CIS PARTY DURING THE RAINY SEASON The chil­dren were all present as the CIS Team brought in anoth­er deli­cious lunch for the children.

Singing Lift Jesus High­er, Stomp Satan Lower!

Samuel, who was once a res­i­dent orphan here, and is now the Fos­ter Father for the school age chil­dren, led with action songs as the chil­dren wait­ed for the lunch to arrive. This every 2 week par­ty is a real treat for all of us as the chil­dren expe­ri­ence non-tra­di­tion­al meats (pork and beef), and oth­er foods such as FRENCH FRIES! They love it all, leav­ing clean plates when all is said and done.The CIS Team’s gen­eros­i­ty is a real bless­ing to our children!

Full view of our kids at the corn ware­house veran­da, our Rainy Sea­son lunch par­ty spot.

ERGILCIA COMES HOME THEN HAS TO GO BACK TO HOSPITAL Ergilcia was on the road to recov­ery when released. She then start­ed swelling with ede­ma and hav­ing diar­rhea again just 10 days lat­er, so back to the hos­pi­tal we went at 4:30pm on Wednes­day. Her Hemo­glo­bin (red blood count) was only 7.2, so she need­ed a sec­ond emer­gency blood trans­fu­sion, which was giv­en Wednes­day night. She was also start­ed on IV med­ica­tion for her diarrhea.

ERGILSIA IN EMERGENCY ROOM ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH HER NEW FOSTER MOTHER, FRANQUINA.

SHE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS, as this lit­tle girl is very ill. It takes an hour for the best nurs­es to start an IV on her, as the ede­ma makes her arms and leg veins unac­cept­able. That is why she has an IV in her scalp.All this start­ed with one case of malar­ia. What we are see­ing now are the after effects of what malar­ia can do to a body.This is why it kills so many with­in 30 days after the per­son has malar­ia. Thank­ful­ly, we have the abil­i­ty to inter­vene with blood trans­fu­sions, and oth­er treat­ments to try and pre­vent her from suc­cumb­ing to this hor­ri­ble disease.Please keep her cov­ered in prayer, as this bat­tle is still on going.  GRANNY WITH 4 ORPHANS RECEIVES A HELPING HAND  This Granny walked 7 miles/14 kms to ask for help for the four orphaned chil­dren left in her care. We wel­comed them into our food pro­gram, and they left with their hands full of rice, beans, soap and salt.

Granny with 4 orphaned grandkids.

Our staff promised to orga­nize cloth­ing for the chil­dren and Granny too, upon their next vis­it. Granny will orga­nize anoth­er fam­i­ly mem­ber to come in her place, as the long walk was a bit much for all of them.I gave each child a yogurt suck­er before they left, and we actu­al­ly had to show them how to take the paper off the suck­er and then eat it. Sad­ly, the vil­lage chil­dren have no expo­sure to many things we take for granted.

3 old­er chil­dren con­fused when I gave them suckers

But not the 1 year old. He dug right in when I gave him his suck­er! Note: The orphaned chil­dren are not required to come week­ly. Only the first time, so we can make sure the chil­dren on our gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments are tru­ly the age that is stat­ed. Novem­ber and Decem­ber is a very busy time for us as the rainy sea­son has begun in earnest. PLEASE KEEP ALL OF US IN PRAYER AS DECEMBER TO APRIL IS THE CYCLONE SEASON FOR THIS AREA. Thanks, and I hope all of you had a great Thanks­giv­ing week­end! BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF