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Why is Brenda Lange called “Bush Bunny Brenda?”

It was a nick­name giv­en to Bren­da by the chil­dren she helps in Mozam­bique. Bren­da was lead­ing her don­key down a bush trail when a HUGE bush rab­bit jumped out of the grass in from of them. The don­key jumped to the right while Bren­da leapt to the left. The orphans walk­ing along behind her stat­ed she jumped high­er than the rab­bit! So the name stuck and she has been Bush Bun­ny Bren­da ever since.                                             top

Why such a remote place in Africa?

We have been called to “pio­neer evan­ge­lize,” to go into areas where no one else has ever gone.  We need to go there, because no one else is! We have been sent to the “ends of the earth,” as described in Acts 1:8.                                                 top

Do you allow people to come for short-term missions?  How much does it cost? What would I be doing while there?

A short term trip with Orphans Unlim­it­ed must last at least 30 — 90 days, due to the cost-effec­tive­ness of trav­el.  Month­ly sup­port needs to be about $200/mo., but you should raise an extra $300/mo. to cov­er trav­el and pos­si­ble med­ical expens­es.  We can only host short-term mis­sion­ar­ies between June and Novem­ber.  You also must have your own med­ical insur­ance and have a adven­tur­ous, flex­i­ble spir­it ready to “rough it.” For more infor­ma­tions, please email us.

There are many con­struc­tion projects that could use a help­ing hand, as well as chil­dren’s min­istries, preschool work, agri­cul­ture and job skills training.

Group trips are also a pos­si­bil­i­ty.  Please con­tact us for more infor­ma­tion on either indi­vid­ual or group trips.                                                          top

How much support does a missionary need to live there?

A full-time mis­sion­ary would need at least $500/mo. as a bare min­i­mum, but $800 — $1,000/mo. would be a more com­fort­able exis­tence. All food, med­ical needs, board and util­i­ties would be includ­ed in that amount.                            top

What languages do the people speak in Mozambique?

Por­tuguese is the offi­cial spo­ken lan­guage, but Makua (Mah-koo-ah) is the local trib­al lan­guage where we are in Mozam­bique.                              top

What do you do for fun?  What do the children do for fun?

Soc­cer is the nation­al sport, so the chil­dren enjoy that, as well as oth­er games. No health prob­lems caused by watch­ing too much TV here!

The mis­sion­ar­ies enjoy play­ing domi­nos or UNO, as well as read­ing books from their large library and get­ting togeth­er to watch one DVD per week as a spe­cial event. They also can vis­it the near­by ocean once a month for a won­der­ful, and inex­pen­sive, scu­ba or snor­kel­ing adven­ture!                                 top

What is the weather like?

In Mozam­bique, there are three seasons.

The “hot and dry” sea­son is from Sep­tem­ber to Decem­ber and the tem­per­a­tures are usu­al­ly from 90° to 100° F.

The “hot and wet” sea­son is from Decem­ber to April.  It is very rainy and tem­per­a­tures range from 80° to 90° F.

The “cool sea­son” is from May to August.  The tem­per­a­tures range from around 50° F at night to in the 70’s in the day­time.                                              top

How do you send e‑mail from such a desolate area?

In the begin­ning, we used ““bush­mail” which involved two car bat­ter­ies hooked up to a HAM radio to trans­mit e‑mail from our lap­top.  In 2014, cell­phones found their way to Mozam­bique. As of 2023, we are still lim­it­ed in send­ing video footage, but pho­tos can be sent and received, although we ‘pay by the byte’ and have ser­vice more akin to old-style dial-up modems.

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