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
ZITO FACES MAJOR LEG SURGERY AGAIN On Wednesday, November 27th, the head orthopaedic surgeon in Pemba will perform an exploratory surgery on Zito’s leg as osteomyelitis is a very difficult infection to stop. After speaking to an OR (operating room) nurse very familiar with this problem, she stated that it is not unusual for patients to need more than 1 surgery to eradicate the infection from
ZITO’S SURGERY FAILS TO RESOLVE INFECTION The surgeon opened Zito’s hip muscle to find a large pus pocket which she thoroughly cleaned out. The source of the problem was not located, so he was kept on IV Antibiotics for 5 days before being released. Once home, and on oral antibiotics, his wound began draining pus from the incision within 3 days. A call to the Provincial
TINY BABY ANGELINA JOINS OUR FAMILY Baby Angelina, weight 2.45kg (5lbs.) at 30 days Angelina only weighed 2 kg (4.4 lbs) when born on October 4, 2019. Sadly, her mother passed away on October 24 from postpartum complications, and her father is in the hospital suffering the final stages of tuberculosis. Angelina’s very elderly Granny Clementina tried her best for 2 weeks to care for the
ZITO NEEDS MINOR SURGERY Doctors suspect Zito has an internal suture that did not dissolve after his major hip surgery in July, for he developed a fistula (pus pocket) in his hip suture line that will not heal. Three weeks of antibiotics did not resolve it, so the only solution is for the Montepuez surgeon to go in under anesthesia to find the source. Capena, our