BABY ANGELINA IN HOSPITAL WITH RESPIRATORY INFECTION

With 9 babies in our care, and more than1 baby per house, it is a real chal­lenge dur­ing the hot and humid rainy sea­son to keep them from get­ting an Upper Res­pi­ra­to­ry Infec­tion. Baby Angeli­na is only 3.5 months old, and the youngest in our care as of today. 

At about 1 a.m. Thurs­day morn­ing (Jan­u­ary 16), Baby Angeli­na awoke with a cough­ing spasms due to thick phlegm in her throat. She was unable to take flu­ids due to her mouth breath­ing and rapid res­pi­ra­tion rate. It was obvi­ous she was suf­fer­ing a rapid onset Upper Res­pi­ra­to­ry Infec­tion which required IV antibi­otics immediately. 

Baby Angeli­na with Fos­ter Moth­er Bal­bi­na await­ing treat­ment at hospital.

Our team rushed her to the Bala­ma hos­pi­tal where she was giv­en Emer­gency Care, and then admit­ted to Pedi­atrics. Angeli­na is much bet­ter, but still in hos­pi­tal as I write. She might be released on Monday. 

Born on Octo­ber 4, 2019, Angeli­na weighed only 2.2 kg (4.8 lbs). Steadi­ly gain­ing weight since join­ing our fam­i­ly after her mother’s death on Oct. 24th, Angeli­na now weighs 4.6 kg (10.1 lbs.).

Your prayers are great­ly appre­ci­at­ed for her rapid recovery.

FYI:  NOTE ON BABY NELITA: After a week of eat­ing a high pro­tein diet, Neli­ta is off all antibi­otics, but still receiv­ing infant vit­a­mins and iron sup­ple­ments for her ane­mia. We are very hap­py at her progress. Thank you so much for your faith­ful prayers.

Baby Neli­ta gain­ing strength and enjoy­ing her new toy.

HOUSE #6 FAMILY LOVING THEIR NEW HOME

All 6 school age chil­dren are pic­tured (below) today along with Fos­ter Moth­er Maria. Ivo­dia is the old­est at 17, (far right in pho­to, blue blouse), and is a great help to the moth­ers dur­ing meal prepa­ra­tion time. Ivo­dia was once the “moth­er” and sole care­tak­er of her 3 sib­lings as there was no adult in her home after her moth­er died.  We call that a “Child Head­ed House­hold”. She will enter 11th grade in Feb­ru­ary, and we are hope­ful that Ivo­dia will go on to a pro­fes­sion­al school after grad­u­a­tion from 12th grade.

Fos­ter Moth­er Maria with six new res­i­dents orphan house #6.​

FOUNDATION FOR ORPHAN HOUSE #7 NOW COMPLETED

I’m very proud of our 12 man brick lay­ing team who trudged through heavy mud and braved unex­pect­ed rain storms to make this foun­da­tion hap­pen. Our truck dri­vers assist­ed by patient­ly haul­ing in over 6 tons of rock with our 1‑ton pick-ups so that the foun­da­tion could be poured. Due to soft ground, the dri­vers could only put ½ ton in each truck load.

With the rainy sea­son, the ground is way too soft for our trac­tor or 6‑ton truck to be of any use (it would sink in the mud). So, slow­ly but sure­ly, we are mov­ing for­ward with house #7. For the next 3 weeks the foun­da­tion will “CURE” (hard­en), while our team is busy mak­ing bricks for the kitchen/eating area of this house.

Mud­dy ground is no prob­lem for this mas­sive group in a 4 way tug-of-war.

After tug-of-war time to sit down for a great Bible sto­ry les­son taught by BBC Youth Pastors

BUSH BIKERS FOR CHRIST (motor­bikes and bicy­cle teams) are doing their best on the “non-rainy days”  to con­tin­ue our Bala­ma Games and Bible Teach­ing pro­grams. When they are able to go out, the teams record up to 1,000 chil­dren per meet­ing. GOD IS SURELY MOVING IN THE BALAMA AREA.

BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL AS YOU MARCH INTO 2020!

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

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