FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 5, 2020 KIDS TEACHING KIDS   Our old­er teens are expand­ing their hori­zons by learn­ing to teach our younger chil­dren. This week we assigned small groups for the pri­ma­ry school­ers, so our high school­ers could help them 3 days a week with their math and Por­tuguese.  Fri­day, it was exer­cise day, so the young­sters began learn­ing aer­o­bics. Exer­cise class. Kids teach­ing kids.​Click for video—>  https://youtu.be/8Kj7RR2ROrQ

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 28, 2020 MURALS BRIGHTEN BEDROOMS TOO! Your lov­ing response to our mur­al project was won­der­ful! THANK YOU FOR BRINGING JOY TO OUR CHILDREN’S FACES! Your gifts cov­ered the cost of the large lunch­room murals of Noah with the Ark, and Adam in Cre­ation.  Daniel in Lions room in boys’ room House #6.​ Murals for House 7 will be done as soon as paint­ing can begin. Our

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2020 JESUS RAISES FOSTER MOTHER FROM CERTAIN DEATH VANEZA, head moth­er of House #6, was hit behind the right ear this last Mon­day, at 9 a.m. by an out-of-con­trol woman yield­ing a strong piece of fire­wood. At the police sta­tion, Vaneza gave her tes­ti­mo­ny, and was then prompt­ly sent to the hos­pi­tal.  Treat­ed and released with no obvi­ous symp­toms, Vaneza was at our

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 14, 2020 A YEAR ROUND GIFT THAT DELIGHTS ALL A mur­al paint­ed on a wall delights all who see it. A month ago, I saw a mur­al some­one had paint­ed at the local high school. One of our staff found out who the painter was, so I invit­ed him to our office to find out if he could paint ani­mal scenes and

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 7, 2020 BABY QUISTON JOINS OUR FAMILY  Begin­ning to look like a baby nurs­ery in all 5 of our chil­dren’s homes for young chil­dren. With 8‑month-old Quis­ton (Key-ston) join­ing our fam­i­ly on Thurs­day, we now have 11 babies in our care. Quis­ton’s Granny has strug­gled since May to han­dle this lit­tle boy, as she is elder­ly her­self and the youngest fam­i­ly mem­ber remain­ing. Knowing

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 31, 2020 BABY MAEZINHA JOINS OUR FAMILY Last Sun­day,  Granny Aluina, whom I intro­duced you to last week, walked in from her vil­lage with the very ill baby girl, Maez­in­ha. (An error on the paper­work had me report this baby as a boy in last week’s blog.) Maez­in­ha, 6 months old, is mal­nour­ished as she weighs only 5.2kg/11.4 lbs. She had a high

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2020 JOSEPH PROGRAM 2020 NOW COMPLETED! The Joseph Pro­gram is the name the Lord gave me for our Vil­lage Food Dis­tri­b­u­tion Pro­gram: Fill the barns in time of plen­ty and give out in the time of hunger.  Our staff has been busy doing just that since August 1, 2020. Orphans and wid­ows assist­ed TOTALED 1,864 in Bala­ma and Melu­co Dis­tricts. The pho­tos in

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2020 ORPHAN HOUSE #7—ROOFING IN PROGRESS! It’s a big job putting a roof on a house that is 71 feet/22 meters long. On Mon­day, Oct. 12th, I took video footage of the brick-lay­er team help­ing the 6 car­pen­ters lift up the 6 (SIX!!) 200 lb./90 kg truss­es onto the walls for prop­er posi­tion­ing. The car­pen­ters spent the next 4 days secur­ing the cross

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 10, 2020 FABULOUS FIVE MOVE INTO NEW HOME Wednes­day, the Fab­u­lous Five Teenagers hap­pi­ly moved into their new home. Our staff helped them extend mos­qui­to nets over their new beds, and get all their belong­ings moved to the new site. You can see many of the gifts 4 of the teens showed off on mov­ing day.New home, many gifts for Child Head­ed house­hold. Four­teen year old Fernando

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 3, 2020 HEALTHY TRIPLETS THANKS TO YOUR HELP Triplets Mar­cia, Marceli­na, and Marce­lo are now very healthy at 6 months as they all weigh over 14.5 lbs/6.6kg  thanks to your help.As you can see from their pho­to, they are chub­by lit­tle tykes, who began life at only a lit­tle over 2 kgs/4.5lbs each. Bala­ma town triplets Mar­cia, Marceli­na, and Marce­lo. The 2nd set

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