ONE LAST GLIMPSE of the 2016 Team from Tyndale School, Adelaide.     A great bunch who can all (including staff and parents with them)  be justly proud of all they accomplished for us.   They all left on Friday the 22nd July, and are already safely back in OZ.     Thank you ALL, with all of our hearts.

Just as they were leaving, the Gift of a huge Greenhouse had just begun to go up, and is now completed.   This will, we hope, assist us to grow Tomatoes for us all, and hopefully also some for sale, as part of our Market Garden Project started in 2011 by Daryl.     We have not built the greenhouse ourselves, but have had it professionally erected.  The deal also includes TWO water tanks.
God is SO good.  Tyndale paid for it.

MONDAY OUR OVER 18 YEAR OLD GIRLS will be moving into Jean Pott's Hostel.    Everything is ready, and all have an excited expectation.     However, life will be different in the Hostel to what it was in the Family Homes they have grown up in.  The beginning of being an adult, with all the frustrations and problems that will soon face them as they seek to find a way forward into the wide world without our immediate help.

TODAY has been the THIRTY FIFTH Parents & Prize Giving Day of Testimony School - OUR School.      We started Nursery School in 1981, twelve years after beginning the first Home.   It has been a very busy day starting with me and the Principle, Anthony Ndungu, inspecting the entire School to make sure it was ready to receive visitors.     We began at 9a,m. and then at 10,30a.m. the Guest of Honour arrived and we then began the Official Tour to see all the exhibitions of Classroom work, and also the more substantial exhibits mounted in the various Science labs, including home science of course.    Finally we arrived at the Director's Office at 12.30p.m. to tuck into the traditional Director's Luncheon.     Daryl was of course host, as Director now, and some other 20 or so invited guests sat down with him to partake of the meal together.   Esther and I were there, plus Joshua and Miriam Mbithi from Neema, the Guest of Honour,  Board Members, Officers from the Children's Department,  the School Principal, the newly appointed Primary Headmaster,  the Head of Secondary School, our School Chaplain, and Pastor of our Fellowship, plus plus!!
THEN at 2p.m. we repaired to the School Hall for the Concert, speeches and Prize Giving.   The day ended at 5p,m, and the RAIN held off except for one short shower.      It was a very successful and enjoyable time.
Our Guest of Honour this year was Mrs. Helen Cherambos, Headmistress of Eldoret Moi Girls High School for many many years.    She is retired now, but all her children spent time in our Primary School.     As Headmistress of Moi Girls she was able to take in many of our Girls into her High School before we had one of our own.     The friendship and good rapore between us stretches back to the mid nineteen eighties.    A real delight to have her with us.     Welcoming her to the podium was one of our long time Board Members and a Trustee, Mr. M. Ali.    We have known him since 1993 when we first moved to Eldoret.    He was the Municipal Health Officer at the time and he helped us to get approval and registration with the authorities on our arrival in Eldoret.     It was a blessing to have him with us representing our Board, and as a long time friend who has walked with us in faith that God provides for us.

Just a few random views from the Concert.
TOP the School Choir - Primary kids
MIDDLE - Nursery kids age 4-5
BOTTOM - Primary kids doing a traditional tribal dance.   It was full of action, but for me the icing on the cake was the guy on stilts.
The Concert was put on by the students and consisted of items from Nursery, Primary and Secondary sections of the School including choral, dance and speech its.    Usually a brief address from the Guest of Honour, and then the distribution of Academic Awards to those  who may have earned by the various dignitaries present.     Usually nearly ALL parents attend, and it is a highly popular annual event that is looked forward to and enjoyed by all.  No Business - just pleasure.




AND ALL OF THIS under a cloud of some apprehension.       In Kenya for the last ten days or so, one Boarding School after another has had one or more of its dormitories burned down by persons unknown.     Students have been involved, but it is also felt that there are other forces involved.  More than a hundred schools across the Country have been torched.     Fifteen years ago,  in the early morning 58 (FIFTY EIGHT) CHILDREN lost their lives when their dormitory was torched whilst they slept!!   Can such a thing happen again?   THEN it was unbelievably tragic;  What would it be to day -  does anyone really CARE?
There seems total confusion as to what is going on or why!      Students, teachers, Unions and the Government itself all being at odds whilst so far no light is being shed on the situation.    Again, this evening the Government has told all Headmasters of Boarding School to remain on campus and NOT to live at home.      WE, as a well known school with more than two hundred boarders living on our premises have to accept that we also can find ourselves targeted.   None of four boarders sleep alone - we have boarding adult teaching staff with them.    We had uniformed Police patrolling our complex during today's Celebrations.         Some of these fires have occurred during daylight hours as well as at night.      The Country we feel is under attack.    Keep us in your prayers.  

THE LATEST photo of the Jean Potts Hostel - complete now but still with unpainted iron sheets waiting for the rains to cease.   Under the iron sheet roof has all been cleaned out and painted.    It is now a permanent place of storage and other use put aside for the Tyndale Teams.
The Hostel takes up all of the ground floor space; 2 dorms, one sitting/dining.   1 Kitchen, and Toilets and showers for use of up to 20 girls.   So far we have 12.   Additionally the Lady Warden has space for herself.    In all we have spent our of the Legacy left to us by Miss Potts, some six thousand pounds sterling.
We are VERY pleased with it.

There has been a ferocious and thunderous storm of rain going on whilst I have tried to put this together before going to bed.   I feel very tired, and have to wake up early to get ready for the morning Fellowship at which I shall be the speaker.       We wish you all a safe and blessed week ahead.     With all our love

John, Esther and Daryl.

SOME TRUST IN CHARIOTS

THIS PAINTING IS 'ALIVE' with the heady thrust of mighty power and determined purpose.    Set, as it is, against a sky of ragetty, wind-swept clouds, the chariot and its horses seem an irristible force.
It was the most fearful combination weapon of the day, (chariot and horse), and the king who had many of them in his military arsenal felt himself secure, and a force to be reckoned with!   And the world today is little different when it comes to ensuring security; each nation seeking power and influence enough to protect itself from its enemies by making a stockpile of the most feared and devastating weaponry.    This idea spills over into the world at large as we all seek the most reliable pain-killer, insurance or investment policy, seeking all the time to make sure our life is SAFE in an unsafe world.    Where, and in what, is YOUR real trust today?
The Bible says in Psalm 20, found in the Old Testement verses 7-8

SOME trust in and boast of chariots and horses,

but WE will trust in and boast of the Name of the Lord our God.... 

They (the chariots & horses) are bowed down and fallen;

but WE are risen and stasnd upright!

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'Turn your eyes upon JESUS; look full in His wonderful face.
And the things of the earth will grow strangely dim,
 in the LIGHT of His Glory and Grace'

The chariots and horses the Bible uses as imagery for worldly protection and security are rarely, if ever, seen to be used in today's world. but nothing has changed.    We all still look for protection and for security in the world and in own lives.     Something harder and harder to be sure of.    WAR and the threat and visible hurt of it are still with us,    And now we have 'Terrorism' and ISIS with all its terrifying nightmare stalking the towns and streets we live.     Disease is still with us, and indeed multiplies.    Economic collapse and and unreliability is making the future dark.     We try to ward of the effects of all these things, and where we can't find a way to do so we live, cowaring within our imaginations, fair game for stress, depression, and often ready to take a trip away from it all with drugs, sex and crime.      YES, and so we DO look to put our trust in something.    Something at the very least to blot out our fears.       It confronts us all at some time, in some way ........Why not put your trust in GOD?

For almost FIFTY years Esther and I have been here in Kenya, and we have been encouraged by the Word of God to Trust in God, and in Him alone.     It has not always been smooth going, but, on the whole, we have not been found ashamed to have done so.      BUT Kenya has changed, and the challenges of living here are more and more challenging for us.     The pressure, at times, to look for more visible and tangible assistance to overcome our needs and to fortify our point of view, has been great.      That great enemy of our soul sees to that.     BUT He who is our Saviour has always assured us to 'FEAR NOT', and to just press on - and He HAS kept us and brought us through.

LAST THURSDAY evening the Tyndale School Team from Australia, hosted a Farewell dinner for our staff.      Each time they have come they have done this and it is now a kind of tradition.   Two full weeks of quite hard and concentrated labours to assist, improve, and strengthen us;   and this year with the challenge of illness, excessive cold, and rain to cool their ardour.  THEN dit is time to go.  As the dinner was being eaten one and another was called upon to speak.     This year our son Daryl Green, the now confirmed CEO of Testimony Faith Homes, was asked to share.        Right at the end I was also asked to say a few words,      And I shared this Verse from the 20th Psalm.    It was very impromptu.     But I felt very strongly that as with the passing of most things, changes can also come in.     Now that WE are elderly and, apart from council and advice, ( we both remain on the Board and Management Committees), have less involvement in practical matters, changes will no doubt slowly come.   How will things be in another fifty years?
I felt it was therefore a choice moment to REMIND all of us where Testimony has stood and indeed STILL stands at this moment in its history.      WE trust in God still, and not the World, for all that we need, especially our Daily Bread, every day.    Yes AND everything else.     It was in many a ways a poigniant evening.

LAST Sunday was, as I mentioned on Saturday, our Baptismal Sunday and 28 went through the waters with Mike Potter, Head of the Tyndale Team and School, and Wykliff Ondanga, our Pastor and School Chaplain officiating    It was VERY, VERY cold! all 300 of US in the Homes attended, and also another 200 boarders from the School.      Daryl and Carol's adopted son Jeremy was one of those Baptised, and you will see him here standing with his mother.
Jeremy will be 13 later this year, and has truly longed to be Baptised.     Something very special and meaningful to him.     TWO were also Baptised from among the Tyndale Team visiting us,    This is not the only time we Baptise, but it has become the most popular occasion, and it is especially looked forward to.

Life here, behind all the events has continued on.     Our Nursery School Headmistress, the wife of our Pastor, is still laid aside with illness.   This will be the 3rd month.     Helen, our adopted daughter, is still busily teaching in Nairobi, baby Abigail with her.   Last week she had one of her wisdom teeth extracted.   It was very painful at the time, and has continued be so until yesterday - today she is feeling better.     Our adopted son James  'Manu' who has been staying with us, also has a wisdom tooth extracted a couple of weeks back, and again it gave him a hard time, and still not quite right.  He is hoping to move into his own accommodation in the near future,
During the week we were visited very pleasantly by Wilson Sway, our very FIRST boy who came in August 1969.     He is now in his 60s and working full time for the Lord in Nairobi.   He spent the night with us, and it was really good to have time to talk and reminisce.    God is Good.

Our Love in Jesus to you all as always,

John, Esther and Daryl Green

AT LAST, a photo of Lizzie Green, flanked by Dad and Mum.   We were sitting in front of a Wall Carpet of some praying Kenyan children in our sitting room.     SUCH a great JOY to have her home with us, if only for such a short time; she was with us for only two weeks, and left last Thursday - the 14th July.    The weather was COLD and cheerless, and we had to stay inside a great deal.      Also she found us both a little preoccupied with problems.    We felt that we did not give her a lot of joy and gladness, but she sure gave US plenty, and her presence with us at this particular time was a wonderful comfort, and did much to settle our own minds and spirits where we had been unsettled and a little 'lonely'.
SURELY NOT!   I mean we have been full of news of the Tyndale Team Projects and activities among us, and surely we could not have been still warding off the fiery darts of the wicked one?
Well... but Yes, we still had our problems circling around.    There are times we just cannot share what is touching our heart and upsetting our spirits.    We bury them out of sight under the lighter and less disturbing elements of daily life.     We do not mean to 'hide' our trials, but we do not wish to unload every trying triviality on you.     He walks with us at such times, and brings, in time, out of gloom into light.    He used our lovely and beloved daughter to help us through this time.    We do thank the LORD for her, and for all our children.

Well, after writing last week at such length about unemployment I felt I must have gone on a bit too much, and felt a little guilty in pouring out my concerns upon you all.     And indeed not one person commented upon my lamentations concerning unemployment;   I guess you all know about it yourselves; after all it is a world wide issue.
OPPOSITE is a photo of David, one of the two your men I mentioned last week as those currently seeking employment after leaving College almost a year ago.    He has a Diploma in I.T. ( Business ).  He has a sharp mind.   Having walked up and down tirelessly in this extensive Town he has found nothing to provide him with work.   David was born in 1990 and came to be with us when he was just seven years of age.   He and two other brothers came to be with us after his parents were burnt to death in their homestead during tribal unrest and violence.    At 26 he still looks just a teenager and is of a short stature.   This seems to work against him since to a prospective employer he just does not appear as old as his age.      He is a very inovative young person, inelligent and inventive.   Please pray with us for him as we seriously seek to see him started on his own independent life.

TO THE LEFT is Jotham, aged 24.  He came to us when he was 14 having lost his mother who was unmarried, and when needing to join his last year in Primary School.    He did very well and proceeded on to Secondary School with us, completing his 4th Form in 2012.    He is a bright and serious young man.     He has a Diploma in Management (Project Management Option) which he completed well in September 2015. Once again he has found no opportunity to earn a living so far.    We would also ask you to join us in our prayers for him to find employment, as we are now doing our best to assist him find some definate open door.
BOTH these young men have been with in a way that has earned them our good will and encouragement as we have seen them live peaceful and careful lives as part of their respective 'families' in the Homes.   They have not been lazy or irresponsible, but they are beginning to feel frustrated and depressed as days go by.....
YOU MAY WONDER how young men in their twenties have come to be part of a Children's Home where eighteen year olds are supposed to be adults and about their own business.     When DAVID joined us aged 7 he had not been to school at all.    Starting with 2 years of basic in Nursary School he still had 12 more years in Primary and Secondary plus a further 3 in College.  He has had tenacity as well as a will to learn.      JOTHAM was 15 when he joined us, but had 5 years of Primary and  Secondary in front of him as well as a further 3 of College.       Children do not always come to us early, and often have little or no education..    THUS some stay longer than others.

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THE WEATHER has continued WET and COLD, and through it all our young friends from Tyndale School, and their teachers plus some parents, a Team of 34 have laboured strenuously on.   Some suffered setbacks physically, but were not long held back, and it is true to say that everyone put their back into what had to be done.    Both here and at Neema Homes, FENCING has been the most engaging occupation.     At Neema some were putting up a huge part of their Boundary Fence.
With US they were putting up a wire Fence at the Dairy AND a Securuty Fence around our School Boarding GIRLS Hostel to keep them safe and sound from undue inquisitiveness.     The Poultry Houses have been refurbished and other matters put in hand.    Actually the Poultry Unit is still being refurbished, but all will be completed, God Willing by next week, before they leave on Friday.    It has been a lot of work for which we are more than graceful.   God is SO good to us.

AND TOMORROW will be our Baptism Sunday, and many will go through the Waters of Baptism in the shallow end of the School (unheated) Swimming Pool.     Rather COLD  it will be!!      Normally we have had Baptisms in our old Baptistry near the School Office, but with the advent of the Pool, we have moved away to the larger venue.    BUT it is colder there, and of course the water being a much larger expanse IT is colder as well - especially at this time of year.
THIS is just a photo of some of the school children during a school swimming lesson.

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We also had our SCHOOL INTERVIEW INTERVIEW to day - for the post  HEADMASTER for the PRIMARY SECTION OF THE SCHOOL.   There had been more than 30 applicants, and these had been shortlisted to TEN.     The School Heads, and Daryl, myself and Esther sat on the Interviewing panel, and although it was quite a difficult matter - they were all so qualified and worthy- we finally chose a brother in Christ named Benjamin Emojong.      We all felt that the Holy Spirit pointed him out in the particular, and we hope to see him take up his post almost immediately.   Anthony Ndungu, who has been standing in as H/master for some while, will now return to being Principle of the School overall.

God Bless you all.    My apologies for delay in sending an Update.    Hope to get one out shortly.

Love from us all, 

John, Esther, and Daryl Green

STEPPING DOWN, BUT NOT SHUTTING UP!

YES! of course Tyndale Christian School Team is with us yet again, having safely arrived last Wednesday.     They are here until about the 23rd July, and have already begun their labour of love among TESTIMONY and also at Neema Children's Home.   The weather so far not bad, but not VERY warm or sunny.   But there is a little sun between the clouds  and plenty to do and friendships to make in the days ahead.     Mike and Dani Potter are leading the team and it is great to renew fellowship and also to meet new people.    THIS TIME round they will be putting up fences here and there, putting DOWN a path or two, erecting clothes lines where there were none, restoring and upgrading the Poultry Unit, and, and helping to equip and upgrade our Bakery.    And this year the Team is mainly consisting of Girls, so we pray they will prove their strength and stamina in doing some challenging work.     The Team stays in a Christian Guest House in town, and come to us for Breakfast, leaving after supper each day for the Guest house to sleep.   Our school transport assists in transporting then two and fro, and also in getting Team members to Neema Home.

THE FIRST photos today show a view of our Dairy area.  To the left we are looking from the driveway towards the boundary hedge.  The Dairy man's house is middle right with the red roof.  You can just see the roof of Green Cottage beyond the hedge and across the road.   Tyndale Cottage is behind us as we look.   All of this on the Jacaranda Cottage Compound.
The NEW fence is going up to the right, and you can just see part of the OLD fence to middle left of the photo.    The idea is to provide a larger area for the Paddock for the cows, to exercise in. The cows otherwise remain cared for intensively.
The second photo is taken from he HEDGE end and looking down toward the Milking Station. In this photo you fan clearly see the old fence, and the line made for the NEW one.    We now have, as I have previously told in a previous Blog, TWO cows, and two calves.    ONE more cow is to soon join us hopefully - another generous gift from Tyndale School Team.
We have a good Dairyman, and have ordered a double Milking Machine, to make life a little easier for him.     At present our 2 cows are pregnant, and are not yielding much.   But when the THREE will be with Milk we will be able to supply the need of all four of our Homes AND the School with enough Milk.   Even with the overhead cost, it will be MUCH cheaper than buying milk in Town.   We are believing the LORD will smile on this endeavour.

To the right are three of our girls all looking suitably mischievous little cherubs,.   Behind them the Dairyman's house again, and to the right again the main GATE from the road into the Day Care Centre which is just out of the photo to the far right.       We have THREE other Homes on this side of the road with some 96 boys and girls under 18 - yet it still has space and order as a compound that also comprises the Day Cared Centre the Dairy, AND one of our Vegetable Garden Plots.
On the other side of the drive just in front of the girls is Tyndale and the new Jacaranda Cottage.

 Today some of the new double bunk beds for the Girls Hostel arrived - four of them - and by Monday the rest should have arrived, and all the beds made up - all gifted by members and friends of Tyndale School.  Everything else has been made ready, and as I mentioned last week, the Team will be using the kitchen/dining/sitting room facility  during their stay on this occasion.       We are VERY happy that the plan to use part of Old Jacaranda for the Senior Girls has worked SO very well,     THEY are also very happy and excited at the prospect of moving in on the 1st August.       We also received the sitting room chairs and finished all the paintwork there during this last week.   It looks good.

It looks a little cramped, but there will only be, on average, about 12 girls using the space at any time.

All of what we have done here to make the Girls Hostel a reality has been accomplished through the Legacy left by our dear friend Miss. Jean Potts, who I know would have been overjoyed to see it.  She was always so glad to see any progress for the good of the children, and vocally publicised all that we did in her church and indeed wherever she went, no matter that she was well into her eighties.

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THE POUND STERLING began to FALL here when the U.K. announced it would LEAVE the European Union.    Everyone seemed initially complacent about it on the day, but since then the pound has dropped from an exchange value of Ksh.150, to Ksh. 125.   A very considerable loss to all those dependent upon its steady value.
Of course we know this will be reciprocated in other places as well, most of all no doubt the United kingdom herself.     Kenya herself should be appreciating this situation, and indeed one might expect a decrease in the daily cost of of living - no sign of it yet;  it is still climbing.     So please remember to pray for us,when you have your time with our Father in Heaven.     We know HE watches over us, and we know HE will not forget us, or be unaware of the global situation of which we are a very tiny part.

YES!  WE HAVE AN EVEN MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM!    The problem of finding how to EXIT our children from the Homes when it is time for them to find employment and a future.    We have been forty four years in Eldoret.    More than 300 children have grown up and left us - each one with a job of some kind.   Not always what they wanted or had even trained for, but at least something that promised money enough to live on - even if not much more!     During our time in this Town we have found sympathy and understanding enough from local government, and the private sector.   But when we began here in 1972 there were only forty thousand inhabitants in Eldoret .   Today there is reputed to be more than 1.3 million!!    Not much else has changed here, especially in industry and trade.     It is said unemployment stands at over 60%  -  the majority being twenty and under!!   This obviously poses a problem; a challenge, and indeed a very real crisis in places like ours - places that take Children in who are helpless and hopeless with the idea of providing them a future, only to find that future blocked.

THIS YEAR we have TWO boys still WAITING, after a year,  to find a job  -  any job.      In September there will be SEVEN more!!     They go through School, and then we do our best to fit them into some training - even up to University if they can attain the necessary grades.... but when they graduate with Certificates, Diplomas, and Degrees, there is nothing available to do in their chosen Fields no matter what they are.     THIS is frustrating, so frustrating that it may encourage turning to Drugs, and even Crime.        We appeal to the Children's Department, and Government!   We cry out to our local Chamber of Commerce, and Business and Industry.   Nothing.      YES, we know it is a National Problem - a World Problem - but who is looking for answers on behalf of their own flesh and blood.     Or who cares that the baby they bring to us to care for and to be saved from the streets, is later to be thrown back to the street purely and simply because  the Government, by that time, has ceased to CARE.      I have been told by some officials that it the concern of the Private Sector (of the Charitable NGOs) to care, and find the answer.       We have been applying ourselves in doing exactly this without Government aid, assistance, or even real care.      Isn't it right for some appreciation to be shown; some assistance to us to find a FAIR exit opportunity for our children - in order that we might be morally able to see them go without anxiety - without ANY fear that we wasted our time.
We have never asked or required financial aid from Kenya to provide even a shoe lace for any child in our Homes since they began to come in 1969.     We still do not ask,     BUT we are entreating Kenyans to care about the future of these children, and to make the years that have gone into bringing them into adult life, both meaningful and worthwhile; children from all over the State, rescued without fear or favour as a 'GIFT' to the Nation.

THE YOUTH of Kenya, altogether face a quandary so grave that I believe it seriously affects their ability to study and focus with any sense of real expectation that it will reap a reward.   They look around them, talk to those who have left school and college ahead of themselves, and they wonder more and more what the future holds..
Look at these faces!  Faces of OUR children in the midst of doubt. For all the promise of a place to go and earn a living, they are more and more believing they are alone and almost stranded.     It is a Depression that is setting in, and it did not start today.
We are now running a Hostel for Boys of 18 and over, plus another for Girls.    We see in front of our eyes the effect on their minds in regard to how they will live and prosper in the future when they must finally leave us; leave home!     After all EVERY parent is experiencing this situation      Although I CRY today on behalf of the Orphan and the Destitute without real home or parent, to be provided help to start an independant and life in Kenya, I must also remember those at home with their parents - your children.      ALL our children are already asking- before they Graduate - 'WHAT NOW?'   Will you look the other way?   Will you be silent and let a child of yours rot away on the street?   Will you say he is no concern of yours?

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We are all well, and still enjoying the joy of having Elisabeth home with us, though the time is flying past too quickly.     She will have left us again by Thursday next week.  But still very Thankful that she was allowed to be here with us.    Thank you Lord Jesus.

We received on Wednesday this week, a Donation from friends in the UK, send via the AENON Trust.    We do Thanks Appreciate every shilling - An Update will soon be sent to all.

Love from us all,  John Esther, and Daryl Green

OUR PLANS have also gone astray a little since last week - mainly due to the weather,and also a small break-down in 'supply and demand'!!
Firstly the weather has continued to give us plenty of rain every day of the week, which has continued to prevent us with getting on with some outside work, including - as you see here - the painting of Old Jacaranda's roof.   STILL raining as of today, and we need two or three days of sunshine before we can start painting.  If we commence painting whilst it is raining, the force of the rain will seriously spoil the paintwork.      THEN we have been delayed with the supply of new charcoal ovens for the Bakery, and also heavy rain has stopped us getting the new Green Houses erected.     Rather disappointing, but we have to Thank God for He knows the way we are taking and if He wants to slow us down, He also knows how to do it.     Left to ourselves we may have run ahead too much unwisely.     So good not to be alone on the job.

BUT, work on the inside of Old Jacaranda has been continuing, and the interior of the new Girl's Hostel is now 'most' finished.    Here are a few updates -
Here is one of the TWO bedrooms - still without beds, but they are on the way - to accommodate 8 girls each.     Part of the window space has been especially adapted to also act as a Fire EXIT in each room.    
Each room opens on to a central passage running the length of the house from the Entrance to the Wardens apartment.   On the other side of this passage can be found the Kitchen, and the Sitting/Dining room.
There is then access to the Bathrooms and Toilets at the far end of the Sitting room.
At present we will be catering for only 12 girls full time - three others away in university during Term time..

This is a view of he Dining Room, which gives on - through hatch - to the kitchen.    It is a little spartan, but still comfortable.    The room is in fact both dining a sitting room, and in the next photo we see the sitting area looking from the kitchen hatch.   We are in the midst of painting the floor, of both areas, but the sitting room will also have a carpet  - and chairs of course.
The Room is quite long, and the windows look out onto a small lawn.
The door top left leads into the central passage
mentioned before, and the Wardens apartment is on the right as you go out.
Our Warden is to be one of our cleaning staff.
Mrs. Rosaline  Odunda is a widow of many years from Western Kenya.    She is a very dear lady who loves God, and has worked hard most of her life to bring up, single handed, her own four children.      The Girls have received here appointment with gladness, and we hope it will be an enjoyable and profitable one.   a photo of her may follow a little later.     She is a cool of some reputation, though she has not worked as a cook for us, and she has felt that she would like to cook for the GIRLS as part of her employment in order to encourage a more homely situation for them as they leave their respective family 'Homes' - I can see them all having a great time~!
THE LAST photo in this series is one of the KITCHEN.      It has ample cupboard and working top space.      There is a Gas Oven (second hand) already installed, but we still wait for a double ring heavy duty gas burner, plus a fridge - all on order, but so far not delivered.   The Hatch into the Dining Room is seen above the white cupboard and worktop.     The double sink is seen to the right on the second photo under the window.     In all the space so far being used, though not spacious, is compact, and homely.  We feel happy and thankful for it.

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ABOVE IS AN ADVANCE PHOTO OF 2016 TYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FROM 

ADELAIDE, SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA

They are expected HERE in Eldoret on Wednesday 6th July until the 26th.   A Team of 34 inclusive of Staff, Parents, and STUDENTS.      They will be dividing their time here between US and Neema Children's Home run by Miriam and Joshua Mbithi.      We hope the weather will improve for them and that the RAINS will will be suspended, and some sunshine break through with a little warmth.

A LOT of works for them to get involved with, as usual, and also we hope even more friendships made between us all.     Please pray for them all, as Mike and Danni Potter join them to be with us all.

MORE NEXT WEEK!     Until then we wish you all peace and safety through the week ahead, assuring you all of our prayers always.      Lovingly in Jesus Name,

John, Esther and Daryl Green