Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: OCTOBER 28, 2017 DE BUNNY IS BACK IN BALAMA! Sorry for the silence over the last 2 weeks, but bad weather knocked out the WIFI at Horseback Africa. HORSEBACK AFRICA WAS A THRILL! 400 hectares (1000 acres) of beautiful wilderness forests with lakes, small mountains, and a beautiful scenic overlook to the valley below. Took me back to younger days
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: OCTOBER 7, 2017 KEEP OUR STAFF IN YOUR PRAYERS: OUR TRUCKS KEEP ROLLING! THE BALAMA TEAM DISTRIBUTED 12 TONS of food in 2 days this week to 315 orphans and the 99 widows who care for them. LONG DISTANCE DRIVER MANUEL AND HIS 2 MAN TEAM TRANSPORTED another 210 sacks (12.6 TONS) to Meluco this week to completely fill that orphan warehouse
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 EVIL LOSES TO PRAYERS OF FAITH At 2 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, thieves broke into Manuel’s home. Manuel is our long distance truck driver, and he was in Meluco District on an overnight run to deliver food to the 520 orphans in that area. Manuel’s wife totally depends on that motorbike for her job as she teaches
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: September 23, 2017 BABIES GALORE! We’ve received 9 orphaned babies into our formula program in the last 2 weeks. (7 single births, 1 set of twins). TWENTY of the 24 babies in our infant program are cared for by their grandmothers or aunts, living with family in their home villages. They come each Thursday to “weigh in” and receive their
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: September 16, 2017 NEW ORPHAN HOMES NOW IN SERVICE WITH GREAT THANKSGIVING we announce the opening of both “Sally’s House” and “June’s House” as the new interim“concrete brick homes” for our 13 orphaned/abandoned children while their old home site is being rebuilt. Sally’s House, was built with the gifts of multiple donors, much of which came from friends of my Aunt Sally Legg’s memorial fund. Foster
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: September 10, 2017 ORPHANS UNLIMITED ANNOUNCING NEW ADDRESS FOR LOVE GIFTS Our Board decided our Postal Address should be in an area that doesn’t flood, and does not depend on flood-prone Houston for its mail. Our new address for Love Gifts is: ORPHANS UNLIMITED 562 Hwy 123 Bypass, # 301 SEGUIN, TX 78155 Seguin is just outside
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)