FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: MAY 10, 2014

MIGHTY MUSCLE MACHINE MOVES A MOUNTAIN OF BEANS

On Monday, the 92 tons of beans received last week, had our barn bulging at the seams when Manuel drove in with the final 6 tons on our 7 ton truck.

On Tues­day, 77 spe­cial­ly cho­sen men report­ed at sun-up to help pre­pare and stack those beans for storage.

I t’s a once a year job that must be done with both beans and corn if our chil­dren are to have the prop­er foods for a healthy body.

This year we treat­ed, sacked, sewed, and moved those 1,400 sacks on the heads of this team in a record 4 days!

Each sack weighs in at an aver­age of 154 lbs. or 70kg.

Not an easy task, but these men are so pow­er­ful, they make it look easy. Fri­day this week saw the last 300 sacks stacked in our bean barn. That put a BIG SMILE on this Bunny’s face!

THE VISION BECOMES REALITY

SEVEN CHURCH CO-OPS (bush church­es in remote areas), pro­vid­ed 1,100 of the 1,400 sacks need­ed for our chil­dren. Now THAT is a mir­a­cle! Con­stant church growth in our bush church­es is the rea­son behind this great harvest.

Hap­py, doesn’t come close to describ­ing my JOY, as this has been an “unspo­ken” goal that has tak­en 14 years to bear fruit. When God sent me to Bala­ma to “res­cue and evan­ge­lize in 1999”, the vision of hav­ing enough church mem­bers will­ing to plant beans for our chil­dren was only a dream. To me, it’s a WIN-WIN sit­u­a­tion for the orphans are pro­vid­ed with the pro­tein they need to grow up healthy AND the church mem­bers are able to sup­port their fam­i­lies with new clothes, foods, and nec­es­sary items that have to be bought like cook­ing oil, soap, and salt. Your LOVE GIFTS are now cir­cu­lat­ing through the Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty. Chris­tians bless­ing the Chris­tians in a for­eign land. A beau­ti­ful site to see!

This is not large scale com­mer­cial farm­ing, but many, many hands each with a hoe, plant­i­ng, weed­ing, and bring­ing in the har­vest BY HAND, one bean pod at a time. The aver­age har­vest is 3–10 sacks per house­hold, and believe me that’s a lot of work for a once a year income.

So be blessed, for your Love Gifts have blessed more than 250 church families.

STATE INSPECTORS COMING NEXT WEEK!

Folks we need your prayers for favor on Wed. night (Thurs­day morn­ing our time) for this is the FINAL inspec­tion that decides if we get our per­ma­nent orphan­age licens­ing or not.

OUR GOD MOVES MOUNTAINS, and we expect Him to shove this one right into the sea!

Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Eric Dry Andy Gonzales