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

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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)

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 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

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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

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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

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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

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Beat Blog   FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: Novem­ber 12, 2016       VISITORS COMING TO BALAMA THIS WEEK Two of our USA friends, Dave and Lar­ry, will be arriv­ing this week to teach and take a look at our cur­rent pro­grams. The whole BAWANA pro­gram came into “being” here because of Dave’s vision for our chil­dren in Mozam­bique. Dave intro­duced me to Lar­ry, and the

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Bush Beat BlogF   FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: Sept.24,2016       FALLING FROM A TREE TODAY SERIOUSLY INJURES ONE OF OUR ORPHANS As I was busy writ­ing this blog, 3 neigh­bor­hood men walked up to my home car­ry­ing 9 year old orphan, Fer­nan­do.  He was uncon­scious after tak­ing a face first fall from a man­go tree near­by.  Seems his grand­moth­er was work­ing in her

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