FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 23, 2023 CHRISTMAS FEAST A YUMMY AFFAIR The entire 160 fam­i­ly mem­bers of wid­ows and orphans met at our Food Cen­ter for a great feast this week. Berti­no, our Children’s Pas­tor, led sev­er­al songs fol­lowed by a prayer before the meal was served. Berti­no leads the chil­dren in singing I LOVE YOU JESUS in sev­er­al lan­guages.https://youtube.com/shorts/hIKylBFQ1Wo The menu was very tasty “fan­cy rice” which is

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 16, 2023  STORIES THAT TOUCH THE HEART MIRACLE BABY RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL On Wednes­day, our “Mir­a­cle Baby Boy” (Mila­gre) was released from the hos­pi­tal. His hap­py, healthy look was heart­warm­ing after the scare he gave us a week ago when malar­ia hit him at 4 weeks of age! Malar­ia is tough on every­one, but to have it at 4 weeks of age is very dangerous.

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 9, 2023 INFANT MOZZY NETS COME TOO LATE On Wednes­day (Dec. 6), I went to weigh 4‑week-old Mila­gre, and he had a dis­tinct fever. I con­tact­ed our Doc­tor, who told us to bring him right over for a malar­ia test. The test was pos­i­tive, and he was admit­ted right away to the pedi­atric ward at the Bala­ma Hos­pi­tal. Mila­gre has been in his

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: DECEMBER 2, 2023 INFANTS KEEP COMING — BABY # 29 JOINED US THIS WEEK Sad­ly, the moth­er of 6‑week-old infant Marceli­na passed away from post­par­tum com­pli­ca­tions 5 weeks after the lit­tle girl’s birth. The elder­ly Granny (moth­er of the deceased) tried to care for Marceli­na, but at the manda­to­ry check in at our baby weigh-in on Thurs­day our staff found the bot­tle unwashed and

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 25, 2023 ESTALESIA HOME, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN Estale­sia was final­ly released on Wednes­day this week when all her lab tests returned nor­mal. After her 3rd trans­fu­sion, her Hemo­glo­bin was up to a safe 10.3 from 7 (pre-tran­s­­fu­­sion). Her malar­ia smear at the lab was neg­a­tive. Her remain­ing prob­lem is her dis­tend­ed abdomen, which is caus­ing pres­sure on her lungs. It will take time to

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 2023 ESTALESIA FACING MORE CHALLENGES Due to a reac­tion to a vac­cine, Estalesia’s left thigh became very swollen and hot, requir­ing hos­pi­tal­iza­tion for IV antibi­ot­ic treat­ment. She was unable to move her painful leg for 3 days. The video shows how improved she is on her 4th day, as this is the first she has moved her leg vol­un­tar­i­ly.  Estrale­sia mov­ing her

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 11, 2023 PTL! EVERYONE’S HOME! It has been a super busy week, but thanks to your prayers, both 6‑month-old baby Estale­sia and 5‑year-old San­tos were released from the hos­pi­tal this week.  San­tos regained his men­tal health from the severe malar­ia case he suf­fered last week and was released on Mon­day after­noon to con­tin­ue his treat­ment at home.   San­tos back to his sweet self,

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2023 BUNNY IS BACK IN BALAMA! Minus 1 chom­per of course, as my trou­ble­some tooth was bro­ken and had start­ed to abscess. The den­tist said if I hadn’t got­ten it pulled with­in 48 hours from my appoint­ment date Octo­ber 31, it would have caused me a world of hurt. Thank you, JESUS, for favor in get­ting an appoint­ment so quick­ly! ESTALESIA, 27th

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 28, 2023 BABY AFUSA IS HOME WITH US! Baby Afusa is now in her new home with Fos­ter Moth­er Gil­da of House # 6, the Zebra House Thanks to your won­der­ful prayers, the lit­tle girl in last week’s blog, Afusa, has recov­ered from her malar­ia, diar­rhea, and sinus infec­tion. It was a mir­a­cle for sure, as she was super sick when tak­en to

Read More…

FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 21, 2023 PROTEIN PARTY GIVEN BY CIS COMPANY Last Sat­ur­day our 55 res­i­dent chil­dren were treat­ed to a fab­u­lous high pro­tein meal, thanks to the CIS Com­pa­ny of Bala­ma Dis­trict. CIS rep­re­sen­ta­tives vis­it­ed our office sev­er­al months ago to ask how they could help our chil­dren. Their com­pa­ny pro­vides the meals for the local graphite mine, just 6 miles from our base. We

Read More…