THE WILE OF THE DEVIL!

THIS WEEK in Testimony School, we have seen yet again one of the dangers of the International Web!  It is so easy to create and enable a WEB SITE, and it seems there is very little control of what is available for the informed public to read or see.    THIS IS QUITE FRIGHTENING; the more so because most of the time we might not actually KNOW about it.      I mean, unless we might 'stumble' accidentally upon a Site, or we are given the NAME of the Site and invited to search for it, WE might be entirely ignorant of it.............WELL THIS WEEK, the Headmistress of the Secondary Section of Testimony School received a phone call suggesting she look up a particular Web Site.     It was named as TESTIMONYLEAKS.   We are assuming it was created by a student, or student so far unidentified (but now suspected) within the School itself.     The contents seek to expose the immoral goings on in the School - in particular amongst certain of the Teachers, with photographic back up.     It was an ill written article in English, and the photograph was very obviously a 'mock-up' - a kind of hybrid of more than one photo 'shopped' for from other look alike photos that can be found on the Web.       The 'informer' did not merely tell the Headmistress where to find this material but also reported the same to other phone owners including the maligned teachers!     The immediate furor and distress caused cannot be imagined.      We are now in process of trying to CLOSE the Website carrying this Report.   We have of course searched it out for ourselves.    It is perhaps worth copying out here how it describes itself.

TESTY LEAKS

WHO WE ARE

An underground operation that leads things done in darkness into wonderful light,

by revealing unethical conduct in the School, by heads of the school teachers

all through to the subordinate staff

OUR AIM

To put on the spot what really goes on in Testimony School

and confidently rebuke the vices with full proof.

OUR SCHOOL teaches computer from Nursery through to Secondary form 4.     Children are learning worldwide to grow with the computer, and more and more exposed to the Internet and all that it has to offer, both at school and at home.      And now one can connect to the internet via ones cell-phone!     Of course we are told that there is little or no risk if one uses the Net wisely, and avails oneself of the various control measures that are available.    However, as with the fail-safe Condom, it is amazing how many 'accidents' get through.

In this case of misuse, we believe it came about due to disciplinary council and correction taken upon one of the Form 3 students who had been concentrating more on 'romance' with male students than upon her academic progress.      Just a means of getting EVEN with the teachers perhaps?      And even the very factor of increasing sexual activity amongst High School students cannot be separated entirely from the effect of the International Web, and the open opportunity it presents to learn and SEE graphically ALL to do with SEX.    And if that is not enough to also - through 'Talk Rooms' and other facilities -  encourage sexual thought and activity across space into real time and situations.    One Kenyan recently made this comment in the Daily Nation, our daily Newspaper -

'Why do we act as if sex is everything?

Why do we give our youth the impression that everyone has to do it, or perish?'

Thomas Mundia - Nairobi.

The Television, radio, films and videos, books and magazines are FULL of such things, together with the pursuit of multi-criminal activities, perversions, and abnormalities..     The Internet merely has collected and multiplied all of this, and made its own concoctions and opportunities for Man to indulge himself privately and without council or rational advice.      Can we wonder at the growing CONFUSION and DOUBT the world is in, as to what IS actually Right, Pure, Healthy when it comes to keeping the Human Race  progressively HUMAN rather than bestial and serving its lower nature.    The Internet is a PANDORA'S BOX easily opened and almost impossibly CLOSED.     Indeed it may be TOO LATE to close it;  TOO LATE to reverse the awful damage being achieved, and the terrible plan Satan no doubt has for it.    YES, I do still believe there is a Devil, apposed to GOD, and that he has, and will continually build on each succeeding invention of man in such as way as to FINALLY DESTROY God's likeness in Man.

Well may we ask 'Where is Humanity Going?'      Away from our humanity, away from GOD, and deeper into ignorant darkness, greater than this world has ever known or seen since Genesis 2.

WELL WE WERE STARTLED, but not quite 'floored', and we have already recovered enough to face tomorrow.       What shall we do finally, once the true culprits have been found out?   Shall we Expel them from the School, Cane them, Suspend them from classes?     Not easy to really say - the reputation of the School and of its teachers has been attacked, and also professional and marital conduct and relationship questioned and accused.    Will not reparation of some kind be required?

There are presently FIVE names in front of us for consideration.    ONE of them has just now, as I am composing this Blog, come to tell me plainly that he was the prime mover in setting up the Website.  He has agreed to provide me with conclusive evidence of this, and to put down in writing exactly who assisted him or was complicit with him in the putting UP on the Web the article under consideration.     He will come with it all on Monday at 2p.m.   (we have a Teacher Interview Session in the morning hours).     THEN the matter will finally be discussed and dealt with.

The School will almost certainly want their 'pound of flesh' - at least one Expulsion.     I may be the only one there to want to veto such an action.      There are, and will be, many pros and cons relative to all this of course, on both sides of the matter.     BUT to me it would seem that GOD wants to get the best out of all of us even when we are busy producing the worst.      He made us, watches us grow, sees all our errors and mistakes both on the inside and outside of our lives.    He suffers and bears it all, and waits for a moment when we might SEE it and cry out for mercy and grace........I did, when I was 17, and had to cry out louder still when I was 34 and face to face with what I had tried to hide from myself..........I found God right there, both times, not to chide me, but to SAVE me from falling and failing.    He lifted me up, and gave me the chance once more to GO ON to perfection..............What more can I say?     What words can I utilise to even begin to convey the Thanksgiving of my poor heart to my God, and Saviour?       Nay the more words I look for the more tears come to choke me..............So what shall we do with our student - he is not from the Homes by the way; not an orphan?        He is in his last year in Secondary.    Academically bright and clever.     Well, I hope I may be able to give him another opportunity to prove himself of better stuff.     We talk of the Goodness of Christ here in  my sitting room.............Maybe this can be a turning point; the means of a 'divine encounter' that will do more than save the School's reputation.        We shall have to wait and see.

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THE SUN HAS SHONE THROUGH THIS WEEK, a factor which surely has made life easier to endure with all its many problems and disappointments - and there have been many this week.     Can't share them all with you right now - not life threatening, and most of them just 'everyday' matters.        The latest has been that, after partially filling the new swimming pool with water, two leaks have been discovered.   Well we had been warned it would leak, and told clearly that EVERY pool worth its salt will leak somewhere initially!  Even SO!!    But they have now been found and SEALED, and so we continue on in hope - and how quite wonderful that one CAN seal a LEAK, and believe it is stopped up for ever.

Much love to you all.    His BLESSING be upon and with you all.     Remember me on Sunday as I shall be speaking in the morning service about the Thief who was crucified with Jesus; who turned and to Him and said -

REMEMBER ME.....when you come into your Kingdom...

John and Esther, Daryl and Carol, and all our Staff and Children in the Homes and School