Bush Beat Blog

DATE: DECEMBER 29, 2015

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

“Bush Bun­ny” Bren­da Lange

 
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