FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 2021 VISITORS A HUGE SUCCESS! This week Jessica and Stephanie held art classes, taught the children new games, and held puppet classes! The Puppet classes excited everyone, as most of the younger children were too little to become Puppeteers when this was taught several years ago. So, this time, a bench full of little boys got their turn at making the puppets talk. Making
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2021 CHRISTMAS BEFORE THANKSGIVING? That’s a new one for me, but it’s exactly what happened when the MAF plane landed Friday, just 60 minutes from our mission station.Eric Dry connected with the plane in southern Mozambique to hand off lots of Christmas suckers and candy earlier this week as well as the essential supplies we can only get outside this country. The
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 13, 2021 LEARNING RESPONSIBILTY THE TOUGH WAY TAMACINA, age 14, is the young lady on the far right in the cooking pan photo. She has 4 siblings, a deceased mother, and a crippled father whom she cares for. All the children in this family work hard by fetching water, firewood, and keeping their mud hut area clean.Since there is no way this
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2021 TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK Houses 6 (Zebras) and 7 (Leopards) work hand-in-hand together to ensure their 8 infants are well cared for whenever a Foster Mother needs to run to the market, or just take a break. Better known as a “Built-In Baby Sitter” service. The famous 8 Foster Mothers of Houses 6 and 7 with their fast-growing crew of
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 30, 2021 MIRACLE IN MANAPO! After 4 days of prayer, a 63-year-old woman who lost the strength in 1 leg after suffering a stroke 18 months ago, AROSE FROM HER BED AND BEGAN TO WALK! Manapo is so remote that only a motorbike can get there, but Pastor Jaime says this is now a super excited village after witnessing this healing,
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 23, 2021 FINAL FOOD AND SEED GIVE OUT Our area had a freak rain storm on Tuesday night that left water standing in low spots. OCTOBER has always been hot and dry, so this Godly warning told us all that the rains are coming early, get your fields ready for planting! This week marked our final food give outs to the 1,144
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 16, 2021 BABIES? NOT ANY MORE! I was shocked as I exited my King Cab pick-up to see 3 of our “now walking babies” come RUNNING to the fence to greet me. Little Fatima’s Foster Mother, Cecelia, was nearby so I asked her, “Did I just see Fatima RUN to the fence?” Cecelia shook her head yes, saying “It is her favorite speed now!” L
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 9, 2021 REGINALDA COMES HOME! Tuesday, we were blessed to have BABY REGINALDA released from the hospital after a 12 day stay due to malaria which caused serious anemia. Seven months old, but weighing only 4.7kg/10.3 lbs., this infant was in serious danger. Malaria destroys red blood cells, so if an infant is borderline anemic, which she was, then malaria can wipe out her blood supply very quickly.
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 2, 2021 “ON FIRE” PASTORS REAPING A HARVEST At the end of each month, our 14 remote Village Pastors converge on our Balama mission station to report what has happened in the last 30 days. End of September completed the 3rd quarter of this year, meaning it was food distribution time for these men who receive a quarterly food allowance, thanks to
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 BABIES LOVING PLAYTIME With 12 infants in our care, I have warned the mothers that the “fun” times are coming when all 12 start walking!I’ll call it chas’em and corral’em! Eight of the twelve are now officially “toddling” or crawling while the other 4 are “observing their siblings” and thinking about crawling. I want to share 2 impromptu photos I snapped