Brenda Lange

Bren­da Lange, bet­ter known as “Bush Bun­ny Bren­da” has been a mis­sion­ary for over 3 decades. She now min­is­ters in North­ern Mozam­bique through Orphans Unlimited.

Since 1993, Pas­tor Bren­da Sue Lange, founder and on site coor­di­na­tor of Orphans Unlim­it­ed, has built and orga­nized 2 orphan­ages, a med­ical clin­ic, and a mal­nu­tri­tion cen­ter with job train­ing facil­i­ties for orphans and wid­ows in one of the most pover­ty strick­en areas of Mozam­bique, Africa.

Orphans Unlim­it­ed is unique in that it’s pro­grams go “where no one else wants to go”. Jesus man­dat­ed Bren­da and her staff to help the “for­got­ten kids” in very remote areas which even aid orga­ni­za­tions have failed to touch.

This is anoth­er case of the Lord prepar­ing the per­son before they even know that they are called. Bren­da is a reg­is­tered nurse with exper­tise in ICU, pedi­atrics, and nutri­tion. She holds a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Agri­cul­ture from Texas A and M. In 1994 Bren­da was ordained by Vic­to­ry Fel­low­ship of Min­istries in Tul­sa Okla­homa. She had an expe­ri­ence with the Lord at age 12 but over time she had turned away. After some tough and dis­ap­point­ing years Bren­da she had her dream, a horse ranch near Gon­za­les TX. How­ev­er, God had oth­er plans.

Through a chain of God engi­neered cir­cum­stances Bren­da renewed her rela­tion­ship with the Lord. Ulti­mate­ly she knew that she was called to the mis­sion field. Bren­da left her horse ranch in Gon­za­les, TX (1987) when the Lord Jesus man­dat­ed her to move to Africa to ful­fill HIS VISION for her life. God was about to com­bine her ranch­ing and nurs­ing skills into a very unique min­istry to chil­dren in very remote parts of Africa. With­in 4 weeks the Lord had assist­ed her in liq­ui­dat­ing all she owned. She moved to Tul­sa, OK for mis­sions training.

In 1991, she began “on site train­ing” at an orphan­age in war torn Mozam­bique. For the first 18 months she learned the “do’s and don­t’s” of run­ning an African orphan­age the Lord’s way. In 1992, the Lord’s vision became plain. She was to go into north­ern Mozam­bique. and build orphan­ages the “African way, using local mate­r­i­al, keep­ing the kids in their cul­ture, and mak­ing it as self-suf­fi­cient as possible”.

Until 1995, Bren­da under­went inten­sive “on the job train­ing” in African con­struc­tion and med­ical care, as well as all the orga­ni­za­tion­al aspects that are nec­es­sary to man­age a mas­sive pro­gram of this sort. The Lord showed her a sea of chil­dren’s faces and gave her the name, Orphans Unlim­it­ed. She knew the job would be dif­fi­cult as 1000’s of chil­dren were dieing of mal­nu­tri­tion and lack of prop­er med­ical care in a coun­try strug­gling to over­come 30 years of war.

In 1996, she built the Vil­lage of Love (VOL), a remote chil­dren’s home in north­ern Mozam­bique, giv­ing a home to 100’s of orphaned chil­dren as they returned from refugee camps in Tan­za­nia and Malawi. In 1999, after train­ing oth­er mis­sion­ar­ies to main­tain the VOL, she moved on to anoth­er remote area with large num­bers of dieing chil­dren. Bread of Life Chil­dren’s Cen­ter was found­ed in 2000 and is present­ly res­cu­ing over 500 orphaned, aban­doned, and mal­nour­ished kids per year. Gov­ern­ment offi­cials have pro­claimed to the nation that her pro­gram is a “mod­el that oth­er orga­ni­za­tions should copy”.

As of 2020, Bread of Life is home to 104 orphans in 2 coun­ties. An addi­tion­al 1,800 orphans and wid­ows ben­e­fit from the mas­sive 2‑county food dis­tri­b­u­tion program.

Areas of Min­istry include:
1. Prac­ti­cal Love

A. Bring­ing in food, cloth­ing, hous­ing, spir­i­tu­al and phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion, etc. in order to res­cue kids in des­per­ate sit­u­a­tions. These chil­dren include those who are orphaned, aban­doned, blind, crip­pled, and severe­ly mal­nour­ished. Our objec­tive is to “raise the kids in the way they should go” accord­ing to the Bible. Giv­ing them a chance at a “new life” in both prac­ti­cal, edu­ca­tion­al and spir­i­tu­al avenues.

B. Assist­ing wid­ows and aban­doned woman WITH KIDS whose kids would die with­out our assis­tance. We train them in agri­cul­ture and oth­er job skills, giv­ing them seed, and help­ing them get a new start in life. Our goal is to make them INDEPENDENT and SELF SUFFICIENT

2. Evan­ge­lis­tic Pro­grams:
Evan­ge­liz­ing with the Jesus Film in the local lan­guage, church plant­i­ng, dis­ci­pling, and pas­toral train­ing. This has led to the devel­op­ment of a group of 18 Youth Pas­tors who now teach the Bible to over 23,000 vil­lage chil­dren in more than 36 loca­tions each week. Our 2020 plans are to expand this out­reach into a 3rd coun­ty which cur­rent­ly is basi­cal­ly unreached by with the Word of God.