Sub­ject: Blog, Oct. 17, 2010 

ERIC’S RECOVERY ON SCHEDULE
His knee is doing GREAT accord­ing to his sur­geon and ther­a­py has started.
Post Op, his blood sug­ars were high, but with a strict diet and some
med­ica­tions, that is now under control.
Eric asked me to send his DEEPEST THANKS to all of you for your love gifts
to fix his knee as well as your con­tin­ued prayers for his fast recovery.

BULLDOZERS MOVING IN

Fri­day, Oct. 15, the road crew’s super­vi­sor drove up to my house to inform
me that their bull­doz­ers will be mov­ing in with­in 14 days.
We cheap pre­scrip­tion drugs must vacate 5 orphan hous­es as they will be bull­doz­ing to with­in 3 FEET
(1 meter) of these houses.
The 5 new hous­es being built for these chil­dren still lack the cement
floors, doors, and windows.
My work­ers have agreed to work 6 days a week till all is com­plet­ed, so we
have dou­bled our efforts and are work­ing at top speeds.

Dave DeBoer is key to this effort as he hauls water and build­ing materials
to the con­struc­tion sites and helps with the ware­house responsibilities.
Mil­lie Daniels and Mar­ta Rig­gin are mak­ing sure that the orphans and the
mis­sions needs are tak­en care of so I can con­cen­trate on food
distributions.

20 TONS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED LAST WEEK TO ORPHANS
The Decem­ber rainy sea­son is fast approach­ing, mean­ing that the roads to
our 3 remote food dis­tri­b­u­tions will close.
Our 6 ton truck is haul­ing to 3 areas of the coun­ty each week as well as
tak­ing 6 tons/week to our orphans in Melu­co Coun­ty, 9 hours dri­ve away.
If it was­n’t for Dave, Mil­lie and Mar­ta, this Bush Bun­ny would be in
seri­ous trou­ble, because there is NO WAY one per­son can organize,
super­vise, and exe­cute all that is being accom­plished at the moment.
Please con­tin­ue to peti­tion the Lord Jesus for 2 per­ma­nent peo­ple to help
us here.
The pro­gram is grow­ing and it s a HUGE work load for Eric and I to handle.
We des­per­ate­ly need 2 LONG TERM peo­ple to come along side us to help.
Finan­cial sup­port is avail­able to qual­ifed peo­ple will­ing to com­mit to 3
years of service.

ORPHAN CLOTHING, HOES, AND MACHETTES
Mil­lie and Mar­ta have worked hard to orga­nize and dis­trib­ute cloth­ing to
the new orphans in the KWE KWE pro­gram (298 kids) as well as the IMPIRE
area kids (150 kids).
We have our own cloth­ing fac­to­ry with 2 sewing machines at our base. Two
men work pro­duce 20 outfits/day.
Orga­niz­ing cloth­ing to the 900+ kids in the Bala­ma area is no small job.

ALL 500 WIDOWS in the Bala­ma area have received hoes and machettes thanks
to a cor­por­tate donor who gave gen­er­ous­ly for this program.
The Melu­co Coun­ty wid­ows will be receiv­ing their hoes and machettes this
com­ing week.

Our goal is to give a HAND UP and not just a HAND OUT to those in need.
These tools, plus the corn and bean seeds to be dis­trib­uted in November,
will make it pos­si­ble for these teenage orphans and the wid­ows that care
for them to plant their own fields in the first step to becoming
inde­pen­dent of our food distributions.

Keep your prayers coming!
We appre­ci­ate ALL OF YOU and YOUR LOVE GIFTS that make this pro­gram a
reality.
Love in Christ,
Bush Bun­ny Brenda