RAINY SEASON REALITY IN REMOTE AFRICA Going the extra mile leaps to a new level when trying to deliver supplies to our isolated Meluco orphans. Driver Manel and Monsur, his helper, left our base after an all night rain at 5 a.m. Friday morning. Balama was wet, but Meluco reported a dry night.Since 2 bridges are out on the main road to Meluco, we had no choice but
RAINY SEASON COMPLICATES CONSTRUCTION, BUT GREAT FOR CROPS This week has us all “walking like ducks” as we wear our rubber boots to wade through muddy water puddles. Rainy Season “normal” for end of January and all of Feb. weather. We receive anywhere from 0.5 to 1 inch (12 to 25 mm) of rain per day. With our dirt roads, that means not even the mighty Toyota 4X4
BABY ANGELINA IN HOSPITAL WITH RESPIRATORY INFECTION With 9 babies in our care, and more than1 baby per house, it is a real challenge during the hot and humid rainy season to keep them from getting an Upper Respiratory Infection. Baby Angelina is only 3.5 months old, and the youngest in our care as of today. At about 1 a.m. Thursday morning (January 16), Baby Angelina
BABY NELITA RELEASED AND HOUSE # 6 IS NOW OPEN WITH 7 CHILDREN Baby Nelita, released late Friday, January 10th, is now happily in her NEW HOME at House #6. Enjoying her high protein diet, Nelita is still on oral antibiotics for 5 more days, as her ear and respiratory infections have not totally resolved. Her weight gain should accelerate now that her body is more healthy,
BABY NELITA IN HOSPITAL WITH 3 ILLNESSES We knew from the start that 1 year old Nelita’s immune system was weakened due to her malnutrition upon joining our family. A sinus infection, resistant to Amoxicillin, complicated by malaria put her in the hospital last Monday. Her CBC blood analysis showed she had another infection, but the Doctor could not pin point where. One day later, her
CHRISTMAS WITH OUR CHILDREN Fun games, great food, and a lively bunch of 150+ children made our Christmas Eve Day party an item to remember. See the video of our Christmas feast for 170+ children and foster mothers. THANKS TO YOU, OUR CHILDREN ARE HEALTHY, HAPPY, AND FULL OF ENERGY! See the video of 100+ kids enjoying a great obstacle race! TROPICAL STORM DELAYS OPENING OF
EVA TEACHES US ABOUT GIVING TO OTHERS EVA, our oldest resident at 21 is a young woman who never lets her Cerebral Palsy get in the way of her heart for Jesus. Taken to multiple witch doctors as an infant suffering from 6 seizures a day, Eva basically was a bedridden in a vegetative state. After prayer from our Pastors, her seizures reduced to only 2–3 per
EVANGELIZING THE MULTITUDES Our team of Pastors and BBC Youth Leaders did an outstanding job this year reaching the lost, and teaching God’s Word to over 37,000 people a month in 3 counties. Pastoral team praying together for bountiful harvest of souls. SALVATIONS: 1,443 — Includes all ages CHURCHES PLANTED: 7 HEALINGS: 14 — Includes a woman healed from a very poisonous snake bite just days ago, because
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2019 IT’S ALL ABOUT FAMILY With Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas a few weeks ahead, I wanted to share my gratitude to all of you who pray and send love gifts so that our children can flourish. Jesuino walking Independently as Mamma Rosa prepares breakfast. FATIMA RETURNS to complete her final 2 years of school, (11th and 12th grades), before launching out
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 30, 2019 A HAPPY PHOTO TO LEAD OFF THIS WEEK’S BLOG Happy kids on our super slide. ZITO’S SURGERY REVEALS BONE INFECTION THRIVINGAs I write, Zito is on his way back to us from the Pemba Hospital where he had surgery last Wednesday on his left hip. This THIRD SURGERY revealed that his continued drainage is AGAIN coming from his very infected femur bone. The surgeon