Three of the babies have fam­i­ly to care for them, but one of those babies was crit­i­cal, so I had to rush her to the emer­gency room to be admitted.

Baby Edna and her grand­moth­er need­ed more than just milk and a baby bottle.

BABY EDNA, THE NEWEST MEMBER OF OUR BALAMA FAMILY

Granny Ros­ali­na, Fos­ter Moth­er Bal­bi­na with Baby Edna in her arms, and Children’s Super­vi­sor, Annater­sia  (Anna-Ter-see-ah)

Meet Baby EDNA Sal­i­hi­na (Sal-eh-hee-nah), born Nov. 25, 2014, who now lives per­ma­nent­ly in our fos­ter home for girls.

PTL she is healthy, weigh­ing in at 3.5Kg (7.7 lbs) as a 4 month old.

Her moth­er died about a month ago, rea­son unde­ter­mined.  Granny Ros­ali­na (very up in age) brought Baby Edna to us imme­di­ate­ly to ask for milk, know­ing the lit­tle one would not sur­vive with­out it.

We watched Granny Rosa real­ly strug­gle these last 30 days, try­ing to care for Edna.  Liv­ing 8.5 miles (14 km) away, she suf­fered much to car­ry Edna to our milk dis­tri­b­u­tion point each week, as no oth­er fam­i­ly mem­ber exists to help car­ry the baby that long dis­tance.  Granny, very thin and unhealthy her­self, knows she will not live to see the lit­tle one grow up, and asked us to take her into our care.

With a few phone calls, Cape­na, our office man­ag­er, con­vinced Social ser­vices to allow us to adopt her since no oth­er fam­i­ly exists.

Granny will receive food every 2 weeks at our widow’s and orphan give out, since she was only eat­ing the star­va­tion root called Casa­va.  She is very hap­py to get to vis­it Baby Edna when she fetch­es her food.

BABY EDNA needs a spon­sor for $30/month, as she is already on Baby Food and for­mu­la, and eat­ing well. 

MAPUTO HERE WE COME

Left to Right: Mario, (now in dri­ving school, so he stayed behind), with Car­l­i­tos and dri­ver Manuel about to depart for Maputo with truck and trailer.

MANUEL and CARLITOS drove out at dawn on Thurs­day morn­ing to begin the 5 day dri­ve to Maputo (Nation­al Cap­i­tal of Moz.) for our once a year sup­ply run.

On Mon­day, 16th, Cape­na and Stephen will “hold down the fort” in Bala­ma, while I will fly to Maputo.  Our truck team will fetch me at the air­port for the 1 hour dri­ve into South Africa.

Once across the bor­der, we will ren­dezvous with Eric Dry (who has the supplies,)

This saves us 2 days dri­ving, not hav­ing to go all the way to Pre­to­ria. PTL FOR ERIC!  (He is still a very vital part of our team, as he now acts as our liai­son for what­ev­er we need.)

Once loaded, we will return to Moz. and sleep overnight.  I will fly back with the heat sen­si­tive sup­plies on the plane, and the truck will dri­ve for 4 days to bring the rest.

I will not have e‑mail ser­vice from 16th to 19th, so any mes­sages will not be answered until I return to Bala­ma next Friday.

ISRAEL NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS!

Friends of mine, Julie and Alf Saun­ders are car­ing for orphans and doing a fan­tas­tic work among the poor in the Golan Heights area of north­ern Israel.

This area is just south of Syr­ia, and is a big “hot spot” with many chal­lenges at this time.  Please keep them and all those liv­ing in that area in your prayers.

It is report­ed that there is a heavy accu­mu­la­tion of troops just 6 miles across the bor­der from there.

SOLAR ECLIPSE HAPPENS THIS WEEK ON MARCH 20TH

WITH THE 3RD BLOOD MOON FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND ON APRIL 4TH!

GOD IS SHAKING THE HEAVENLIES, SO KEEP YOUR SPIRITUAL EYES SENSITIVE TO WHAT THE LORD IS ABOUT TO DO.

TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE WORLDWIDE!

PRAYER AND PRAISE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL TOOLS THAT GOD GAVE US.  SO BOMB THE HEAVENLIES.  FORCE DEMONS TO FLEE YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE YOU PRAY FOR!

JESUS WINS! YEAH!!!!

Bless­ings from Balama,

Bush Bun­ny Brenda

Steven Miller