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NEW DISTRICT DIRECTOR VISITS CHILDREN

 

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: JANUARY 30, 2016
 
 
 
 
 
PROVINCIAL SOCIAL SERVICE DIRECTOR VISITS OUR CHILDREN

DSCN1015Croud and new Director

Provin­cial Direc­tor, Maria Isabel Raimun­do, greet­ed us with a warm smile and cheer­ful words as she walked into our mis­sion sta­tion on Wednesday. 

 

Her heart for the chil­dren was clear­ly vis­i­ble, as we were told in prepa­ra­tion for her vis­it, that she had no desire to see paper­work, but want­ed to meet all the chil­dren and the fos­ter mothers.

 

Director recieves gift from Girl

Direc­tor Maria is pre­sent­ed with a wel­com­ing gift by nine year old Felismina.The gift is a localal­ly made bas­ket wood­en spoon, an agenda,and a wildlife calandar.

Far right: hand­some young man in the suit is Cape­na, our Office Man­ag­er, and “right-hand man”.

DSCN1018 Der. Dos Sotos recieves gidt

Assis­tant Direc­tor, Guil­herme Dos San­tos, receives his gift from sev­en year old Angel­i­ca. Guil­herme worked hand in hand with us to expe­dite our licens­ing last year.

 

 

 

DSCN1019Tec Mozila and little firl

Tech­ni­cian, Emil­ia Muzi­la, recives her gift from four year old Orten­cia. All three of the girls who pre­sent­ed gifts came to us as babues and are blos­som­ing into beau­ti­ful young ladies.

 

True to her word, she spent all but 15 min­utes of her 2 hour vis­it talk­ing with the moth­ers and chil­dren, vis­it­ing 4 of our children’s homes, and ask­ing non-stop ques­tions of every­one she met.  Only 15 min­utes was spent in our office for her sum­ma­ry, and that was most­ly to com­pli­ment us on a job well done!  She rec­om­mend­ed a few minor changes in one of the homes, before stat­ing how thrilled she was to meet all of us and see first-hand how our pro­gram func­tions.  She informed us that she looked for­ward to her next vis­it, as she plans to return in the dry sea­son.  It rained 2 INCHES (50mm) the night before her vis­it, giv­ing her a real taste of just how mud­dy Bala­ma can get in the rainy season.

My entire staff “Praise the Lord” for hav­ing sent such a won­der­ful­ly com­pas­sion­ate lady to over­see all orphan pro­grams in our state.

 

RAIN EXCEEDS 350 mm (14 inch­es) IN LAST 15 DAYS!

The gov­ern­ment was not exag­ger­at­ing when they put out the “orange warn­ing” on Jan. 15th.  It is pour­ing buck­ets as I write this, as we received 100 mm (4 inch­es!) of rain in the last 28 hours and it is still pour­ing down hard.  Keep us in prayer, and espe­cial­ly those 5 chil­dren in the sto­ry above, as they have not agreed to leave their house yet.  Our plan was to get them to a safer loca­tion on Mon­day, as they will have no choice but to move if this storm destroys their hut.  I plan a per­son­al vis­it to see them on Sun­day, as this may turn into an emer­gency res­cue as this storm is quite fierce and shows no signs of let­ting up!

(Now you know why Jesus said don’t build your house on the sand, and that goes for mud huts built in low lying areas also!)

 

CHILD HEADED HOUSEHOLD OF 5 ORPHANS NEEDS RESCUED

After leav­ing our pro­gram, Direc­tor Maria was tak­en to vis­it 2 of the fam­i­lies liv­ing in oth­er areas who receive food assis­tance from our program.

One of those fam­i­lies is a “child head­ed house­hold” of 5 orphans, with the old­est teenage girl act­ing as “moth­er” to her sis­ters and broth­ers.  We tried to get them to come live with us last year, but they refused.  Our help­ing hand then pro­vid­ed repairs on their mud hut in the dry season.

Unknown to us, the exces­sive rain (12+ inch­es in last 10 days) and high winds have bad­ly dam­aged their hut dur­ing this last week.

When the Direc­tor returned home on Fri­day, she sent us an e‑mail request­ing max­i­mum assis­tance for these 5 orphans.  (new mud hut, clothes, school uni­forms, school mate­ri­als, beds and blan­kets).  Most of their items have been dam­aged or destroyed due to a bad­ly leak­ing roof.

Thanks to a spe­cial Christ­mas gift from a Wichi­ta, Kansas Com­pa­ny, the mon­ey need­ed to orga­nize this mas­sive type of help for these orphans is already in the mail.

I’ll keep you post­ed, as this “res­cue” is ongo­ing this entire week as we orga­nize a new place for them to live.  (Note:  Build­ing with mud brick in the rainy sea­son is impos­si­ble, so we are try­ing to orga­nize a hut near us.)

THANKS AGAIN, to our faith­ful friends in Wichi­ta for mak­ing this new home possible!

HAND IN HAND WITH THE LEAST OF THESE!

Your LOVE, shown through your prayers, giv­ing, and car­ing makes it pos­si­ble for these rescues!

SPECIAL NOTE:  In my 2015 end of the year report, I failed to men­tion that dur­ing my 17 years here in Bala­ma we drilled 15 water wells which are ALL still func­tion­ing, and have com­plete­ly reha­bil­i­tat­ed or repaired over 200!

My thanks goes out to all those who con­tributed to this mas­sive life-sav­ing pro­gram which pro­vides clean drink­ing water to most of the pop­u­la­tion of 2 Dis­tricts (coun­ties).  That’s an esti­mat­ed total of over 200,000 peo­ple whose health is bet­ter because of your love gifts.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

And the Bala­ma staff
 
 
 
 

OH, THE RAINS CAME DOWN.….…

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: JANUARY 15, 2016
 
RAINS CONTINUE TO POUR DOWN, BUT WIDOW’S ROOF BACK ON!

Non-stop rains may slow us down, but my car­pen­ters and brick lay­ers worked long hours in the rain this week to get the new roof secured in place.

Repairs con­tin­ue on the 4 hous­es that had dam­age to out­er walls.  Still to be re-roofed is the con­struc­tion stor­age ware­house, which is leak­ing, but stay­ing in place with heavy bricks.  Thanks to a great friend in Bro­ken Arrow, OK, we were able to buy the tin sheets and bags of cement need­ed for all this work.

Thank you for all your prayers dur­ing this time of tri­al, for old “smut­ty face” (dev­il) is not lik­ing all the evan­gel­i­cal work we are doing. Even in the RAINY SEASON, we are reach­ing over 5,000 chil­dren a WEEK with the Gospel and dis­ci­ple­ship train­ing via the AWANA program.

BLACK MAMBA PAYS BUNNY A VISIT  (Praise report, angels watch­ing over me.)

When the roof attack didn’t stop us, “smut­ty face” sent me a 30 cm (1 foot) long, shiny baby black mam­ba to vis­it me in my bed­room!  That was the only size that could slip under the screen door into my room.  (That ¼”/1cm space has now been closed off!)

I woke up Tues­day at 4a.m., rolled out of bed with my flash­light, and imme­di­ate­ly spot­ted the lit­tle crit­ter under a box at the head of my bed.  My trusty machete (pan­ga) was with­in easy reach, so with 6 very fast and accu­rate WHACKS, that lit­tle crit­ter was in 6 pieces!  I then crushed his head with the point of the blade (that’s Bib­li­cal yah know!), scooped it up in my dust pan, and gave my guard a heart attack when I opened the front door and hand­ed it to him to throw away.

Poor guy liked to have jumped out of his skin.  No Mozam­bi­can likes to get that close to a snake, but when I con­vinced him it was super dead, he agreed to dump it in our garbage pit.  AND NO, I didn’t both­er to take a pho­to of the dead snake.  At 4 in the morn­ing, I just want­ed it out of my house!

Need­less to say, I was PRAISING THE LORD for reveal­ing the snake, and keep­ing it from crawl­ing into bed with me!  I also asked the Holy Spir­it to REVEAL any oth­ers that might be lurk­ing in my house.  None have shown their head, so I feel sure that was the only one that got in.

LACK OF KNOWLEDGE WILL KILL YOU

Sad­ly, 3 of Pas­tor Alberto’s fam­i­ly were elec­tro­cut­ed in Pem­ba in the same storm that tore up our build­ings on Fri­day night.  The house of his niece and her 2 young boys was wired for elec­tric­i­ty with UNINSULATED WIRE.  The high winds blew the wire onto the TIN ROOF of the house, elec­tri­fy­ing every­thing.  The moth­er was hit first.  Her 2 young chil­dren were elec­tro­cut­ed when they grabbed her as she began to con­vulse.  A neigh­bor man was also elec­tro­cut­ed when he tried to pull the chil­dren off their moth­er.  Many peo­ple wire their hous­es with what­ev­er type wire they can find.  All of Mozam­bique is on 220 volt pow­er, leav­ing no room for mis­takes if you touch an open wire.  A sad reminder why safe­ty rules for build­ing mate­ri­als are a must.  Pas­tor Alber­to per­formed the funer­als, and is now on his way back to con­tin­ue train­ing up Pas­tors in Namuno District.

NEW YEARS PARTY A SUCCESS FOR 150+ ORPHANS/WIDOWS

 

The pho­tos tell it all, but games, great food (2 goats and 120 lbs of rice), and lot of cook­ies, can­dy, and bal­loons made a great New Year’s par­ty for our children.

NEW NYLON SWING SEATS DONATED BY CHILDREN FROM EVAN’S, LOUISIANNA GOOD NEWS CLUB

You can tell from Dixon’s face, that he tru­ly feels secure in the new swing seats.  Much safer than the wood­en seats we pre­vi­ous­ly had, these nylon “snug­gy” swings won’t hurt as bad if a child gets hit by them.  THANK YOU to the ele­men­tary school chil­dren in EVANS, LA for this won­der­ful gift!

WIDOW’S RECEIVE NEW HOES AND MACHETTES FOR NEW YEARS

Thanks to sev­er­al donors in the USA and RSA, we were able to bless 700 vil­lage wid­ows who care for orphans, with a new hoe and machete.

I couldn’t pass up this pho­to of baby DANIEL as he laid claim to the hoe we gave his fos­ter moth­er.  That lit­tle face tru­ly says “It’s MINE!”

My entire staff and our res­i­dent orphans all send our sin­cere thanks to each of you read­ing this, for with­out your help, we could not bless an end­less mass of chil­dren with a new life through Jesus Christ.  Each of you are a piece of God’s puz­zle, and because you do your part, we can do ours.

THANK YOU, SO, SO MUCH

Bless­ings, and a BIG BUNNY HUG,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange
 

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM MOZAMBIQUE

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: DECEMBER 29, 2015
 
 
 
 
 
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS

Dec. 22, I awoke quite ill with severe den­tal pain and a swollen face.  With the near­est den­tist 1000 miles away (dis­tance from Maine to north­ern Flori­da), I need­ed to make some fast phone calls and take action or suf­fer pos­si­ble sep­sis.  The cul­prit was most like­ly an abscess that my den­tist and Doc­tor were treat­ing with strong antibi­otics that was obvi­ous­ly not respond­ing.  (I’d been on 2 dif­fer­ent antibi­otics for 14 days now).

Call­ing in Cape­na from his hol­i­day, (once again), he good natured­ly rushed to our office to be briefed for the takeover.  We all knew that I’d have to go to South Africa for treat­ment since Pem­ba offers noth­ing in den­tal care.  Mario “Big”, my trusty guard, came with me, as we took off for Pem­ba to try and orga­nize a flight.  With Christ­mas just a few days away, I was tru­ly PRAYING for a miracle!

The air­port was the first stop, and the best they could do was “stand by” for Wednes­day.  Off I went to the SOS Clin­ic to meet with the Doc­tor, who end­ed up load­ing me up with pain meds as well as addi­tion­al antibi­otics since mine were almost gone.  He orga­nized an emer­gency den­tal appoint­ment for THURSDAY as there would be no den­tist on duty for Christ­mas Day.  Now the pres­sure was real­ly on to make that Wed. flight!

Went to the air­port Wed. a.m. with a prayer and bags packed, hop­ing some­one would not show up for the flight.  GOD ANSWERED THAT PRAYER, and 15 min­utes before the flight land­ed on the Pem­ba airstrip, I was allowed to pur­chase a seat for there was 2  “no shows”!

Eric Dry fetched me Thurs­day a.m. and whisked me off to the den­tist for an 8:30 a.m. appoint­ment.  NINETY min­utes lat­er, the bad tooth had a com­plete root canal, but they could only put a small fill­ing to cap it since they had no tem­po­rary crowns.  I was told to return in Jan­u­ary for the crown­ing process.  So I’m bet­ter, but sit­ting here with a very sen­si­tive tooth, and chew­ing all food on my left side.  HO HUM, such is the life of those who live deep in the bush.

I felt real­ly bad for our 104 orphans and the 25 fos­ter moth­ers, as we had to can­cel their Christ­mas par­ty on Thurs­day, 24th, due to my sud­den exit.  In 25 years of ser­vice to the Lord, I have only missed ONE Christ­mas Day with “my kids”.   But there just wasn’t time to ori­en­tate Cape­na and the staff on what need­ed to be done.  So the deci­sion was made to hold their par­ty on New Year’s Eve Day.

The Lord gave me a fun Christ­mas with my friend, Elz­abe, who would have been all alone if I had not been in South Africa.  She was “dog sit­ting” for her 2 children’s fam­i­lies while they were on hol­i­day, so we cel­e­brat­ed with a nice Christ­mas lunch and played with the 3 dog­gies.  Good friend, great food, and fun dogs.  Bush Bun­ny was right at home in that world.

JESUS THROWS A SURPRISE PARTY FOR THE ORPHANS ON CHRISTMAS DAY!

 

 

Cape­na received a sur­prise deliv­ery of 116 gift box­es for our chil­dren on Christ­mas Eve from the local min­ing company.

He was told that sev­er­al peo­ple from the min­ing com­pa­ny would arrive Christ­mas Morn­ing to dis­trib­ute the gifts to the children.

Each child received a pack­age that includ­ed school mate­ri­als, a bal­loon, choco­late can­dy and cook­ies.  I was THRILLED to hear that Jesus gave a spe­cial sur­prise to our chil­dren.  This is a Jesus FIRST! He nev­er fails to amaze us with His Love for these children.

TOMASINA’S CAST (OR WHAT’S LEFT OF IT) AFTER 3 WEEKS IN THE BUSH

Lit­tle Tomasi­na is the 4 year old orphan girl we took to Pem­ba 3 weeks ago to get her leg reset and cast­ed after she fell and broke her ankle.

Kids can be real­ly tough on casts, and this lit­tle girl has lit­er­al­ly walked out of hers.  (The cast is hang­ing off a the bot­tom.)  Car­l­i­tos picked her up for her fol­low up con­sult on his AWANA motor­bike as the trail to her mud hut is too wet for even 4 wheel dri­ve to get through.  (We had 2 hours of sol­id rain last night.)  They are off to the hos­pi­tal for assess­ment to see if she needs a replace­ment cast or not.  Looks to me like Jesus healed her up in record time.

Note: No cast was need­ed, for as soon as they removed the torn up one, she showed them she could walk just fine!

PTL for her quick healing!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2015 has been a tough year for my staff and I, but one with many great new hap­pen­ings.  We now have well over 4,000 children/WEEK learn­ing God’s Word via the AWANA GAMES CLUBS.

Our desire is take Jesus to many more chil­dren by EXPANDING the pro­grams to many more vil­lages and even oth­er Dis­tricts (Coun­ties) this year.

As you walk “hand in hand” with us, we will con­tin­ue to walk “hand in hand” with the many 1000’s of chil­dren that Jesus sent us too.

JESUS named us ORPHANS UNLIMITED.  He meant it, and is show­ing us that the HARVEST IS RIPE.  We just have to reap it!

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US BRING IN THE HARVEST.

Bless­ings, and many hap­py days ahead to all of you!

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Mozam­bique, Africa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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Emergency Run To Pemba

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: DECEMBER 17, 2015
 
 

 
 EMERGENCY RUN TO PEMBA

 SAVES LAYLA’S LIFE

LAYLA SILVA AND CREW ‚WORKING ON CLOTHS DISTRIBUTION. (THIS PHOTO TAKEN EARLIER THIS YEAR.)

Sun­day, 8a.m. Lay­la felt sick and began to vom­it large amounts of flu­ids, was suf­fer­ing body aches, and had a rapid­ly ris­ing fever.  Around here that means malar­ia is usu­al­ly the cul­prit, and on a Sun­day in our area, good luck get­ting a lab test to prove it.   I gave her anti-vom­it­ing med­i­cine, fol­lowed a bit lat­er by the first dose of malar­ia treatment.

I knew we’d “lost the bat­tle” when she vom­it­ed the malar­ia meds with­in 15 min­utes, mean­ing she need­ed IV flu­ids and IV malar­ia treat­ment imme­di­ate­ly.  I called the Pem­ba SOS hos­pi­tal, and the Doc agreed.  Work­ing faster than a beaver in a flood, I raced around lock­ing up the com­pound, orga­nized extra guards, called Cape­na to take over for me, loaded Lay­la in the back seat of our King Cab pick-up (lay­ing down), and with­in an hour was on the road with my trust­ed assistant/mechanic, Mario “Big” rid­ing “shot­gun” for me.

A King Cab with a Tur­bo engine can real­ly move on, and I used it well that day, mak­ing it to Pem­ba in record time with no police stopped me.

 God’s GRACE, since I went through 4 major police check points!  (at the speed lim­it of course)

Upon arrival, an IV was start­ed, blood tak­en for lab work, and 2 dif­fer­ent IV meds giv­en to con­trol her upset stom­ach.  The lab report­ed a POSITIVE MALARIA SMEAR, severe dehy­dra­tion with elec­trolyte imbal­ance.  Imme­di­ate IV treat­ment for malar­ia was giv­en, and 3 liters of IV flu­ids with elec­trolytes were  dripped in rapid­ly over the next 3 hours.  All was then under con­trol, PTL, and she was out of imme­di­ate danger.

(She remem­bers none of this.)

We were soon allowed to leave for the night as long as we stayed at the hotel next door to the SOS hos­pi­tal.  She need­ed to be back for addi­tion­al IV malar­ia treat­ments at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Mon­day.  All went smooth­ly, and she was allowed to leave Pem­ba on Tues­day with an addi­tion­al 3 days of malar­ia treat­ment (pills) in hand.

Since this is her 2nd case of malar­ia in 6 weeks, the SOS Doc­tor wrote a let­ter declar­ing that she should not live in a malar­ia area as she has a poor resis­tance to it

We are now enter­ing the Rainy Sea­son (Dec. to April) which has the PEAK MALARIA TIME each year.

SO LAYLA FLIES OUT ON FRIDAY, DEC. 16TH for the USA.

Lay­la will be missed, and we thank her for the gifts of love, laugh­ter, and Eng­lish that she leaves behind.

ANOTHER NOT SO FORTUNATE

Upon our return to Bala­ma on Tues­day, Car­l­i­tos Jorge came to me with the sad news that his 5 year old nephew had just died of malar­ia.  He had got­ten sick ear­ly that morn­ing with the same vomiting/dehydration symp­toms that Lay­la had, and per­ished 8 hours lat­er.  The local hos­pi­tal tried to save him, but chil­dren are much more sen­si­tive to electrolyte/dehydration imbalances.

MALARIA kills MILLIONS of peo­ple across Africa each year.  Not the actu­al malar­ia lar­vae them­selves, but the hor­ri­ble symp­toms they cause.  If a per­son can’t stay hydrat­ed and keep their elec­trolytes bal­anced, then they lose the bat­tle quick­ly, espe­cial­ly in hot tem­per­a­tures.  Our Decem­ber temps are now above 95 F. (35C) daily.

DIXON GROWING UP!

Tiny Dixon, who came to us weigh­ing 4.4 lbs (2kg) AT 4 MONTHS of age,  is now in pre-school!  Thanks to the good care that your Love Gifts pro­vid­ed, we were able to give him the high pro­tein diet and med­ical atten­tion that saved his life.

Dixon, now 4 years old, stands here with­out his shirt, ask­ing me to fix the burn on his chest.  He dropped a spoon full of hot cere­al on him­self, and now needs a bandaid for his “oweey”.   He’s a tough lit­tle boy, and didn’t even cry when I treat­ed it.  He was tough, cute, and full of JOY when he came to us.  He’s grow­ing into a hand­some young man, and has a smile that melts the heart of all the lit­tle girls who play with him in our pre-school.

TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING A BIG, BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THESE LITTLE ONES!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!

JESUS says THANK YOU for “being HIS help­ing hands to the lit­tle ones in this far away land”.

HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS, AND GET READY FOR GOD’S MIGHTY WORKS IN 2016!

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange and all our Moz. Staff!
 

AWANA GAMES EXPANDING FAST !

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: DECEMBER 5, 2015
 
 

AN OFFERING OF LOVE

Com­plete Wid­ow and moth­er  group pos­es for a pho­to with the gifts they brought.

Our Bala­ma Pas­tors and Fos­ter Moth­ers request­ed to meet with me yes­ter­day for prayer in the large shad­ed area in front of our employ­ee kitchen.  It’s 95 degrees F (35 C) in the shade and much hot­ter in the intense Decem­ber sun­shine.   They came to pray with me in hon­or of my Mom’s pass­ing on Nov. 4th.  They brought food gifts (2 stems of bananas, fresh toma­toes, and a bag of fresh baked bread), plus each wid­ow and Pas­tor gave a mon­ey offering.

 Pre­sen­ta­tion of love offer­ings in our shad­ed meet­ing area.

They are not sit­ting on the ground just because there is no where else to sit.  This is also a sign of respect.

I was so touched, as they prayed for the Peace of JESUS over me, my Dad, and 2 broth­ers.  Tears streamed down my face as each per­son placed “a widow’s mite” in the offer­ing plate.

These wid­ows have no income, yet they all gave sac­ri­fi­cial­ly from their week­ly food mon­ey we give them each Thurs­day for fruit and veg­gies.  To reject the gift would have been an insult, as they gave from their hearts.  JESUS IS LOVE, and that love was shown beyond mea­sure in yesterday’s pray meeting.

Jesus nev­er ceas­es to amaze me by show­ing HIS LOVE to me through these people.

SCHOOL’S OUT AND THE KIDS AWAIT THEIR FINAL REPORT CARDS!

It’s always a les­son in patience for our chil­dren after tak­ing finals.  They nev­er know if it will be 1 week or 2 before the results are post­ed.  So they “hang in there”, as 4 days a week they con­tin­ue with AWANA GAMES/ Bible lessons, study Eng­lish with Lay­la, and play soc­cer or bas­ket­ball in the late evenings.

CARLITOS JORGE AND AMBROSIO BREAK ALL KNOWN AWANA RECORDS!

  Car­l­i­tos and  2 oth­ers packed onto his bike.  Rufi­no stayed behind for there was no more room.  (A true Mozam­bi­can would have put the fourth man on the lug­gage rack and had him hold the AWANA mate­ri­als.)   That’s a bit dan­ger­ous for my taste.

.I didn’t think it pos­si­ble, but with the help of his new motor bike, Car­l­i­tos and Ambro­sio min­is­tered to 935 chil­dren and adults last Saturday!

His pro­gram includ­ed 6 AWANA groups in FOUR VILLAGESover an 8 hour time frame!  Leav­ing at 5 a.m. and return­ing around 2:30pm!

THE FINAL REMOTE VILLAGE OF THAT DAY, Mar­riri (Mah-rear‑y), was a new loca­tion totally!

Mar­riri, pop­u­la­tion 3, 000, has nev­er heard the gospel, as no church has ever exist­ed there.

Both adults and chil­dren were excit­ed, and the crowd was large for a first time meeting.

It is obvi­ous that this is too much for any team in one day, so I had Car­l­i­tos orga­nize a 3 man team that went unan­nounced to Mar­riri yesterday.

Why only 3 men?  Because all 4 couldn’t fit on his motor bike.

I didn’t like the added dan­ger of doing this, but 2 men couldn’t han­dle the job and we lacked a 2nd bike. Car­l­i­tos promised to dri­ve slow­ly and we prayed for their safe­ty.  They all returned with­out inci­dent, PTL!

Our Three­some was greet­ed by an excit­ed vil­lage chief, 345 chil­dren, and 25 adults.

Anoth­er bike like the one in the pho­to can be bought for $900.

With a sec­ond bike, we can send all 4 team mem­bers to help spread the love of Jesus in this very large, remote area.

With 2 teams total­ing 4 men, they can break up the chil­dren into 2 meet­ings which ide­al is to keep the groups to about 150 chil­dren each AND have time to trav­el and orga­nize oth­er groups in the near­by area.

HELPING THE HANDICAPPED

All our moth­ers need hand brooms for sweep­ing their homes, and the ever present, “pin­era” or small flat bas­ket for sift­ing food.

Both these items are made local­ly by hand­i­capped men, and my per­son­al pol­i­cy is that I only buy from them.

Some of these men walk or wheel them­selves in 3 wheel bicy­cles up to 5 miles because they know I will buy what they have to sell.

Help­ing those who help them­selves is what we stand by.

UNTIL NEXT WEEK!

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Silva
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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THANKSGIVING BLESSINGS FROM MOZ !

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: NOVEMBER 28, 2015
 
NOTE FROM BUSH BUNNY BRENDA:

Hope you all had a great Thanks­giv­ing Day with your families.

Since this is only an Amer­i­can Hol­i­day, our staff spent the day bless­ing oth­ers with a food give out to the orphans that totaled 2.5 TONS of food.

Lay­la and I took the after­noon off to eat a sim­ple meal from local foods and played a Rum­mikub tour­na­ment.  (She won 3 games to 2.)

Fel­low­ship, food, and fun.  Keep­ing Jesus and His Love at the fore­front all the time.

For Jesus is LOVE and in HIS EYES, all that mat­ters if that we show it dai­ly to all those around us.

THE FINAL “PUSH” TO DISTRIBUTE TONS OF FOOD BEFORE THE RAINY SEASON STARTS

This week flew by as we spent each morn­ing load­ing our Land Cruis­er pick-up (the work horse of Africa) with small loads that totaled 9.2 TONS total,  and sent it out to our 12 remote vil­lage Pas­tors and their families

Our Pas­tors received this food offer­ing as part of their “ben­e­fits”, to help sup­ple­ment what they grow in their own fields.

Our goal is to make sure that their fam­i­lies have enough to eat dur­ing the tough times of the year.

Pre­vent­ing “dis­tract­ed Pas­tors”, keeps God’s Word going forth all year round.

Hun­gry Tum­mies have no ears (lis­ten to no one), and in this case, no strength to teach!

We also dis­trib­uted 3 tons of rice to our staff’s fam­i­lies as Decem­ber to March is the sever­est time of hunger for many in Mozambique.

The har­vest was poor this year, and many fam­i­lies are now out of food, includ­ing our workers.

Yes, they get a salary and do buy what they can, BUT food prices have sky rock­et­ed with the unsta­ble world­wide economy.

Rice, the only bulk food avail­able this time of year, has DOUBLED in price in the last 30 days.

A 20kg (55lb.) bag of rice now equals a week’s pay for most of our staff, so our rice offer­ing was a big help.

We can’t help every­one, but THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS, we are doing what we can to help those in our “extend­ed family”

MANUEL AND CREW made 2 round trips this week to Melu­co with our 7 ton truck. This filled the Melu­co ware­house with enough food to feed the 400+ orphans through May, 2016.

Each trip is 9 hours one way, so it is always an overnight jour­ney.  They also did a major water well repair with all new pip­ing while there this week, bring­ing clean water to a vil­lage of over 5,000 people.

On Tues­day, this com­ing week, this same crew will take the final load of food, machetes,  and corn seed to the 115 ELEPHANT VILLAGE ORPHANS.

Ware­house Team sewing up corn sacks that have just been sift­ed and cleaned for milling.  Our ham­mer mill turns the whole corn into corn flour for the orphans.  The corn flour is boiled until it is stiff, form­ing the pop­u­lar food, “Sheema” as it is local­ly called.  The bland Sheema is rolling into a ball, as they eat it with their hands, and then dipped into what­ev­er sauce (meat or veg­gie) they have for that meal.

Car­pen­ters cut­ting 4x4’s into 2 x 4’s to repair ter­mite dam­age in one of our ware­hous­es.  The ter­mites, bet­ter known as the “under­ground mafia” are a con­stant chal­lenge in all of Bala­ma.  The two young men on the right are orphans who grew up in our pro­gram and are now train­ing to be mas­ter carpenters.

Our week’s work is bet­ter told in pho­tos than in words, so I bid you good­bye till next week!

Bless­ings to all of you!

 

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Silva
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA BLOG, NOV.20, 2015

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: NOVEMBER 20, 2015
 

BUSH BUNNY BACK IN BALAMA, SENDING THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR KIND WORDS, PRAYERS, AND LOVE GIFTS DURING THIS LAST WEEK.

It was a hec­tic 11 days with 5 of those days being in the air or on the road so I could join my fam­i­ly in Eagle Lake for my Mom’s funeral.

I was great­ly encour­aged to vis­it with all of you who were able to come, as well as those who were able to call.

I tru­ly appre­ci­ate your love and kind­ness dur­ing this dif­fi­cult time.

TV CREW VISITS OUR BALAMA ORPHANS

While I was busy in the USA last week, Cape­na, Lay­la, and our entire staff were mov­ing 20+ tons of corn and beans (seed and food) over a 4 day peri­od to 1,697 orphans and wid­ows in 20 villages.

A Mozam­bi­can TV crew trav­eled with them to all the give outs, film­ing what we do best (serv­ing orphans & wid­ows in distress).

They have promised us a DVD of the pro­gram once it airs in Moz.  So please be patient, and we will get it onto our web­site ONCE IT IS AVAILABLE.

They gave us no date, so I am not sure how long that will be.

The 356 wid­ows who care for these orphans were very excit­ed as sev­er­al donors made it pos­si­ble for us to gift new MACHETES (Pan­gas) to them.  We plan to give the remain­ing 250 wid­ows in Melu­co Dis­trict a machete by Jan­u­ary.  Machetes are used dai­ly in Mozam­bi­can homes for every­thing from cut­ting fire wood, to killing snakes and any oth­er “crit­ters” that hap­pen to become a nui­sance around their homes.  A high­ly val­ued tool, great­ly prized in every Mozam­bi­can home.

SURPRISE DONATION FROM A LOCAL FOOD COMPANY!

Our chil­dren were blessed with over 100 lbs of beef, pork, and chick­en last Sun­day.  Lay­la was super sur­prised on Sun­day morn­ing when a new food com­pa­ny work­ing in the area “dropped by” with a Freez­er box full of meat!  Most of our chil­dren have nev­er eat­en beef, so this was a great treat for them.

On Thurs­day, Nov. 19, this same com­pa­ny blessed us with 2000 cups of YOGURT!  A treat that our chil­dren have nev­er tasted!

The looks on their faces were pre­cious, as they sat lick­ing their cups and try­ing to fig­ure out what they were tast­ing.  Most have nev­er had milk since they were weaned from their mothers. 

They also received bananas to go with their treat, so it was a super fun day watch­ing kids expe­ri­ence a new food

God is bless­ing us in new and mighty ways.  He nev­er ceas­es to amaze me.

BALAMA GOAT HERD IS STILL KICKING

Many of you have asked me how our 230 goats are doing.  They are pro­duc­ing well, as we were blessed with the birth of 5 new baby goats last week.

I love to cud­dle these soft and fuzzy new­borns, but they are not too fond of being picked up!

We present­ly have 32 males weigh­ing over 70 lbs each that are ready for mar­ket.  The sale of these 32 males will pro­vide our 95 school aged orphans with school books, and some of the fab­ric need­ed for their 2016 school uni­forms.  Your love gifts gave us the goats, and now the goats are giv­ing to the children.

Thank you for help­ing us bring edu­ca­tion to the chil­dren through our 4 legged friends.

DEATH OF ONE OF OUR TEENAGE ORPHANS

It is a sad day when sadis­tic, satan­ic, rit­u­al killings strikes one of our own.  Assane, an Albi­no orphan who grew up in our pro­gram, was mur­dered last Sat­ur­day night by a group of 3 very evil peo­ple.  They were caught and are in jail as I write.  Assane, 16 years old, had been relo­cat­ed last year to his home vil­lage with our help, along with his grand­moth­er and sis­ter.  We bought them a mud hut, and they were orga­niz­ing their farm to become inde­pen­dent of our vil­lage food dis­tri­b­u­tions by 2016.  There is no expla­na­tion for this hor­ri­ble deed, except that these peo­ple were part of a cult who believed that Albi­no body parts held spe­cial powers.

We appre­ci­ate your prayers for his family.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Silva
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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WATER WELL REPAIRS UNDER WAY.

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2015
 

 

20 WATER WELLS BEING REPAIRED THANKS TO MANY GENEROUS HEARTS

Manuel loads the water well parts from the MFA aircraft.

With the help of mul­ti­ple donors, we were able to meet the $1,700 parts bill for the water wells in Melu­co Dis­trict,  pay trans­port costs, AND pro­vide the 3 man team’s food expens­es for 5 days in the bush!  Unknown to me, the “2015 price list” that I quot­ed from was not cor­rect due to the mas­sive for­eign exchange “tur­moil” that took place Oct. 1st.  This caused ALL import­ed parts prices to sky rock­et­ed through­out Mozam­bique in the last few weeks!  (these water well parts are import­ed from India

BUT GOD KNEW THAT, and pro­vid­ed through mul­ti­ple donors to make up the difference!

WE EVEN HAD ENOUGH FUNDS TO BUY 15 EXTRA BASIC REPAIR KITS! 

These are much needed,

as we just received requests to repair ANOTHER 4 WELLS in Bala­ma that that have broken.

Oct. and Novem­ber are the dri­est of the dry months, and our busiest with water wells.

The rub­ber water well rings usu­al­ly only last about a year.

Keeps Manuel and his 2 man team hop­ping for sure!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all who gave so gen­er­ous­ly so that more than 40,000 peo­ple can have clean water in the next 2 weeks

BUSH BUNNY AND CREW HOPPED AT FULL SPEED THIS WEEK

Our week jumped out of the start­ing gate on Mon­day with a 4:30a.m. dri­ve for Lay­la and I to Pemba.

Lay­la left for RSA on a com­mer­cial flight, and MAF fetched me in their 6 seater Cess­na for the 1 hr. 20 min. flight to Nam­pu­la City, 7 hours dri­ve to the south of us.

With the water well parts being the pri­or­i­ty, MAF (Mis­sions Avi­a­tion Fel­low­ship) offered Manuel and I a help­ing hand, spar­ing me the long, bumpy, and VERY exhaust­ing  14 hour round trip dri­ve to Nampula. 

Thanks to Steve, our MFA pilot, for these pics from his iphone

Manuel is my “right hand man”, as Eric Dry trained him to be our “handy man”.  Besides main­tain­ing the vehi­cles at our base, he is our WATER WELL FIX IT MAN!  One of the best around, as his “fix it” skills are request­ed by mul­ti­ple dis­tricts each dry season.

He went with me to Nam­pu­la to make sure we received the right parts need­ed to repair the 20 water wells in Melu­co. (Was a good thing, as he dis­cov­ered sev­er­al errors in the order which he corrected.)

MONDAY NIGHT, in  Nampula:

Cape­na, our Bala­ma office man­ag­er, called to say we had a team of orphan­age inspec­tors com­ing from Pem­ba on Wednes­day at 11 a.m.  That meant I had to can­cel all plans for Tues­day shop­ping in Pem­ba, and race to Bala­ma instead of fetch­ing the much need­ed baby for­mu­la, and fab­ric for mak­ing clothes for our orphans.

TUESDAY in Nam­pu­la: Manuel left by taxi at 6:30 a.m. to fetch the water well parts.  At 8:30 a.m., I renewed my pass­port and was ready to go.

MAF was very accom­mo­dat­ing, and had us out of the air­port by 10:30 a.m.   We were back in Pem­ba by 12 NOON and made the 4 hour dri­ve to Bala­ma, arriv­ing before dark!

WEDNESDAY: Our entire Staff showed up ear­ly to help orga­nize the food and equip­ment for the food dis­tri­b­u­tion for the inspec­tors to observe on Thurs­day.  Watch­ing “HOW” we dis­trib­ute the food to the wid­ows was a main item on their agen­da.  They arrived at 11, and we were in meet­ings with them until almost 4pm that after­noon, as they read every detail of our children’s files.   (All was found in order, PTL!)

THURSDAY:  The inspec­tion team left with smiles on their faces, as they were hap­py with our food dis­tri­b­u­tion process.

They want­ed radios in the 2 hous­es of younger chil­dren, so they could lis­ten­ing to music and the news.  (The 8 boys in the dorm have had a radio since day one for this pur­pose.)  They also want­ed more “tra­di­tion­al food” added to their diet, so that cor­rec­tion was made imme­di­ate­ly on their week­ly menus.

Since we cor­rect­ed these prob­lems with­in that same day, the inspec­tors were extreme­ly pleased.

FRIDAY:   2 a.m.  Pas­tor Alber­to, Evangelist/Bible School teacher work­ing with the 830 new con­verts in Namuno Dis­trict, called me to say he was very sick and need­ed imme­di­ate trans­port to the hos­pi­tal.  Our 2nd dri­ver, Gen­i­to, was fetched by bicy­cle by one of my guards, and was on his way to Namuno Dis­trict to fetch him by 4 a.m. (Alber­to is now recov­er­ing at home from a her­nia attack.)

At 5 a.m., I drove to Pem­ba to fetch LAYLA, who received her Res­i­den­cy Visa, AND to pur­chase the much need­ed BABY FORMULA and FABRIC for the children’s clothing.

UNKNOWN TO US, BABY FORMULA PRICES  great­ly increased as it is also import­ed.  Most stores were sold out because the store own­ers don’t have enough mon­ey to buy at the high­er price in RSA.

My 2 man team and I spent 4 hours going to every store and tiny mar­ket stall in Pem­ba, buy­ing up the few cans that each had in stock.

PTL! We man­aged to obtain a 5 week sup­ply (160 cans) for the 32 babies cur­rent­ly in the program!

One of the major importers has promised to save us 15 cas­es when her Novem­ber ship­ment comes in.  For this we are most grateful!

Our mot­to:  We do what it takes to pro­vide for our chil­dren, and QUIT is not in our vocabulary.

Keep your prayers com­ing that the “promised for­mu­la” arrives on time in November.

Nev­er a dull moment around here for sure.

AWANA LEADER SETS ANOTHER NEW RECORD

CARLITOS JORGE AND AMBROSIO, show­ing off new bike and AWANA game mate­ri­als after set­ting new atten­dance record in Mar­i­ca Village.

These 2 are the “dynam­ic duo” when it comes to Children’s Evangelism

Car­l­i­tos Jorge and assis­tant,  “now grown up orphan” Ambro­sio, did their 3 nor­mal AWANA pro­grams in NQUIDE Vil­lage on Saturday.

They then trav­eled on their new motor­bike to MARICA Vil­lage to start a new program.

596 chil­dren and 46 adults attend­ed this meet­ing, with all hear­ing the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST for the FIRST TIME!

In a vil­lage of 4,000, this is AMAZING!

DE BUNNY is “bushed” after all that hap­pened this week, but it’s amaz­ing to watch as “Jesus’ plan” pro­vid­ed our needs and brought many to know about HIM at the same time.  Per­se­ver­ance and per­sis­tence.  Much need­ed qual­i­ties for all those who serve JESUS, no mat­ter what coun­try you are in.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Sil­va (hap­py to be “home” again).

  I know some­one is tru­ly “called” to serve when they look for­ward to return­ing to “remote” Balama.
 

WATER WELL REPAIRS ARE URGENT NEED

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: OCTOBER 16, 2015
 

 

MELUCO DISTRICT BEGGING FOR URGENT WATER WELL REPAIRS AFFECTING OVER 40,000 PEOPLE

Thurs­day, a hand car­ried mes­sage was sent from the Melu­co Admin­is­tra­tor to our Bala­ma gate.  TWENTY WATER WELLS went “out of ser­vice” in the last 2 weeks,  and need urgent repairs.   BUT, no spare parts or repair team are avail­able.  Could we help?

Our answer is YES, for NO WATER EQUALS NO LIFE.

BUT,  our parts sup­ply is not enough to meet the need!

An addi­tion­al $1,000 is need­ed to buy the water well parts in Nam­pu­la city, 7 hours dri­ve to the south.

We can fetch the need­ed parts this Tues­day, if love gifts are pledged to help us, as I must go to Nam­pu­la for my Pass­port renewal.

I can “bor­row” our kid’s Decem­ber food mon­ey, as long as we know the funds will be com­ing in.

NO WATER MEANS DEATH TO MANY AS THIS CRISIS AFFECTS 20 REMOTE VILLAGES WHERE MANY OF OUR ORPHANS LIVE.

TOGETHER WE SAVE LIVES!

4 CHILDREN AND GRANNY RESCUED FROM DEADLY ASSAULT THIS WEEK

Grand­moth­er Asue­ma (Ah-sue-ee-ma), fled for her life from the remote vil­lage of CATAMBA (Cah-tam-bah) with her 5 month old grand­daugh­ter, Roti­na on Sun­day.  They were attacked with dead­ly force by the moth­er of these 4 chil­dren, who suf­fers from men­tal ill­ness.  The moth­er came home drunk after steal­ing a bot­tle of “home-made corn liquor” from some­one in the vil­lage, and attacked the grand­moth­er with any­thing she could throw.  Asue­ma grabbed the baby’s milk and bot­tle, but the moth­er smashed the baby bot­tle from her hand.  She ran with the baby tucked under her arm, as the moth­er swore loud­ly in Makua that she would kill baby Rotina!

The oth­er 3 chil­dren, Nel­son (13), Toni (9) and 3 year old Maez­in­ha (My-zeen-ya) fled to a neighbor’s house, and were kept safe until the ram­page was over.  These 3 chil­dren were then sent to stay with a rel­a­tive in that vil­lage, while Granny Asue­ma walked the 12 miles (20km) to our base with Baby Roti­na  (20 km).  With­out a baby bot­tle and clean water for mix­ing the for­mu­la, baby Roti­na, who is very small for her age, would not stay healthy for very long.

Granny walked in late that after­noon, and we imme­di­ate­ly replaced the baby bot­tle and gave them a bot­tle of clean water.  Granny was giv­en food and refuge in one of our widow’s homes for the night.

Social Ser­vices was con­tact­ed the next day, and agreed to accom­pa­ny Granny Asue­ma, and Cape­na (our office man­ag­er) to her vil­lage to assess the sit­u­a­tion. After a 2 hour meet­ing with the extend­ed fam­i­ly, Social Ser­vices agreed that it was in the best inter­est of all 4 grand­chil­dren and their grand­moth­er for them to seek refuge in one of our Bala­ma widow’s homes for an indef­i­nite time peri­od .   Since this was the worse of many such attacks on the grand­moth­er and chil­dren, it was evi­dent that their pres­ence in that vil­lage put them at great risk of injury and/or death  from their own mother

Sad, but this is real­i­ty here, as treat­ment for men­tal ill­ness is non-exis­tent in this area.

This vil­lage has no idea who Jesus is, as no church exists in their area.  We made a lot of friends in that vil­lage that day, open­ing the door for a Pas­tor to visit.

This is def­i­nite­ly one of those “mys­te­ri­ous ways” Jesus brings HIS WORD to the lost who do not even know He exists.

RESCUEING THE LOST:  both phys­i­cal­ly and spir­i­tu­al­ly is why Jesus sent us to Bala­ma.  TOGETHER, WE ARE SAVING LIVES.

Our staff is ded­i­cat­ed to “going the extra mile” to do just that until our Lord returns.

We THANK YOU for your prayers and love gifts that make it pos­si­ble for us to go those extra miles.

ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING!  KEEP THOSE TRUCKS A ROLLING!

 

Rolling out with 5 Tons of corn and beans to The Man­go Tree Church food give out on Octo­ber 16th

Load­ing, unload­ing, and dis­trib­ut­ing 27+ tons of corn and 5 tons of beans in TWO DISTRICTS in 5 days is a mas­sive amount of work.

BUT THE REWARDS ARE GREAT! Our staff gave out cloth­ing to all 515 orphans in MELUCO DISTRICT this week, as the orphans danced and sang for joy!

cLay­la and Soz­in­ho, an orphan who grew up in our pro­gram, (far right) “dish­ing out the beans” at the Kwe Kwe food give out on Wednesday.

Many of the orphans who grew up in our pro­gram, now “give back” by help­ing us out on dis­tri­b­u­tion days.

Lay­la, Rachide, and Pas­tor Fred, (yel­low hat,) cut­ting and fold­ing 200 “caplanas” (cot­ton wrap­aroung skirts for the girls in the Melu­co Dis­trict.A Caplana is the nor­mal vil­lage wear for the girls in north­ern Mozambique.

By Wednes­day evening it was evi­dent Lay­la had a fever, and “malar­ia” symp­toms.  I quick­ly cooled her down with a cool water bath, and put her to bed after she took the prop­er malar­ia treat­ment.  She han­dled the 3 day treat­ment just fine, and is quick­ly regain­ing her strength.  In fact, she just walked past my door, hav­ing man­aged the 150 yard walk from her house to mine.  With an appetite, she is now “raid­ing” the table for bread and beans.  You know she is a true TEXAN when BEANS is the first food she asks for!

P.S.  Lay­la will trav­el to RSA (S. Africa) on Mon­day to request her res­i­den­cy visa on Tues­day at the Mozam­bi­can Embassy in Pre­to­ria.  She has ded­i­cat­ed a year of her life to help us con­tin­ue our live sav­ing work with the orphans.  I am MOST GRATEFUL for her help!

I will trav­el to Nam­pu­la to renew my Pass­port on Tues­day, as embassy staff will be meet­ing with all Amer­i­cans need­ing such ser­vices (to save us trav­el costs to Maputo City).  Keep us both in prayer as we travel.

Bless­ings

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Silva
 
 

AWANA GAMES DRAW BIG CROWDS

 
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA”

DATE: OCTOBER 10, 2015
 

 

425 CHILDREN ATTEND AWANA IN N‑QUIDE VILLAGE

Youth Lead­ers Car­l­i­tos  and Ambro­sio return­ing from N‑Quide Vil­lage.  Set a new record today with 425 chil­dren in atten­dance today.  (3 meet­ings over 4 hour time span).Car­l­i­tos Jorge and his assis­tant, Ambro­sio, (one of our orphans all grown up now), have set up THREE AWANA GAMES sites in the remote, but very large vil­lage of NQUIDE (N‑Qwee-dee).

Trav­el­ing on Car­l­i­tos’ old but faith­ful motor­bike, these 2 young men hold 3 com­plete pro­grams each Sat­ur­day morn­ing in 3 dif­fer­ent areas of this large vil­lage of over 2,500 peo­ple.  Many adults attend also, as the chil­dren are tough com­peti­tors mak­ing the games very excit­ing and LOUD!

Devo­tions with a Bible Les­son fol­lows each com­pe­ti­tion, and many are start­ing to under­stand who Jesus is.  Nquide is an “unreached” vil­lage, so it takes some time to get every­one to know who is God, and why He sent Jesus to be our Saviour.

Pas­toral train­ing with Car­l­i­tos George using a dra­ma­tized sto­ry to illus­trate to our Bala­ma Coun­ty Pas­tors what he learned at the AWANA Con­fer­ence in Mozam­bique ear­li­er this month.

Car­l­i­tos is a very “ani­mat­ed” teacher who uses object lessons and dra­mas to help every­one under­stand the lessons.

Thanks to your prayer and love gifts, Car­l­i­tos and the oth­er 26 AWANA lead­ers are now spread­ing God’s Word in a very real way to over 3,000 peo­ple each week in THREE COUNTIES.

NEW CHURCH STARTED TODAY IN N‑TELE VILLAGE

Pas­tor Gito has been busy evan­ge­liz­ing in N‑Tele (N‑Tell‑y) Vil­lage for almost 6 months now.  He announced at our Sept. 30thPastor’s meet­ing that the church mem­bers had com­plet­ed their grass roofed church area.  Gito invit­ed our youth team to come dance and sing at the inau­gu­ra­tion to help them offi­cial­ly open the church today, Oct. 10th.  So off they went with their key­board, speak­ers, and bat­tery set up to praise the Lord over anoth­er vil­lage com­ing to Christ.

Bala­ma Youth Team off to the inau­gu­ra­tion of the new church in N‑Tele Village.

FOOD GIVE OUTS SPREADING GOD’S LOVE TO MANY HUNGRY PEOPLE

Sep­tem­ber to Decem­ber are the hot, dry months here in north­ern Mozam­bique, which is also known as the “time of hunger”.  Most of our orphans can raise enough food to last up to 6 months of the year, but need help from August to Jan­u­ary when their new­ly plant­ed seeds begin to pro­duce food.  Dur­ing these months, we spend many hours load­ing and unload­ing our 6 and 7 ton trucks at food give outs in 2 coun­ties.  This com­ing Mon­day to Fri­day,  we will load and dis­trib­ute over 30 TONS of dried corn and beans to more than 1,500 orphans and wid­ows in 17 vil­lages in 2 coun­ties.  This means many long hours for our staff, dri­vers, and dis­tri­b­u­tion teams.

Orphan boy help­ing his granny car­ry their food allot­ment to his village.

 

A wid­owed Granny car­ry­ing her food allot­ment for her­self and the one lit­tle orphan she cares for.

ORPHANS UNLIMITED IS DEDICATED TO THE “HANDS ON” WORK IT TAKES TO FEED CHILDREN BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY.

BUT WE CAN ONLY DO THIS BECAUSE YOUR LOVE FOR THESE PEOPLE MAKES IT POSSIBLE.

THANKS FOR HELPING US MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF THESE CHILDREN. 

They are bear­ing fruit, as more and more of them come to Christ, and help lead oth­er chil­dren to know Him also.

LAYLA SILVA JUMPS IN WITH BOTH FEET!

Lay­la has a big heart for serv­ing Jesus.  She has learned more Por­tuguese in this 7 day peri­od than I thought pos­si­ble, and also start­ed teach­ing Eng­lish to our school age and pre-school stu­dents this last Tues­day.  She’s won­der­ful to work with, and a joy to be around, as she loves to laugh and sing.

A mer­ry heart does good like a med­i­cine!  I am very grate­ful that Jesus “spoke to her spir­it”, telling her this is where He want­ed her to serve.

Keep her in your prayers, as she has an intense learning/orientation peri­od ahead in these next 3 months.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Lay­la Silva
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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