BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2019 BABY JESUINO ALMOST LOST HIS FIGHT FOR LIFE JESUINO started with a fever late Tuesday night, which developed into full blown malaria by Wednesday morning. Even with oral malaria treatment, his emaciated body quickly lost strength by Thursday morning. The malaria kills the red blood cells causing severe ANEMIA, the most common killer of post malaria babies and young children. Jesuino
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: FEBRUARY 9, 2019 SCHOOL DAYS, SCHOOL DAYS, OUR MOMS ARE CELEBRATING SCHOOL DAYS! Monday found our staff busy distributing backpacks filled with the appropriate books, pens, pencils, rulers, etc. for each grade level from 1 to 12. The kids are thrilled for it means new school uniforms and shoes! Village orphans receiving school materials. ALL OF THIS IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE YOU GAVE SO
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: FEBRUARY 2, 2019 EXPECTED 4, RECEIVED 10!!! Our whirlwind week starting at 8 a.m. Monday morning with a call from Balama’s Social Services Director. He had a critically malnourished 1 year old orphan boy, (4.3kg) (9.5 lbs), who needed immediate placement with us. An hour later he was in our care. JESUINO UPON ADMISSION, JANUARY 26, 2018. Sorely neglected by his Aunt, little Jesuino’s (Jez-wee-noo) body
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: JANUARY 26, 2019 POWERFUL TROPICAL STORM GIVES FATIMA EXTRA DAYS IN BALAMA If anyone has a doubt at how the Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways, then read on. Sunday, Jan. 20th, a friend, Karen, in Ohio sent me a late night notice on messenger. A tropical storm with 40 mph (68 km) winds was approaching the Mozambique coast very near where
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: JANUARY 19, 2019 FOUR NEW ORPHANS MOVING INTO VICTORY HOUSE NEXT WEEK An overwhelmed Grandmother with 5 hungry, orphaned grandchildren, 4 children of her own, 1 infant grandchild, and a disabled husband, defines a “family in a difficult situation”. All 12 are living in one small mud hut in the village of Kionga. When this family was brought to our attention just
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: JANUARY 12, 2019 DUCK DAYS CONTINUE AS RAINY SEASON LIVES UP TO IT’S NAME Our rain-out days are lovingly called “DUCK DAYS” because the only happy creatures are the Ducks. January/February are Balama’s heaviest rainy days each year. We did manage on Monday and Tuesday to build up all the walls of Orphan House #6 to the 2 meter (6.5 ft.) level. The ring beam
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: JANUARY 5, 2019 “BIG SURPRISE” MAKES HAPPY FACES IN THE NEW YEAR! You never heard such a commotion, when 24 kids began jumping for joy after being told they got to pick out a toy at the local market! When I went to Pemba in early Dec., all I could find were baby gifts. Sincerely frustrated, I told our Staff, who quickly pointed
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: DECEMBER 29, 2018 CHRISTMAS PARTY/NEW YEARS PARTY A BIG SUCCESS! On Christmas Day, the Lord blessed us with Sunshine after 14 DAYS OF RAIN! With water standing on our playground, we prayed for a dry week and set the canceled Christmas Party for Friday, Dec. 28th. God honored our prayers, and weather patterns returned to normal. Raining only in the late afternoon or
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG DATE: DECEMBER 22, 2018 DUCK DAYS A DAWNING! Little was accomplished by anyone in Balama this week due to over 5 inches of rain since Tuesday. (It’s still raining as I write this.) We don’t have tar roads yet, so traveling on mud slick roads is very difficult even with 4 wheel drive. One mistake and you are in the ditch for possibly several days.
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: DECEMBER 15, 2018 CAST FREE AFTER 11.5 MONTHS!!! PASTOR FRED FROM ROVUMA is now walking without his cast for the first time in 11.5 months! For our new readers, on December 24th, 2017 the BBC TEAM motorbike carrying Carlitos Jorge and Pastor Fred was rammed in the right side by another motorbike. The impact was so forceful it BENT THE BIKE FRAME and