From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Date: May 26, 2011 9:48:41 PM CDT
Sub­ject: BBB Blog, May 27, 2011

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY GREETINGS!
 
Yes­ter­day was a record day for bean pro­cess­ing as Dave, Don, and I along with our 50 man crew moved 30.7 TONS in 5 HOURS!
Lin­da Stan­ley along with our 4 women interns gave out FOOD AND CLOTHING to over 300 kids yesterday.
Need­less to say, it was an awe­some “God Blessed” day for all of us.
But my day had a few kinks, as we had a work­er col­lapse in the first hour of work with malar­ia.  Rushed him to the hos­pi­tal where we was giv­en treat­ment, and recov­ered nice­ly after sev­er­al hours of rest.  I picked him up at 4pm and took him home.
I also treat­ed 3 chil­dren for malar­ia yes­ter­day after­noon, and took our vis­i­tors to meet the woman who heads up our coun­ty, Admin­is­tra­tor Elsa.  This woman RULES and what she says “goes” with no ques­tions asked.  She greet­ed them all with a wel­com­ing smile, and even used her lim­it­ed Eng­lish to ask them all their names.
 
The team end­ed the day WITH A PARTY for TWO!!!! J
It wasn’t only MY BIRTHDAY, as one of our team mem­bers, REBECCA HARRIS from Rock Island, Texas, turned 19 yesterday.
So we had a dou­ble par­ty with Linda’s home­made enchi­ladas, and a won­der­ful cake.  Lin­da even man­aged to make ICING, (yum­my) which is very hard to do out here with lim­it­ed ingre­di­ents.  Sad to say there was no ice cream, as that would have tak­en an act of God (some­thing along the lines of part­ing the Red Sea).
 
“FACE BOOK” AND “LINKED IN” NOT POSSIBLE ON MOZ. INTERNET
  Thank you to the many who sent me BD greet­ings on Face­book, which I received as a “post­ed on your wall” e‑mail.
Please real­ize I can­not respond to those as we are unable to open Face­book or oth­er big sites on our lim­it­ed cell tow­er dial up con­nec­tions.  We are stuck with sim­ple text only at this time.
 
If you desire a per­son­al note, you’ll have to write me an e‑mail.  I’m on a dif­fer­ent lap­top due to my oth­er one crash­ing.  It refused to give me by address book, so for many of you, I have no addresses.
 
Well, it’s 4:40 a.m. as I write this and our work day is about to begin.
Just 30 tons more and we will have all the beans prop­er­ly sacked and in the bean barn. (they present­ly sit in the corn barn)
We got our corn buy­ing per­mit yes­ter­day, so are set for the June 1st “RACE FOR THE CORN”!
We’ve dis­trib­uted 6,200 feed sacks and our trucks will roll pre-dawn on the 1st to start bring­ing it in from vil­lages all over Bala­ma county.
Keep us in your prayers.
Bless­ings, BBB and the Bala­ma “gang” J
 
 
 

From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Date: May 22, 2011 7:43:42 AM CDT

Sub­ject: Blog, May 22, 2011

90 DAY HELPERS NOW IN BALAMA
  The 6 per­son team of 90 day won­ders have arrived safe­ly includ­ing all their luggage.
  Orientation/training has begun and tomor­row we will start show­ing them the programs.
They received an awe­some wel­come by the kids at our church this morn­ing. It only took the lit­tle ones a few min­utes to fig­ure out that these 4 young ladies had warm hugs and emp­ty laps that need­ed filling.
 
ERIC DRY returned to us on May 20th’s plane.
With his new train­ing pro­gram, he will soon be walk­ing con­fi­dent­ly once again.
 
BEANS, BEANS, BEANS!
On Tues­day, Dave and Don will begin their bean pro­cess­ing train­ing along with our 40 man crew.  Our goal is to process and prop­er­ly sack the 104 TONS of beans now sit­ting in our barn.  It will be a busy week as we must com­plete the bean pro­cess­ing and get them into the prop­er barns before the corn buy­ing begins on June 1st.  It’s a race against time.
 
ELEPHANT VILLAGE KIDS VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LOVE GIFTS
The emer­gency food drop and cloth­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion was done last Tues­day, but did have its chal­lenges.  The road to this vil­lage is full of sand pits which trapped the small­er truck deliv­er­ing the food.  The wid­ows car­ing for the orphans had to walk about ½ a mile to pick up the food and then car­ry it back to their vil­lage.  They were so grate­ful for the food, that they said this was a minor prob­lem com­pared to watch­ing these kids go hungry.
More clothes are being made with the gifts received so far, as each child only got one set of sum­mer clothes at this point.
Our team has nev­er had to deal with such a large num­bers of kids in such bad shape, and they were all vis­i­bly shak­en by the children’s bad health con­di­tions. The health depart­ment de-wormed the chil­dren so that our food would nour­ish kids and not intesti­nal worms.
 
Most of the chil­dren are in the homes of 15 wid­ows.   Thir­ty cook­ing pots were donat­ed so that each wid­ow received a set to bet­ter pre­pare meals for the chil­dren.  Two of the chil­dren are crip­pled and unable to walk.
A water well is bad­ly need­ed as area water is at a crit­i­cal­ly low lev­el due to the ele­phants suck­ing up the sur­face water.  My staff has con­tact­ed the water well drilling com­pa­ny who help us last year, and plans are being made to make this the first well drilled (hope­ful­ly in June if we can get the equip­ment up here).
 
At this time, pho­tographs are not allowed of these chil­dren, nor are vis­i­tors allowed.  Once the sit­u­a­tion is sta­bi­lized, I plan to vis­it the vil­lage per­son­al­ly.   Food buy­ing will keep us all busy in June, so a July vis­it is planned.
Our orphan­age man­ag­er will be vis­it­ing them again this week to deliv­er win­ter shirts to help keep them warm.
Our weath­er is quite cool in the morn­ings and June/July are our cold­est months with morn­ing temps in the low 60s at the moment.
60 Grass mats and blan­kets were dis­trib­uted to be shared by the 111 chil­dren, as most sleep hud­dled together.
Shar­ing a mat and blan­ket is not a prob­lem for them.  More blan­kets just arrived, thanks to your love gifts, and these will be dis­trib­uted at the next sup­ply drop.
 
THANK YOU to all who gave to make these emer­gency mea­sures pos­si­ble.  These kids are now part of our Orphans Unlim­it­ed fam­i­ly.  Our min­istry staff made it very clear to them that God and His son Jesus tru­ly love them and heard their cry for help.
Now we need to pray in a pas­tor who is will­ing to live in this vil­lage and min­is­ter to them on a con­tin­u­al basis.  The loca­tion of this vil­lage is over 40 miles from our Melu­co mis­sion sta­tion and no church exists there.
It is too far for our BBC team to vis­it them.
 
Bless­ings, BBB and Bala­ma staff
 
 
 
 

From: “Bren­da Lange” Date: May 22, 2011 7:43:42 AM CDT To: Sub­ject: Blog, May 22, 2011
90
 DAY
 HELPERS
 NOW
 IN
 BALAMA
 
 The
 6
 person
 team
 of
 90
 day
 wonders
 have
 arrived
 safely
 including
 all
 their
  luggage.
 
 OrientaJon/training
 has
 begun
 and
 tomorrow
 we
 will
 start
 showing
 them
 the
  pro­grams. They
 received
 an
 awesome
 welcome
 by
 the
 kids
 at
 our
 church
 this
 morning.
 It
  only
 took
 the
 liNle
 ones
 a
 few
 minutes
 to
 figure
 out
 that
 these
 4
 young
 ladies
  had
 warm
 hugs
 and
 empty
 laps
 that
 needed
 filling.
 
ERIC
 DRY
 returned
 to
 us
 on
 May
 20ST’s
 plane. With
 his
 new
 training
 program,
 he
 will
 soon
 be
 walking
 confidently
 once
 again.
  BEANS,
 BEANS,
 BEANS! On
 Tuesday,
 Dave
 and
 Don
 will
 begin
 their
 bean
 processing
 training
 along
 with
  our
 40
 man
 crew.
 
 Our
 goal
 is
 to
 process
 and
 properly
 sack
 the
 104
 TONS
 of
  beans
 now
 siYng
 in
 our
 barn.
 
 It
 will
 be
 a
 busy
 week
 as
 we
 must
 complete
 the
  bean
 processing
 and
 get
 them
 into
 the
 proper
 barns
 before
 the
 corn
 buying
 
begins
 on
 June
 1[S.
 
 It’s
 a
 race
 against
 Jme.
  ELEPHANT
 VILLAGE
 KIDS
 VERY
 GRATEFUL
 FOR
 YOUR
 LOVE
 GIFTS The
 emergency
 food
 drop
 and
 clothing
 distribuJon
 was
 done
 last
 Tuesday,
 but
  did
 have
 its
 challenges.
 
 The
 road
 to
 this
 village
 is
 full
 of
 sand
 pits
 which
 trapped
  the
 smaller
 truck
 delivering
 the
 food.
 
 The
 widows
 caring
 for
 the
 orphans
 had
 to
  walk
 about
 1?2
 a
 mile
 to
 pick
 up
 the
 food
 and
 then
 carry
 it
 back
 to
 their
 village.
 
  They
 were
 so
 grateful
 for
 the
 food,
 that
 they
 said
 this
 was
 a
 minor
 problem
  compared
 to
 watching
 these
 kids
 go
 hun­gry. More
 clothes
 are
 being
 made
 with
 the
 gibs
 received
 so
 far,
 as
 each
 child
 only
  got
 one
 set
 of
 summer
 clothes
 at
 this
 point. Our
 team
 has
 never
 had
 to
 deal
 with
 such
 a
 large
 numbers
 of
 kids
 in
 such
 bad
  shape,
 and
 they
 were
 all
 visibly
 shaken
 by
 the
 children’s
 bad
 health
 condiJons.
  The
 health
 department
 de-­?wormed
 the
 children
 so
 that
 our
 food
 would
 nourish
  kids
 and
 not
 intesJnal
 worms.

  Most
 of
 the
 children
 are
 in
 the
 homes
 of
 15
 widows.
 
 
 Thirty
 cooking
 pots
 were
  donated
 so
 that
 each
 widow
 received
 a
 set
 to
 beNer
 prepare
 meals
 for
 the
  children.
 
 Two
 of
 the
 children
 are
 crippled
 and
 unable
 to
 walk. A
 water
 well
 is
 badly
 needed
 as
 area
 water
 is
 at
 a
 criJcally
 low
 level
 due
 to
 the
 
elephants
 sucking
 up
 the
 surface
 water.
 
 My
 staff
 has
 contacted
 the
 water
 well
  drilling
 company
 who
 help
 us
 last
 year,
 and
 plans
 are
 being
 made
 to
 make
 this
  the
 first
 well
 drilled
 (hope­ful­ly
 in
 June
 if
 we
 can
 get
 the
 equipment
 up
 here).
 
At
 this
 Jme,
 photographs
 are
 not
 allowed
 of
 these
 children,
 nor
 are
 visitors
  allowed.
 
 Once
 the
 situaJon
 is
 stabilized,
 I
 plan
 to
 visit
 the
 village
 personally.
 
 
  Food
 buying
 will
 keep
 us
 all
 busy
 in
 June,
 so
 a
 July
 visit
 is
 planned. Our
 orphanage
 manager
 will
 be
 visiJng
 them
 again
 this
 week
 to
 deliver
 winter
  shirts
 to
 help
 keep
 them
 warm. Our
 weather
 is
 quite
 cool
 in
 the
 mornings
 and
 June/July
 are
 our
 coldest
 months
  with
 morning
 temps
 in
 the
 low
 60s
 at
 the
 moment. 60
 Grass
 mats
 and
 blankets
 were
 distributed
 to
 be
 shared
 by
 the
 111
 children,
  as
 most
 sleep
 huddled
 togeth­er. Sharing
 a
 mat
 and
 blanket
 is
 not
 a
 problem
 for
 them.
 
 More
 blankets
 just
  arrived,
 thanks
 to
 your
 love
 gibs,
 and
 these
 will
 be
 distributed
 at
 the
 next
 supply
  drop.

  THANK
 YOU
 to
 all
 who
 gave
 to
 make
 these
 emergency
 measures
 possible.
 
  These
 kids
 are
 now
 part
 of
 our
 Orphans
 Unlimited
 family.
 
 Our
 ministry
 staff
  made
 it
 very
 clear
 to
 them
 that
 God
 and
 His
 son
 Jesus
 truly
 love
 them
 and
 heard
  their
 cry
 for
 help. Now
 we
 need
 to
 pray
 in
 a
 pastor
 who
 is
 willing
 to
 live
 in
 this
 village
 and
 minister
  to
 them
 on
 a
 conJnual
 basis.
 
 The
 locaJon
 of
 this
 village
 is
 over
 40
 miles
 from
  our
 Meluco
 mission
 staJon
 and
 no
 church
 exists
 there. It
 is
 too
 far
 for
 our
 BBC
 team
 to
 visit
 them.
  Blessings,
 BBB
 and
 Balama
 staff
 
 
 
 

From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Date: May 14, 2011 8:08:17 AM CDT

Sub­ject: Blog, May 14, 2011

ELEPHANT RAIDS UNCOVERS A VILLAGE OF NAKED ORPHANS
 
On Fri­day, May 13th, the health depart­ment and our Orphan­age Admin­is­tra­tor, Syl­vai, were able to ver­i­fy that 111 ORPHANS are among the severe­ly mal­nour­ished chil­dren suf­fer­ing from ele­phant raids on the vil­lage of IMBADA. (M‑Bah-dah).
  It was obvi­ous these orphans have suf­fered for some time as NONE OF THEM had any clothes on!
They were liv­ing with­out hope long before the ele­phants raid­ed as severe mal­nu­tri­tion doesn’t devel­op from a few days with­out food.
Did God send the ele­phants to attract atten­tion in response to these children’s cries for help?
We all know the Lord’s heart for chil­dren, so I believe He did just that.
These chil­dren may not know who their cre­ator is yet, but our Bush Bik­er team of Melu­co will be part of the cloth­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion team to vis­it there this Tues­day.  They plan to tell them all about the God who loves them and wants to save them.
 
From ages 5 to 11, they are sleep­ing on the dirt floors of mud huts owned by a few warm heart­ed women in the vil­lage.  Real­i­ty is that they are sleep­ing naked on a cold dirt floor.
  The woman host­ing them have lit­tle food them­selves, but are shar­ing what they have with these des­ti­tute children.
Due to the ele­phant raids, they now have lit­tle to offer anyone.
 
FOOD HAS BEEN DELIVERED (thanks to your gen­er­ous love gifts).
On Fri­day, our truck deliv­ered 2.5 tons of corn and 1 ton of beans, plus iodized salt for these children.
 
As I write this, Lin­da Stan­ley is sack­ing up enough shirts, shorts, and skirts to give each child a set of clothing.
Your love gifts pro­vid­ed the mate­r­i­al to pro­duce these clothes made at our Bala­ma sewing cen­ter which pro­duces 20 children’s out­fits per day on ped­al pow­ered sewing machines.  We have just enough long sleeved shirts for each of these kids from our win­ter cloth­ing box­es. The Cool Sea­son is here with ear­ly morn­ing temps in the upper50’s.
 
Sav­iour means one who res­cues.  Jesus sent us here to res­cue the chil­dren in dis­tress and show them HIS LOVE.
It is an hon­or to serve our Lord in this capacity.
 
WITH A LITTLE HELP, we can get these 111 orphans off those cold dirt floors.
$27 dol­lars pro­vides the fol­low­ing for each of these kids.
Blan­ket ($14),
Local­ly made bed (wood frame with braid­ed rope bot­tom with a grass mat) ($9),
2nd set of cloth­ing as($7).
 
Total need­ed for 111 kids is: $3,330.
 
ERIC COMING HOME MAY 20TH!
After 3 dif­fer­ent orthopaedic doc­tors exam­ined his knee, all infec­tion and implant prob­lems were ruled out.
Eric was sent to a phys­i­cal ther­a­pist who spe­cial­izes in arti­fi­cial knee prob­lems.  Eric is being giv­en physio ther­a­py and a spe­cial­ized exer­cise pro­gram to rebuild his upper thigh mus­cles which atro­phied even with exer­cise.  Seems he wasn’t giv­en the cor­rect exer­cise pro­gram by his first ther­a­pist which led to severe inflam­ma­tion, intense pain, and a weak leg.
We are glad that the solu­tion is non-sur­gi­cal, and that Eric WILL be home in time for June food buy­ing! PTL!
 
Bless­ings, BBB
 
 
 
 
 

From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Date: May 12, 2011 10:15:32 PM CDT
To:  Sub­ject: Blog May 13, 2011

EMERGENCY FOOD DROP SENT YESTERDAY
I thank all of you for your won­der­ful prayers to help us stop the ele­phant inva­sion in north­ern Melu­co county.
When I read your let­ters,  I laughed as I imag­ined those huge beasts run­ning for cov­er from sword wield­ing angels!
 
The e‑mails are too many to respond too per­son­al­ly, so please for­give my inabil­i­ty to do so.  With Eric in RSA, and food buy­ing sea­son in full swing, my work load ranges from 12 to 14 hours a day.  If it were not for Lin­da Stan­ley car­ing for the chil­dren and mak­ing sure I eat well, I’d be in real trou­ble.  Lin­da can real­ly cook! J
 
Yes­ter­day, our 6 ton truck left Bala­ma for our Melu­co mis­sion sta­tion filled with corn and this year’s “just pur­chased” beans.  The coun­ty Admin­is­tra­tor told us that our truck can­not get into the area due to bad road con­di­tions.  The food is being unloaded at our Melu­co base, and a small­er truck with the abil­i­ty to get into the area, will deliv­er the food.  The health team will be vis­it­ing again today to fur­ther eval­u­ate the problem. 
 
Will keep you updat­ed, as I receive information.
 
Bless­ings, BBB 

From: “Bren­da Lange” 

Sub­ject: Blog May 12, 2011

ELEPHANTS RAID A VILLAGE, CAUSING WIDE SPREAD MALNUTRITION IN THE CHILDREN
  The health team, which includ­ed our orphan­age man­ag­er, Sylvia, went to the vil­lage which was report­ed to have wide spread mal­nu­tri­tion among over 200 kids.  Their inves­ti­ga­tion was hin­dered yes­ter­day by ele­phants, which are the source of the prob­lem.  Many of the vil­lagers, includ­ing the mal­nour­ished chil­dren, were in their fields try­ing to save what they could from these huge vac­u­um clean­ers who can eat a whole field in one night.
IN THE NATURAL,  the only way to stop a herd of ele­phants is with bul­lets or a mas­sive bush fire, so all they know to do is grab what you can, then run and hide when the ele­phants move in to attack your field.
 
BUT WE KNOW that the cre­ator of those ele­phants stop them in their tracks!
So I ask for your prayers to send the ele­phants away so the peo­ple can save what lit­tle they have left.
 
Most of the vil­lage was in hid­ing yes­ter­day, so our team will return on Fri­day to try and get an accu­rate account of how many kids are affected.
  I’m work­ing to coor­di­nate an emer­gency food drop to the area.
Will keep you post­ed as infor­ma­tion comes in.
 
Bless­ings and thanks for your anti-ele­phant prayers.
BBBrenda

BEAN BUYING BUSH BUNNY OVERWHELMED WITH BUNDLES OF BEANS!
 
On Mon­day, thanks to your prayers, we were lit­er­al­ly over run with bicy­cles, trucks, and peo­ple car­ry­ing bags of beans to the scales at our 2 food weigh­ing locations.
In Bala­ma, my bean team weighed 175 bags (much of it one bag at a time) in 7 hours, totalling 10.5 TONS of beans.
Capena’s team at our Mavala (Man­go Tree Church) staion, weighed 222 bags  (13.3 tons) and had to final­ly STOP in order to get home before dark!  They brought in the final 6.7 tons yesterday.
Need­less to say, your bean prayers were answered in abun­dance, as we final­ized the bean buy­ing yesterday.
Our barn is now OVERFLOWING with 95 TONS of beans.  We lit­er­al­ly have it stacked to the door with no placed for more.
Thanks so much for your help in pray­ing it in.  Next time, I’ll ask that it come in over 2 days and not all in one! J
 
Our goal was 90 tons, but God has proved abun­dant­ly more, and I think we are about to find out why.
On Mon­day, Social Ser­vices of Melu­co coun­ty radioed us, request­ed our help.  A vil­lage in the north­ern part of Melu­co coun­ty (where our 2nd orphan­age is locat­ed), is report­ed to have over 200 kids suf­fer­ing from severe mal­nu­tri­tion, rea­son unknown.
A team of inves­ti­ga­tors from the health depart­ment and social ser­vices along with our Melu­co orphan­age man­ag­er will vis­it this vil­lage TODAY to see for them­selves what needs to be done to save these children.
I’ll keep you post­ed once I get the details of their investigation.
 
UPDATE ON ERIC’S KNEE
Eric is await­ing a 2nd med­ical con­sult, before a final deci­sion is made on what course of treat­ment is the best to rem­e­dy his sit­u­a­tion.  Will keep you post­ed.  Keep the prayers com­ing, as we need God to show us HIS solution.
 
Bless­ings, BBB

From: Bren­da Lange, “Bush Bun­ny Brenda”
Date: May 8, 2011 

Sub­ject: Blog, May 8th, 2011

ERIC IN RSA WITH ARTIFICIAL KNEE PROBLEMS
 
While I was in the USA, Eric expe­ri­enced increas­ing pain and too much “play” in his knee which received the knee replacement.
Upon my return in April, he began tak­ing MILA (spe­cial chia seed for­mu­la that reduces inflam­ma­tion), and doing advanced knee exer­cis­es.   With­in 2 weeks the Mila had dras­ti­cal­ly reduced his knee inflam­ma­tion, but the exer­cis­es didn’t help his “loose” knee which made it dif­fi­cult for him to walk.
He flew to South Africa for a med­ical con­sult last week, and it looks like a major ten­don didn’t tight­en like it should after his knee replace­ment, leav­ing the knee able to move out of its “area of intend­ed motion”.
His sur­geon will make a deci­sion as to what can be done to repair is knee on Mon­day, May 9th.
I’ll keep you post­ed, but it looks like Eric will need a sur­gi­cal repair to fix the problem.
 
SHORT TERM TEAM TO PULL THE SLACK IN ERIC’S ABSENCE
 
Praise the Lord for his faith­ful­ness to pro­vide a 6 per­son team of 90 day mis­sion­ar­ies to help while Eric is laid up.
This is the first time I’ve been with­out Eric’s mechanical/driving skills in 4 years of major food buy­ing, and to tell you the truth, it makes me a bit uneasy.  Two men and 4 women are on the team with both men hav­ing excel­lent dri­ving cre­den­tials with big rigs.  Before Eric left for RSA, all the vehi­cles were giv­en gen­er­al main­te­nance and our maize mill is run­ning great.
My prayer request is for no break downs or prob­lem that my team and I can’t fix!
 
TEAM LANDS IN PEMBA ON MAY 20th.
Dave Deboer-Michi­gan, 3rd trip to give us a hand (leaves July 1st), excel­lent helps min­istry and big rig driver.
Don Hits­man-Michi­gan, 1st trip, prof. car­pen­ter, with trac­tor and big rig dri­ving skills
Deb­o­rah Wylie-Arkansas-3rd year Busi­ness Adm. Stu­dent and heart for mis­sions (born in Namib­ia to mis­sion­ary parents)
Macha­la Her­rera-17, Texas, excel­lent helps ministry
Rebec­ca Har­ris-Texas, 2nd year Bible School stu­dent with heart for missions
Stephanie Gon­za­les, Ten­nessee, col­lege stu­dent, expe­ri­enced short term mis­sion­ary, and wife to Andy Gon­za­les who helped us out when we were super short-hand­ed with food buy­ing 3 years ago. (This time he’s on a fish­ing boat in Alas­ka and is send­ing his wife. J)
 
Eric and I thank ALL 6 YOU for giv­ing up your sum­mer to give us a hand in what would have been a seri­ous prob­lem had you not answered God’s call long before the seri­ous­ness of the need was known.  The food buy­ing pro­gram takes a min­i­mum of 4 mis­sion­ar­ies for super­vi­sion and logis­tics of the huge Mozam­bi­can team it takes to fill our 3 barns.
 
BOOT CAMP BALAMA
Due to the inten­si­ty of our food buy­ing time, the entire team will be giv­en a 5 day crash ori­en­ta­tion in Mozam­bi­can cul­ture, need to know Por­tuguese phras­es, and how to han­dle the food buy­ing jobs.
It will pre­pare them for the next 30 days of intense corn buy­ing which starts June 1st.
Our goal:  to weigh, buy, and trans­port from the vil­lages 400 tons of corn in 30 days with an 80 man crew.
It’s a big job, but we serve a BIG GOD whom I know will help us make it happen.
 
BEAN BUYING IN BALAMA (Joseph Project—filling the barns against hunger)
 
In the last 3 weeks we have bought and stored 59 TONS of dried beans in our barns in 2 areas of the coun­ty.  It has been a race against ille­gal com­mer­cial buy­ers from oth­er states who are buy­ing beans and sneak­ing them out out of the coun­ty at night.  Bean buy­ing legal­ly begins on June 1st, but that’s a joke.  The vil­lage bean har­vest is expect­ed to be SOLD OUT by May 20th.
  Key peo­ple have come for­ward and are buy­ing for us in the vil­lages and in Bala­ma town to help us meet the need­ed 90 tons for our orphans.  We have 11 tons promised, and are still try­ing to locate the addi­tion­al 20 tons.
1,600+ kids eat a lot dur­ing one year, and our pro­gram is grow­ing week­ly with kids who need our help.
Our goal for the extra 70 tons of food this year is to open a res­cue cen­ter in the coun­ty south of us this year where no church exists, and no assis­tance is being giv­en to the orphans.
We are pray­ing for some­one to come for­ward to Pas­tor and Admin­is­trate this res­cue center.
 
PRAYER REQUESTS:
1.      Eric’s fast recovery
2.     To receive the 25 tons of beans that will fill our barn.
3.     Super­nat­ur­al adjust­ment for this team who will have only days to be trained before start­ing this mas­sive food buy­ing program.
4.     Pastor/Adminstrator for Namuno Res­cue Center
Blessings,
Bush Bun­ny Bren­da, Lin­da Stan­ley, and the Moz. staff