From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Date: May 12, 2011 10:15:32 PM CDT
To:  Sub­ject: Blog May 13, 2011

EMERGENCY FOOD DROP SENT YESTERDAY
I thank all of you for your won­der­ful prayers to help us stop the ele­phant inva­sion in north­ern Melu­co county.
When I read your let­ters,  I laughed as I imag­ined those huge beasts run­ning for cov­er from sword wield­ing angels!
 
The e‑mails are too many to respond too per­son­al­ly, so please for­give my inabil­i­ty to do so.  With Eric in RSA, and food buy­ing sea­son in full swing, my work load ranges from 12 to 14 hours a day.  If it were not for Lin­da Stan­ley car­ing for the chil­dren and mak­ing sure I eat well, I’d be in real trou­ble.  Lin­da can real­ly cook! J
 
Yes­ter­day, our 6 ton truck left Bala­ma for our Melu­co mis­sion sta­tion filled with corn and this year’s “just pur­chased” beans.  The coun­ty Admin­is­tra­tor told us that our truck can­not get into the area due to bad road con­di­tions.  The food is being unloaded at our Melu­co base, and a small­er truck with the abil­i­ty to get into the area, will deliv­er the food.  The health team will be vis­it­ing again today to fur­ther eval­u­ate the problem. 
 
Will keep you updat­ed, as I receive information.
 
Bless­ings, BBB