GOD KEEPING BBB FIT FOR DUTY

No mat­ter how many years pass by, I am VERY GRATEFUL TO JESUS for keep­ing me fit and healthy to do the work HE sent me to do in Mozam­bique. (28 years and counting!)

Res­cu­ing and evan­ge­liz­ing orphans is a priv­i­lege that I would not trade for any­thing else life could offer. In Texas we say:  “Wild hors­es could not drag me out of here!” For those of you who know how much I love hors­es, that is tru­ly a heavy state­ment. I love the Lord Jesus, and I love these chil­dren as if they were my own.

All these girls except the oldest came to us as orphaned infants. “Jesus saves” is more than words to them.

Sweet Dixon came to us at 4 months of age weighing only 4.4 lbs. (2kg.) 

Dixon is now 6 and in his final preschool year.

THANKS TO YOUR LOVE FOR THESE CHILDREN, our res­cue pro­gram has grown beyond any­thing I could ever imagine.

So on this day, many years ago, BBB was born. Fam­i­ly and friends described her as an inde­pen­dent, self-willed child, with a com­pet­i­tive streak a mile long. Her per­sis­tence, per­se­ver­ance, and flex­i­bil­i­ty helped her excel in any­thing she put her mind too.

Through­out her first 32 years, JESUS MOLDED those traits in her until she was ready to “hear his call” and become a pio­neer mis­sion­ary in a remote area of the world. This total­ly caught her by sur­prise, for she had no idea that all she had learned in life was about to be chal­lenged and stretched beyond her imag­i­na­tion. Becom­ing a mis­sion­ary was NOT on her buck­et list! BUT JESUS WON HER HEART, and you know the “rest of the story”.

FOR THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE TO BE THAN IN GOD’S WILL, UNLESS IT IS IN HIS PRESENCE.

JOSEPH PROJECT ABOUT TO LAUNCH

The Bala­ma vil­lage co-ops are ready for our arrival, as June 1st is the offi­cial first day for food buy­ing through­out this nation. Dur­ing our food buy­ing time, over 1,600 FIFTY KG (110 lb.) FEED SACKS will be dis­trib­uted for beans and 5,600+ for corn.

The objec­tive:  To pro­vide food dur­ing the “time of hunger” for over 1,900 orphans and the 500+ wid­ows who raise them.

Meeting with our 90 man team who will move this mountain of food so that orphans and widows will not go hungry.

In July, we fol­low with the super dry corn, plus rice and peanuts “in the hull” for bet­ter stor­age. The Bib­li­cal sto­ry of Joseph tells us how he did this same type project at the Lord’s request while rul­ing in Egypt. Jesus gave me a sim­i­lar vision when I arrived in Bala­ma, and pro­vid­ed the means for us to move up to 30 tons of food/day with our 2 trucks. IT IS A MASSIVE JOB, and impos­si­ble to do with­out all our Pas­tors and staff help­ing out.

I am priv­i­leged to have Dave Deboer arriv­ing May 30th from Michigan,USA, to lend a hand in super­vis­ing all that needs doing dur­ing June.

Keep us in your prayers and for­give me if the June blogs are a bit short on words. Pho­tos are worth a 1000 words, so I will let them do the talk­ing while we are busy fill­ing our barns.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

And the Bala­ma Staff

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENDA from your US Staff!

JESUS TOUCHES THE CHILDREN

Alber­to, 9 years old, first came to our Sun­day Bawana Games three weeks ago in Nacac­ca Vil­lage. He asked for prayer for he had been suf­fer­ing over 3 months from a severe case of ring­worm that cov­ered his scalp. Hos­pi­tal treat­ment had not stopped it for his case was severe.

His entire scalp was one big scab, and he had NO HAIR at all. Our BBC Team prayed for him that day in the Name of Jesus. LAST SUNDAY, he came run­ning to the meet­ing to show every­one that his head was heal­ing, and his hair was return­ing!!!  It is a super tes­ti­mo­ny to all that live there, for they all knew that Jesus had touched him to stop his suffering.

Sufo, 9 years old, from “7th of April” Vil­lage, had been in bed for three months with an unknown ill­ness that had drained his body of strength and mus­cle. Last Thurs­day, Sufo was car­ried to the vil­lage church where Car­l­i­tos Jorge was preaching.

Car­l­i­tos was shocked as the child was only skin over bone. Yet a week AFTER PRAYER by the BBC Team, Sufo WALKED to the Bawana Games field!  He remains thin, but his legs have strength and he no longer stays in bed. The chil­dren went wild!  No one doubt­ed that this lit­tle boy had received a touch from Jesus!

Rafate, 6 years old, was born with club feet and legs that would not straight­en.  Three weeks ago one of the chil­dren told him about Jesus, so he crawled on hands and knees to the Mar­rua Vil­lage Church ser­vice where Car­l­i­tos Jorge preach­es on Sun­days.  He lis­tened to the Jesus sto­ry for two Sun­days, and obvi­ous­ly told his par­ents about what he had heard.

Young evan­ge­list, Rafate, brings his par­ents to Jesus.

LAST SUNDAY, Rafate came with his par­ents to the church. At the alter call, the whole fam­i­ly prayed to receive Jesus! Rafate is obvi­ous­ly a great evan­ge­list, for what he told his par­ents con­vinced them to come lis­ten for themselves.

PRAISE THE LORD! FOR THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD THEM IN THE LAST DAYS!

(Note:  Car­l­i­tos man­aged a pho­to of Rafate from his basic cell phone. We are present­ly orga­niz­ing 2 basic smart phones for the BBC lead­ers to use at the Bawana Games pro­grams so they can pho­to­graph spe­cial happenings.)

BLESSED WITH NEW BLANKETS FOR THE COOL SEASON

THANK YOU to the gen­er­ous employ­ees at ICM in Wichi­ta, Kansas who gave at Christ­mas so that new blan­kets could be bought in time for our cool season!

It is 60 degrees and windy inside my house each morn­ing for no one has heat inside their homes. What it is out­side, is what you get inside. So new blan­kets are a MUST for our chil­dren as June and July weath­er will be about 48º F (12ºC) INSIDE their mud huts each morn­ing.  Those blan­kets will pre­vent a lot of res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness for sure!

Again, THANK YOU, ICM for bless­ings the chil­dren with your love gift.

Bless­ings until next time!

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

And the Bala­ma Staff