FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: September 3, 2017 O.U. STAFF AND OUR FAMILIES ARE SAFE AFTER HURRICANE YES, our office survived the storm as it is located in one of the few areas that did not flood, PTL! HOWEVER, our Houston Post Office is still underwater after a week, and all mail service in most of the Houston area has stopped. More on that below as there is
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: August 27, 2017 WET AND WILD IS THE NAME OF THE GAME! Larry Friend, .….”,God’s good and faithful servant.” SIXTY FOUR Men and women from 3 Districts (counties) devoured the Word of God as Larry Friend poured out his heart during our 5 day Bawana Bible Conference. The afternoons rocked with laughter as the adults learned new games by “playing like kids”. The finale
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: August 20, 2017 ELEPHANT VILLAGE CHILDREN SHOCK BAWANA LEADER Wednesday this week found Bawana Leader, Carlitos Jorge, and our MELUCO food distribution team in the Elephant Village where 119 orphans live. While the team distributed the food to the widows, Carlitos started playing games with the children. Word spread like wildfire and by Bible Lesson Time, 163 children had showed up to play
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: August 12, 2017 WHAT CAME IN, NOW GOING OUT Older sister, an orphan herself, is caring for her four siblings in the Kwe Kwe area. August is always the first food distributions to the orphans living in a remote villages with their Grandmother or Aunt in Balama District. Aunts and Grannies getting their 4kg (8.8 lbs.) of beans/child for the month. (Tiuane area)
PROVENTIAL GOVERNMENT SURPRISES OUR CHILDREN On Friday, Capena received a call saying multiple government officials from the Health and Social Services Depts. wanted to visit our children. They did not reveal their real objective until they arrived for they wanted to surprise the children with 2 large gift boxes of clothing. (Foreground) Senhora Deolinda, Provencial Chief of Department for Social Services distributes clothing to the children
A WEEK OF PUSHING FORWARD WITH JESUS LEADING THE WAY It’s been a week of just “digging and doing” as we call it. What missionaries do “behind the scenes” is not always exciting, but it is always rewarding to see the job “well done” when it is over. 1. All BBC teams continue to make large impacts on over 13,000 village children. With school holidays in progress, all teams report
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: July 22, 2017 ELEPHANT VILLAGE ORPHANS FACE ANIMAL CHALLENGES For our new readers, Imbada, better known as the Elephant Village, is on the eastern border of a massive game reserve in the Meluco District of northern Mozambique. Why the name Elephant Village? Elephants come out of the nearby reserve to invade the farmer’s fields just before May harvest. They eat their corn and
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: July 15, 2017 THERE IS LIFE AFTER CORN BUYING! That’s how our ENTIRE staff felt as we started a “normal” week last Monday after 6 weeks of intense food buying. Black eye peas (110+ TONS), June corn (180 TONS), rice (27 TONS), peanuts (1.5 TONS), Juko beans (1.7 TONS), Montega beans (1.5 TONS), and FINALLY, the big finale with
IT’S ALL ABOUT TEAM WORK! June 10, 2017 YOUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED, for we had a smooth time of corn and bean buying without one accident! Our 3 truck crews of 9 men each, and the 75 man barn crew showed great skill in getting the job done. The program ran smoother than I’ve ever seen it happen. NAVIGATING THIS LADDER OF BEAN SACKS ‚WITH A SACK
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG JUNE 3, 2017 NATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY PARTY ! OUR YOUNGEST JOIN IN THE FEAST. JUANITA ( FAR RIGHT), IS WALKING NOW. THE KIDS LOVE THEIR PARTY HATS. HOW CUTE! HAND WSHING A MUST BEFORE DIGGING IN FOR LUNCH. Games, prizes, great food, and lots of laughs, was the scenario for the 150+ kids at our party on June 1st (National Children’s Day in Moz.) The Sack races and