FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: July 1, 2023 REGGIE IS STANDING!!! Reggie standing with chair support and almost taking a step towards Capena After a very long 2 years of treatments, Reggie finally won the fight against the very rare disease of Bone Tuberculosis and a broken femur due to fragile bones. Her tiny 7.7kg/19lb. body has struggled to gain weight and strength. On Thursday, June 29th, Reggie showed
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JUNE 23, 2023 URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FOR ELISA AND EVA Elisa, the elderly grandmother to our Cerebral Palsy orphan Eva, had a stroke this week and is in the Balama hospital. You may remember Eva, who enjoyed working to remove the rice hulls. Eva enjoys pounding the rice to remove the hull Eva was only 2 when her mother died, leaving her to be raised by
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JUNE 17, 2023 NEW HOME FOR TODDLERS Our 2 baby homes are busting at the seams as they host 18 of our 24 toddler/infants in residence. Time to get serious about building more bedrooms. The area next to our Ostrich House was vacated by a widow who moved in with her son, so we tore down that mud house. That gives us room to
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JUNE 10, 2023 BEANS IN THE BARN IN RECORD TIME! Thanks to a great team effort, we weighed, processed, and stored 108 TONS of dried beans in 5 days! It took a monumental effort to do this with our 106-man team (no machines). To let you in on a secret, the entire team requested we take 6 days next year to not be so hard on our bodies. I
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JUNE 3, 2023 NATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY PARTY (JUNE 1ST ) WAS LOADS OF FUN! National Children’s Day is a day set aside to honor and celebrate the children of Mozambique. Everyone except the High School has a school holiday. June 1 is a day of recognition, parties, gift giving and enjoying a special meal. Before sitting down to our feast, the children wanted
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MAY 27, 2023 BUSH BUNNY BIRTHDAY BASH! It was an hour of great fellowship and delicious food on Friday, the 26th, with the 3 Catholic Sisters who live down the road from me. These ladies love to celebrate birthdays, and since I’m the only missionary at our base, they always include me in their Birthday Calendar events. Birthday girl Brenda, with Sister Teresa who
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MAY 20, 2023 BABIES ANCHA AND ELSA: On Thursday this week I visited House # 7 to find baby ANCHA starting to walk! The video shows Ancha in the act along with baby Elsa who has been walking for several weeks now. Baby Elsa is 1 day YOUNGER than Baby Ancha. Read on and you will realize why all of us are so excited that
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MAY 13, 2023 UNDERWEIGHT TWINS JOIN OUR FAMILY CRECENCIA (girl), and CRECENCIO (her twin brother) lost both their parents last year to an untimely incident. Their Aunt, who lived nearby, was unable to care for these 7‑month-old babies as she had little food, and a house full of family to care for. Another Mozambican family offered to care for these twins, but they didn’t
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MAY 6, 2023 BABY REGINALDA IN HOSPITAL Baby Reggie, as we call her, has resistant malaria, meaning the oral treatment didn’t stop it, so she needed IV medication treatments for 5 days. This is her 3rd day of treatment, and she is showing progress, but still needs prayer, as her immune system is weak. Her Hemoglobin was only 9.2 upon admission when it
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: APRIL 29, 2023 THE REST OF THE STORY ON GRANNY AND THE KIDS On Monday, our driver Mario fetched the entire family of Baby Luisa at their village mud hut. Capena, our office manager and I wanted to make sure that all the children were in good health, and we had new clothing for them once we knew their sizes. Mario told me the