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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: JUNE 23, 2023
 
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FOR ELISA AND EVA 
 
Elisa, the elder­ly grand­moth­er to our Cere­bral Pal­sy orphan Eva, had a stroke this week and is in the Bala­ma hos­pi­tal. You may remem­ber Eva, who enjoyed work­ing to remove the rice hulls.
 

Eva enjoys pound­ing the rice to remove the hull
 
Eva was only 2 when her moth­er died, leav­ing her to be raised by her grand­moth­er. They are very close. Because Eva is men­tal­ly chal­lenged, she is super upset and doesn’t under­stand why her grand­moth­er can’t get out of bed and go home with her. Elisa is unable to speak, and is par­a­lyzed on her left side. Both Elisa and Eva need your prayers, because the out­come for Elisa is unknown. Eva does have extend­ed fam­i­ly who are at Elisa’s bed­side as well, but it is not cer­tain that Eva will accept them as her care­tak­ers.  Please keep them both in your prayers, and I will keep you updat­ed.
 

DONOR PROVIDES FRESH VEGGIES AND FROZEN CHICKENS!
 
Beau­ti­ful are the feet of those who sup­port us, and 8 oth­er African orphan­ages with high pro­tein food gifts!
 

Reg­gie being held by Fos­ter Moth­er Tina with Berti­na by her side. They were super excit­ed to get the Gem Squash
 

Fat frozen chick­en loved by all
 
With bean buy­ing behind us, it is won­der­ful to receive high pro­tein per­ish­able foods for the chil­dren. Frozen chick­ens on Sat­ur­days, (so all the kids are home to enjoy it vs. in school over lunch time), and Gem Squash which is a new food to our ever grow­ing fam­i­ly. Gem Squash is not grown in our part of the coun­try, so even I had to ask the donors wife, “How do you cook it?” We briefed the Fos­ter Moth­ers on the cook­ing instruc­tions as we passed out 40 Gem Squash­es to our 7 Orphan Homes on Wednes­day. The chil­dren told me that the sweet Gem Squash tast­ed yum­my, and I can vouch that it put smiles on all the kid’s faces. A BIG THANK YOU to our kind donor who pro­vid­ed this delight­ful treat. 
 

CONSTRUCTION ABOUNDS WHILE WE WAIT FOR JULY FOOD BUYING
 
The 3‑bedroom con­struc­tion site for the tod­dlers is tak­ing shape. The foun­da­tion is dug, and the foun­da­tion­al gran­ite rocks were trucked in. The ground was as hard as con­crete, so it took our build­ing team sev­er­al days to dig the required depth.  
 

Foun­da­tion being dug while oth­ers get rocks moved into the fenced con­struc­tion area
 
A chain link fence went up on Mon­day to secure the con­struc­tion site. Fenc­ing is required for everyone’s safe­ty as well as for secu­ri­ty pur­pos­es. We will build at a fast pace until the July food buy­ing begins for corn and rice.
 
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRAYERS FOR OUR STAFF AND CHILDREN.
 
BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF