FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: APRIL 4, 2020 BOARD MEMBER, J.L. OBENHAUS, DANCING WITH JESUS J.L. OBENHAUS, an Orphans Unlim­it­ed Board Mem­ber and dear friend, grad­u­at­ed to heav­en on April 3rd after a bout with Pneu­mo­nia (not Covid-19 relat­ed).  Long­time Orphans Unlim­it­ed board mem­ber, J.L. Oben­haus  J.L. LOVED JESUS! J.L. was always help­ing some­one, which is what Jesus expects of all of us. An active church mem­ber, ranch­er, gar­den­er, and lover

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Today our Bala­ma Doc­tor vis­it­ed our chil­dren, giv­ing them all a health check. They passed with fly­ing col­ors! Jesuino kept the doc­tor busy as he thought his stetho­scope and mask would be fun to play with!​ Baby Angeli­na being weighed by doc­tor as fos­ter moth­er Bal­bi­na looks on. Daniel, 1st grad­er, get­ting his check up.​  On Thurs­day, the Bala­ma Direc­tor of Health vis­it­ed our staff and chil­dren to teach

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  SURPRISE!  IT’S TRIPLETS! Wednes­day, a moth­er was brought to us on a bicy­cle with a baby girl on her back. Noth­ing unusu­al, as that hap­pens all the time. But her doc­u­ment from Social Ser­vices said THREE-DAY-OLD TRIPLETS! I asked where are the oth­er 2 babies? She told us they were “on the way” with 2 oth­er women, as her 40 year old legs couldn’t han­dle the

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MARCH 14, 2020   DOING WHAT’S NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE THANKS TO 2 VERY GENEROUS DONORS, we have been chal­lenged to dou­ble the size of our con­struc­tion team, and raise 2 major con­struc­tion sites simul­ta­ne­ous­ly. ORPHAN COMPLEX #7 This project began last Novem­ber, but had to be halt­ed when heavy rains made it impos­si­ble to get our equip­ment to the site. It was restart­ed last week

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: MARCH 7, 2020   6 YEAR OLDS LEARN BAWANA GAMES Each year, as our preschool­ers advance into 1st grade, Berti­no (Bawana leader), is tasked with teach­ing them how to com­pete in Bawana Games. Run­ning with all their might!​ 1st graders work­ing on hand slap team tag. These lit­tle ones have watched the games for 2 years, but found out that the expe­ri­enced “Big Kids” make

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BALAMA BUSH PASTORS BRINGING IN THE SOULS  FRIDAY was our month­ly Pas­tors meet­ing, and despite the heavy rains, they con­tin­ue to meet with vil­lage believ­ers and are reap­ing a har­vest of souls. PTL! SALVATIONS IN FEBRUARY:  Adults 35     Teens 35     Chil­dren 90  Bala­ma Bush Pas­tors end­ing the month­ly meet­ing with prayer and Thanks­giv­ing.​ Bawana games in these 46 vil­lages reached 13,641 chil­dren with God’s Word. I praise the Lord Jesus for

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ORPHANS GET FRESH START THANKS TO LOCAL WIDOWS  “IT TAKES A VILLAGE” to care for a child who has lost their par­ents. That phrase is tak­en lit­er­al­ly around here. OUR JESUS-LOVING VILLAGE is made up of wid­owed grannies and aunts who desire to “make a dif­fer­ence” in the lives of these orphans. Dis­abled or elder­ly makes no dif­fer­ence. It is their love for Jesus and His chil­dren that counts! Our

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TRIALS TO TRIUMPH! Tues­day night at 7pm, 17-year-old orphan Ivo­dia called me in a pan­ic to say their Fos­ter Moth­er, Berti­na, had been hit by light­ning! A HORRIBLE THUNDERSTORM was in progress at that moment which caused hor­i­zon­tal light­ning flash­es along the ground. I raced to my car, call­ing Cape­na, our office man­ag­er, to join me. Togeth­er, we slopped through 6 inch­es of mud­dy road in my 4

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ADDER (RATTLESNAKE) BIT PASTOR ALBERTO LAST NIGHT! Pas­tor Alber­to was walk­ing to his mud hut at 6pm (dark) last night in Namuno District/county, 25 miles (42 km) south of our Bala­ma mis­sion, when he was bit­ten by a well cam­ou­flaged Adder (rat­tlesnake with­out a rat­tle, thus no warn­ing). They are called the “silent killers” in Africa for they wait till their prey prac­ti­cal­ly puts a foot

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URGENT PRAYER REQUEST Pas­tor Alber­to was bit­ten by an Adder (rat­tlesnake fam­i­ly) just now. He is in coun­ty south of us and we can’t get to him. Youth Pas­tor, Berti­no, his son, has gone by motor­bike in the night on a dan­ger­ous road to try and reach him. Please PRAY, PRAY, PRAY! Bush Bun­ny Brenda