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BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: DECEMBER 9, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: DECEMBER 9, 2022
 
THE WOMEN AT THE WELL…
 
…is a real­i­ty in our area as many hand dug wells and any shal­low drilled water wells are now dry! Decem­ber is sup­posed to be a very rainy month, but for the last 2 years the rains have come late. We had a hard rain on Wednes­day this week. Now it is doubt­ful it will con­tin­ue rain­ing in order to sup­port the seeds the locals ran to plant after the rains. In 2021, the rains only began on Decem­ber 31st, caus­ing the corn har­vest to be over 30 days late. If you recall, we were able to buy beans in June, but corn only in July.


Women at the well at 5am.
A stream of peo­ple flow in all day long for this beau­ti­ful clean water!
 
These local women are blessed by the ONLY HAND PUMP (DEEP) WATER WELL in this area.  It was donat­ed by sup­port­ers over 8 years ago, and sits just 50 yards from our church on our 16 hectare/40 acre mis­sion prop­er­ty. With­out this well, MANY WOULD BE WITHOUT WATER. All local­ly dug buck­et wells in this neigh­bor­hood (10 to 15 meters/yards deep) have gone dry, as has the hand pump water well that serves my home and the mis­sion sta­tion. This is the first time our mis­sion well has gone dry as it has served us faith­ful­ly for 20 years! It seems the cause is the greater num­ber of peo­ple liv­ing in the area who are dig­ging wells into the same under­ground “riv­er” that serves our well.
 
The church well is over a 100 feet deep, and thank­ful­ly in a HUGE reser­voir of water. This well is avail­able to the pub­lic as well as to our orphan homes for 12 hours a day (day­light to dark). GOD HAS MADE A WAY, as we have a 2nd hand pump water well that serves 4 of our orphan homes at the far end of our project, about .5 miles/500 meters from our mis­sion base. Once the rains begin, hope­ful­ly the dry wells will all fill up.
 
We are VERY GRATEFUL  to those who made these wells pos­si­ble in pre­vi­ous years, AS WATER IS LIFE AND HEALTH TO ALL THOSE IN NEED.

THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING “LIVING WATER” TO ALL THOSE IN THIS AREA.
 
SCHOOL’S OUT! LET THE FUN BEGIN!
 

Ready for fun and games.
(L to R) Bot­tom row: Adeli­na, Angeli­na, Vic­to­ria, Maez­in­ha. Upper row: Ibar­ra, Orten­cia, Dinis, and Anna.
 
Our chil­dren along with all the vil­lage chil­dren can now relax a bit in the 60 day sum­mer break! This morn­ing, I pulled out a new ball, and off went the pri­ma­ry school chil­dren to play soc­cer.
 

Being in the soc­cer zone can be risky!
https://youtu.be/u_CsK65x_oQ
 
As you can see in the video, film­ing them at play can be a bit haz­ardous as any­one in their “soc­cer zone” is at risk of get­ting hit by the ball.
 

Samuel teach­ing the lit­tle ones to lis­ten to instruc­tion and them jump when they hear the key word.
https://youtu.be/eOD7YJJ01BU
 
Samuel, our dorm leader, gave me a help­ing hand with our 3‑year-olds. His idea of teach­ing them to fol­low instruc­tions while hav­ing fun was a good one. After a few attempts, most of the lit­tle ones caught on to what they need­ed to do.
 

Samuel, dorm leader, and Zito teach­ing a game to our lit­tle ones.
 
WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELPING HAND THAT MAKES ALL THIS POSSIBLE!
 
MANY BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: DECEMBER 3, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: DECEMBER 3, 2022
NOVEMBER ENDS WITH MANY VISITORS
 

Vis­i­tors talk­ing to moth­ers at hous­es 6 & 7
 
On the 30th our staff gra­cious­ly received a mixed group of peo­ple rep­re­sent­ing the Jus­tice Depart­ment, UNICEF, Social Ser­vices, and the Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal. Their pur­pose was to vis­it our homes as well as teach us how to orga­nize a tem­po­rary guardian­ship for our res­i­dent chil­dren.

The vis­i­tors seem to appre­ci­ate our homes, and left just before dark on the 30th. They left ques­tion­naires for each of our 57 res­i­dent chil­dren, giv­ing our children’s staff a “paper par­ty” for the next few days.
 

Office staff L to R. Fati­ma, Anna, Fred, Whitey, and Office Man­ag­er Cape­na, far right
 
 
BBC TEAMS CHALLENGING EVEN THE LITTLE ONES TO PARTICIPATE
 

Teach­ing the lit­tle ones to play tug o’ war.
https://youtu.be/kJTT9Sy1iUA
 

Boys love the intense com­pe­ti­tion of 4‑way tug o’ war.
https://youtu.be/eGSl3Ah4xMw
 
With the rainy sea­son upon us (it’s rain­ing as I write this), the BBC team is using every dry day to reach as many chil­dren as pos­si­ble.

The motor­bike team touch 6,834+ chil­dren each 2 weeks with the gospel.  Result: 556 sal­va­tions in 8 vil­lages.
 
The bicy­cle team meet with over 3,437 chil­dren each week.  Result:  2,081 sal­va­tions in 8 vil­lages. KEEP YOUR PRAYERS COMING for these teams as we con­tin­ue to dis­ci­ple these chil­dren on a week­ly basis.
 
 
Teach­ing the chil­dren to pray for the sick.
https://youtu.be/BaDTWEsRiHo
 
15 VILLAGE PASTORS shared the gospel with over 2,000 peo­ple of all ages this month.
Sal­va­tions for Novem­ber:
Adults: 45
Teenagers: 81
Chil­dren 466 (com­bined num­ber from Sun­day School and Bawana games activ­i­ties)
 
GOD IS MOVING IN A VERY STRONG WAY AMONG THE YOUTH OF BALAMA.
 
Please keep all of us in prayer, as we will be pray­ing for you dur­ing this hol­i­day month.
 
BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: NOVEMBER 26, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: NOVEMBER 26, 2022
 
HOPING YOU ALL HAD A WONDERFUL DAY GIVING THANKS TO THE LORD FOR ALL YOU HAVE.
 
Here in Bala­ma, it was busi­ness as usu­al, giv­ing out food to orphans and wid­ows in need. Thanks­giv­ing is an Amer­i­can hol­i­day, but I think every­day is a day of thanks as the Lord’s bless­ings are unend­ing.
 
BALAMA FAMILY GIVING THANKS FOR ASSISTANCE WITH 7 ORPHANS
 

Ded­i­cat­ed Aunt and Uncle take in 7 Orphans when they have bare­ly enough for their own chil­dren.
 
This Aunt and Uncle just took on a HUGE respon­si­bil­i­ty, after this Aunt’s Sis­ter died in child­birth leav­ing 6 chil­dren under 13 years of age, and this new­born as orphans. The father left in a hur­ry after his wife died, which is a com­mon hap­pen­ing around here.  This over­whelmed cou­ple was in shock as they brought the new­born to us for infant for­mu­la.  They had no idea we would help pro­vide food for the 6 lit­tle ones as well!  When I read the doc­u­ment stat­ing how many chil­dren they were car­ing for, I imme­di­ate­ly asked how they would man­age for food.  Their answer, “we don’t know”.  But that didn’t stop them from accept­ing these chil­dren as their own!   BIG HEART hard­ly describes what they have.   My staff and I didn’t hes­i­tate to enroll them in our week­ly food pro­gram for orphans. They also have sev­er­al chil­dren of their own at home whom they sup­port with their farm­ing.  We will assist them as much as pos­si­ble, for I doubt their farm can pro­duce enough to even buy each of the chil­dren a set of clothes.  YOUR LOVE GIFTS AT WORK!
 
BBC CROWDS GROWING AS OUR TEAM GETS ROLLING
 
Due to a lack of fuel in this area, we are still lim­it­ed to send­ing out only 2 motor­bikes to the vil­lages each day for the BBC Children’s Evan­ge­lism Pro­gram. We had hoped the fuel prob­lem would have resolved by now, but it is show­ing that it could be long term.
Know that we are doing our best to obtain fuel each time it becomes avail­able with­in a 30 mile radius.
 
MANY CHILDREN RECEIVING JESUS INTO THEIR HEARTS
 
End of sal­va­tion prayer with new chil­dren receiv­ing Jesus!
https://youtu.be/17iDqK8osAQ
 
On aver­age, 30 to 35 chil­dren per day are receiv­ing Jesus as Lord and Sav­ior dur­ing the devo­tions time of the BBC pro­gram.
 

Teach­ing new team games that involve many chil­dren at once.
 
Tug o war, always a big hit with the crowd!
https://youtu.be/oWyOwy92uMs
 
The games are fun, and more and more chil­dren are stay­ing to hear the Bible Sto­ry at the end.   Lead­ers Car­l­i­tos and Daniel do a great job of pre­sent­ing Bible sto­ries with large pic­ture books to the chil­dren. 
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS PROGRAM POSSIBLE.
 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF
 
 

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: NOVEMBER 19, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: NOVEMBER 19, 2022
 
2022 FOOD AND SEED GIVE OUT FINISHED!!
 
The 2022 food pro­gram for the vil­lages is com­plete!  The pro­gram is named The Joseph Project, because like Joseph, we fill our barns in time of plen­ty and give out in time of hunger. 
 
This week marked our final food give outs to orphans and wid­ows in the Bala­ma and Melu­co Dis­tricts.  Our days start­ed at 3 a.m. so that the loaded food trucks could roll out before sun­rise to the remote vil­lages.  Corn and bean seeds were includ­ed in this give out so all can plant their fields.
 

Devo­tions before food give out.
 

Every­one helps get food and seeds back home. 
 

A bicy­cle makes it eas­i­er to the get food, corn and bean seeds home.
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS MAKE THIS PROGRAM POSSIBLE. Thanks to you, these orphans and wid­ows have food to give them the ener­gy to plant their fields.
 
As always, our aim is to GIVE THEM A HAND UP, NOT A HAND OUT! Thus, food to help them gain strength, and seed to plant so they are more self, suf­fi­cient.
 
THE JOY OF HAVING EVERY NEED MET
 
Click the link below to see lit­tle Suzan­na look­ing beau­ti­ful.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Az4GQn0F0Vg 
 
A real beau­ty, Suzan­na at 15 months, is enjoy­ing hav­ing all her needs met, includ­ing learn­ing about the love of Jesus.  She is not crazy about bark­ing dogs though!  Turn on your sound!! 
 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF
 
 

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: NOVEMBER 12, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 12, 2022
 
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: NOVEMBER 12, 2022
 
OUR CHILDREN ARE GROWING UP!
 
Here are the pho­tos of each of our 7 children’s homes. 
 

The Zebra house toddlers/infants.
 

Baby Leop­ards won’t be small for long!
 

    The Lions and they are a live­ly group!
 

The Buf­fa­lo herd!
 

The Rab­bits of Vic­to­ry House.
 

The Gazelles. Every child in this pho­to came there as an infant!
 

The Ostrich House. Baby Regi­nal­da on top, back row is the baby with the bro­ken femur. Thanks to prayer, God has straight­ened her femur and she is start­ing to put weight on it. Far right, bot­tom is 2‑year old Quis­tan. Fri­day night, he had 2 con­vul­sions not fever relat­ed and is in hos­pi­tal uncon­scious. More labs today will tell us if it is malar­ia. Prayers are need­ed for both.
 
ENJOY THE PHOTOS OF THE KIDS, FOR THEY ARE GROWING UP FAST!
 
The 1st through 6th graders are offi­cial­ly out of school as of yes­ter­day.
It was fun watch­ing the kids cut loose on the play­ground!  Sor­ry, no pho­to of that as it was very ear­ly, and too dark under the huge man­go tree that shades our play­ground.
 
FINISHING FOOD DISTRIBUTION BEFORE THE RAINS COME!
 
Our first storm of the rainy sea­son hit last night.  At our mis­sion, no rain was received, just a heavy thunder/lightning show with heavy winds.But rains are sup­posed to begin next week, if the weath­er­man is cor­rect. Because of this, we are hus­tling to get the Novem­ber food/seed give out com­plet­ed, as these fam­i­lies need their seeds to plant.  Our trucks left at 3:30 a.m. on Fri­day to be at the Impire dis­tri­b­u­tion site by dawn (4:30 a.m.) Remem­ber, rur­al Africa moves accord­ing to the sun, and waits for no clock.  If it’s day­light, every­one is mov­ing. This com­pletes 2 of the 5 coun­ty wide give outs.  The oth­er 3 are sched­uled for Mon­day to Wednes­day next week. Try­ing our best to beat the rains.
 
 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: OCTOBER 29, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 29, 2022
 
TWO OF OUR MOTHERS HAVING SURGERY
 
On Mon­day, Octo­ber 31, Fos­ter Moth­er Berti­na (Ostrich House), and Granny Feli­ciana, moth­er to her orphaned grand­chil­dren, will be tak­en by our Office Staff at 5 a.m. to the Region­al Hos­pi­tal in Mon­tepuez for surgery.
 

Fos­ter Moth­er Berti­na has abdom­i­nal tumor near her diaphragm.
 
Berti­na has an abdom­i­nal tumor just under her diaphragm that doesn’t appear can­cer­ous, but the Dr. won’t know for sure until he oper­ates.  Bertina’s surgery is very con­cern­ing to me, as it is not an easy one, due to it’s loca­tion in the abdomen.
 

Granny Felic­i­na hav­ing oper­a­tion on left hip on 31st.
 
Granny Feli­ciana has a large tumor on her left hip that needs to be removed.  Both women need prayer cov­er­age.     The out­come of these surg­eries will deter­mine how many days these 2 women must stay in the Mon­tepuez Region­al Hos­pi­tal.  Each women will be accom­pa­nied by a female fam­i­ly mem­ber who will help to care for them in hos­pi­tal. I will update you next week on their progress.
 
BBC GROUPS CONTINUE TO GROW IN NUMBERS
 

Pulling for all their worth! This game real­ly draws the crowds.
 
I am shar­ing a video that shows how the lit­tle ones are work­ing hard to learn how to run a relay race. Their attempt couldn’t be any cuter.
 
 

Lit­tle ones haven’t quite fig­ured out the relay race.
https://youtu.be/7m4sClE54FU
 
The devo­tions groups are get­ting big­ger thanks to the “cliff hang­er” sto­ries that Car­l­i­tos tells before the games start.
 

Telling a cliff hang­er sto­ry before devo­tions has drawn many more kids to stay longer and hear about Jesus.
 
Keep pray­ing for us, as our 2 motor­bike teams will be grow­ing into 4 motor­bike teams by ear­ly Novem­ber, thanks to a fuel dona­tion from one of our donors. Wait­ing on parts for the 4th bike, so as soon as that is fixed, we will orga­nize a sec­ond 4 man team.  This will allow EACH VILLAGE a week­ly pro­gram. At present, there are so many vil­lages, that it takes the 2 man bike team 2 weeks to vis­it all of them.
 
7th OF APRIL ORPHANS RECEIVE NEW SANDALS
 

Orphans liv­ing in 7th of April Vil­lage in their new san­dals.
 
There are 9 orphaned chil­dren cared for by their 3 Aunts who live in a small vil­lage way out in the bush. This vil­lage, named 7th of April,  sits at the foot of a moun­tain with­in sight of our mis­sion sta­tion, but is not easy to reach by road.  Motor­cy­cles can maneu­ver the road much bet­ter than a pick-up truck. Car­l­i­tos of the BBC dis­cov­ered these orphans in great need when he went there on his motor­bike to share the Gospel a few years back. He plant­ed a church there, and trained up a Pas­tor to teach the Word of God. One of the lit­tle boys couldn’t walk, and we are hap­py to announce that anoth­er orga­ni­za­tion has just donat­ed him a wheel­chair! This is a great help for him and his Aunt, as thanks to our week­ly food give outs to him,  he is now too big to car­ry. Car­l­i­tos told me last week that the children’s shoes were now worn out, so we orga­nized 9 new pairs of san­dals, so they can walk in the hot sand. The tem­per­a­tures are reach­ing above 96F/36C dai­ly, so the sand gets very hot around mid­day.
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS AT WORK!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE GIFTS THAT KEEPS THESE CHILDREN HEALTHY AND HAPPY.
 BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: OCTOBER 22, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 22, 2022
 
HIGH WINDS DAMAGE CHURCH ROOF
 

Remov­ing the secur­ing bricks and bro­ken beams from church roof.
 
Last Sat­ur­day morn­ing, our team of car­pen­ters and brick lay­ers had their hands full repair­ing 5 tin sheets and 3 bro­ken wood­en beams dam­aged by high winds on Fri­day after­noon.  We are grate­ful that none of the tin sheets came com­plete­ly loose from the roof as they become fly­ing razor blades when pushed by high winds.  The dam­age was repaired in 4 hours, as the brick lay­ers and car­pen­ters worked togeth­er to com­plete the work in record time. We are grate­ful it was ready for ser­vice on Sun­day, and that the dam­age was minor. High winds plague this area and rip off many roofs dur­ing the hot and dry sea­son that lasts until Decem­ber.
 
BBC MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF MANY
 
Our BBC (Bush Bik­ers for Christ) teams are gath­er­ing larg­er crowds this week as the word is out that they are back with games and great pic­ture books.
 

Drop­ping bean bags and oth­er assundry con­fu­sion as new kids learn relay rac­ing.
https://youtu.be/uL0GzZZpwHM
 
You can see from the pho­tos and video that the crowds are much larg­er, yet many kids aren’t stay­ing for devo­tions. 
 

Devo­tions and Bible sto­ries after Bawana Games.
 
I worked with the teams to “tweek” their pro­gram so that every­one hears the Word of God if they come to the games. So they are now start­ing a Bible sto­ry and leav­ing it as a “cliff hang­er” with the end­ing only giv­en in devo­tions. IT IS WORKING! 
 
Car­l­i­tos, leader of the BBC team, stat­ed that it worked very well today as they dou­ble the num­ber of chil­dren in devo­tions. 
 

Rais­ing hands to receive Jesus as Lord and Sav­ior!
 
Some chil­dren just need a spir­i­tu­al push to get them inter­est­ed in know­ing who Lord Jesus real­ly is.
 
LEARNING THE VALUE OF MONEY WHILE HELPING A WIDOW
 
Since we rep­re­sent the par­ents of the 58 chil­dren who live with us, it is our respon­si­bil­i­ty to teach them good morals as well as finan­cial respon­si­bil­i­ty. When the school year begins in Feb­ru­ary, each child receives shoes and a school uni­form.  If their shoes wear out, or become too small, it is then their respon­si­bil­i­ty to report it to our staff so they can earn a new pair. 
 

Clear­ing a farm­ing field for a blind wid­ow earns a pair of shoe as pay­ment.
https://youtu.be/vcjWZhz4U5M
 
The teens in our boy’s dorm are now busy work­ing for new shoes, and at the same time help­ing a blind wid­ow who lives in one of our improved mud hut homes.  This is a win-win for both par­ties, as the wid­ow gets her field pre­pared for plant­i­ng, and the boys get a new pair of shoes.  I call it LEARNING BY GIVING A HELPING HAND.
 
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO HELP US TO HELP OTHERS.
 BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: OCTOBER 15, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 15, 2022
 
LOCAL NUTRITIONIST MAKING WEEKLY VISITS
 

Dr. Mar­i­ano weighs and exam­ines each infant in our baby for­mu­la pro­gram.
 
Dr. Mar­i­ano of the Bala­ma Health Cen­ter is now vis­it­ing our mal­nour­ished infants in our Baby For­mu­la Pro­gram each Thurs­day.
Each infant is weighed, then giv­en a phys­i­cal exam.  Any infant found ill is tak­en back to the Bala­ma hos­pi­tal for treat­ment. He also does nutri­tion­al coun­sel­ing with the care tak­er of those infants not gain­ing weight like they should be on our high pro­tein milk and cere­als.
WE GREATLY APPRECIATE HIS HELPING HAND with all our infants and younger chil­dren. 
 
FOOD HANDOUTS COMPLETED FOR OCTOBER
 

Each food dis­tri­b­u­tion begins with devo­tions and a short Bible sto­ry.
 
For the last 2 weeks we spent much of our time load­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing the 20.5 TONS of corn and 3.78 TONS of beans it takes to sup­ple­ment the diets of the 1,144 orphans and wid­ows in our Vil­lage Food Assis­tance Pro­gram For Orphans.
 

3 orphan girls divide the food to help their Aunt get it to their mud hut.
 
 

Granny and orphaned Grand­son will divide their bag of corn before cart­ing it home. Weight is 60 kg. or 132 lbs.
 
 

Old­er child teach­ing the younger ones how to car­ry food on their heads.
 
It’s a great day for us once we know they all have food to help sus­tain them through­out the next 30 days. THANK YOU for give them a help­ing hand dur­ing these hot and dry months when noth­ing wants to grow.
 
2 BALAMA PASTORS TRAVELING TO TETE PROVINCE
 
As I write, our Pas­tors Gito and Ramadan are trav­el­ing 3 days by bus to a teach­ing con­fer­ence in Tete City.  Our Nation­al Bish­op, Zali­ra, select­ed them for a pro­mo­tion to REVERAND when he was vis­it­ing our mis­sion in May of this year. The AGUAS VIVAS CHURCH, which is our spir­i­tu­al cov­er­ing here in Mozam­bique, has 3 lev­els that a church leader may achieve accord­ing to his train­ing and accom­plish­ments.
First is Pas­tor, then Rev­erend, with BISHOP being the high­est lev­el.  Rev­erend is for lead­ers who have excelled in plant­i­ng church­es and evan­ge­liz­ing their areas.
 

Pas­tor Gito
 
Pas­tor Gito has plant­ed 5 church­es in 5 vil­lages, and has BAWANA GAMES pro­grams going in each of these areas.
 

Pas­tor Ramadan
 
Pas­tor Ramadan has plant­ed 2 church­es and assist­ed a less expe­ri­enced Pas­tor in plant­i­ng 2 addi­tion­al church­es in remote vil­lages. Ramadan has BAWANA GAMES pro­grams in 3 loca­tions in his very large vil­lage.
 
These 2 men are the first to be cho­sen from Bala­ma for this hon­or­able advance­ment, so we are super hap­py for them.
 
BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!
 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF
 
 

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: OCTOBER 8, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 8, 2022
 
HELDER NOW A TEACHER IN BALAMA!
 
Our first orphan to com­plete high­er edu­ca­tion, is now gain­ful­ly employed by the Bala­ma School Dis­trict.  He will be teach­ing math, nat­ur­al sci­ence, and art design to 7th graders in a vil­lage about 6 miles/9 km from Bala­ma. 
 

A very hap­py Helder with new bike as trans­porta­tion to his new teach­ing job.
 
Helder is now liv­ing with a rel­a­tive on the oth­er side of Bala­ma town, and is trav­el­ing to this vil­lage with the bicy­cle that we pur­chased to meet his trans­portion need as there is no hous­ing avail­able in this vil­lage.  This all came about this week, with Helder leav­ing our school chil­dren for this new job. Teacher Pedro had noth­ing but high praise for how well Helder interned under him.  It is very hard to see Helder go, as he has been a great con­trib­u­tor to our dorm for over 7 years, and to our staff since Feb­ru­ary.  We wish him well and made sure he had all that was need­ed to get a good start in life on his own.  He will receive food from us for the next 2 months as his first pay­check will be delayed. He also received pots and pans, bed­ding, and oth­er kitchen items.
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING HELDER’S DREAM A REALITY!
 
BBC CROWDS ARE GROWING!
 
This week, the word is out that the fun times are back with our BBC teams!  The motor­bike teams saw their crowds DOUBLE to over 800 chil­dren per day.
 

Praise and wor­ship starts each BBC pro­gram.
https://youtu.be/BrlV6PyASN0
 
The pho­tos tell the sto­ry as our teams play games to attract the chil­dren, then teach them about Jesus under the near­est shade tree.
 

Teach­ing a new game to the Bawana vil­lage chil­dren.
 

Bible stores help the chil­dren vizual­ize what the Youth Leader is explain­ing.
 
MILK PROGRAM EXPANDING AS MORE TWINS ARE NEEDING HELP
 
Josi­na and her 3 week old twins, Vic­tor and Vic­to­ria, are the lat­est to be admit­ted into our INFANT MILK FORMULA PROGRAM.  This pro­gram serves most­ly orphaned infants that would per­ish if not for our help. We also assist moth­ers who are mal­nour­ished and there­fore have no breast milk.  The 3rd cat­e­go­ry assist­ed are moth­ers with twins who are approach­ing 30 days of age.  It is rare to find a moth­er in our Dis­trict with enough breast milk to sat­is­fy 2 fast grow­ing infants. With our help, the twins are able to flour­ish and main­tain a con­stant growth rate.
 

Moth­er Josi­na learns how to mix infant for­mu­la from Assis­tant Chil­dren’s Direc­tor, Fati­ma.
 
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MAKE THIS PROGRAM POSSIBLE.
TOGETHER, WE ARE SAVING LIVES, 1 CHILD AT A TIME.
 
 BLESSINGS FROM BALAMA,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG: OCTOBER 1, 2022

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 1, 2022
 
BBC BRINGING MULTITUDES TO CHRIST
 
This week the BBC motor­bike team and bicy­cle teams vis­it­ed a new set of vil­lages lead­ing over 250 chil­dren to Christ.
 

10 Chil­dren accept­ed Jesus in Maco vil­lage this week.
 

Over 70 came to Jesus in Mariri vil­lage on Thurs­day this week.
 
On Sep­tem­ber 30th, I met with our 16 Vil­lage Pas­tors who eager­ly restart­ed their BBC pro­grams ear­li­er this month. They report­ed 47 new children’s sal­va­tions after min­is­ter­ing to 963 chil­dren in 30 vil­lages.  Many of the 963 chil­dren they min­is­tered too had already received Jesus before the Covid out­break stopped our pro­gram. 
 
Now the teach­ing begins of how to walk dai­ly with Jesus. Jesus is mov­ing in a pow­er­ful way among the Bala­ma youth, and it is AWESOME to watch. 
 
Tug-of-war
 

Teach­ing tug-of-war to the lit­tle ones.
https://youtu.be/oeENO54I_LI
 
Tak­ing Bala­ma for Jesus is our goal! For the chil­dren are the “good ground”, will­ing to lis­ten and open their hearts to the One who sent their lit­tle spir­its into this world.
 
SUNDAY SALVATION REPORTS FROM VILLAGE CHURCHES
 

Vil­lage Pas­tors receive their quar­ter­ly food allot­ment donat­ed by a very gen­er­ous man of God.
 
VILLAGE CHURCHES SUNDAY SALVATIONS
CHILDREN: 416 (Sun­day School Class­es)
TEENAGERS: 55
ADULTS: 38
 
DAVE DEBOER RETURNS TO THE USA
 
Dave was a great help and inspi­ra­tion to both me and the chil­dren dur­ing his 20-day vis­it.
 

Dave gave out bal­loons this last Sun­day to all the Sun­day School atten­dees mak­ing 50+ plus chil­dren very hap­py!
 
His gift is HELPS and he does it with gus­to! 
 

Dave Deboer was a great hit with the vil­lage wid­ows dur­ing the food give outs.
 
It was hard to keep him busy as he com­plet­ed any task giv­en in record time. Fly­ing out on Wednes­day night to land in Atlanta, Geor­gia, put his plane right in the path of Hur­ri­cane Ian. We are grate­ful to the Lord for guid­ing those pilots to bring the plane in safe­ly just before the storm crossed their flight path. Dave is now safe­ly at home in Michi­gan get­ting much need­ed rest after 43.5 hours of trav­el.
 
WORDS TO LIVE BY:
Keep your eyes con­tin­u­ous­ly on Jesus, for He is com­ing soon!
  
BLESSINGS FROM BALAMA,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF