CORN BUYING–HIGHEST PRIORITY 

With only 10 days to go, Cape­na, my office man­ag­er and head of food orga­ni­za­tion, is busy con­tact­ing vil­lage lead­ers to find out which Vil­lage Co-ops have corn to sell. Price agree­ments are the major point of the negotiations.

MY PART:  Get­ting the pro­cess­ing chutes and oth­er equip­ment, (includ­ing the paper that pays for it all) ready as well as mark­ing and count­ing out the 3,000 feed sacks that must be ready for dis­tri­b­u­tion to the dif­fer­ent groups.

Dave Debour has a ser­van­t’s heart and is my sav­ing grace as he is doing all he can to reduce my work load. Tack­ling this job with out mis­sion­ary help can quick­ly steal one’s joy.  I’m very grate­ful to Dave for his top notch help.

2 HELPERS FLY IN ON 27TH WITH FILM MAKING AS MAIN AGENDA

May 27, I will be in Pem­ba fetch­ing long time min­istry sup­port­ers, Andy and Ash­lee Gon­za­lez from the USA.  (This is Andy’s 3rdtrip.)

They raised their own sup­port, and are giv­ing 3 months to help with food buy­ing, and mak­ing a updat­ed film FOR ALL OF YOU!

The new DVD will be a few months in com­ing but it will give all of you a bet­ter idea of the great job our bush evan­ge­lism teams are doing with the 7,000+ vil­lage chil­dren they are teach­ing about Jesus.  I have seen some rough footage of the pro­grams that Car­letos Jorge took with his phone, and what they are accom­plish­ing is equal to a mini cru­sade for Christ with each gathering!

OOPS! MELUCO RAN OUT OF CORN ON THURSDAY

Prob­lem was resolved in 48 hours thanks to Manuel, our head dri­ver, who will­ing made an emer­gency run on Friday.

The Melu­co orphan­age man­ag­er told me 2 weeks ago that the corn should be enough, but his count was wrong.

Since most of our staff grew up in the great civ­il war that last­ed 25 years, one thing they nev­er learned was to “think ahead”.  They live in the NOW, and sel­dom think to replen­ish any­thing until it is GONE.

This is one of the BIGGEST challenges/frustrations many Moz. orga­ni­za­tions have with their man­age­ment staff.  Yes, we have worked hard to drill “inven­to­ry tak­ing” and “think­ing ahead” into their rou­tines.   Some learn it, and oth­ers don’t.  Keeps us all on our toes for sure!

NEW CHURCH GROUP IN MAURURA VILLAGE BUYS LAND

Car­l­i­tos Jorge began this church just before Christ­mas.  They met under a tree this rainy sea­son, and have now been able to buy a 1 acre (half hectare) piece of land that is big enough for a church and a place for AWANA games dur­ing the rainy sea­son.  Dur­ing the rainy sea­son, many AWANA teams are very lim­it­ed on where they can meet because every avail­able spot, includ­ing all soc­cer fields, are plant­ed in food crops.

The vil­lagers will now orga­nize an “open air” build­ing which con­sists of a grass roof with log bench­es inside.  This will serve as the first phase of the church build­ing until they can orga­nize a mud brick structure.

BLAST FROM THE PAST

THE BUSH BUNNY ON “OLD FAITHFUL”.

This felt poster was made by Anne Kun­ze, the great woman of God who dis­ci­pled me dur­ing Bible School back in 1989/90.  Anne used one of the first pho­tos I ever had tak­en when I came to Mozam­bique 25+ years ago.  I’m rid­ing OLD FAITHFUL, my don­key, who was my first mode of trans­porta­tion when I worked at the Vilan­cu­lous orphan­age dur­ing the Mozam­bi­can Civ­il war.   It is one of the few things that sur­vived all the moves dur­ing these many years. It still hangs in my bed­room as a reminder of how far I’ve come since 1991.

FYI:  BUSH BUNNY turns 61 on MAY 26TH AND STILL HOPPING DOWN THE BUSH TRAILS!

A box cake mix (choco­late) will be my treat for it was thought­ful­ly sent over by LINDA FERGUSON from our TEXAS office with Dave Deboer.

Been a while since we had a cake bak­ing, so I plan to enjoy it!

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

DAVE DEBOER, MICHIGAN

Sent from Sam­sung tablet.