BEAN BUYING BEGINS For the next 10 days our entire staff will be up to their ears in beans, no joke! We need 1,800 sacks (110 tons) of beans this year to meet the needs of the orphans we assist. On Fri­day, 600 of those sacks came in, with the oth­er 1,200 com­ing in on Mon­day and Tues­day.  If all goes as planned, our team of 90 men will begin prepar­ing the beans for long term stor­age on Wednes­day. That will take about 4 days if all goes smoothly.

Bean buy­ing begins with first 600 sacks in the barn. It is heavy work, as each sack is 132 lbs./60 kg.

I say all that to let you know that my Blogs will be short and to the point till the end of July. Our staff will spend many hours pro­cess­ing the 500+ TONS of beans, corn, rice, and peanuts, as well as keep­ing up with child care needs, and duties nec­es­sary to keep the mis­sion oper­at­ing smoothly.Thank you very much for your prayers and under­stand­ing dur­ing these weeks of heavy-duty work. BUTTERNUT FUN FOR THE KIDS! On Wednes­day, our chil­dren were treat­ed to a deliv­ery of 50 very sweet But­ter­nut Squash that put a smile on their faces. Our USA donor pro­vides the chil­dren with these tasty treats each month, pro­vid­ed they are avail­able. This donor also pro­vides each of our 7 children’s homes with 2 large, tasty frozen chick­ens every oth­er Sat­ur­day (14 fat, frozen chick­ens each time).   Increas­ing the pro­tein of our children’s diets is very impor­tant since most are still under­weight for their age. THANK YOU to our donor for pro­vid­ing healthy squash for the children!

But­ter­nut put smiles on lit­tle faces

Sor­ry, but that is all I have time for this week. Keep us in your prayers, as food buy­ing takes a mas­sive amount of orga­ni­za­tion by Office Man­ag­er Cape­na and myself. It runs smooth­ly most of the time, because the 2 of us are very expe­ri­enced in doing this over the last 15 years, but it is still a lot of hard work. No 2 years are ever the same.   Many Bless­ings, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF