TECHNICAL PROBLEMS  WITH COMPUTER

Am tap­ping this out from my tablet, as my com­put­er needs some first aid before I can use it.

Hope to be back to nor­mal by next week­end as Andy and Eric are work­ing on it.

FRIDAY, BUNNY IN PEMBA TO FETCH ANDY AND ASHLEE (THE A TEAM)

They arrived on time, and are now in Bala­ma with Dave and I.

I fin­ished our Pem­ba bank­ing Fri­day at 9 a.m. while await­ing for the A Team to arrive.  That after­noon an elec­tri­cal fire bad­ly dam­aged that same bank, burn­ing up mon­ey in the teller’s cubi­cles. Report says that 4 peo­ple were tak­en to hos­pi­tal for injuries received in the fire. That is all I know at this time. I have banked there for 17 years, know most of the peo­ple work­ing there, so this was a real shock.

Am pray­ing none were seri­ous­ly hurt.

THIS WEEK’S ACTIVITIES

Sun­day, Dave and I were invit­ed to the near­by Graphite Mine for lunch with the bosses.

Had a great time of fel­low­ship and won­der­ful food. Their team will be bring­ing gifts to the June 1st Nation­al Chil­dren’s Day Par­ty for our 109 orphans and the 26 Fos­ter mothers.

Need­less to say, with the par­ty, and corn buy­ing kick­ing off on June first, we are going to be busier than a bunch of beavers build­ing a dam in a flood­ed river!

I spent this last week expand­ing ware­house #3 so we can buy extra rice this year in the face of corn short­ages over the next 12 months.

Advan­tage of stor­ing rice in the hull- it stores well for over a year, mak­ing it the per­fect weapon against hunger if extra food is need­ed. With the severe drought in south­ern  Mozam­bique, the fight for the corn begins on Wed.

PRAY WE RECEIVE THE 3000 SACKS NEEDED.

Cement floor is now com­plete in the expan­sion, and walls are up, so once the floor dries, we are good to go.

Rice buy­ing is in July, so no prob­lem there.

Our brick lay­er team com­plet­ed the floor in our new orphan home, so once it dries, we can install doors and win­dows, and com­plete the house for our new orphan fam­i­ly. All con­struc­tion will now be on hold, as my entire team of car­pen­ters and brick lay­ers are an essen­tial part of the corn buy­ing team.

CORN BUYING LICENSES IN HAND

We have Mon­day and Tues­day to get every­thing ready as corn buy­ing begins Wed., June 1st.

CAPENA began dis­trib­ut­ing feed sacks to the vil­lage co-ops on Friday.

3000 sacks of corn are need­ed to fill the need of our chil­dren until Dec. 31st with June corn.

Our Pas­tors are pro­vid­ing us with the super dry JULY corn that stores bet­ter in the rainy season.

This last 120 tons feeds our orphans from Jan­u­ary to May.

That is all for this week’s, folks!

 BLESSINGS,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Dave Deboer, Michigan

Andy and Ash­lee Gon­za­lez, The ATeam from Tennessee!