CRITICAL NEW ARRIVAL, ALBERTINA Thir­teen-month-old orphan female, Alberti­na, is the def­i­n­i­tion of neglect and abuse by her grand­moth­er. I per­son­al­ly have nev­er seen a child this bad­ly neglect­ed and mal­nour­ished. The grand­moth­er dropped her off at the hos­pi­tal 3 weeks ago with malar­ia, and a Hbg (hemo­glo­bin) of only 6. She weighed only 11 lbs./5.7 kg! She should weigh at least dou­ble that! Her Aunt cared for her while in the hos­pi­tal for the first 10 days, dur­ing which time Alberti­na was giv­en a blood trans­fu­sion, bring­ing her Hbg up to 11, PTL! (above 10 is normal)

Alberti­na, the day we took over her hos­pi­tal care.

On Mon­day, June 17th, the Aunt told the hos­pi­tal staff that she had to get home. Her part­ing words were “give her to Aguas Vivas”. Social Ser­vices called us in a pan­ic, ask­ing if we could accept Alberti­na, and could we send some­one to care for her imme­di­ate­ly. With­in 30 min­utes we had 2 moth­ers at her bed­side, who took over the care of this super mal­nour­ished infant. When I first saw her, I thought to myself that it is a mir­a­cle she lived this long!Albertina remains crit­i­cal, as her mal­nu­tri­tion is near the point of no return. But as we know, “NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD”. SHE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS FOR A MIRACLE if she is to survive.THANKS TO A PRAYER PARTNER AND A WONDERFUL FRIEND OF HERS IN OREGON, ALBERTINA ALREADY HAS A SPONSOR. With some med­i­cine and food/milk changes this week, Alberti­na is show­ing slow improve­ment, but she has a long way to go.

THANKING GOD FOR LIZARDS! As I was walk­ing to my out­door kitchen on Thurs­day, I opened the gate to the fence, AND BARELY MISSED STEPPING ON A SNAKE EATING A LIZARD! Not sure what kind it was, but the 2.5‑footer was scram­bling to get away from me. My guard quick­ly put it out of its mis­ery with a long bam­boo pole. Very unusu­al to see snakes in June and July, as it is usu­al­ly too cool for them. But it was mid­day, mak­ing it the most like­ly time that one would be on the hunt. Too bad it didn’t get to fin­ish its last meal! I AM VERY GRATEFUL it had a lizard stuffed in its mouth, as my foot was just inch­es from its head, (before I jumped back in sur­prise and yelled for help!) Yeap, even at my age, the old “HOP OUT OF THE WAY” BUNNY hasn’t lost her abil­i­ty to jump! PRAISE THE LORD FOR LIZARD SACRIFICES!

BBC MOTORBIKE TEAMS TAKING JESUS TO REMOTE AREAS! I’m very proud of our all our BBC teams who are tak­ing Jesus to remote vil­lages where the gospel is NOT being preached. No church exists in these vil­lages, so the BBC out­door Bible class is the only Jesus info they are receiv­ing. The expan­sion of the team from 2 to 4 bikes has made all this possible.Watch the videos and share in the children’s excite­ment as 2 remote vil­lages learn about our Lord.

Cre­ation being taught to large crowd of new believers.

Enthu­si­as­tic crowd prais­ing Jesus with hand clap in super remote mud hut village.

Clos­ing prayer after 5 chil­dren in mid­dle received Jesus as Lord and Sav­ior. BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF