BABY SOZINHO CONTINUES TO DEFY THE ODDS!

Our lit­tle “fight­er” gained over 1 POUND as of Wed. this week!  Noth­ing like a lit­tle food to get the body going.

The moth­er com­plete­ly aban­doned him at the hos­pi­tal after 1 day, so it looks like he may stay per­ma­nent­ly in our care.

OK BY US!  No child should be sub­ject­ed to star­va­tion by their own mother.

He is still in the hos­pi­tal, but Doc­tor Fumo says he should be released into our care by this Wed. (June 24th).

He is still run­ning a bit of a fever from his res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion, and is receiv­ing IV antibi­otics to squash that infection.

I got him a baby rat­tle in Pem­ba this week, as he now has the ener­gy to begin grab­bing things and hold­ing on.

Will keep you post­ed as he progresses.

Baby Daniel with his newest rat­tle toy.  Now WALKING at 1 year with help to balance.

PASTORS FRED AND ALBERTO RECEIVE NEW MOTORBIKES (thanks to gen­er­ous donors)

Pas­tors Fred and Alber­to with their 2 new Off Road Bikes.

Their old bikes were lit­er­al­ly being held togeth­er by wire, glue, and rub­ber cords, after 3 years of hard rid­ing as they took the gospel to the mul­ti­tudes in 2 districts.

These new bikes are still 50cc motors, but the frames are made of much stronger mate­ri­als with bet­ter shocks.  THANK YOU to the many peo­ple who gave gen­er­ous­ly so that the gospel could go forth this year.  With­out new bikes it would not have been possible.

PASTOR ALBERTO TAKING THE GOSPEL TO 6 VILLAGES IN THE NAMUNO BUSH

 Alber­to with his bike, trav­el­ing to Namuno to spread the gospel in 6 very remote vil­lages who are total­ly UNREACHED.

Our top evan­ge­list, Alber­to wast­ed no time get­ting started!

He left WED.  with his new “Bush Bash­ing Off Road Motor­bike”, for Chimweely (Shim-wheel-ee) Vil­lage where he will be host­ed by our Pas­tor Anife for the next 4 weeks.  Pas­tor Anife is the largest of the 4 Aguas Vivas church­es in Namuno Dis­trict with over 150 members.

Togeth­er, they will be evan­ge­liz­ing and church plant­i­ng until Decem­ber (end of the dry sea­son).  They will also be inter­view­ing young men to serve as AWANA lead­ers for these 6 vil­lages. Once these 2 men are locat­ed, then AWANA Leader Car­l­i­tos Jorge will train them up and help orga­nize the new Awana Clubs for Namuno.

36 TONS AND WHAT DO YOU GET?

A lot of hap­py, healthy kids of course!

Meluco’s corn is now in the barn.

7 ton truck loaded for Melu­co trip.  Work to include a com­plete over­haul on the neigh­bor­hood well near our mis­sion AND pro­cess­ing 35 TONS of corn for long term storage.

Syl­vai, our Melu­co Dis­trict Orphan­age Man­ag­er and his crew of 2 men have been liv­ing in the bush for the last 3 weeks.  Their goal: weigh, buy, and trans­port 36 TONS of corn to our Melu­co ware­house for the 515 orphans liv­ing there.

Our 7 ton truck, loaded with a 4 man team from Bala­ma, as well as 4 TONS of beans and all that is need­ed to process this corn, will leave super ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing for a 4 day stay in Melu­co.  THE WATER WELL that serves the mis­sion sta­tion is bro­ken, so this team has their work cut out for them.  They will arrive midafter­noon on Mon­day, unload, and then work on the water well.  For with­out water, over 1000 peo­ple with suf­fer since the only oth­er well is a long dis­tance away.

Corn pro­cess­ing will begin ear­ly Tues­day morning.

Note:  Beans do not grow in the Melu­co area, so each year, Bala­ma pro­vides the 13 TONS need­ed to give the chil­dren the pro­tein need­ed to main­tain healthy bodies.

DAWN HORGER HAS BEEN SICK SINCE LAST MONDAY with what we thought was malar­ia (her 2nd case in 6 weeks, which is not good).

She is still weak, but improv­ing slow­ly.  I will be tak­ing her to see a Doc­tor in Pem­ba on Mon­day for a com­plete blood work up to make sure she is healthy enough to con­tin­ue serv­ing with us in Balama. 

BLESSINGS,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Dawn Horg­er

Abbie Wheel­er