Date: June 19, 2011 1:26:08 AM CDT

Sub­ject: Blog June 19, 2011

WHAT WAS THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE…
Was com­plet­ed in 15 days!!!!
Our team of super mis­sion­ar­ies and 80 Mozam­bi­can men did an amazing
job by mov­ing 30–35 TONS of corn per day!
God sent me the most amaz­ing team of mis­sion­ary helpers this year, and
I can’t thank them enough for their sweat and deter­mi­na­tion in making
this hap­pen in record time.  Some days they were hard to recognize
under all the dirt stuck to their bod­ies.  Noth­ing was white except
their mouth and nose which was cov­ered by a dust mask.  But nothing
deterred them,and their hard work will feed the mul­ti­tudes over the
next 12 months.

450 TONS of corn and 104 TONS of dried beans now fill our 3 barns to the brim!

Syl­vai, our orphan­age admin­is­tra­tor in Melu­co, says that UNICEF was so
impressed with our assis­tance of orphans in Melu­co Coun­ty, that they
are tak­ing their assis­tance to oth­er coun­ties in this state where
Orphans Unlim­it­ed doesn’t work. Their words were “you’ve got it
cov­ered”.  “We’ll go where you aren’t working.”
That is quite a com­pli­ment com­ing from such a large organization.

DISTRIBUTION STARTS THIS WEEK TO MELUCO COUNTY’S 511 ORPHANS
Drought dur­ing the rainy sea­son killed most of the corn and beans in
Melu­co where the “Ele­phant Vil­lage” kids and  400 oth­er orphans live.
This Tues­day, our 6 ton truck will begin the first of 12, TWO DAY
trips (9 hours each way) to pro­vide the food need­ed for the 511
orphans we now assist in Melu­co Coun­ty THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS.

WATER WELLS DRILLING IN MELUCO COUNTY STARTS THIS WEEK
FOUR WELLS will be drilled in 4 dif­fer­ent vil­lages of Melu­co county
where water is in short supply.
These peo­ple have lived for many years with strict, “coun­ty wide”
water rationing due to the lack of work­ing wells.
Thanks to your Love Gifts, O.U.’s water well team repaired 17 wells in
that coun­ty last year bring­ing much relief to those villages.
These 4 new wells are being placed where no water wells exist.
YOUR LOVE GIFTS ARE MAKING A BIG IMPACT ON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
By show­ing the Love of Jesus, we know that GOD’S LIVING WATER (His
Word) will fol­low as these peo­ple come to know the one true God who
loves them so.

BUSH BUNNY TIDBIT:

Two days ago, 5 men came to my door.  They are mem­bers of our Nsewe B
church which we plant­ed last year in the remotest vil­lage of our
coun­ty. (one of the “ends of the earth places” the Bible talks about)
What was a vil­lage “lost in witch craft”, is now “see­ing the Light”,
and boast­ing over 50 church mem­bers.  These church mem­bers formed an
agri­cul­tur­al coop, so we agreed to buy corn from their bountiful
har­vest this year.
These church mem­bers took their TITHE and bought 5 sacks of cement in
order to cement the pul­pit area of their church.  They came to me,
ask­ing help to trans­port the cement the 24 miles to their village.
Dave Deboer glad­ly deliv­ered it for them.
This act of respon­si­bil­i­ty in pay­ing their Tithe is VERY RARE in our
church­es, and I admit that it brought tears to my eyes.
It usu­al­ly takes YEARS to get these peo­ple to under­stand tithing.

THE WIDOW’S MITE:
For the sec­ond time, the wid­ows of our 23 orphan homes in Balama
brought in their tithe.  Last Sun­day, these wid­ows, who dedicated
their “retire­ment years” to car­ing for orphans,  marched in together
with colour­ful fab­ric wrapped around cook pans full of corn and beans.
 Each year, we give these woman a small area of our 40 acres to farm.
Armed with hoes and machetes, they do a won­der­ful job of train­ing our
orphans to farm.  Their tes­ti­mo­ny is strong, as all are elder­ly, some
blind, and oth­ers crip­pled.  They abound in deter­mi­na­tion, and God
hon­ors their “love” each year with a boun­ti­ful harvest.

Bless­ings, my friends!
Bush Bun­ny Bren­da and the Bala­ma Staff