BULLDOZERS, BANDITS, AND A RIOT
 
Chal­lenges nev­er cease around here.
Since I last wrote, we had a ban­dit break into one of our orphan homes (Moth­er Assias’ house) for those of you who have been here and know her.
This hap­pened at 4:30 a.m. last Thurs­day morning.
A guy beat in the door to the house, awak­en­ing fos­ter moth­er Assia, Buy Xeni­cal Online With­out Pre­scrip­tion who imme­di­ate­ly con­front­ed him.
He whacked her in the face with his flash­light, break­ing her nose.  Her screams brought the neigh­bors, and the guy fled.
Both the1 year old orphan baby sleep­ing next to Assia, and 2 year old Angel­i­ca in the next bed­room were ter­ri­fied, but unharmed.
The 6 orphans sleep­ing in the 2nd house were also unharmed.  Calm­ing words, hugs, and a promise of a night guard helped to restore peace in the kid’s hearts.
 
Assia spent the day in emer­gency because of her bleed­ing nose and mild concussion.
We PTL that she recov­ered in a record 4 days as her face was quite swollen the first 2 days.
A woman from our church will stay with the kids for the next week, as well as a night guard out­side her house.
No one knows why this guy broke in since it wasn’t pay­day, and Thurs­day is the day they receive all their food supplies.
There was absolute­ly noth­ing of val­ue in the house to take.
 
The Road Build­ing Bull­doz­er and crew showed up last week, mak­ing a mess of our neighborhood.
Plow­ing up a 60 yard wide swath to with­in 100 yards of our teenage boy’s dorm left every­one a bit ner­vous, since they haven’t offi­cial­ly con­demned the hous­es yet.
 
The car­pen­ter I was train­ing for roof­ing had to be pushed into ser­vice (with me watch­ing close­ly over his shoul­der), so that Assias’ new 4 house com­plex can be fin­ished in the next 4 weeks.
We now have 2 com­plete roof­ing teams, and 5 brick lay­er teams work­ing togeth­er to get the need­ed hous­es ready for occupancy.
Even with all these work­ers, it will still take anoth­er 4 weeks min­i­mum to fin­ish this one complex.
 
RIOT IN MONTEPUEZ
 
With 400 orphans liv­ing in Melu­co coun­ty (9 hours north east of us), our 6 ton truck is busy doing week­ly food deliv­er­ies to fill their barn before the rainy sea­son starts in December.
Melu­co Coun­ty basi­cal­ly lost their har­vest this year due to drought, so our food stash is essen­tial to their sur­vival till har­vest time next March.
Manuel, a Chris­t­ian and our 6 ton truck dri­ver, was on his way back from a deliv­ery last Sat­ur­day, when I sud­den­ly felt the Holy Spir­it urge me to call him.
All I could hear was scream­ing and yelling when he answered, as he had been stopped by a mob of angry peo­ple just out­side of Mon­tepuez (the town that is 30 miles from us).
He still doesn’t know what caused the riot, but peo­ple were fight­ing and block­ing the road, and Montepuez’s busi­ness­es were closed tight!
I began to pray and noti­fied sev­er­al oth­ers to join with me.
We asked the Lord to PART THE SEA OF PEOPLE just as He did for Moses at the Red Sea.
Then the phone ser­vice went dead, and I had no con­tact with Manuel for the next hour.
We were putting togeth­er a res­cue par­ty of men, when I got a mes­sage from Manuel that they had got­ten through the crowd and were on their way home.
When the 3 man crew arrived, they were super excit­ed because they said the crowd just opened up and let them through!
No one was hurt and the truck was not damaged.
THAT IS OUR JESUS!
He nev­er fails us, and all we have to do is ASK and we SHALL RECEIVE!
 
DUST DEVIL HITS PASTORS HOME
To top it off, I was just noti­fied an hour ago that a very strong twister wind wiped out our youth pastor’s house in Rovu­ma vil­lage while every­one was in church!
It was sched­uled to be roofed this week, and now has to be rebuilt.
Seems there is a witch­doc­tor liv­ing near­by who doesn’t want the pas­tor there, so that guy is going to find out about the pow­er of prayer this week!
 
Thanks for your con­tin­ued prayer for us dur­ing our times of extra­or­di­nary challenges.
Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Brenda