Saturday 28 January 2017

LIFE CAN BE A BAG OF HOLES!


THIS POSTER PRESENTS AN INTERESTING IMAGE OF GOD, AND OF A DOCTOR!     Can you see what I mean?    It would seem, from a cursory reading, that the creator of the poster is annoyed by those he deems fundamental Christian fanatics who say
'Away with doctors - JESUS is my Healer.'    I understand what he is saying entirely.    In Kenya many have died and seen loved ones die, due to what I personally do believe is a wrong perspective.   I believe that Jesus IS able to be my healer, but I also do believe that some doctors are vocationally called to heal.
BUT then what about the question 'Why do you think God but doctors on earth?'     God put ALL of us on earth to serve HIM, and in doing so to serve, on His behalf, one another.     NOT only doctors but ALL of us.     AND it is more than possible that God did not put ALL DOCTORS as doctors on the earth - some doctors have made themselves to be doctors, and not always because they like doctoring or want to heal the sick, but because it 'looks' as if a doctor can get good money!!!
Not all doctors are created to doctor!    Those who are on strike for MONEY,  have put money FIRST, and therefore, in my estimation are not doctors by vocation. BUT yes, God HAS a place for doctors, men and women with a heart for humanity.   LUKE, who wrote the Gospel, was a doctor, and very useful to Paul I believe.    I personally owe a lot to doctors gifted in understanding medicine, and who have helped and blessed me - in answer, I believe, to my prayers to God, in the Name of Jesus, to heal me.    I do thank God for them.
But finally, once again, 'WHY do you think God put doctors on earth?'     Why has God gifted men and women to treat and even heal those who are sick among us?    Obviously because we NEED them; need their help, their compassion, their healing touch.       Doctors are to HEAL, and minister healing to the sick - NOT to prance around with ill written placards,  congratulating themselves on their greedy, ill conceived self importance as they laugh and eat cake and STRIKE!   Yes they go on strike!  They wilfully decide to withhold their services, and leave the sick to die, for the sake of what?   For the sake of Gain; for the sake of filthy lucre.       Are THEY truly 'doctors'?  Are they God's Gift to the world?       We continue to be held to ransom - our physical bodies, and those of our loved ones - for the sake of personal gain.     It is a criminal shame.     It is ungodly, inhuman, and vicious.
THIS week, here in Kenya,  those still on strike have been threatened with dismissal from their posts.
"Sack us!' they cry in their blindness, "We will continue; we don't care...............     Well we do pray against their folly and against their selfishness.       Are they any different to any terrorist in fact?  Are they different to any that take a life and use it to profit themselves,  loudly proclaiming that unless their terms are met that lives will die.     It speaks and smells of the devil.    It certainly does not speak of compassion and mercy to ones neighbour!     I shudder to consider the pain, anxiety, distress and even the deaths of those who are dying in hospitals across our Country, deserted and abandoned by those with Healing in their Hands.
The BIBLE in Proverbs 3v27 'Withhold not good from those to whom it is due ( who have the right to expect it of you) when it is in the power of your hand to do it.'

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED US IN PRAYER FOR Dan Ndungu.  He is back in School and the 'Infection' seems how to be abated.     DARYL is in Nairobi this week end and seeks to see if he can find any further Opinion, for Medical Help for him.    Continue in Prayer.

TO THE LEFT A PHOTO OF SOME OF our early School Staff taken in 19887/8.    They have all gone today EXCEPT for Anthony Ndungu, 2nd from the left at the top of the photo. To his left his Mr. S. Mwaura,  Below, from the far left is Mrs. Judy Gachengechi, Mrs.Judy Towett,  Mrs. Susan Iraya,  Mr. Lwangu,   Mr. Titus  Mbatiah,  Mr. Philip Wakaba,  .Mr. John Gitare and Mr. Simon-Peter Anderson.
The School was still young, and we had just completed building the first stream (classes 4-8). It is good to just remember them again.....and so many others with them.    Thank you all for your input and endeavour.

In this photo you see the main buildings of Testimony School from taken from the playing field.
The School Hall on the left giving way to Staff rooms and offices, and then Double storey Classroom, blocks. Much more has been added behind what you can see, and also this side of the School Hall we have erected a Boarding Section for Primary children.      And, of course, it is no longer merely a Primary School at present, but has also progressed in Secondary School as well.   A long way from the beginning in 1981 with just a small class of Nursery children.     It is a miracle in our sight.

AND LASTLY, FOR THIS WEEK,  just a glimpse of  what the lack of rain and water can bring us to.  This photo was taken in  Turkana, where the current Drought has taken it's toll of a lot of livestock, and even people have died.      Of course this IS the Dry Season, and rain is usually absent at this time, say from December to March.   However it looks as if the period is extending, and, as for the last few years, the Rains may hold off this year again, even to MAY!         This together with more people needing water very year provides progressive distress year by year.       Our compound, here in Eldoret, a long way south of Turkana, is looking as dry and  and thirsty, but water is still, at least for today in the taps.      The whole Nation is praying that God will be merciful and bring UNSEASONABLE RAIN.     Yesterday, and today, the sky has been partially covered with CLOUDS!!
The Miracle may indeed come1.        Our President, whilst addressing a Public Meeting, was prevailed upon to lead the Nation in an impromptu Prayer for RAIN,  and as he did so it did in fact commence to RAIN.     HALLELUJAH!    We are all in prayer.

We are all well, and the Homes and the School is going on waiting on God, and trusting in Him for our peace and security.    In Jesus Name we are kept and provided for.       Our Love and Prayers go up daily to our Father in Heaven for His Blessing upon YOU, that you also may have cause to Praise Him with us for all His Mercy.

John, Esther and Daryl Green



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