RECORD SETTING BABY DAY IN BALAMA
On Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 8th, we received 10 new orphans in one day!
A rare occur­rence and one we DO NOT want to see!
 
Receiv­ing orphans means the chil­dren have lost their moth­ers.  In this case, all 3 moth­ers died due to com­pli­ca­tions after childbirth.
This is the 2nd lead­ing cause of orphaned chil­dren in Mozambique.
The num­ber one killer is con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed water.
That’s why our water well drilling pro­gram is so important.
 
The first moth­er had 6 chil­dren under age 10 and died hav­ing # 7. 
The father aban­doned all 7 chil­dren when the moth­er died after a C‑section on Jan­u­ary 5th.
Their only rel­a­tives are a grand­moth­er and an uncle, who with our help, will care for the children.
The 3 day old baby girl was deliv­ered by C‑section in such a hur­ry that her scalp was cut in 2 places.
She is doing well & her head is heal­ing nicely.
 
An hour lat­er a fam­i­ly walked in with twin boys, 3 days old, who were also orphaned on Jan. 5th. 
Our final arrival was a 2 month old baby girl car­ried in by her father who had walked 12 miles to get to us.
His wife also died on Jan. 5th, leav­ing their 4 lb. daugh­ter with­out milk.
Her birth weight was only 3.8 lbs. and she weighs only 4 lbs at 2 months.  It’s obvi­ous her moth­er was very pre­scrip­tion med­i­cine ill as her breast milk was not enough to sup­port the growth of this lit­tle one.
As I held this feath­er light lit­tle girl, she guz­zled 2 ounces of for­mu­la when I didn’t think her lit­tle tum­my could hold that much!
 
It’s sad that these lit­tle ones must start their lives with­out know­ing their mothers.
But JESUS loves them so much that he sent us to Bala­ma 10 year ago to bring HIS LOVE to these lit­tle ones who would oth­er­wise perish.
We are BLESSED to have such a lov­ing creator.
Our milk pro­gram alone saves a min­i­mum of 100 babies a year who would oth­er wise die of starvation.
 
I hope to see most of you dur­ing my USA tour.
If you desire to write, please send your e‑mail to Brenda@orphansunlimited.org
Love in Christ,
Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New Year happenings:
 
  I’m only a week away from leav­ing Mozam­bique for my USA speak­ing tour, fly­ing out Jan. 20th to arrive in Hous­ton on 21st.
I’ll be releas­ing my speak­ing tour sched­ule next week for sure.
 
Dur­ing Christ­mas & New Years we kept busy by plant­i­ng over 3000 Jat­ropha trees.
The nuts from these trees are full of oil that can be made into bio diesel.
In three years, these lit­tle trees will be in full pro­duc­tion.  The oil from these nuts burns in nor­mal kerosene lanterns, which is need­ed in all the vil­lages to pro­vide light.
Extract­ing the oil from these nuts will pro­vide an income for our mis­sion sta­tion as well as pro­vide jobs for our grown orphans and the wid­ows we support.
As we receive more cut­tings, we will be encour­ag­ing the vil­lagers to plant & pro­duce the nuts.
This is one way of break­ing the pover­ty chain in Mozambique.
 
 
 
 

The rainy sea­son has begun!
The Rovu­ma church build­ing (made of mud brick) was fin­ished just YESTERDAY & the rains start­ed ear­ly this morning.
God is faith­ful ALL THE TIME!
 
 I want­ed to share this amaz­ing sto­ry with you on how our newest church mem­bers in Rovu­ma are tak­ing Jesus’ WORD & putting it to work!
 
Last Sun­day, I taught them a les­son on our AUTHORITY IN CHRIST.
Empha­siz­ing what Jesus said about how we can use His name to lay hands on the sick so they will be healed.
Genono, the old man in my last Bush Beat newslet­ter, took it to heart AND SAVED A BABY’S LIFE!
 
 A fam­i­ly with a baby came to ion­amin with­out pre­scrip­tion vis­it Genono, stay­ing the night in his mud hut in Rovuma.
  As they slept on the floor on grass mats, a num­ber of one inch long black ants entered the hut. (they are night feeders)
I’ve been bit­ten by only 1 of these mon­ster ants, & can tell you it not only HURTS, but that they car­ry a minor poi­son that is harm­less to humans unless you receive mul­ti­ple bites.
Mul­ti­ple ants BIT THE BABY which began to scream.
Then the baby went limp, & wouldn’t respond to anything.
They feared she would die.
 
But Genono remem­bered the teach­ing from the church that morning.
He told his whole fam­i­ly to pray while he demand­ed the demons & the sick­ness to leave his hut in the name of Jesus.
Then he com­mand­ed the heal­ing pow­er of Jesus to heal the baby.
 
With­in MINUTES the baby awoke & want­ed to suck immediately!
The joy­ful faces on his entire fam­i­ly SAID IT ALL as Genono fin­ished telling his sto­ry to me on Monday.
 
I can’t wait for him to give his tes­ti­mo­ny in the church tomorrow!
Our objec­tive is to EMPOWER all church mem­bers to do what Jesus did when He walked this earth.
This is only the begin­ning of a GREAT AWAKENING of the African peo­ple to the great­est pow­er on earth!
 
Love from Mozambique,
Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Buy Acom­plia Online Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sub­ject: Man­go Tree Church BEARING FRUIT!

 Hi from BALAMA!
We are expe­ri­enc­ing an excit­ing new move of God like none I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in Mozambique!
 
FACTS:
1.  Novem­ber is the 2nd busiest month of the year for us, as the rainy sea­son is mov­ing in.
From Dec. to March each year we deal with heavy rains almost dai­ly.  Our dirt roads turn to mush that buries many a pick up to the axle.
Bridges some­times fail, leav­ing us with no way to get out since we only have one road to this area.
 
2. That means stock pil­ing 4 months of sup­plies, repair­ing grass roofs on all 16 mud huts that sup­ply our orphans.
Thanks to a few gen­er­ous donors, we have been able to replace the grass with tin roofs on 5 of our orphan’s homes.
Our goal is to get all the grass roof’s replaced to make the hous­es health­i­er for the kids to live in.
Grass roofs leak no mat­ter how good the roof, and it ‘s a great place for rats & mos­qui­toes to hide, bring­ing malar­ia & oth­er diseases.
So all of us are busier than a bunch of beavers try­ing to pro­tect their dam in a riv­er flood!
 
3.  Eric is busy drilling water wells. (We still need a mechan­i­cal­ly mind­ed per­son to help us drill next year.)
He has com­plet­ed 3 wells since Oct. 5th & we hope to install a 4th before the rains hit.
 
4.  TWO WEEKS AGO we report­ed on God’s strong move on the unbe­liev­ers in a small vil­lage called Rovuma.
Well God isn’t lim­it­ing his pow­er to just one village.
Our “Paulo’s” wit­ness (name changed for his pro­tec­tion) has now brought 45 peo­ple from 4 oth­er vil­lages to Christ!
More church­es will be planted.
 
HERE ARE THE LATEST DETAILS OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
 
Today, a new church is born!
The Mavala Man­go Tree Church is repro­duc­ing itself!
 
Dur­ing Novem­ber, we dis­trib­ute food each week to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages sur­round­ing the Man­go Tree Church.
The rains will start in Decem­ber, mak­ing it impos­si­ble to deliv­er any food to these fam­i­lies until next May.
Our goal in Novem­ber is to dis­trib­ute 5 month’s worth of food so that the wid­ows & orphans in our pro­gram will not go hun­gry until their fields pro­duce a crop in April.
 
On Novem­ber 13th, the orphans & their fos­ter par­ents, heard the fab­u­lous tes­ti­mo­ny of the man whom I fea­tured in last months Bush Beat as “Paulo”.
Paulo was a mus­lim leader who went to over 27 witch­doc­tors try­ing to find a cure for his hands that were per­ma­nent­ly dam­aged when he was hit by light­en­ing 4 years ago.
Paulo had a “Jesus dream” which led to the mir­a­cle heal­ing of both his hands.
He gives a pow­er­ful tes­ti­mo­ny of his Jesus mir­a­cle, & has already led more than 40 men & women to the Lord in the last 30 days in the vil­lage of Rovuma.
The Rovu­ma church their vil­lage water well exists because of the bless­ing of the New Life Church in Michigan.
 
TODAY, PAULO’S tes­ti­mo­ny sparked an avalanche of events that pro­duced much fruit!
 
Pas­tor Agus­to, head Pas­tor at the Man­go Tree church, gave a pow­er­ful object les­son using a Man­go Tree branch to show every­one how their life dries up if not fed by Jesus.
After his les­son, 45 men & women came for­ward to receive Christ as their Lord & Savior.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL for Mus­lims to do.
We have been preach­ing God’s Word to them for over 2 years with only small results, so this took all of us by surprise!
 
45 men & women from 4 vil­lages accept­ed Jesus on Novem­ber 20th.
Many were from the vil­lage of Mpaca (M‑pah-ka), where we will start our next church.
Pas­tor Pin­to, & his Pas­toral trainee, Ernesto, will go to Mpaca this Sun­day to meet with these new converts.
This was a whirl­wind day!  After the preach­ing, we dis­trib­uted food to over 200 chil­dren, met with my pas­toral staff, & orga­nized 2 of them to meet with the new con­verts of Mpaca on Sunday,
ALL this took place in 3 hours!!!!
Folks, GOD IS NOT FOOLING AROUND.
GOD wants the AVAILABLE & WILLING TO GET MOVING & DO HIS WORK NOW!!!
 
Pas­tor Alber­to will meet with the new con­verts from a vil­lage called 7th of September.
God is mov­ing with GREAT FORCE through Bala­ma Dis­trict (coun­ty).
 THANKS TO THE CHURCH MEMBERS OF BUTLER METHODIST in PA & NEW LIFE in MI, we now have 2 Chris­t­ian Cen­ters that are producing
GODLY FRUIT.
 
Love, Bush Bun­ny Brenda
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dear Friends:
So sor­ry that I have been “out of touch” dur­ing this last month, but life has been too busy for much com­put­er time.
But here’s the latest.
After our VOX vis­i­tors left on Aug. 2nd, we orga­nized a sup­ply trip to South Africa for Eric Dry, my Asso­ciate Director.
He left Aug. 6th for the 5 day dri­ve to South Africa pulling a trailer.
That means that while he is away, I have to deal with all mechan­i­cal prob­lems includ­ing vehi­cle break­downs, flat tires, maize mill has­sles, etc. ON TOP OF what I already handle.
Need­less to say, I have not lacked for work.

But the lat­est news is great news.
We are receiv­ing our STATE Gov­er­nor today who is talk­ing about the new TAR ROAD that is sup­pose to link Bala­ma with Pemba.
This will be a GREAT ASSET to our mis­sion sta­tion, but it won’t hap­pen imme­di­ate­ly. Patience is the name of the game, but at least there is HOPE that some­day we will have a man­age­able road dur­ing the rainy sea­son. This road will link us to Malawi lake even­tu­al­ly, as it is the offi­cial nation­al high­way from west to east in north­ern Mozambique.

The President’s wife is due here some­time in ear­ly Octo­ber, so I’m told we need to get ready for an inspection.
With 5 con­struc­tions crews run­ning, we are busy putting ren­o­vat­ing the 17 widow’s hous­es with new “out hous­es” & have been able to replace the grass roofs on 3 hous­es with tin roofs.
We hope to get rid of all grass roofs by next year as the mos­qui­toes love to hide in the grass dur­ing the day, so they can eat on who­ev­er sleeps below dur­ing the night.
Malar­ia is on the increase in our area, so tin roofs, means less malar­ia for our kids.

I got word from our Melu­co orphan­age, 6 hours dri­ve from here, that one of the 4 babies in our care died yes­ter­day. Her moth­er had AIDS & gave it to the baby. The 4 month old died from a res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion that her lit­tle body couldn’t fight off. So sad that the inno­cent have to suf­fer for the online phar­ma­cy no pre­scrip­tion sins of their parents.

The NEW LIFE CHURCH near Grand Rapids, MI, is help­ing us plant a pas­tor & a church in a vil­lage called ROVUMA, about 3 miles from our base.
This vil­lage has nev­er had a church & only 3 known Chris­tians live in this area of 5,000+ peo­ple. It will be a real ground break­ing time for sure, as most are mus­lims or believe only in the witchdoctor’s power.
Our pas­tor & evan­gel­i­cal team have their work cut out for them.

Chris Nagows­ki from But­ler, Methodist came in August to inau­gu­rate the church they spon­sor in Mavala village.
That church is grow­ing week­ly, thanks to the KIDS who are the great­est evan­ge­lists of all!
The Sun­day that Chris was there, we gave the 15 adults & 8 kids a chal­lenge. Bring a friend next week.
NO new adults showed up, but the 8 kids brought 10 new friends!
There is lit­tle doubt who is the “good ground” that Jesus talks about in the Bible.
I told Pas­tor Agus­to, who runs this pro­gram, to work with the chil­dren & the adults will follow.
Kids will TELL every­one what they learn, and that is the best evan­ge­lism around.

Keep us in your prayers as we des­per­ate­ly need at least 2 more mis­sion­ar­ies to join our staff.
You will find the require­ments for these 2, SUPPORTED mis­sioa­nary posi­tions post­ed on this blog.
One spot is for some­one to train into the man­age­ment of this orphan­age, so I can be free to pio­neer & teach what I know to oth­ers who want to mul­ti­ply our work.
The 2nd spot is for a WATER WELL DRILLING PERSON. (man or woman)
We will send you to drilling school in Hous­ton if you qual­i­fy & will give a 2 year commitment.
This is a sup­port­ed posi­tion. We need a driller by May, 2010.

Would love to hear from some of you, as I’m not get­ting much per­son­al mail.
Love & HUGS, Bush Bun­ny Brenda

I haven’t blogged for a few weeks as we have been busy dis­trib­ut­ing feed
sacks for the mas­sive Bala­ma Bean Rush on June 1st.

June 1st is very busy for us as it is Nation­al Chil­drens Day in
Mozam­bique, as well as the first LEGAL Day to buy corn & beans in bulk.
Sylvia & Pas­tor Domini­ca orga­nized a great par­ty today for our kids of
rice & fish with cook­ies & suck­ers for desert. They loved it!

The rest of us…
BUSTED AN ALL TIME RECORD, as our 68 man crew man­u­al­ly moved & processed
25 TONS of dried beans (sim­i­lar to the black eyed pea in the USA).
Ale­jan­dro & Car­los both from Argenti­na con­trolled the spray­ing & sacking
while I kept things orga­nized & flow­ing smoothly.
Eric & Wikkie both from RSA did the haul­ing with our 6 ton truck.

Before today, the best we have ever done is 20 tons & that was NOT on the
first day of processing.

Need­less to say we are all beat, & our feet are burn­ing from
standing/walking for 9 hours. I think I’m get­ting too old for this kind
of hard work, so please keep pray­ing for that SPECIAL SOMEONE whom God has
called to fill my shoes. (I’ll even give them a new pair of shoes to get
start­ed in!)

Our bean barn is fill­ing up fast with anoth­er 10 tons com­ing tomorrow.

Our 6 ton truck along with our trac­tor which pulls a 5 ton trail­er, will
move up to 20 tons of corn tomor­row as well.

Need­less to say, those who think min­istry is just talk­ing about Jesus
needs to come vis­it us. 🙂
With 1000+ hun­gry orphans in our area, we have to fill our 2 barns by
the 3rd week Buy Acom­plia Online With­out Pre­scrip­tion of June if we plan to feed them for the next 12 months.

Com­mer­cial buy­ers ille­gal­ly moved more than 100 tons of corn our of Balama
late Sun­day after­noon, May 31st (when they knew no one from Agriculture
was on duty). So com­pe­ti­tion is stiff & these guys don’t play by the rule
book!

But God has pro­vid­ed our food needs this year & for that we are MOST
GRATEFUL!
Keep those prayers coming!
Bush Bun­ny Bren­da full of BEANS!

Stay­ing “up close & per­son­al” with all of you is very impor­tant to me.
Because of YOUR LOVE for our kids, we are able to accom­plish what God
wants, which is to res­cue & evan­ge­lize orphans & wid­ows in northern
Mozambique.
I real­ly love my work & am grate­ful to the Lord for restor­ing my health so
I can con­tin­ue doing it.

PERSONAL NOTE:
What spare time I’ve had in the last 2 weeks, was used to var­nish the
win­dow shut­ters in my new bedroom.
Our chil­dren’s sup­plies (milk for­mu­la, teach­ing mate­ri­als, med­i­cines) & my
pri­vate office, are now tak­ing up so much room in my bed­room that I had no
place for myself.
I lit­er­al­ly had a bed in the mid­dle of a warehouse.
We des­per­ate­ly need­ed a rat proof, cool & secure place for all these
valu­ables, & the cheap­est solu­tion was to build me a bed­room on the back
of my house.
Last year, my team of brick lay­ers built the bed­room, but due to my
ill­ness in Novem­ber, it was­n’t com­plet­ed before the rainy sea­son hit in
December.
Once I can move into my new bed­room (hope­ful­ly the end of May), the
cur­rent “bedroom/warehouse” will become the offi­cial “office & chiildren’s
sup­ply room”.
Yes­ter­day, we knocked out a door­way between the 2 rooms, so I can access
the house from the bed­room at night with­out going outside.
With a lit­tle paint, I can move in!

The last 2 weeks was hec­tic as we orga­nized cloth­ing & food for those
orphans who will remain in the pro­gram this year.
We gave out seeds last year so that house­holds with teenage orphans could
become independent.
Last week, 80 fam­i­lies were giv­en a mon­th’s sup­ply of corn & beans (for
seed & eat­ing) as their farewell gift from our program.
Recent­ly orphaned babies & small chil­dren are already flow­ing buy med­i­cine online in to fill
the spots vacat­ed by these 80 families.

Our goal is to help the old­er orphans to become inde­pen­dent, as we don’t
want these teenagers to become a “hand me out” generation.
These fam­i­lies & their teenage orphans will now use their farm­ing skills
to pro­vide food for them­selves & the younger orphans in their households.

Ale­jan­dro, Sylvia, & our Moz. pas­tors paint­ed the new pre-school tables
built by our car­pen­ters dur­ing the rainy sea­son. LITTLE DISCIPLES, our
new Chris­t­ian chil­dren’s pro­gram for 4 and 5 year olds in our neighborhood
will begin next week. This pro­gram will instill the Word of God into the
kids as well as give them a “head start” on their Por­tuguese language
skills, ABC’s & num­bers so they are bet­ter equipped to enter the first
grade at age 6.

BEAN BUYING BEGINS!
Mon­day, May 11th, will find us all in the vil­lages as our teams weigh &
trans­port TONS of dried beans grown by the wid­ows & oth­er agricultural
coops in our area villages.
It takes a large num­ber of strong men to accom­plish this.
SIX to eight men each on our trac­tor which pulls a 5 ton trail­er, & our
six ton truck.
A min­i­mum of 30 men at the ware­house to offload, process, & store the food
in the barns.
Our well trained crews move up to 20 tons in a day by hand or on their
heads as is the African way.

Because of our increased work load, I am send­ing this “update” this month
instead of a full newsletter.
FOR THE NEXT 6 WEEKS, we will be buy­ing a year’s food sup­ply for the
orphans.
Short updates will be post­ed on my web­site BLOG dur­ing these 6 weeks.
Don’t expect any newslet­ters as I won’t have time to write.

THE BUSH BUNNY BLOG can be found on our web­site: www.orphansunlimited.org
For has­sle free updates, you can sub­scribe which auto­mat­i­cal­ly sends my
updates to your e‑mail address.

A reg­u­lar newslet­ter will appear at the end of June after all the food is
in the barn.
PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS, & feel free to write me notes at
brenda@orphansunlimited.org

SURPRISE, WE NOW HAVE INTERNET! (some­times) 🙂
Our cell phones allow us to have a form of “slow­er than dial up” internet,
but it’s bet­ter than nothing.
I can now access my inter­net address enough to be able to down­load your
messages.
So please don’t hes­i­tate to write. Our entire team loves to get updated
news from you, (per­son­al, local, nation­al) as we hear NOTHING over here
unless some­one writes & tells us.
Many have said, “I know you are busy, so I don’t want to both­er you”.
WRITE ME! It’s no both­er. I’m hun­gry to hear from you & share all your
news with my team.

Bless­ings to all of you.
Bush Bun­ny Brenda

BUSH BUNNY TIDBITS:

Return­ing to Mozam­bique is always a slight cul­ture shock with the sud­den changes to 3rd world “sights, sounds & HOT, humid tem­per­a­tures”.  I usu­al­ly arrive home to a “hor­nets nest” full of prob­lems that need resolv­ing.  How­ev­er, this time, the Lord had sev­er­al sur­pris­es for me.
I can tell you that in my 19 years in Moz., I have NEVER seen prob­lems resolved as fast as things hap­pened this week!
In no way was I expect­ing God to give us the answers to mul­ti­ple prayers in the first 5 days I was in Moz.
We can now go forth with the bean buy­ing & water wells with­out delays.

Here’s the sto­ry in a nut shell.

1.  NEED for a water well license has been a  GREAT prayer request for over a year!
 Mon­day, April 20th,  I met with 4 water well drilling com­pa­nies in Pem­ba,  but none would allow us to drill under their license.  (Licens­ing is SO com­plex in this coun­try that even com­mer­cial com­pa­nies find it hard to com­ply with all the regulations.)
 Ali, my office man­ag­er, hears of a Chris­t­ian broth­er who has a drilling license, & locates him on Mon­day afternoon.
Ali phones Mon­day night say­ing that “Sal­vador” (mean­ing Sav­ior in Por­tuguese), is will­ing to meet with me on Tues­day if I pro­vide him with 20 liters of diesel to make the trip to Bala­ma.  With­in 30 min­utes of his arrival the agree­ment was a “done deal”, & Sal­vador has taught us the “gov­ern­ment process” for request­ing to drill.
 He’s com­ing out this week to help us file the prop­er doc­u­ments after we locate areas that are good prospects for water wells.
ONE BIG MOUNTAIN–GONE!

2.  Water Well Pumps are in!  It usu­al­ly takes at least a month to get water well pumps sent the 1,000 miles from Maputo in south­ern Moz. to Pem­ba in the north.
The five pumps arrived with­in 1 week!  Eric picked them up yes­ter­day, & we off loaded them into our ware­house online pre­scrip­tion drugs this morn­ing.  All mate­ri­als are now on site so that water well drilling can begin as soon as the doc­u­ments are approved.

3.  BEAN BUYING to go full steam ahead (a month early).
 Due to ille­gal buy­ers in the area, we have been grant­ed per­mis­sion to begin buy­ing beans on Mon­day, April 27th.
Funds are still need­ed to com­plete the task, as we need 50 tons of beans to feed our kids for the next year.  Oth­er busi­ness­men are already buy­ing them at 20 cents/lb for resale in oth­er coun­tries, so we can­not delay. Still need fund­ing for at least 750 kids.

Beans for 1 child COST ONLY $30 FOR THE YEAR!

If you want to help, then please send your love gift to:
ORPHANS UNLIMITED, INC.
PMB #391
11152 Wes­t­heimer Road
Hous­ton, TX 77042

God’s Bless­ings to you all.
I’ll try to update this blog each week­end.  Stay tuned for the “rest of God’s sto­ry in Balama”.
Bush Bun­ny Brenda

For those who don’t know my back­ground, my heart’s desire as a child was to be an old west pio­neer. I even told God I was mad at Him because I was born too late. God gives us our hearts desires if we just ask Him. I just nev­er expect­ed my desire to land me in a remote part of Africa, res­cu­ing & evan­ge­liz­ing orphans where “no one else wants to go”.

On our home page, you will notice that I’ve writ­ten a book called AFRICAN ADVENTURES. In the 18 years I’ve been res­cue­ing kids in Africa, I’ve faced death more than 17 times. Many of these mir­a­cle sto­ries as well as the first 11 attempts on my life are in this book. Many tales of the dead­ly mam­ba snake, lions, or a machete throw­ing native are told in AFRICAN ADVENTURES. Since I haven’t the time to write a sequel at this time, the “REST OF THE STORY” will have to be told in this blog for now. Two of my most recent adven­tures are writ­ten below.

MAMBA IN THE PICK-UP TRUCK!

In Jan­u­ary, 2009, I went into our Moz. office to write a few e‑mails. A mis­isonary woman from MAF was with me. Nor­mal­ly, I go out the back door of the office when it’s time to lock up the out­door kitchen at night, but that day I felt a strong urg­ing in my spir­it man to lock up & go out the pas­sage way door instead. As we walked through the car­port towards the kitchen, my friend saw move­ment to her left & screamed “look at that!” Turn­ing to my left, I froze in amaze­ment because a 5 foot black mam­ba was stretched out on the top of the truck­’s bed, RIGHT WHERE THE BACK DOOR OPENS!
Yelling, “COBRA, COBRA”, brought the guards run­ning with their 12 foot bam­boo poles. They sur­round­ed the truck as I yelled “Don’t ruin the paint job!” (That was our newest truck!) Four men appeared instead of 2 as the guards were chang­ing shifts. Sur­round­ing the truck scared the snake, which fell off the top of the truck bed into the bed itself.
His head appeared on the oppo­site side of the truck bed look­ing like a 4 inch periscope from a sub­ma­rine. See­ing no exit from that direc­tion, the mam­ba did a retreat, climb­ing behind the spare tire that was mount­ed on the back of the truck­’s cab. It then slid down & wedged him­self into that lit­tle 1 inch spot between the cab & the bed of the truck. I told the men to hold him there while I went into the house to retreive my machete. The safest thing was to tie that machete to a bam­boo pole & stick that snake in the side to make him come out. My guard, Ameri­co, took the machete from me & say­ing, “that’s too much trou­ble”. He looked at the posi­tion of the snake & changed to the oth­er side of the truck for a cer­tain hit. His posi­tion put him in the 3 foot space between the office wall & the truck. Swing­ing that machete at light­en­ing speed, Ameri­co cut that snake’s body. Known for their aggres­sive behav­iour when pro­voked, that mam­ba dropped to the ground, rac­ing straight for Ameri­co. It was all out war as the 4 men swung their bam­boos like flash­ing swords, break­ing his back & bash­ing in his head. Not one spot of paint was lost off that truck. 🙂
In these last days, TROUBLE WILL COME. But those who believe in the MASTER, Jesus Christ, & HEAD HIS VOICE will be saved from many a peril.

TAKING DOMINION. GOD GAVE US THE AUTHORITY!

It’s 1pm on the last Sat­ur­day in Decem­ber, 2008. I’m work­ing in the office when I hear a hor­ri­ble sound like some­one rip­ping open a huge tin can. I’d heard it before, & knew a pow­er­ful Dust Dev­il whirl­wind had just ripped off a tin room near­by. Fear­ing for the worst, I raced out the door to check our food barns in the far cor­ner of our 40 acre mis­sion sta­tion. The barn with our entire bean sup­ply for the orphans had only half a roof. The entire front side of the roof, wood truss­es & all, had been snapped in half & flipped over onto the back side of the barn. The tin sheets were wav­ing in the wind.
A quick look told me that imme­di­ate action was all that would save our ONLY pro­tein sources for the orphans, for a glance at the hori­zon told me a large thun­der storm would be upon us with­in 3 hours. This barn con­tained 40 TONS of dried beans, 2 tons of peanuts, & 10 tons of rice.
Rac­ing into town in my pick-up truck, I grabbed 14 of our work­ers. As fast as human­ly pos­si­ble, they grabbed the 40 lb. bags of peanuts & RAN with them to anoth­er near­by barn. Our trac­tor dri­ver had heard of our dis­as­ter & came to help even though he was sick with malar­ia. With the trac­tor, the 110 lb bags of rice were moved into the large corn barn about 75 yards away. The last 4 bags of rice were lit­er­al­ly thrown into the barn doors as the first large rain drops hit the ground.
While they moved the rice, I picked up every truck tarp we had in the com­pound. The men quick­ly cov­er­ing the beans just as a wall of rain hit the area, pour­ing tons of water through the torn sheets of tin onto the tarps which now cov­ered the beans.
We had done all we could for the moment, as the sun was set­ting & every­one was exhaust­ed. I asked the men to agree with me that God would some­how pro­tect these beans dur­ing this storm. Even though most were not believ­ers in Jesus Christ, they bowed their heads as I asked the Lord to pro­tect our orphan’s food. As we left, I asked all the men to return & bring a friend at sunup the next day to help move the 40 tons of beans. ( FYI: Sunup is 4:30 a.m. in December.)
That rain storm poured buck­ets till 9p.m. that night, as I con­tin­ued to thank the Lord for pro­tect­ing our beans. For you see, those tin barn walls were sealed by the con­crete floor to pro­tect the food from rats. That meant the water flow­ing into the barn could only escape through the small crack under the barn doors. I envi­sioned a swim­ming pool gush when I opened the doors the next morning.
The next morn­ing 25 men showed up to help move the beans, one 110 lb bag at a time on their head. But the entire group froze in total dis­may when I opened those barn doors. Instead of a gush of water, we were amazed to see a room divid­ed down the mid­dle. The front half which had no roof was damp, but no water was stand­ing. The back half of the room was DUST DRY! I could blow the dust off the floor where all the beans were stacked. It looked like some­one, a BIG SOMEONE, had put a giant show­er cur­tain down the mid­dle of the room. NOT ONE BAG OF BEANS WAS EVEN DAMP! So all was saved!
We wast­ed no time in mov­ing those beans, as we all knew it would take a few hours to get them stacked into the corn ware­house about 70 yards away. I was­n’t aware of it, but the men had talked among them­selves & planned to do it real­ly fast as they did­n’t want me to be late for church (9a.m. start time). We closed the doors to both ware­hous­es at 9 a.m. sharp!
In 6 days, our car­pen­ters had the roof replaced & dou­ble reinforced.
The cheap Prope­cia food in that ware­house is to last us till June, 2009.
Looks like the Lord’s mighty hand will keep our kids well fed once again.

I hope these sto­ries bless & encour­age you. Being able to “blog” makes me feel clos­er to all of you. It’s like I can real­ly TALK to you from my heart. Hap­py Trails, until we meet again!