FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”DATE: OCTOBER 20, 2018 VILLAGE TEEN CHALLENGE Youth Lead­ers Berti­no and Daude togeth­er with our teenage orphan boys put out a soc­cer chal­lenge. The first to respond were the teens in the Man­go Tree Church vil­lage of Mpaca. (pop­u­la­tion 5000+ peo­ple). Objec­tive: To tell the Teens and the large crowd about the love of Jesus. Our team, the BUFFALOS, in light shorts, vs the Man­go Team in dark shorts. WHY  A SPECIAL CHALLENGE? Few old­er teenagers come

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: OCTOBER 20, 2018 TWO NEW VILLAGES RECEIVE BAWANA GAMES! Car­l­i­tos Jorge and his band of mer­ry men rode into 2 very remote, unreached vil­lages this last Wednes­day to set up their games for the first time. These vil­lages are not huge, but they drew a good crowd as they taught the chil­dren how to play the games. Car­l­i­tos Jorge with some of the children

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: OCTOBER 13, 2018 TEN ORPHANS RECEIVE NEW BEDS IN THEIR NEW HOME Thanks to a very gen­er­ous donor in San Anto­nio, TX, our orphaned/abandoned group of 8 chil­dren (ages 3 to 12), plus 2 small infants, now live in a new, very com­fort­able “super com­plex”. The kids were so very excit­ed to move in last week, and could not stay out of their

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: OCTOBER 6, 2018 BBB BODY GUARD SAVES DE BUNNY Mario “BIG” is the tallest, strongest, Jesus Lov­ing man on our staff.  As my body­guard and a qual­i­fied dri­ver, Mario trav­els with me when I go out of Bala­ma Dis­trict. Yes­ter­day,  he was help­ing me pick up extra beds for the” soon to arrive” fam­i­ly of 9 orphaned/ mal­nour­ished chil­dren from a remote vil­lage. As

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 BBC NOW 6 MOTORBIKES STRONG! Two new faces who attend­ed our August Pastor’s Con­fer­ence have now com­plet­ed their BBC basic train­ing. They began their “field tri­als” with BAWANA GAMES this week by rid­ing out with the BBC Motor­bike Team. As I write this, they are out play­ing games with over 1,000 chil­dren in 3 remote vil­lages of Bala­ma. Chil­dren intently

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 TWO BABIES SAVED BY YOUR LOVE Each Thurs­day is food give out for the orphans who live near our mis­sion sta­tion. Weigh­ing the babies who receive milk for­mu­la is manda­to­ry. Baby Ahselmina’s (Ah-sel-meen-ah) is 6 months old, and very mal­nour­ished even though she has been in our pro­gram for 90 days. Her poor weight gain the last 3 weeks, as well as

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 NEWBORN BABIES NEED OUR HELP In the last 7 days, our staff received 3 new­born babies need­ing for­mu­la because their moth­ers are hos­pi­tal­ized and not pro­duc­ing breast milk. These inno­cent lit­tle ones deserve a chance to live, but can­not do so with­out life- sav­ing for­mu­la. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR  YOUR GENEROUS LOVE GIFTS THAT HELP MEET THIS NEED. At present

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 THE OLD COMES DOWN SO THE NEW CAN BE BUILT While I am in RSA fetch­ing the life sav­ing Hypo food pack­ets for our mal­nour­ished babies, the build­ing team helpers (bet­ter known as the trac­tor group) is tak­ing down 2 of our 10 year old “granny homes”. This makes way for 2 new orphan homes donat­ed by 2 very generous

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: AUGUST 18, 2018 SOAK IT UP AND BE DRENCHED IN GOD’S WORD! THE ANNUAL BAWANA PASTOR’S CONFERENCE was tru­ly a “soak­ing event” both spir­i­tu­al­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. Aimed at learn­ing more about sto­ry-telling, repen­tance, con­fes­sion, integri­ty, and the Holy Spir­it, these men all claimed that they left “too full” to absorb it all. Lar­ry and friends gift­ed a t‑shirt to each of the 68 atten­dees. The 3 days of after-lunch

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: AUGUST 25, 2018 BABY SANTOS NOW 5 MONTHS WITH A HEFTY APPETITE! Granny Josephi­na decid­ed this week it was time to return to Rovu­ma to care for her 5 old­er grand­chil­dren who were orphaned when Baby San­tos was born. Friends report­ed to us that the chil­dren were strug­gling under their uncle’s care, and real­ly need­ed their granny. Granny Josephine with Uncle and 5

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