£40 FOR A GOAT!!? This one cost £30!

Just recently a friend from a Church group in Lancashire, England sent a donation of forty pounds for us to buy a goat with. In fact the goat had been a Birthday present given to the donor! 'Maybe we could add it to the Farm!'

Well, not really, as we do not have a LOT of spare

land, and goats can be quite destructive of anything that grows.

NO we shall not keep it as a long time resident! We shall fatten him up and eat him during Christmas!! The only problem with this is that everyone will get quite fond of him by then, and probably not very keen on eating him... but finally will no doubt be glad and happy to do so. A present of this sort is VERY useful to us, and Christmas is usually a time for us of economic depression. NOT because we spend more money than usual but because funds are more scarce during the month as a whole.

THUS. to have food on hand is often a great boon and and blessing to us. SO we are very grateful to our Brother for this timely gift which will only grow BIGGER over the coming weeks.

OUR COWS are still growing bigger too! Our Vet says that they may deliver by the END of this month! We had hoped it might be sooner, but well, it seems difficult to be very sure since we are without a clear knowledge as to when they became pregnant in the first place.

24 of our CHICKENS were slaughtered yesterday!! All cockerels!! When we purchased the first batch of Layers the one we were buying from threw in the cockerels as well!! So now they each weigh about three kilograms, and are all frozen down for eating later on. The first batch of layers are almost laying and the 200 chicks all alive and well, thriving and growing. God be Praised in Jesus Name!! AND everything planted growing well, more and more able to be harvested.

IN 1978 a young man from Dumbarton, HARRY SPEEDIE, A STOP Worker with TEAR Fund UK came out to Testimony Faith Homes to head up a new Course we had begun in Automotive.

He remained with us for two years, and the resultant Course continued on until 1981 when we began to implement Nursery School in preparation for a full Primary School that opened in 1983. Almost ALL the youngsters that Harry taught during his time with us found employment and remain therein, many also having found the Lord as their Personal Saviour.

In 1982 Harry married Flora, and it has been a special happiness to have them BOTH here with us this week together with their son Ewan. It has been good to reminisce and to have fellowship after all these many years, although of course we have been in touch by letter.

The 'group photo' shows Harry (standing on the left) with a group of the first students on the Course. The gentleman standing on the right is Jan Bloomhof who also worked with Harry for a short time. It has been good to look back and to see that for all of us God has been Faithful and True to us.

We have just had word from AENON Trust that funds are on the way to us. We do thank all of you who may have contributed at this time, and truly if YOU have sent something to us through the Trust recently then you are indeed the Hand of God to us. Life for us here is quite stringent, but we also know it is stringent for all of you as the world as a whole is moving through dark and scary days. Bless you for your compassion on our children and upon us who live here with them.

BRING BACK CORPORAL PUNISH-MENT!

In the Kenyan Daily Nation today it is reported that 'Students were charged with Torching a Hostel' - ' Four students were yesterday arraigned before a Court and charged with setting fire to a dormitory and destroying property worth Ksh.3 million. The Form 3 students from Lwak Girls High School in Rarieda.'

It is also reported that 91% of all parents in Kenya want corporal punishment restored. Also 47% of all students AGREE, saying that teachers cannot be respected when it is known they cannot mete out punishment and correction of a serious nature. Students feel this is unfair to the teacher and damaging to the general success of the student who needs to be kept in check and also respectful to his or her mentor. It is unlikely that the Government will do much about it due to the fact that they take their orders from the United Nations and not from their own citizens. These days it looks often as if democracy means that the people cannot have much say in government - even a democratic government because even governments are being dictated to. What will become of the world - we have already this year seen a taste of it. We can expect Anarchy to be a soon to be reality. Are you still watching out for His Coming? He is hopefully not too far away from actually arriving.

Love you all in Jesus

John and Jesus