2,800 RICE SACKS STACKED IN 4 DAYS These last 4 days our team of 70 very pow­er­ful men man­aged to put 2,800+ sacks of rice into our big barn to help avoid hunger for the orphans in the vil­lages. It may look like chaos on the video, but let me assure you it is “orga­nized chaos”, thank you very much! Each man knows his par­tic­u­lar job in the process, from haul­ing the bags to the scale to be weighed, then mov­ing them to be dou­ble sewed, fol­lowed by putting them on someone’s head to be hauled and stacked inside the barn.

Orga­nized chaos! Each man knows his job and in real­i­ty, this is tru­ly orga­nized! Click to see them in action: https://youtube.com/shorts/KUBYAIq0jvM?feature=share

The sewing of the sacks with a very strong cord is nec­es­sary to keep the bags from explod­ing when they are on the bot­tom of a 20 TON stack of rice. The vil­lagers use a sim­ple cord that breaks when too much pres­sure is put on it, mak­ing our “dou­ble sewing” essen­tial to keep the bags closed.

700 bags of rice ready to be weighed at 4:30 a.m.

SO WHAT DID WE DO ON MONDAY? While our office and 1 of our board mem­bers in Texas were rid­ing out Hur­ri­cane Beryl, a small team of work­ers in Bala­ma were very busy weigh­ing peanuts and Juko beans. They weighed and stored 120 sacks of Juko Beans, and the final 61 sacks of peanuts need­ed to feed our 64 chil­dren liv­ing in our 7 orphan’s homes for 1 year.

Mon­day weigh-in of peanuts and Juko beans for our children.

FYI: Our office and staff was divine­ly spared any harm, PTL, even though the trees suf­fered loss of many limbs. They were in the path of the EYE of the hur­ri­cane. Thank­ful­ly, none of the fly­ing debris hit any win­dows or vehi­cles! The office did suf­fer a day with­out elec­tric­i­ty, but thank­ful­ly, that area was one of the first to have their pow­er restored! THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO PRAYED FOR THEM, KNOWING THAT OUR OFFICE IS SITUATED WEST OF HOUSTON, TX. Sor­ry to have to keep it short, but duty calls as a set of orphaned twins just arrived, with the fam­i­ly need­ing milk for their new arrivals.

Alberti­na is gain­ing weight and now plays with her baby toys.

NOTE: Baby Alberti­na has now lost all her ede­ma, and is slow­ly gain­ing weight. She is far from being out of dan­ger for ANY ILLNESS could snatch her from us. Please keep her in your prayers. BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF