PHILLIP FERGUSON II, 1970 — 2015

Phillip was a genius when it came to any­thing relat­ed to com­put­ers or the inter­net.  When our old web­mas­ter became ter­mi­nal­ly ill, it was Fil2 (as he was fond­ly known), who came to our res­cue.  He designed our new web­site as you see it today, and taught Lin­da Fer­gu­son, my sec­re­tary and his moth­er, how to do blog updates.  He was always ready to assist Lin­da with any tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ty, and was a key fig­ure in our min­istry for the last 3 years.

We dear­ly miss Fil2, but his mem­o­ry lives on through the web­site he built for us, so that oth­ers can know what Jesus has called us to do in Mozambique.

NO BLOG LAST 2 WEEKENDS was in respect for Fil2, as well as Phillip Sr., Lin­da Fer­gu­son and fam­i­ly, as she and her fam­i­ly laid Fil2 to rest with a great memo­r­i­al ser­vice last Fri­day in Eagle Lake, TX.

Any­time there is an inter­rup­tion of the blog for any rea­son, I will always post it on my Face­book page.

If you would like to keep up with me on FACEBOOK, then please send me a friend request AFTER Feb. 13th.

I will have lim­it­ed inter­net this next week and will not be able to respond while in South Africa.  (see sto­ry below)

Thanks for under­stand­ing and please con­tin­ue to pray for Lin­da and family.

Lin­da and I will con­tin­ue to put out a week­ly blog to keep you updat­ed on all that tran­spires as we bring 1000’s to Christ in 2015.

BUSH BUNNY AND STAFF SURVIVED THE INSPECTION!

PTL it is over!

Two days of show and tell, and the final rec­om­men­da­tions on the 3rd day fol­lowed by me dri­ving them back to Pem­ba. We did VERY well, as these 2 men were very favourable towards our pro­gram. They told us in the exit inter­view, to keep up the great work! They said our pro­gram is unique from all oth­ers in this State (Province), in that it tru­ly meets the needs of the peo­ple “where they live”.

They saw the “fruits” of our labors via the chil­dren, and were espe­cial­ly impressed with our orphans who have grad­u­at­ed, trained in a tech­ni­cal skill at our base, and have become pro­duc­tive cit­i­zens in the com­mu­ni­ty.  Three of our orphans still work with us (2 in our car­pen­try shop, and Nel­son who con­tin­ues to study in 11th grade at night school and teach AWANA to chil­dren in the daytime).

God has been so gra­cious to us!

THANK YOU ALL FOR PRAYING FOR US TO HAVE FAVOR.

God gave it for sure! Now we wait.

These men will file their report that will go to the top lev­el offi­cials for a deci­sion on our per­ma­nent licensing.

SCHOOL STARTS FEB. 9th!

UNIFORMS, school books, back packs, math sets, and all the lit­tle things that it takes to out­fit a stu­dent were giv­en out on this afternoon.

The kids get so excit­ed when we dis­trib­ute school mate­ri­als. Eas­i­er said than done, as each child was sized and their school uni­form cus­tom made for them. All grades wear a white shirt, with grades 1–7 wear­ing MAROON pants/skirts, and the high school (8–10) wear­ing black pants/skirts.

NOTE:  Thanks to your gen­eros­i­ty, our chil­dren are usu­al­ly the only ones who have a com­plete set of text­books in school.

Sad, but some of these books are very hard to find, as they are not even sold in Pem­ba. The great heart­ed office man­ag­er, Cape­na, man­aged to buy the hard to find school books while on hol­i­day over Christ­mas in Nam­pu­la City, 7 hours dri­ve south of us.

BBB FLYING TO SOUTH AFRICA FOR 5 DAYS

Bunny’s lap­top is slow­ly dying of old age.  Time for an upgrade before it crash­es. Eric Dry locat­ed a new com­put­er for me with the new Win­dows 8.2  (had to be ordered to get it, but it came in today).

I will be back in Bala­ma on Fri­day night, Feb. 13th. Plan to eat all the ice cream I can find!

STEPHEN MILLER OF CALIFORNIA JOINS OUR STAFF!

Stephen arrived last Wed. right in the mid­dle of the inspec­tion.  But thanks to Katie and Ash­lynn, he is now receiv­ing Bible School, Cook­ing lessons, and a basic ori­en­ta­tion of our pro­grams, as he waits for my in-depth ori­en­ta­tion once I return from South Africa on Feb. 13th.

FACING THE CHALLENGES

1.  Elec­tric­i­ty is still out, but word is it “might” be restored in the next week.  Repair­men had to resort to lift­ing those HUGE met­al tow­ers with a heli­copter, (very dan­ger­ous), since no crane could get into the area due to mud­dy con­di­tions and con­tin­ued rains.  Feb. is our most rainy month of the sea­son.  Repairs of any­thing are super difficult.

2.  BRIDGES STILL DOWN and riv­er flood­ing mak­ing repairs almost impos­si­ble.  Route to Maputo (only north to south road in whole coun­try) is still cut off near Beira, so sup­plies are very lim­it­ed in Pem­ba, since sup­ply trucks can­not get through. (only Air or Ship car­gos at the moment.)

3.  SECOND BRIDGE at Lurio Riv­er, which divides us from Nam­pu­la City, our biggest north­ern sup­ply post, is at full flood lev­els!  Flood waters ARE AT THE SAME LEVEL OR FLOWING OVER THIS 300 YARD (METER) WIDE BRIDGE (that is a 50+ foot wall of water).

4.  Heavy trucks are not being allowed to pass over the bridge at this time, as it is dam­aged.  No repairs can be done at this time, but small vehi­cles are allowed to pass one at a time.

TOGETHER WE ARE WORLD CHANGERS!

Thank you so much for your con­tin­ued sup­port in prayer and love gifts.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Brenda