Peter Burgo
Worship Director
Pam and I have been married for seventeen years and have a 14-year-old son and 11-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy). I also work at the National Office of The Christian and Missionary Alliance as the editor of Alliance Life magazine and the lead of the C&MA writing and editorial team.
- What’s your favorite food? My favorite food is authentic Lebanese cuisine—like Mom and Pam make.
- What do you do in your free time? I love family adventures—the kind that don’t involve emergency rooms.
- What’s the funniest thing that ever happened to you? There are so many mischievous adventures I could recount from my childhood, most involving my cousin Steve, open flames and explosives. But one of the funniest recollections centered around my first journalistic assignment. Having built a solid reputation as a junior astronomer, I was asked to write an article for my school paper on comet Kohoutek, which promised to be the most vivid, observable comet of the 20th century. Despite the fact that it ending up being the “astronomical flop of the century,” I rose to the opportunity to write about my observation of this dim, yet well-hyped heavenly body. Needless to say, I was thrilled when the paper came out—that is, until I came across a rather disheartening typo in my account of the event:
Even though it was hard to find at first, I was thrilled to have seen an actual vomet with my own two eyes.
Yes, unfortunately, thecandvsit right next to each other on a standard qwerty keyboard. Despite the ridicule and humiliation I endured, I learned a valuable lesson that day: never trust an editor.