BEANS, BEANS, AND MORE BEANS! Over the course of only TWO DAYS our fabulous staff and team of pastors delivered 110 tons of beans from all over the county (District) with rented trucks. Processing followed over the next 3 days and those beans are now neatly stacked in our bean barn. Job well done by our team, as their energy and ability to persevere till the job is done shows their love for the
DAVE DEBOER VISITING FOR 3 WEEKS Dave is busy following me around while taking video footage of all that is going on in the many facets of our mission. With his footage, our office staff hope to put together a short video for our website. We want all of you to feel “more clued in” on what is going on around here. Keep our Balama team in
BUNNY IN PEMBA DAVE DEBOER flies in late afternoon today to help me with food buying for next 3 weeks. JOY JOY JOY does not describe how happy I am for his helping hand. This is his 6th trip to help, so he truly knows what needs doing. We’ll be “hoofing” it back to Balama first thing tomorrow. With massive road construction now in progress through all of
GOD SAYS GO, SO WE WENT! Tuesday (May 14) delivery looked bleak for the essential 120 building beams and the 140 tin sheets needed by that night. Without these 2 items, our team would have to delay their 3:30 am departure the next day. SO WE PRAYED AND GOD SAID GO! When He speaks, we listen, and prepared to go by faith and trusted that all would
MIRACLE HEALING SAVES JESUINO’S LIFE! Thursday at midnight I was called out for a medical emergency with Jesuino, our newest 16-month-old baby who is still immune challenged. He was in severe respiratory distress and sweating with fever. Medical personnel quickly got him treatment with antibiotics, a fever reducer, and a baby bronchodilator, BUT after 30 minutes, he was not responding as expected. Our team prayed more specifically against the
ORPHANED DURING THE CYCLONE Baby Nelita, a 6‑month-old girl, was orphaned in a remote village on April 25th as Cyclone Kenneth hit northern Mozambique. The rainfall was so intense for the following 4 days, that her 2 uncles could not bring her to the hospital to request assistance. With the mother deceased from severe post-malaria anemia, the 2 uncles had no way to feed Nelita during
IT ISN’T OVER YET! First, I really appreciate all of you who prayed that we would be kept safe. But this isn’t over yet, so please keep the prayer chains going. The storm is now south of Balama, BUT will still cause much rain in the Balama area through this Thursday. And some of the weather forecast models are concerned it could regenerate! That means the storm cell
BBB DESCRIBING OUR LAST FEW HOURS BEFORE CYCLONE KENNETH MAKES LANDFALL AT 8pm Wed. night, the rains began in Pemba and had not stopped as of Thursday morning. I knew our time was limited, so I asked our crew to do what seemed impossible. FIRST: we distributed food to all our homes at 5a.m. SECOND: Our crew began loading ALL the food we had left (more
CYCLONE KENNETH TO HIT OUR BALAMA AREA BY THURSDAY NIGHT Prayer power is needed to help our orphans and widows to escape any dangerous situations caused by heavy rains, winds, and flash flooding. Balama and Meluco are both high areas, but flashfloods could sweep through both areas due to heavy rains. Most likely we will lose phone and internet for the duration of the storm (Sunday, 27th), and
EASTER, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE! YOU ARE THE REASON, FOR THE ENTIRE O.U. FAMILY WALKS “HAND IN HAND” TO HELP THE INNOCENT. And no one is more innocent than a newborn infant like baby Santos. Born on Good Friday 2018, he now celebrates 1 year of life! Santos and grandmother, 10 days after birth. With a birth weight of 2.8 Kg (6 lbs.), this tiny little boy survived against