. Osborn’s ministries were

very helpful in providing a large part of the literature.

· Had a radio program broadcast from Tegucigalpa, Honduras in AM, FM

and shortwave radio that reached from Columbia and Venezuela to

Southern parts of Texas.

· He and Rita were pastors of several churches in East and Central Texas.

· Bud and Rita were regular hosts of a live Christian TV program.

· In the 1990’s Bud received an honorary doctorate from an Association

of Christian Counsellors

· Preached in crusades and meetings from Chicago to Mobile to Oklahoma

City and throughout Texas and in every Central American country with the

exception of Panama.

· Regularly met with Honduran government officials for Bible teaching, prayer

and council in the late 70’s.

· Bud and Robert, his ministry partner in Mexico, gained great favour with the

Mexican Government in the early 80’s. The Mexican President sent an

executive order for Bud’s truck to be nationalized and be put into Robert’s

name. It was the first one ton truck legally imported into the State of

Campeche from America.

· Maintained and flew a ministry airplane for a few years as he expanded

into new areas.

· Founded the “Community Churches of Mexico” a national church organization

in Mexico. Over 90 churches were founded in Mexico through Bud’s ministry.

Some are still with the Community Churches group that to this day is run by

men that were saved under his ministry. Others were allowed to join other

organizations that were established locally.

Airplane used in the
ministry in the 1980’s

Rita, Bud, Jenny, Robert,
Joel, Alicia, Scott
Around 1990

Bud and Robert in San
Geronimo, Tabasco, Mexico
around 1989 with a lady who
was just healed

The Sower Ministries was founded
by Bud and Rita McDonald,
Here is part of their story.....

Bud (1942-2003) and Rita McDonald

Bud McDonald (1942-2003) Was called to ministry in Latin America
in 1973.
Bud and Rita were married in 1970 in Baytown, Texas just a few
years before being called to ministry.
Their ministry gradually spread from Belize to Costa Rica, then to
Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador then finally to Mexico.
Bud and Rita started over 140 churches throughout Central
America and Mexico. They started out as the Burton McDonald
Evangelistic Association, then started The Sower, Inc. In 1983.
Bud’s influence extended from Argentina to Cuba through Central
America into parts of Texas and the Southern U.S. through evangelistic
crusades, meetings, radio and television.
He went home to be with the Lord in 2003 at the age of 60.