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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: AUGUST 29, 2020
 
LAST OF THE HARVEST LEAVES THE FIELDS

Our 18 Grannies who are part of our mis­sion base, have kept their orphaned grand­chil­dren very busy in the last 2 weeks as they bring in the last of their har­vest. Each of our Grannies and the Fos­ter Moth­ers of our 6 orphan homes receives about 1 acre of land to use as a “teach­ing ground” for the chil­dren in our pro­gram.
 

Grannies with grand­chil­dren bring in Man­dio­ca Cut­tings that will be plant­ed in Octo­ber.​

KNOWING HOW TO PLANT/HARVEST is an essen­tial skill every Mozam­bi­can must know if they desire to eat. Thus our “train­ing fields” are now being cleared of the last of the Ervelia Beans and Man­dio­ca Root (cas­sa­va), so that these fields can be pre­pared for next year’s crop. Our plant­i­ng sea­sons are the oppo­site of the north­ern Hemi­sphere, which means we plant in Novem­ber to Decem­ber, and har­vest in April to July.
 

NITO, a spe­cial needs orphan (cen­ter) help­ing his Granny with the har­vest.

The objec­tive of our pro­gram is to pro­vide each child with a ful­ly round­ed edu­ca­tion. Not just class­room skills, but farm­ing “sur­vival” skills must be taught as well. Nor­mal­ly, the children’s par­ents would teach these skills to their chil­dren. Since our Fos­ter Moth­ers have tak­en over that role with all that it entails, it is our respon­si­bil­i­ty to make sure they learn every­thing need­ed to be a self-suf­fi­cient cit­i­zen.
 

GRANNY MASACA may be over 70, but still helps her grand­child bring in the har­vest.

BUSH BUNNY TIDBITS:
 
1.   PTL the Mon­goos­es are back! That means less snakes in the area. THANK YOU JESUS!
 
 
2.   Church­es are now allowed to open but with stiff mea­sures.  Since those reg­u­la­tions include only 50 peo­ple and no chil­dren, we will not be open­ing our church at this time. Our Sun­day ser­vices are held in small “house church­es” out­doors so that all our chil­dren may par­tic­i­pate.
 
3.   Schools will remain closed until Octo­ber 1st, when the gov­ern­ment will decide if they open at all for this school year which ends in Novem­ber.
 
4.   PRAYERS are need­ed for all of us, (please don’t for­get the 515 Melu­co orphans), as we con­tin­ue to take it one day at a time.  
PTL that ALL OF US are healthy and strong. Liv­ing out­side in this spa­cious area with lots of fresh air has many advan­tages.
 
5.   Our study and activ­i­ty peri­ods con­tin­ue with the chil­dren each morn­ing, keep­ing body and minds strong and absorbent.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS AND LOVE GIFTS DURING THESE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.

BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA TEAM