From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, March 17, 2013

NAMARA CHURCH STANDING ROOM ONLY

Eric Dry and Lin­da Stan­ley vis­it­ed our Nama­ra church on Sun­day, March 17th to find it at stand­ing room only. He said about 80% were chil­dren (not sur­pris­ing in a nation with the major­i­ty of its pop­u­la­tion under 15 years of age. The Nama­ra Sun­day school num­bers over 140 children/week.

Maria Fati­ma, Bap­tized last week at the lake in Impiri vil­lage, came for­ward at church today to con­fess that she still had witch craft items in her mud hut. Eric said she imme­di­ate­ly went home to fetch the items so they could be burned with the entire church as wit­ness­es. The ash­es were then buried. Eric says that Maria looked on with con­tent­ment and relief very evi­dent on her face as the items burned.

BUSH BUNNY IN TX, PACKING, PACKING, PACKING

Only 2 weeks left before the Bun­ny heads for Africa. April 2nd is the take off date. With over 200 lbs of sup­plies to pack, it keeps this Bun­ny off the street. Should be a fun year as our team must build the final children’s com­plex in order to come into com­pli­ance with the new fed­er­al laws in Mozam­bique. Many Rock­et stoves will be built as we train vil­lage brick lay­ers to build these fuel sav­ing “Mozam­bi­can Microwaves”. Our newest “poten­tial project” will be announced very soon. Still need to con­firm some details before a final deci­sion can be made on whether we can han­dle it this year or not.

HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR FOOD BUYING 2013!

Pas­tor Buzz Sny­der, now retired from Rock Island Evan­gel­i­cal Church in Rock Island, TX was the first to sign up. Four Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents will make up the rest of the team. Bre­anne Bram­mer, Un. Of Mis­souri, Jour­nal­ist Major Kate­lyn Nor­man, Con­cor­dia Un. Nurs­ing stu­dent, Austin, TX Michele Davis, Con­cor­dia Un. Nurs­ing stu­dent, Austin, TX Emma Clif­ford, Con­Cor­dia Un. Children’s Edu­ca­tion, Austin, TX

We wel­come them aboard, as they will all meet up and fly out on May 13th from Atlanta, arriv­ing in Pem­ba, Mozam­bique on May 15th. All have giv­en their entire sum­mer to assist us in res­cu­ing and evan­ge­liz­ing more orphans in Bala­ma District.

Bless­ings, The Bush Bash­ing, Bag Pack­ing Bush Bun­ny Bren­da, ready to hop on back to Moz.

From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, March 12, 2013

ALASKA TRIP CANCELED

Due to a strained right shoul­der after a horse decid­ed to lift me off the ground last week while I was lead­ing him out of his stall, the deci­sion was made last Sat­ur­day that I should return home since lift­ing my suit­case and a long 2 day flight was not con­ducive to the heal­ing of the shoul­der. Then the Pas­tor of Lit­tle Chapel in Alas­ka had not received our can­cel­la­tion e‑mail or voice mail, so he con­tact­ed us on Sun­day say­ing that my return flight from Alas­ka would be delayed BY 3 DAYS at least! Seems the plane wasn’t going to be able to fly in on its nor­mal sched­ule, so the flight would have had to be can­celed any­way. With only a few days before my depar­ture for Africa, any delay in my return to TX would have been a dis­as­ter, as there is much pack­ing and last minute details to attend too. I’ll miss not get­ting to see my friends in Cor­do­va, Alas­ka this year, but I THANK YOU, Lit­tle Chapel Church Mem­bers for invit­ing me, and mak­ing the trip pos­si­ble through your gen­eros­i­ty in pur­chas­ing the tick­et. PTL for Trip Insur­ance which will reim­burse you the flight tick­et cost. So Bush Bun­ny is sit­ting in the Cleve­land, OH air­port as I write this, prepar­ing to fly back to Hous­ton today via Atlanta. A few days at a slow­er pace is most wel­comed. My new tune will be “Pack­ing, Pack­ing, Pack­ing! Get them box­es unloaded! Head’em up, move’em out, RAWHIDE!!!!! ( for those of you in the age group to remem­ber that TV show, the tune works for pack­ing too. J)

It’s been a GREAT TOUR with many new friends join­ing us in res­cu­ing orphans in Mozam­bique. For those of you who didn’t get to hear me speak, you can con­tact me till the end of March on my cell: 210–912-3919. I fly to South African on April 2nd.

Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
POST SCRIPT: Go to youtube and type in BUSH BUNNY BRENDA You can see Bren­da’s pre­sen­ta­tion in Jack­sonville, Flori­da from last month.

Type in ORPHANS UNLIMITED and see all the Video pre­sen­ta­tions. Lots of GREAT INFORMATION and WONDERFUL PICTURES.

From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: Blog, Feb. 26, 2013

FLOODING WIPES OUT BRIDGE ON ROAD LEADING OUT OF THE BUSH

Eric wrote this morn­ing that our pick-up which was head­ed to our Melu­co Orphan site had to turn back yes­ter­day. A major bridge that cross­es a deep ravine was washed away on Sun­day night. This “bridge” was on a tem­po­rary bypass as the main bridge nev­er com­plet­ed this year. Made out of 2 large ship­ping con­tain­ers that were weld­ed togeth­er, the water pres­sure became too much and lift­ed it out of its moor­ings and shift­ed it down­riv­er. There is one oth­er route out of our area, and Eric will inves­ti­gate it on Wed. to see if it is open. High water tends to close that road each year, but with the road repairs they made last year it may be pass­able with 4 wheel drive.

On Sun­day, Pas­tor Alber­to went to one of the 3 Man­go Tree Church­es to do a Bap­tism. The riv­er was in such a flood state, that the church mem­bers on the far side of the riv­er couldn’t even cross over. Alber­to said that the church groups on each side of the riv­er could do noth­ing but look at each oth­er across the swift­ly mov­ing water. So it will be resched­uled in March when the water lev­els begin to go down.

We had 2 more goats born this week. Set of twins with 1 boy, 1 girl. Mom­my goat and both babies are doing well. We are now up to 98 goats!

I’ll keep you post­ed as Eric sends in more news. Bless­ings, BBB