ZITO OUT OF HOSPITAL, BUT BATTLES RAGES ON

After 3 weeks of 4 very strong antibi­otics, Zito’s doc­tor released him with pre­scrip­tions to cov­er the next 14 days with strong oral antibi­otics. After arriv­ing home Tues­day night, (3 days post clo­sure of his knee inci­sion), Zito spiked a high fever, and his leg began to swell near his knee where the worst of the infec­tion was located.

Our Bala­ma doc­tor doesn’t nor­mal­ly make house calls, but he didn’t want Zito any­where near oth­er sick peo­ple since he is very vul­ner­a­ble right now. Zito has had 2 vis­its by the Bala­ma doc­tor in the last 48 hours, and will be tak­en per­son­al­ly by him, and our staff to see anoth­er sur­geon at the Region­al Med­ical Cen­ter in Mon­tepuez on Mon­day (30 miles/60km away). Will post his progress after the Mon­day consultation.

PLEASE KEEP YOUR HEALING PRAYERS COMING, FOR THE BATTLE IS NOT OVER YET!

Zito glad to be home and out­side, even though cool weath­er still hangs around.

A BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE GIVEN SO GENEROUSLY TO HELP ZITO IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION.

YOUR LOVE GIFTS PRESENTLY TOTAL $9,820.

HIS HOSPITAL BILL WAS $11,600 UPON DISCHARGE, SO WE ARE CLOSE TO GETTING IT COVERED.

My staff and I met with Zito yes­ter­day, and explained the seri­ous­ness of the sit­u­a­tion. We gave him a crash course in how to pray specif­i­cal­ly against any new infec­tion, AND GIVE THANKS TO JESUS FOR HIS HEALING! We then laid hands on him with spe­cif­ic prayer against any infec­tion try­ing to raise its head up again. I firm­ly believe that Jesus may be the only heal­er who can resolve this prob­lem per­ma­nent­ly, since man’s ways are not work­ing as well as expected.

TUANE FOOD GIVE OUT A BIG SUCCESS

Now that the Bible Con­fer­ence is over, it is full steam ahead with the food dis­tri­b­u­tions. HAPPY GRANNIES and AUNTS rais­ing over 200 orphans con­verged with force on Tuane Vil­lage yes­ter­day to receive their first gifts of 2019.

Grate­ful Grannies and Aunts await­ing food hand out for orphans.

Old­er orphans help out their Grand­moth­ers by fetch­ing the beans.

Old­er orphans come with vil­lage women because their grand­moth­ers can’t make the long walk.

Num­ber of pieces of soap tells us this hap­py Granny cares for four orphans.

ERIC DRY RESCUES THE BALAMA TEAM

Eric, nick­named the BUSH BEAR by his chil­dren, lived here as a full-time tech­ni­cal sup­port mis­sion­ary for 10 years before return­ing to RSA. I can do the major build­ing projects, but it took Eric to do all the fine con­struc­tion work, as well as get us run­ning smooth­ly dur­ing those ini­tial years.

SEVEN YEARS LATER HE RETURNS TO RESCUE US! Bring­ing parts unavail­able in Moz. he ana­lyzed and repaired our long-dis­tance Land Cruis­er that is hav­ing bear­ing prob­lems in the 4 X 4 trans­mis­sion. His 9‑day stay is very wel­come, as he hap­pi­ly helps us rec­ti­fy com­put­er prob­lems, changes out old solar pan­els, and many oth­er “odd” jobs that are beyond our staff’s capabilities. 

Eric Dry returns to fix what­ev­er needs fixing.

We asked, and God answered by send­ing the one and only BUSH BEAR TO BALAMA! His birth­day was August 23rd, his first day here, so God gave him a treat by giv­ing him a trip to see us!

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE BALAMA STAFF