ELDORET NOW as seen from the top of our tallest Building pictured separately below. The main photo looks down upon the main Uganda/Nairobi road which cuts right through the centre of Town, with Mount Elgon on the horizon marking the Uganda boundary.
And this is a view of Aloo Street close to the Town Centre taken on a rather wet and cool day.
Eldoret is a a growing city. It is a City of contrasts; of huge new buildings and development, And it is also cheek by jowl with squalor, litter, and dirt. It is a City of the rich and well to-do, and a City of poverty and sprawling slums. And it is a City full of entertainment and temptation for both the adult and the youth. Sex, Booze, and Drugs are readily available throughout society, and Crime also is on the increase. This week, YESTERDAY in fact I was IN the Town doing some shopping with Daryl. We were actually driving down this street from the top ( it is now a one way street with traffic restricted) As we we came to the bottom we found a young man, almost in the middle of the road kneeling on his knees and apparently praying! I pointed him out to Daryl, and he said "Oh he is one of the new druggies.....he wants to be sick'. THEN today I saw these photos of youths on British streets -
The Report that went with these photos begins with 'RISE OF THE ZOMBIES - 'Spice' turns users into the 'living dead' in MINUTES, and is ruining lives across Britain.' Reportedly 'Spice' is a generic term for various mixtures of herbs and potent chemicals. Until last May 'Spice' was openly on sale in Britain as a so called 'legal high'. A powerful new strain has now emerged that produces a terrifying 'Zombie Effect'. The photos above were taken in Manchester City Square and in the Piccadilly Gardens. Not far from where my grandchildren are living and schooling. As we wait to be visited and possibly invaded by Aliens, it seems we may have been taken over by them already!
Remembering the sight of this young Kenyan kneeling in the middle of the road, yesterday, I am filled with a terrible foreboding of what is now facing the African Continent, as it, with all other Third World populations, continues to ape the corruptions of the West. WHAT HAS GOT into people that they can SEE what is happening to the human race without horror and abject fear of where we are all being taken? I was interest today to also read that an American Professor in Sociology has also noticed the rising interest in ZOMBIES. Citing the increase in books, films and other social behaviour that has to do with Zombies, he suggests that it may have something to do with a general discontent with society - a kind of involuntary cry of hopeless distress at one's personal situation. People whose condition makes them feel DEAD, even when alive. Well, I suppose there may be a link. Certainly the young man in the centre of the THREE photos above provides a quite pitiable and distressing picture of being yet alive, though dead; of being dead, yet having to drag yourself around in a semblance of life.
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To finish off on a more beautiful note - a glimpse of some Hibiscus to bring us back to purity and Joy. The Fresh Wind of God is rushing around our compound right now, bending the boughs of the trees, hissing and rustling through a host of leaves, as it blows the azure sky quite clear of every cloud, the sun meanwhile bathing everything in the golden light of gladness. Our Prayers and Love for you all in Jesus. I have brought depressing thoughts today - but I have not meant to depress but to enliven us all to be aware of the Attack the World in in the thick of. A War only Christ in us can WIN, and Win we Will by His Grace and in His Day. And though wickedness and Darkness in the proper use of these words press in upon us, YET let us be strengthened and encouraged by the Beauty of Holiness to be noticed in a single flour and PRESS ON toward Perfection.
John. Esther, and Daryl Green
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