Dear Friends:
So sor­ry that I have been “out of touch” dur­ing this last month, but life has been too busy for much com­put­er time.
But here’s the latest.
After our VOX vis­i­tors left on Aug. 2nd, we orga­nized a sup­ply trip to South Africa for Eric Dry, my Asso­ciate Director.
He left Aug. 6th for the 5 day dri­ve to South Africa pulling a trailer.
That means that while he is away, I have to deal with all mechan­i­cal prob­lems includ­ing vehi­cle break­downs, flat tires, maize mill has­sles, etc. ON TOP OF what I already handle.
Need­less to say, I have not lacked for work.

But the lat­est news is great news.
We are receiv­ing our STATE Gov­er­nor today who is talk­ing about the new TAR ROAD that is sup­pose to link Bala­ma with Pemba.
This will be a GREAT ASSET to our mis­sion sta­tion, but it won’t hap­pen imme­di­ate­ly. Patience is the name of the game, but at least there is HOPE that some­day we will have a man­age­able road dur­ing the rainy sea­son. This road will link us to Malawi lake even­tu­al­ly, as it is the offi­cial nation­al high­way from west to east in north­ern Mozambique.

The President’s wife is due here some­time in ear­ly Octo­ber, so I’m told we need to get ready for an inspection.
With 5 con­struc­tions crews run­ning, we are busy putting ren­o­vat­ing the 17 widow’s hous­es with new “out hous­es” & have been able to replace the grass roofs on 3 hous­es with tin roofs.
We hope to get rid of all grass roofs by next year as the mos­qui­toes love to hide in the grass dur­ing the day, so they can eat on who­ev­er sleeps below dur­ing the night.
Malar­ia is on the increase in our area, so tin roofs, means less malar­ia for our kids.

I got word from our Melu­co orphan­age, 6 hours dri­ve from here, that one of the 4 babies in our care died yes­ter­day. Her moth­er had AIDS & gave it to the baby. The 4 month old died from a res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion that her lit­tle body couldn’t fight off. So sad that the inno­cent have to suf­fer for the online phar­ma­cy no pre­scrip­tion sins of their parents.

The NEW LIFE CHURCH near Grand Rapids, MI, is help­ing us plant a pas­tor & a church in a vil­lage called ROVUMA, about 3 miles from our base.
This vil­lage has nev­er had a church & only 3 known Chris­tians live in this area of 5,000+ peo­ple. It will be a real ground break­ing time for sure, as most are mus­lims or believe only in the witchdoctor’s power.
Our pas­tor & evan­gel­i­cal team have their work cut out for them.

Chris Nagows­ki from But­ler, Methodist came in August to inau­gu­rate the church they spon­sor in Mavala village.
That church is grow­ing week­ly, thanks to the KIDS who are the great­est evan­ge­lists of all!
The Sun­day that Chris was there, we gave the 15 adults & 8 kids a chal­lenge. Bring a friend next week.
NO new adults showed up, but the 8 kids brought 10 new friends!
There is lit­tle doubt who is the “good ground” that Jesus talks about in the Bible.
I told Pas­tor Agus­to, who runs this pro­gram, to work with the chil­dren & the adults will follow.
Kids will TELL every­one what they learn, and that is the best evan­ge­lism around.

Keep us in your prayers as we des­per­ate­ly need at least 2 more mis­sion­ar­ies to join our staff.
You will find the require­ments for these 2, SUPPORTED mis­sioa­nary posi­tions post­ed on this blog.
One spot is for some­one to train into the man­age­ment of this orphan­age, so I can be free to pio­neer & teach what I know to oth­ers who want to mul­ti­ply our work.
The 2nd spot is for a WATER WELL DRILLING PERSON. (man or woman)
We will send you to drilling school in Hous­ton if you qual­i­fy & will give a 2 year commitment.
This is a sup­port­ed posi­tion. We need a driller by May, 2010.

Would love to hear from some of you, as I’m not get­ting much per­son­al mail.
Love & HUGS, Bush Bun­ny Brenda