From: “Bren­da Lange” get pre­scrip­tion drugs with­out pre­scrip­tion his white pants leg was full of lit­tle hand prints.
 
This week sees us doing 3 major food dis­tri­b­u­tions, fix­ing and main­tain­ing every­thing from the trac­tor to the corn mill that grinds our food.
Eric, with the help of 2 oth­er men on our staff, will pre­pare us for his 3–4 month departure.
 
THANK YOU to all of you who have giv­en to his surgery.
At this point we are about $3,000 short of the goal, but not all gifts are in yet from South Africa’s friends.
We have a busy week ahead, so I’ll talk to you again soon.
 
Love and Hugs,
Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 

CHILD HEADED HOUSEHOLD
This week we opened a new bush feed­ing cen­ter in Kwe Kwe, a vil­lage that is 45 min­utes away on a rough dirt road.  (Dis­tance is order pre­scrip­tion drugs online 18 miles or 30 Km).
In this 8 vil­lage area our project man­ag­er, along with Social Ser­vices, dis­cov­ered 300 orphans and wid­ows liv­ing with basi­cal­ly noth­ing to eat.
Most of these kids have an ancient grand­moth­er or an aunt car­ing for them.
But we came across a fam­i­ly of 7 kids who are liv­ing the phrase “car­ing for one anoth­er as Jesus would care for us”.
Hav­ing lost their ENTIRE fam­i­ly, these 7 kids didn’t wait around for some­one else to pro­vide for them.
They decid­ed to do what had to be done to keep the fam­i­ly alive.
Farm­ing a field and car­ing for one anoth­er, we found the 3 old­er kids (broth­er 19, and 2 sis­ters 14 & 15), car­ing for the 4 younger chil­dren (3 boys and a girl).
They are hap­py in their vil­lage as they have many friends their and refused to move to Bala­ma to live with us.
 Social Ser­vices decid­ed that if we could give them a help­ing hand with food and their basic needs, that they could stay in their village.
Our project man­ag­er and I will be vis­it­ing them again this week to help meet their basic needs for cloth­ing, bed­ding, and kitchen items.
We will also help them get enrolled into school when the new term starts in January.
 
CHILD HEADED HOUSEHOLDS have become the norm in many African coun­tries where entire fam­i­lies have been wiped out from disease.
With orphan num­bers grow­ing in Mozam­bique, many teenagers may soon find them­selves in this same situation.
At Orphans Unlim­it­ed, it is our desire to give fam­i­lies of chil­dren a chance at a future with­out tak­ing them out of their cul­ture or away from their friends.
Thanks to YOUR LOVE GIFTS, these kids can have prop­er food, and a help­ing hand when they need it.
They will soon under­stand that there is some­one much more pow­er­ful than any man, who loves and cares for them.
 
ERIC (our chil­dren call him Mpakhi­ra, the one who hauls) DRIVING BACK TO BALAMA
 
Eric left South Africa on Sept. 19th dri­ving one of our Land Cruis­ers and pulling a full loaded trail­er with a year’s sup­ply of things we can­not get in Mozambique.
He should be in Bala­ma next week­end, as it takes 6 days to dri­ve the approx­i­mate 1000 miles (1,666 Km) from Johan­nes­burg to our mis­sion station.
This truck and trail­er car­ries the for­ti­fied HYPO PAP, essen­tial for our mal­nour­ished babies, as well as med­ical sup­plies and vit­a­mins for the kids in our pro­gram, and much, much more.
The health of our orphans depends on these sup­plies each year.
Eric has worked hard to get all the shop­ping done before his Oct. 8th knee replace­ment, so that the kids won’t have to suf­fer while he is recu­per­at­ing for the next 4 months.
We PRAISE THE LORD for all of you who have giv­en so gen­er­ous­ly to help with his knee replacement!!!
We are very close to hav­ing the need­ed amount in the bank!
 
 “HELPS” TEAM ON THE WAY!!!
  Work­ing 14 hours a day, 5 to 6 days each week, has been rough on this Bush Bun­ny, but God has pro­vid­ed 3 Amer­i­cans with air­line tick­ets so they could help out in Oct. and November.
All 3 of these peo­ple are expe­ri­enced short term “helps” mis­sion­ar­ies, and I great­ly look for­ward to meet­ing them upon their arrival on Oct. 6th.
 
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND HELPING HANDS THAT KEEP THIS PROGRAM GOING FOR OVER 1,500 ORPHANS!
 
LOVE AND HUGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BULLDOZERS, BANDITS, AND A RIOT
 
Chal­lenges nev­er cease around here.
Since I last wrote, we had a ban­dit break into one of our orphan homes (Moth­er Assias’ house) for those of you who have been here and know her.
This hap­pened at 4:30 a.m. last Thurs­day morning.
A guy beat in the door to the house, awak­en­ing fos­ter moth­er Assia, Buy Xeni­cal Online With­out Pre­scrip­tion who imme­di­ate­ly con­front­ed him.
He whacked her in the face with his flash­light, break­ing her nose.  Her screams brought the neigh­bors, and the guy fled.
Both the1 year old orphan baby sleep­ing next to Assia, and 2 year old Angel­i­ca in the next bed­room were ter­ri­fied, but unharmed.
The 6 orphans sleep­ing in the 2nd house were also unharmed.  Calm­ing words, hugs, and a promise of a night guard helped to restore peace in the kid’s hearts.
 
Assia spent the day in emer­gency because of her bleed­ing nose and mild concussion.
We PTL that she recov­ered in a record 4 days as her face was quite swollen the first 2 days.
A woman from our church will stay with the kids for the next week, as well as a night guard out­side her house.
No one knows why this guy broke in since it wasn’t pay­day, and Thurs­day is the day they receive all their food supplies.
There was absolute­ly noth­ing of val­ue in the house to take.
 
The Road Build­ing Bull­doz­er and crew showed up last week, mak­ing a mess of our neighborhood.
Plow­ing up a 60 yard wide swath to with­in 100 yards of our teenage boy’s dorm left every­one a bit ner­vous, since they haven’t offi­cial­ly con­demned the hous­es yet.
 
The car­pen­ter I was train­ing for roof­ing had to be pushed into ser­vice (with me watch­ing close­ly over his shoul­der), so that Assias’ new 4 house com­plex can be fin­ished in the next 4 weeks.
We now have 2 com­plete roof­ing teams, and 5 brick lay­er teams work­ing togeth­er to get the need­ed hous­es ready for occupancy.
Even with all these work­ers, it will still take anoth­er 4 weeks min­i­mum to fin­ish this one complex.
 
RIOT IN MONTEPUEZ
 
With 400 orphans liv­ing in Melu­co coun­ty (9 hours north east of us), our 6 ton truck is busy doing week­ly food deliv­er­ies to fill their barn before the rainy sea­son starts in December.
Melu­co Coun­ty basi­cal­ly lost their har­vest this year due to drought, so our food stash is essen­tial to their sur­vival till har­vest time next March.
Manuel, a Chris­t­ian and our 6 ton truck dri­ver, was on his way back from a deliv­ery last Sat­ur­day, when I sud­den­ly felt the Holy Spir­it urge me to call him.
All I could hear was scream­ing and yelling when he answered, as he had been stopped by a mob of angry peo­ple just out­side of Mon­tepuez (the town that is 30 miles from us).
He still doesn’t know what caused the riot, but peo­ple were fight­ing and block­ing the road, and Montepuez’s busi­ness­es were closed tight!
I began to pray and noti­fied sev­er­al oth­ers to join with me.
We asked the Lord to PART THE SEA OF PEOPLE just as He did for Moses at the Red Sea.
Then the phone ser­vice went dead, and I had no con­tact with Manuel for the next hour.
We were putting togeth­er a res­cue par­ty of men, when I got a mes­sage from Manuel that they had got­ten through the crowd and were on their way home.
When the 3 man crew arrived, they were super excit­ed because they said the crowd just opened up and let them through!
No one was hurt and the truck was not damaged.
THAT IS OUR JESUS!
He nev­er fails us, and all we have to do is ASK and we SHALL RECEIVE!
 
DUST DEVIL HITS PASTORS HOME
To top it off, I was just noti­fied an hour ago that a very strong twister wind wiped out our youth pastor’s house in Rovu­ma vil­lage while every­one was in church!
It was sched­uled to be roofed this week, and now has to be rebuilt.
Seems there is a witch­doc­tor liv­ing near­by who doesn’t want the pas­tor there, so that guy is going to find out about the pow­er of prayer this week!
 
Thanks for your con­tin­ued prayer for us dur­ing our times of extra­or­di­nary challenges.
Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Brenda