Bush Beat Blog

ABANDONED CHILDREN RECEIVE NEW CLOTHS. THEY ALL HAVE SHOES, BUT WHEN PLAYING THEY LOVE TO GO BAREFOOT.

While at the “Aban­doned Kids Com­plex”, Pedro, one of the 5 year old twins, walked up and asked me some­thing in Makua.  I didn’t under­stand, so I took his hand and walked him over to one of the 3 Fos­ter Moth­ers who care of these chil­dren.  Lau­ra tells me he is ask­ing if I would take them all to our play­ground in my car for it’s about a 400 yard/meter walk for these lit­tle ones.  Get­ting to ride in a car is a BIG DEAL to these tiny peo­ple, so I was thrilled to give them a treat.

Call­ing all 9 of the 11 res­i­dents that were present, we marched togeth­er to the car in sin­gle file.  My King Cab is a bit high for these under 5 year olds, so the 6 lit­tle ones had to be lift­ed into the back seat.  My work mobile just became a school bus!

The old­er boys begged to sit in the back which is cov­ered by a canopy.  I let these 2 be “big boys” in the back since I had a brick lay­er rid­ing back there also.

My rules is no lit­tle kids in the back with­out adult supervision.

It was so sweet to see the smiles and excite­ment on their faces.

For it is moments like these that are for­ev­er etched in my memory.

6 CHILDREN RESCUED AFTER 2 DAUGHTERS PERISH

FIVE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN WITH GRANNY AND HER ONLY LIVING DAUGHTER.

Granny was over­whelmed when her old­er 2 daugh­ters both died from abdom­i­nal ill­ness­es, leav­ing 2 babies and 4 old­er chil­dren with­out moth­ers.  The fathers of these chil­dren dis­ap­peared months ago when the women became sick.

Social Ser­vices brought them to our food dis­tri­b­u­tion ask­ing for our help.  We also orga­nized cloth­ing and oth­er essen­tial needs for them.  One of the babies is not shown in the pho­to, as anoth­er fam­i­ly mem­ber is tak­ing care of it, since these 5 are a hand full for Granny and her only remain­ing daughter.

Res­cu­ing those in des­per­ate need is what Jesus asked us to do.

THANK YOU for mak­ing this res­cue a real­i­ty and many oth­ers like it!

SNAKES GALORE FOR FARMING FIELDS ARE BURNING

August and Sep­tem­ber all Mozam­bi­cans in the rur­al areas begin clear­ing their farm­ing fields.  That means likes of smoky days as the vil­lagers burn the 7 foot (2 meter) tall grass that now cov­ers these fields.  Besides heavy smoke, it brings out the worst in all the snakes who live in those fields.  On Mon­day my gar­den­er saw a 1 meter (39 inch) cobra crawl­ing along the side of my house.  He killed it with 1 strong whack from a long bam­boo pole as it tried to climb onto the walk­way of my car­port near the entrance to my house.

Then Wed., as I drove past the kid’s play­ground at NOON, I saw our gate guard run­ning for all he was worth with a big stick in his hand.  PTL that all the kids were home eat­ing lunch, for he was chas­ing a 1 meter (39 inch) cobra that was mov­ing at high speed under the swings.  The snake hes­i­tat­ed when it ran up against the con­crete wall of the slide.  That hes­i­ta­tion was its last mis­take as the guard ran up and swung his stick with all his might.  Hear­ing the loud WHACK, and see­ing part of the stick fly­ing across the play­ground, I was hop­ing he hit his tar­get!  Sure enough, the snake’s back was bro­ken.  Unable to move, it was put out of its mis­ery with a 2nd blow from what was left of the stick.

Peo­ple ask me how I cope with the snakes in our area.

  EASY.

YELL JESUS HELP!, and take eva­sive action, for my angels are always watch­ing over me!

For it’s not the ones we kill who give me the creeps, but the ones WHO GET AWAY!

For most like­ly, they will show up again in the near future.

In real­i­ty, we only see snakes twice a year now.  When fields are burned, and when the rainy sea­son starts.  Fire and water tend to run them out of their habi­tats, so they decide to join us in ours.  They are on my unwant­ed vis­i­tors list for sure!

BAWANA GAMES MINISTRY NEWS.

THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY CARLITOES JORGE AT OUR MAURUA CHURCH.

Three adults receive Jesus after last Fri­day’s Bawana games pre­sen­ta­tion. 1,687 chil­dren and numer­ous adults came to the program.

Mem­bers of the BBC Bike Team, seen here help­ing church mem­bers in Mau­rua build their church. This is our newest church plant.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Brenda

“Bush Bun­ny” Bren­da Lange

Bush Beat Blog

DATE: August 14, 2016

PUTS SMILES ON LITTLE FACES

Fos­ter Moth­er Bal­bi­na and her girls, the first to get to choose shoes from our Aus­tralian donors at Syrah Resources.

These smiles tell it all, as these orphans/abandoned kids show off their new shoes.

Thanks to our Aus­tralian friends and their fam­i­lies at Syrah Resources, the orphans received a spe­cial treat this week.  It was 6 months since they last received shoes, and one look told me those shoes were fin­ished.  So out came the ones we have received over the last few months.   There are always staff mem­bers from Syrah fly­ing back and forth from Moz to Aus­tralia.  When clothes or shoes are donat­ed, our friend Alex Wor­ley gath­ers it up and sends it our way with the next per­son head­ed to Bala­ma.  This is a great bless­ing for sure.

Note:  We nor­mal­ly buy shoes at the local mar­ket, but they are already well worn, unlike the donat­ed shoes which are either new or like new.
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS FOR MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN OUR CHILDREN’S LIVES.

: Children’s Direc­tor, Anna, teach­ing a granny how to bot­tle feed her orphaned grand­daugh­ter with a  bot­tle.  Most of the grannies around here have nev­er used a bot­tle with pow­dered baby for­mu­la, so it takes a few min­utes of train­ing before they grasp how to do it.

BBC MOTORBIKE TEAM TAKES BAWANA GAMES TO 3 NEW VILLAGES.

Car­l­i­tos Jorge and his team of 7 men set an all new record Thurs­day this week as they explained God and cre­ation to 2,138 chil­dren and adults in 3 vil­lages over a 7 hour period. 

Folks, this is super hard work, for the team leaves at 5:30a.m. and returns at 1pm, for it is over 10 miles (17 km) to these remote vil­lages on roads that are only suit­ed to motorbikes.

Start­ing any new pro­gram is a chal­lenge, but our team THRIVES on challenges.

They made it hap­pen today using the tug-o-war game to draw a huge crowd in each of the 3 vil­lages.  We have per­mis­sion for 2 oth­er vil­lages in that area, so plan to open them next week.

After­wards, they had devo­tions and had those chil­dren pray with them who want­ed to accept Jesus as their Savior.

The pho­tos tell it all!
Blessings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

The Amaz­ing Bala­ma Staff