DATE: MAY 21, 2015

Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents resid­ing in the state of Texas, Caitlin Pruitt and Abbie Wheel­er fly into Pem­ba for a 6 week “helps” mis­sion that will bring in the 300+TONS of corn need­ed to feed the 2,500 orphans and wid­ows in our care. More about them once they arrive.

BABY SERANA IN THE ARMS OF JESUS

Ser­e­na, the 11 month old baby girl I told you about in last week’s blog, fought brave­ly for her life over last week­end.  She per­son­al­ly met our Lord and Sav­ior, Jesus Christ, just min­utes after I returned from Pem­ba last Sat­ur­day after­noon.   Her fam­i­ly was very grate­ful for our help in try­ing to save her, but it was a very sad ride for all of us as we took her back to hut where she was born.  Pas­tors Fred and Domini­ca trav­eled with us, and explained in Makua that the 3 oth­er chil­dren (all severe­ly mal­nour­ished), were to con­tin­ue receiv­ing food in our Thurs­day give outs.  It was plain to see they were deeply touched by this act of love and kind­ness.  THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS, we are able to bless those who tru­ly need a blessing.

ZITO OUT OF HOSPITAL AND DOING WELL BACK HOME

Zito received his last antibi­otics on Mon­day morn­ing, and was released at noon.  Manuel took him home in our Land Cruis­er, which is always a fun treat for any child.  He left us with a big smile on his face, as he was thrilled to be going home.   Pas­tor Ramadane will keep a close eye on his sores, and let us know if Zito has fur­ther needs.

BOTH LAND CRUISERS BACK IN SERVICE AFTER MAJOR BREAKDOWNS

Our “green” Land Cruis­er was tak­en in with a bro­ken trans­mis­sion in the mid­dle of April.  The old trans­mis­sion could not be fixed, so a re-built one had to be locat­ed.  I was amazed when the head mechan­ic called me on Mon­day (May 18th) to say it was ready for ser­vice!  4 weeks is a true record in Mozam­bique for such a quick fix of a trans­mis­sion.  Manuel went to Pem­ba Tues­day, May 19,  to bring it home!  FOR THIS WE ARE TRULY GRATEFUL!

BABY VACCINATION WEEK IN BALAMA.  OOPS, OUR TRUCK IS OUT OF COMMISSION!

Our old­est Land Cruis­er, which does most of the local work in Bala­ma, includ­ing help­ing with the Dis­trict (coun­ty) wide vac­ci­na­tion pro­grams  twice a year, was down for the last 2 weeks with dam­aged bear­ings and bro­ken wheel hub seal on the right front tire.  Eric bought the seals in South Africa, and had them flown up by DHL couri­er.  How­ev­er, our pack­age was placed on the wrong plane, and took a slight detour to the wrong city, final­ly arriv­ing last Thurs­day. (7 days lat­er).  This is Africa folks!

Manuel and our Por­tuguese mechan­ic friend in the near­by town of Mon­tepuez, spent all last Fri­day work­ing to fix it.

THANKS TO THEIR HARD WORK, THE TRUCK WAS BACK IN ACTION JUST IN TIME FOR THE MONDAY VACCINATION PROGRAM!

THOUSANDS of babies and tod­dlers will great­ly ben­e­fit from the Vit. A drops, deworm­ing, and oth­er vac­ci­na­tions being giv­en dur­ing this whole week.

We are pleased to be able to help save lives by trans­port­ing the med­ical crews to all the remote vil­lages in the Bala­ma District.

FINAL LICENSING DOCUMENTS NOW ON THEIR WAY TO MAPUTO FOR REVIEW!

The state office feels cer­tain we will be accept­ed for licens­ing this time, as we have passed all inspec­tions this year.

SWITCH IN PLANS FOR MELUCO CORN BUYING TRIP

MANUEL, main mechan­ic and our only long dis­tance dri­ver for the 7 ton truck, called in at 3:30a.m. THURSDAY to say he had just tak­en his wife, 8 months preg­nant, to the Bala­ma hos­pi­tal in labor.  He was sched­uled to pull out at 5a.m. with a load of beans and all the corn buy­ing equip­ment for Syl­vai, the man­ag­er of the Melu­co orphan­age.  Syl­vai and 2 assis­tants will be spend­ing the next 20 days deep in the bush, buy­ing corn for the 515 Melu­co orphans and sleep­ing on top of it (to guard it), until it can be trans­port­ed to our mis­sion sta­tion in Melu­co town.  They hope to acquire up to 36 tons of corn from the only 2 vil­lages that have a crop to sell.

Since Manuel couldn’t dri­ve today, we quick­ly unloaded the 7 ton truck, and placed all that was need­ed into the Green Land Cruis­er.  Office man­ag­er, Cape­na, came to the res­cue, and drove out today at 11a.m. with the load.  Cape­na had gone to the bank in Mon­tepuez to do our month­ly gov­ern­ment paperwork.

So all is well, as he will return on Fri­day, after drop­ping off the much need­ed sup­plies to his broth­er, Sylvai.

NOTE:  As of noon on Thurs­day, Manuel’s wife is still in mild labor, and it is unknown what the out­come of her sit­u­a­tion will be.  Will let you know in my next let­ter.   We are pray­ing for the labor to stop, as a pre-mature baby has lit­tle chance if born in this area.  So far, so good, thanks to Jesus!

Dawn Horg­er will be “Big Boss” on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day, along with Nel­son, my now “grown up” spir­i­tu­al­ly adopt­ed son, who is in the 11th grade.  He speaks enough Eng­lish to trans­late for Dawn as needed

RINGED MONGOOSES VISIT BBBRENDA

 Head Mon­goose:  “Hey guys, come on over, the water’s great!

  Wife with kids answers:  “Keep your stripes on!  We’re coming!”

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

Dawn Horg­er, Assis­tant Director