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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: JULY 8, 2023
 
 
BABY #25 NEEDS PRAYER COVERAGE
 
Three-week-old baby girl Jumai­da was born on June 20, 2023 to a men­tal­ly defi­cient moth­er who fre­quents her local witch doc­tor. The Grand­moth­er res­cued the aban­doned infant, tak­ing her to Social Ser­vices at our Bala­ma Hos­pi­tal on June 29th. 
 

Granny walk­ing into our mis­sion sta­tion on June 29th with 9‑day-old Jumai­da
 
Granny had tried for a week to care for the infant, but she turned to us for help on Thurs­day, July 6, when she con­fessed that she had neglect­ed the infant by for­get­ting to feed her. Talk­ing to the Granny revealed that she has the begin­nings of old age for­get­ful­ness and con­fu­sion. Social Ser­vices agreed that the infant should live with us as Jumai­da lost 300 gms in the few days the Grand­moth­er had the child in her care. Born at 2.8kg/6.1 lbs., Jumai­da weighed in on the 6th at only 2.5kg/5.5 lbs. It was evi­dent she was dehy­drat­ed and had many sores on her head. The local hos­pi­tal gave her the all clear for malar­ia, pre­scrib­ing an antibi­ot­ic for her head, and fre­quent for­mu­la feed­ings for her dehy­dra­tion. 
 

3‑week-old Jumai­da all bun­dled up against the cold, windy July weath­er
 
Jumai­da will remain in iso­la­tion at Home #7 until she is a bit stronger, as we do not know what ill­ness­es she has been exposed to. It is like­ly her immune sys­tem is very weak also, as we don’t know if she was allowed to suck­le the moth­er once born. We broke the witch­craft influ­ence off her, but she is far from being healthy at this time.  
 
PLEASE PRAY FOR HER HEAD TO HEAL QUICKLY, AS WE ARE LIMITED ON WHAT MEDS CAN HELP AN INFANT OF THIS FRAGILE SIZE. I’ll keep you post­ed on her progress.
 

ELISA, GRANDMOTHER TO EVA, IS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS
 
When Elisa went into the hos­pi­tal, her stroke advanced until she was unable to speak, eat, or move her left arm and leg. In the last 2 weeks, Elisa has regained her speech and abil­i­ty to eat and drink, PTL! She has been sup­port­ed by IV flu­ids this entire time, as she is still not tak­ing in enough flu­ids to sus­tain her body.
 

Granny Elisa is now able to eat and talk after hav­ing a major stroke that par­a­lyzed her left arm and leg
 
As the pho­to shows, Elisa can tol­er­ate sit­ting, but only if our Hos­pi­tal Helper, Mari­amo, sup­ports her while she eats. Eva final­ly calmed down once her Granny regained her speech and could tell her to relax. Eva vis­its Elisa each day, in hopes that she can soon return home. We have not tried to explain the future for Eva yet, as many changes will hap­pen once Elisa is released into her family’s care. 
 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS FOR ELISA AND EVA.
 

CORN COMPLETED AND RICE ON THE HORIZON!
 

Cape­na and team weigh­ing the corn this week
 

Pas­tor Gito, who is about 5 foot 9 inch­es tall, is shown cel­e­brat­ing our com­plet­ing the corn stor­age
 
The 1,400 sacks of corn are now safe­ly in our barn. This year there is a corn short­age, but RICE is avail­able in abun­dance, PTL! We will fill our barn next week with over 1,800 sacks of RICE that comes straight from the farmer’s fields IN THE HULL. God gave the rice plant that firm hull to pro­tect it from bugs, and it stores very well as long as it is super dry. All our work­ers had small amounts of nutri­tious, sun-dried rice that they are sell­ing to us, as well as the 14 RICE ASSOCIATIONS who grow tons of rice just 10 miles from our base. Last year there was a huge RICE crop fail­ure, so we are very grate­ful that this year our kids will be blessed by a great rice har­vest. Our barn will hold 102 TONS of rice, so pray for us this com­ing week as we spend 4 days receiv­ing, sewing the sacks, and stack­ing them into the back half of our corn barn.  
IT’S A WAY FOR US TO SURPRISE THE ORPHANS, AS RICE IS USUALLY ONLY A HOLIDAY TREAT TO THE VILLAGE PEOPLE IN BALAMA.
 
BLESSINGS FROM ALL OF US!
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF