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CHILDREN’S DAY PARTY A DELICIOUS HIT!
 
Our chil­dren and fos­ter moth­ers who live togeth­er also get to par­ty togeth­er! We kept them in small groups as required, but it did­n’t slow them down. 
 
The big hit of the day for me was watch­ing Quis­ton STAND INDEPENDENTLY for the 1st time. He’s a bit behind the norm, but grow­ing fast for hav­ing such a rough start.
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS MADE THIS PARTY POSSIBLE!  THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US AT THE BALAMA MISSION STATION. 
 

Quis­ton think­ing: I know I can do this! Yep, just give me time!​
 

Lit­tle Quis­ton has been try­ing so hard to stand with out hold­ing on to any thing, that we had to applaud his per­sis­tence as he stands inde­pen­dent­ly at the Chil­dren’s Day Cel­e­bra­tion!​
 
 
SPONSOR’S SURPRISE 
 
Maez­in­ha and Jesuino have the same spon­sor. She asked per­mis­sion to send a tiny gift to them. DAVE, our vis­i­tor, hand car­ried a t‑shirt for each of them when he came last week. 
 
Jesuino was con­fused by the wrap­ping paper since he’d nev­er received a “hid­den gift” before. Car­l­i­tos Jorge helped him open it, explain­ing there was a sur­prise inside. The look on his face when he saw the shirt was pre­cious! Like a light going on inside his head!
 
Maez­in­ha is too young to under­stand so we opened hers for her. Her gift is a bit big, but she will quick­ly grow into it.
 

3‑year-old Jesuino gets a pack­age from donor.​ His thoughts: What do I do with this? It’s all wrapped up on paper?”
 

“OK, I get it! The good stuff is inside!”​
 

Maez­in­ha, 14 months,  gets a pack­age too!​
 
1 WEEK DONE, 1 TO GO.
 
Five days of bean count­ing and the bean barn is full! PTL! A cold front brought heavy rains last Sun­day and Mon­day mak­ing it a slop­py, slip­pery mess try­ing to get large trucks to our mis­sion’s ware­house. 
 
Roads from the vil­lages are all dirt. Mavala, the Man­go Tree Church area, had their road closed for 2 days mak­ing it impos­si­ble for them to get here Mon­day morn­ing. They final­ly made it about 2pm  Mon­day after­noon by tak­ing a longer, alter­na­tive route. Just after they unloaded, the 2nd wave of rains hit!
 
It was so slip­pery near our ware­house after the 2nd rain that Joan­na, who makes our team’s break­fast, fell in the mud break­ing her right wrist! I took her to the hos­pi­tal for a cast, and she and her chil­dren nev­er missed mak­ing food for us. An Amaz­ing woman for sure!
 

JOANNA. Best bagia (fried bean pat­ty) mak­er in Bala­ma!​
 
Anoth­er busy week awaits us on Mon­day.
 
Keep your prayers com­ing as we need to com­plete this pro­gram so our team can go to Melu­co to help them with their corn buy­ing. 
 
BLESSINGS,  
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE 
AND THE BALAMA STAFF