From: “Brenda Lange” Date: June 4, 2011 10:29:46 PM CDT Subject: Blog, June 5, 2011 HI FROM BUSH BUNNY’S TEAM OF AWESOME MISSIONARIES IN MOZAMBIQUE! June 1st was a record setting day, as we received 60 TONS, that’s 132,000 pounds of corn in 7 HOURS! Our team of 80 Mozambican men and 9 missionaries processed a RECORD 37 TONS on Thursday and 43 TONS, on Friday. Never in
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: May 26, 2011 9:48:41 PM CDT Subject: BBB Blog, May 27, 2011 THANK YOU FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY GREETINGS! Yesterday was a record day for bean processing as Dave, Don, and I along with our 50 man crew moved 30.7 TONS in 5 HOURS! Linda Stanley along with our 4 women interns gave out FOOD AND CLOTHING to over 300 kids yesterday. Needless to
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: May 22, 2011 7:43:42 AM CDT Subject: Blog, May 22, 2011 90 DAY HELPERS NOW IN BALAMA The 6 person team of 90 day wonders have arrived safely including all their luggage. Orientation/training has begun and tomorrow we will start showing them the programs. They received an awesome welcome by the kids at our church this morning. It only took the little
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: May 22, 2011 7:43:42 AM CDT To: Subject: Blog, May 22, 2011 90 DAY HELPERS NOW IN BALAMA The 6 person team of 90 day wonders have arrived safely including all their luggage. OrientaJon/training has begun and tomorrow we will start showing them the programs. They received an awesome welcome by the kids at our church this morning.
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: May 14, 2011 8:08:17 AM CDT Subject: Blog, May 14, 2011 ELEPHANT RAIDS UNCOVERS A VILLAGE OF NAKED ORPHANS On Friday, May 13th, the health department and our Orphanage Administrator, Sylvai, were able to verify that 111 ORPHANS are among the severely malnourished children suffering from elephant raids on the village of IMBADA. (M‑Bah-dah). It was obvious these orphans have suffered for
From: “Brenda Lange” Date: May 12, 2011 10:15:32 PM CDT To: Subject: Blog May 13, 2011 EMERGENCY FOOD DROP SENT YESTERDAY I thank all of you for your wonderful prayers to help us stop the elephant invasion in northern Meluco county. When I read your letters, I laughed as I imagined those huge beasts running for cover from sword wielding angels! The e‑mails are too many to
From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog May 12, 2011 ELEPHANTS RAID A VILLAGE, CAUSING WIDE SPREAD MALNUTRITION IN THE CHILDREN The health team, which included our orphanage manager, Sylvia, went to the village which was reported to have wide spread malnutrition among over 200 kids. Their investigation was hindered yesterday by elephants, which are the source of the problem. Many of the villagers, including the malnourished children,
BEAN BUYING BUSH BUNNY OVERWHELMED WITH BUNDLES OF BEANS! On Monday, thanks to your prayers, we were literally over run with bicycles, trucks, and people carrying bags of beans to the scales at our 2 food weighing locations. In Balama, my bean team weighed 175 bags (much of it one bag at a time) in 7 hours, totalling 10.5 TONS of beans. Capena’s team at our
From: Brenda Lange, “Bush Bunny Brenda” Date: May 8, 2011 Subject: Blog, May 8th, 2011 ERIC IN RSA WITH ARTIFICIAL KNEE PROBLEMS While I was in the USA, Eric experienced increasing pain and too much “play” in his knee which received the knee replacement. Upon my return in April, he began taking MILA (special chia seed formula that reduces inflammation), and doing advanced knee exercises. Within
BUSH BUNNY BASHING THE BUSH FOR BEANS! There was no time to lose, as 2 hours into my first day back, one of the village chiefs informed us that illegal food buyers were already working in several of the villages that normally sell their beans to us. We prayed for wisdom and the Lord brought forth several key village leaders with the authority to help us