Bush Bunny Blog - Orphans Unlimited

“YOU LOAD 230 TONS AND WHAT DO YOU GET………….”

It’s been a hectic but prosperous week as our corn barn now contains 230 TONS of corn.
 
The amounts will start to slow down this week as we have to travel to the more remote areas to get the final 70 tons.
A gift came in last week that will allow us to buy an additional 80 tons from some small villagers whom we have never bought from.
Our remote churches have come together and are holding some of their corn surplus for us also. 
I spoke to the Rovuma church members today and they have managed to pull together 6 tons from others in their village.
 
The new corn barn will be finished by June 18th.  My brick layers poured cement (hand mixed) from 5:30a.m. to 4pm on Saturday to get the floor done.
All that is left is nailing the tin sheets onto the roof and walls and making the 2 doors.
 
MIRACLE AT IMPIRE CHURCH
Eric and Linda Stanley, our 72 year old powerhouse for Jesus, prayed for a sick woman whom the Doctors claimed had a dead baby in utero.
The hospital gave her no hope.
She never aborted the fetus and had a HEALTHY baby girl a few weeks after being prayed for.
Her name is ESPERANCA (HOPE) she is very healthy.  Eric and Linda visited the Impire church today and the whole congregation greeting them with the news of the baby.
They say she is a very beautiful child indeed.
OUR GOD is an AWESOME GOD for sure!
 
More next week!
Bush Bunny Brenda
 
 
 
 

THE BUSH BUNNY UP TO HER EARS IN CORN!
 
June 2nd, dawned as the first day of legal corn buying in Mozambique.
Like a race horse in the starting chute, our trucks left at 5:30a.m. to grab the first 400 bags of corn in a nearby village.
 
The state governor came out on June 1st to warn people to guard their food this year, as many will go hungry all over Mozambique due to a poor harvest.  Some counties had a fair harvest while other counties had little to none.
The locals are calling this the YEAR OF HUNGER.
The Lord has told us to BUILD a new barn and fill it up to help feed the children who will suffer this year.
 Our Meluco orphans are in grave danger as there are less than 20 tons of corn in that whole country for sale. (Our orphanage manager, Sylvia, is living in a tent this week in a remote village in order to buy as much corn as he can in the only area that has any corn in Meluco county).  Our 400 orphans and widows in that area require 44 TONS/year, so you can image how this shortage will affect the other 20,000 children in that area.  We will do all we can to give to ALL the children in that area but the needs will be overwhelming.
 
  The 42 support posts for the barn’s walls have been set in concrete.   Clark Stidham, retired firefighter from Colorado Springs, spent all Saturday morning cutting 100 4X4’s into 2X4’s with our electric circular saw (run by generator), cutting 2 weeks off the construction time.  BY HAND, it would have taken our carpenters 1 hour per 4X4 to do the same work.
 
From Wed. to Saturday this week, Clark, Louis (18 year old from San Marcos), and our 60 barn workers sprayed, bagged, and stored 55+ TONS of beans.  We managed to buy over 90% of the available beans in this county before other buyers showed up.
Each bag weighs about 120 lbs, making it no little job to move them one bag at a time to the bean warehouse.
This 60 man crew moved 15-20 TONS PER DAY by hand and completed the bean processing in 2.5 days.
 
Corn processing moved at a record rate on Saturday when they processed and stored 27+ tons in 5 hours!
 
Eric with his 6 ton truck crew and our tractor with its 5 ton trailer are busy hauling in the corn.  They transported 46 TONS of our 300 TONS to our barn in 4 days.
God is answering our prayers by speeding up the whole process, leaving little for the export buyers to send to other countries.
 
SNAKE SCARE for our new visitors.
Clark and Barbara Stidham went to Eric’s house to check e-mails at dusk one evening this week.  As they opened his door to leave, they found a 2 foot ADDER (rattlesnake without the rattle), STRETCHED ACROSS the doorway!  This has happened a few times before at Eric’s house as they are looking for warmth on his concrete steps that get the late evening sun.
  Severe weather changes over Africa this year are making the temperatures MUCH COLDER than usual.  It is 55 degrees F (15C) INSIDE MY HOUSE this morning as I write this.  Normally this type of weather only comes in July.  There is no way to warm our houses, so we have to dress warm.  Never has it been this cold in June during my 20 years here.
When the temps cooled off in May, I knew it would be a cold June/July.  I sent Pastor Fred with funds to buy heavy sweatshirts this year to make sure our kids kept warm.  We also gave out blankets to over 800 orphans in our program who didn’t have one.
 
Know we appreciate your prayers and love gifts very much as we continue to haul in the corn that will feed the hungry children in our area till the next harvest in April, 2011.
GOD’S BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU, and THANK YOU for making it possible for us to FILL THE BARNS of our Joseph Program.
 
Bush Bunny Brenda and all the Moz. staff
 
 
 
 

Dateline June 2, 2010

Hi Everyone!
It’s 4a.m., June 2nd, and our trucks will be moving out to buy corn in 2 hours.
I will not have time to write individuals during June, but will try to keep you updated with my blog that can be found on our website.
If you subscribe, then you will get it automatically like an e-mail coming from me.
 
Keep us in your prayers for strength, favor, and all to go well without accidents.
Know I love and appreciate all of you and couldn’t do this job without you.
 
FYI:  One top of processing the beans, and buying corn today, we have to build a new barn also.
We received over 50 tons of beans and they are still trickling in one sack at a time.
40 TONS was the minimum we had to have to feed the 1,200 in our program, so a new storage barn MUST BE BUILT to handle the overflow.
It is already paid for several donors.
God is providing food like I have never seen before.
OUR JOSEPH PROGRAM (filling the silos for the starvation time) is truly being blessed.
It is heart wrenching to see them hanging on our fence watching us move the food.
Many kids are going hungry already.
The new barn will allow us to keep receiving food, so we can help as many kids as we can through this difficult year of poor harvest.
God’s river of food is flowing and it is awesome to see!
Help us pray in the 300 tons needed to fill our barn.
?In Meluco, where our 2nd orphanage sits, we have been able to buy about 15 tons of corn when it was thought none was available.
God is TRULY amazing!
This gift of unexpected corn takes some of the pressure off our Balama program to provide everything for those 400 kids also.
Serving our AWESOME LORD in these end times is truly a pleasure.
THANKS for loving and blessing our kids with all you give.
 
Yesterday was National Kid’s Day in Moz.
The Meluco and Balama kid’s were given a party and received small gifts of candy, cookies, and a balloon!
They loved it.
Your love helps us put a smile on the faces of many.
 
 
Blessings, and love,
Corn Buying Bunny of Balama