JOSEPH PROGRAM:  4 BARNS OF FOOD MAXED OUT AND READY TO DISTRIBUTE TO ORPHANS

800 SACKS OF RICE (40.4 TONS) rolled in this week to fill the remain­ing food space in barns 3 and 4. In 2004, God showed me how to pro­vide for orphans dur­ing their time of hunger in the same way Joseph had pro­vid­ed for Israel dur­ing their 7 years of hunger. Thus, the JOSEPH PROGRAM began with 1 small barn that housed our entire food sup­ply for the year.

Rice flow­ing in. All sacks are sewn with strong cord before storage.

As the Lord blessed our efforts with more financ­ing, we expand­ed by build­ing 3 larg­er barns. In Jan­u­ary, we added a 4th stor­age area AT NO COST by con­vert­ing part of our corn milling area into a food stor­age area. Thanks to a gen­er­ous donor and this new space, we were able to pur­chase 10 EXTRA TONS of rice this year.

Rice straight from the Field. Leav­ing it in the hull allows for long term stor­age for bugs won’t touch it.

Food dis­tri­b­u­tions to the vil­lage orphans is being orga­nized at this time. First food give out sched­uled for August 4th to the Man­go Tree Church area. THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED MAKE THIS POSSIBLE. It is always won­der­ful to have this huge respon­si­bil­i­ty behind us.

Note:  When we brought in the final corn 2 weeks ago, our truck teams were told by sev­er­al vil­lage lead­ers that God had giv­en us ALL the corn in the vil­lages. Buy­ers who fol­lowed us found lit­tle to buy. THANK YOU JESUS FOR FILLING OUR BARNS SO THAT YOUR CHILDREN HAVE WHAT THEY NEED.

MOZAMBIQUE IS COLD, MY FRIENDS!

Thank you so much to all who pro­vid­ed sweat suits for our children.

Bala­ma tem­per­a­tures have been in the low 50’s (14C) with many cloudy days nev­er see­ing 70F (22C). In the 19 cold sea­sons I’ve lived in Bala­ma, NEVER have I seen it so cold with sus­tained lows last­ing up to 10 days at a time. But thanks to all of you, our res­i­dent chil­dren are snug in their beds with warm blan­kets and warm clothes to keep them healthy.

Remem­ber, NONE OF OUR HOUSES, includ­ing mine, have any heat­ing meth­ods beyond an open camp fire. The “norm” around here is what you see in the pho­to I took while walk­ing in our neigh­bor­hood in the ear­ly morn­ing last week (sor­ry it’s so blur­ry!). Every­one lights an out­door fire and then stands around it to keep warm.

 

Warm­ing up by the open fire. (Sor­ry pho­to is so blurry~)

BBB BLESSED WITH BREAKFAST TREAT

FELIZ means hap­py! Feliz is cer­tain­ly hap­py for this neigh­bor­hood child has ducks who are lay­ing many eggs right now. His ducks pro­vide him with pock­et mon­ey so he can buy a few treats.

That smile says it all as Feliz shows off his pre­cious duck eggs.

Duck eggs are very tasty and fill your plate for they are BIG.  The yoke alone is as big as a large egg. All the local chil­dren know that “Mama Bren­da”  loves duck eggs!

Duck egg yolk big­ger than the spoon.

LOVE THE LITTLE CHILDREN, FOR THEIR GENTLE SPIRITS ARE PLEASING TO THE LORD.

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND HER HAPPY STAFF