INSPECTORS ARE HAPPY, ORPHANS MOVING INTO NEW HOUSING THIS WEEK! It’s been an INTENSE 6 months of work to prepare the new housing complexes for our resident orphans. The girls’ old home had to be torn down, debris removed, and a whole new complex built from concrete brick. That started at the end of June and is now COMPLETE! Hallalujah, PTL! We have a few
DIXON JOINS OUR MISSION FAMILY Dixon became very ill last week with a deadly type of amoebic dysentery. His mother is not well herself, and her weakness made it difficult for her to walk the 6 miles from her village to our mission station to ask for our medical help. ONLY BY GOD’S GRACE did Dixon survive 4 days with bloody diarrhea that should
THE BUNNY IS FEELING NOT SO “HOPPY” DE BUSH BUNNY is recovering from a touch of malaria that started Friday night. Malaria requires immediate treatment to keep it from becoming life threatening, but to those of us who have lived here for many years, it is just part of the “environmental challenges” we have to deal with in order to get the Gospel to the
AND THE LAME SHALL WALK! Rabia (Rah-bee-ah) is 8 years old and had not walked for 5 years due to some kind of illness that affected both her legs. Severely malnourished and very frail, both her lower legs were covered with open, infected ulcers. Rabia and her grandmother came to our church last week for the first time. We prayed for her complete healing and commanded
From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, Nov. 18, 2012 Date: November 18, 2012 4:27:19 AM CST SURPRISE INSPECTION OPENS EYES OF INSPECTORS Saturday at 9a.m. a pick-up truck drove through our gates with 5 government officials who dropped in to surprise us with an inspection of our ministry and children’s homes. But the surprise was theirs when they say the new girl’s and boys’ dorms that is being painted
From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, Nov. 11, 2012 Date: November 11, 2012 5:41:29 AM CST NOVEMBER—HOT AND DRY—WATER OUR MOST PRECIOUS COMODITY With temps at 95 to 98 F (36 C) most of the day and EVERY CREATURE looking for water, this country’s water wells are packed with people. Our water well team repaired 2 village wells this week within a few hours of being notified, because even
KIDNAPPED MEET DOMINICA, AGE TWO Nov. 1st started out as an uneventful food distribution morning at our Balama base, which turned into an “AMBER ALERT” by 2pm. The 2 year old toddler, Dominica, has been with us for over 18 months. She was removed from her home as a 6 month old infant, due to severe neglect by her “mentally disturbed mother” (given no food
From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog October 28, 2012 Date: October 28, 2012 6:09:37 AM CDT 150+ NAMARA CHURCH MEMBERS GET FAITH BOOSTER TODAY A woman came to the church for the first time today with an injured leg that had been swollen and very painful for over a year. After church members prayed for her, EVERYONE watched as the swelling went away and she was able to walk
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: October 21, 2012, 3:54:02 AM CDT Subject: Blog, October 22, 2012 HAPPY KIDS IN NAMUNO COUNTY THANKS TO YOUR GENEROUSITY Last week 24,500 TONS of Corn and 6 TONS of beans went out to the hungry children of Namuno County thanks to YOUR LOVE GIFTS. The same amount of food will go out this week to assure that these families have enough to eat AND
MORE GOATS AND MANY MORE ON THEIR WAY On Saturday I went out to see the goats and inspect the new corral we just built for the 4 “teenage” boy goats who now think they are ready to be Daddies. They keep chasing the little girl goats, so it was time to give everyone a rest by keeping them apart during the lunch break. Just as