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HARVEST DELAYED 
 
The rainy sea­son in Bala­ma began 30 days lat­er than nor­mal, which means the har­vest is just now being tak­en from the fields to be dried. Result: Beans will hope­ful­ly be dry by mid­dle of June. All corn will only be dry by July.
 
God has pro­vid­ed our chil­dren’s June corn needs via our 7‑ton truck dri­ver, Pas­tor Manel of the Assem­bly of God. He knows a man who had stored up some of his 2021 corn and talked him into sell­ing it to us. We are most grate­ful for this awe­some pro­vi­sion! 
 

Buy­ing last year’s corn to hold us over until 2022 har­vest is ready in July.
 
Our 2021 corn will be fin­ished the first week of June, when we nor­mal­ly would be receiv­ing the 2022 har­vest. GOD KNEW WE WOULD NEED CORN, AND HAD A TOTAL STRANGER STORE IT FOR OUR CHILDREN. PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!
 
 
BREAKING GROUND FOR NEW TEEN BOYS DORM 
 
With over 3 weeks until the food-buy­ing can begin, our brick­lay­ers and I cleared the land and marked the new build­ing site for the old­er teen boy’s dorm. This land is 2km or 1.2 miles from our mis­sion sta­tion on the new main high­way, thus easy access for all.
With Bala­ma town grow­ing at a fast rate, this is the near­est plot of land that was avail­able, and it was pur­chased 5 years ago!
 

Break­ing ground for new teen boys dorm.
 
This dorm will be specif­i­cal­ly for old­er teen boys who are in the final 3 years of school, and for those going to technical/professional schools. This leaves the orig­i­nal dorm near our mis­sion for the 5th to 9th graders, as we have at least 5 young boys near­ing the 5th grade with anoth­er 5 to fol­low in a few years. The time to take action is now!
 
Our objec­tive is to have this dorm ready by the end of 2022.
 
 
FRAGILE FRANCIANO RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL 
 
This lit­tle boy, now 5.5 months, weighs only 3 kg/6.6 lbs.  He’s fought and won after 2 bouts of malar­ia, thanks to 2 life-sav­ing blood trans­fu­sions dur­ing his first hos­pi­tal stay when we received him into our fam­i­ly. 
 

Baby Fran­ciano show­ing weight gain after a week out of the hos­pi­tal.
 
Since he is so tiny, he can’t take the stronger malar­ia meds that would wipe out this dead­ly lar­vae. Our goal is to help him reach 5kgs/11 lbs. as soon as pos­si­ble by giv­ing him plen­ty of milk and high pro­tein infant food (Hypo). Once he is at this weight, he can take the stronger malar­ia treat­ment. 
 
PLEASE KEEP HIM IN PRAYER AS HE IS EXTREMELY VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW. 
 
Your prayers for all of us are great­ly appre­ci­at­ed.  THANK YOU for help­ing us make a dif­fer­ence in 1000’s of chil­dren’s lives.
 
BLESSINGS, 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE 
AND THE BALAMA STAFF