AS AN ANGLICAN, of course I was 'Christened', as a baby, as I mentioned last week. My adopted parents were there, and two or three others who stood as my 'God-parents' all promising to bring me up in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His Salvation, and by the Word of God. All of them were only nominal Christians, and were unable to keep their promises. Not until I was 24 was I Baptised by immersion as a Believer (one that had for himself personally believed and trusted in the Salvation procured by Jesus for him/her on the Cross) 1. Peter 3v21-22. I have related as to how this came about in another place.
ON MONDAY we were visited by our Country and District Children's Officers together with two other ladies (one a Chief Superintendent of Police) from the National Department of Children's Services. They wanted to see everything, and also required us to fill in a rather lengthy
Questionnaire of about eight pages! Half of the information required was sent monthly to the Department and should have been readily on hand without asking for repetition, and the rest also available to them on an Annual Basis. I hate filling in unnecessary Forms, and of course Daryl left me to do that while he took the Party to view the work. It was well worth-while as they seemed very impressed with what they saw, and gave God Glory for it which was VERY satisfactory to US. They also said that Testimony Faith Homes would be the 'Bench Mark' for other Homes in the Country. Probably more politeness than fact - but we were happy they said it!!
ON WEDNESDAY I visited the NEW Jacaranda Cottage to have fellowship with the house-parents, Joseph and Agnes Macharia. We spent good and valuable time together, and managed to discuss each of the 34 children in their care. They had just been IN the new house since the 13th June, but they were all well settled, and the Home was running well and very happily. The main comment seemed to be the huge difference in the 'spirit' of the house to the Old one; The Old so DARK, and new so BRIGHT and lighthearted. We Thank you LORD for bringing this about.
Daily downpours of rain are continuing, and the clouds also overshadowing the sun, and lowering the temperatures. But the children are STILL swimming every day in the Pool, and no one seems to be catching any 'Chill', Amazing! The Homes' Gardens are flourishing, we are very happy to have fresh vegetables now on hand. The Chickens also doing well, and we now have a young new heifer replacing the cow that we lost some weeks back. She is a Gift from a long time friend, who once was my Deputy - Nicholas Mwangi. Nicholas still lives in Eldoret with his wife and family, and runs a small Electrical Business.
ON FRIDAY, we managed to welcome ALL our Board Members to the A.G.M. held in the evening. It was good to see everyone and to review the Year together.
TODAY - Saturday, Daryl and Francis Lahol, and some 22 other members of four Staff have travelled about 150 miles to the West of Eldoret, to share in the Funeral of Eunice Lahol's mother who died suddenly last week. They took one of the School Buses, Eunice was especially fond of her Mum who was only in her fifties, so this has hit her VERY hard. Please remember to pray for her and for Francis also. They should, God Willing, all safely return to us late afternoon.
STILL BROWSING the Internet, I am truly AMAZED at the endless ways in which the END of our World is daily being predicted, and additionally the number of so called 'SIGNS' of the very imminence of this End. Some I have mentioned before such as that 17 mile long tunnel in Switzerland/France which was just re-activated this very month of JUNE, I am speaking about it on this coming Sunday!! THEN there is the Asteroid that is going to hit the Earth in September, AND all the strange things that attest to some CHANGE that will affect us, and probably herald the End of everything - For EXAMPLE the Weather! And obviously the Environment...?And what about those SINK HOLES appearing everywhere, and noises like the sound of trumpets, roaring wind and such like making themselves heard to individuals and in different areas all over the world ... to name but a few. EVERY YEAR we read and see in the media renewed or repeated reference to this kind of thing, and we are WARNED that the End of the World IS NEAR. Jesus was saying it two thousand years go, and the Apostles continued to say it into the New Testament years. THIS YEAR is certainly NO exception - but it may in fact be the most frightening of scenarios for ANY year. Are you worried? The MEDIA are doing a good job of TRYING to hype all of us into hysteria or at least hypertension and apprehension - and not only in relation as to what might happen in September, or TODAY, but also as to what may happen in a million or so years into the future. There is in this 21st Century a real pre-occupation with the the END of the World. OUTWARDLY this seems to be being met with either unbelief or disinterest. It produces an atmosphere of 'devil-may-care' in which everyone is ready to try everything since we only live once, and we need to experience as much as we can. The majority living in this Fair-ground go for the BIG DIPPER - the life style with the biggest thrills and most exhilarating hypes. It is a dangerous way to live and the casualties are usually of the most heart rending kind.
BUT I think we are meant to be so used to hearing about it, that we are bored with it, and have little interest in giving such a prospect time of Day. And anyway, even it is true, what can WE do about it; best get on with life and living - and when and if the time comes, then we take it as it comes. A kind of fatalism? Yes it is possible to believe the world doesn't want to know, doesn't want to consider the reality of such a prospect, having become deaf and blind to all the signs and warnings. As in the days of Noah - everything just going on as usual, the population quite oblivious to what was in fact about to happen. SATAN has been consistent in pulling the wool over our eyes, dulling our senses and giving us false hopes. YET having said all that I also 'feel' this present generation is in fact suppressing the thought that it may in fact be TRUE - the end IS near. There is a kind of sub-conscious sense of foreboding - is this the impetus behind the Drugs, the Alcohol, and even the KILLING that is rampant in our world - a world burdened with homeless, dissatisfied and abused humanity. A world trying to escape, to forget, and even run from itself. And even Humanity itself is declining, depreciating and at RISK of disappearing altogether ....... Yes not a happy picture. Why not end it all anyway - it might be better than continuing on and seeing even WORSE days! FEAR does not seem to be apparent. FEAR of what happens after the world ends ......! There seems an almost total lack of the FEAR of GOD with the men and women of today. The BIBLE says this (FEAR) is the beginning of Wisdom, and if that is so then we should be alarmed, since we appear to be without it - without WISDOM. This IS, to all intents and purposes, a Godless Generation - 'lightless', and living in darkness. All drifting 'merrily' to the edge of the ABYSS ...... The Queen visited Germany this week, AND especially requested to visit the Extermination Camps, Many pictures of her and Prince Phillip walking about - BUT the spirit that set those camps up is STILL with us. Nothing was stopped there. What of ISIS, what of all the hunger, and the terror caused by earthquake, volcano, pollution, and plain human greed.
WHAT have we learnt since the 1st and 2nd World Wars? Nothing!!! If some sensational event does not kill us all off,.....If the Magnetic Shield that surrounds our planet shuts down and the SUN burns us up, or if the SUN itself cools down and throws us into an Ice Age - then it is almost sure WE ourselves will destroy the planet we live on, together with ourselves! There little place to look for HELP - one way or another we may find ourselves stuck up a gum-tree with no place to maneuver. BUT who is worrying about it? Who is anxious about it? IS no one AFRAID to die - and to FACE THE LIVING GOD. Does no one want to BE SAVED, and delivered from this state of desperate belief in meaningless DEATH?
WE, the People of God, who know how FEARFUL a thing it is to fall into His living Hands, why are we not rescuing those who, (without our faith and knowledge), are perishing, helplessly and even wilfully, without hope or strength to survive. You and I, who have discovered in Jesus that God IS real, and ready to deliver and save each one us from the sin and devastation that is killing and destroying everything God in Love ever created and made for us - WHY are we doing nothing!!!?
WE will be judged for that. Remember Ezekiel 33 - The WATCHMEN - which watchman you and I are - that does not WARN the people, and the people die at the hand of the enemy, then EVERY ONE of their lives who were not warned and given chance of salvation - THEIR blood will be upon OUR head.
YES we should take that word to heart brothers and sisters. We need to make our VOICE be heard with the WORD of God. We need to WAKE up our neighbours, not with revelling or partying but with the WORD OF GOD - which is the ONLY word of Hope and Sure Salvation offered to ANY man. LET NONE OF US WHO KNOW THEIR GOD, leave the people of this world to continue in blind apathy toward the DAY in which they live - Give a WAKE UP cry to all you know and come across beginning with your own house - you own family near and wide. TELL THEM! EXPLAIN to them. JESUS SAVES! He will save ANYONE! HE will save them from the consequences of their sin, AND from whatever will come upon this planet. All we have to do, any of us, is to reach out to the Cross on which He died, and be lifted out of ALL our fears and troubles, just as sure as Noah and all that were with him were lifted up above the flood in the ARK.Jesus is OUR Ark - and is willing to be your Ark too.
THIS WORLD is falling apart. Thank God it is not our Home - There is still time to make it THERE, and to shut the door upon what is behind, and trust God for a future undisturbed by the terror that now hungrily snaps at all our heals. God Be with you all, and stay with you moment by moment EVERY day.
Lovingly in Jesus our King,
John, Esther and Daryl Green
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