ALL THINGS COME TO AN END SOMETIME!

OUR AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS ARE ALMOST LEAVING! They have successfully completed the work they took on with us - and also at Neema Children's Home, up the road from us, - and now it is a matter of tidying up, and saying Goodbye - till next time.   The TIME seems to have gone faster than any year before.    The weather has been fair, but not very warm, and with a lot of heavy thunder storms.     One of the smallest of Teams so far as well, but all in all, very hard working and willing for anything.     WE DO THANK them all, including Mike and Dani Potter, Tammy Garret, and Tim and Liz Rankin, who came with them from Tyndale Christian School, Adelaide, South Australia.        They arrived, as I have recorded earlier, on Monday, 3rd July, and will finally leave us on Wednesday morning, 19th July.     The will have spent just 15 full  days with us and in that time they have built a new Hen House for Layers, expanding our Poultry Unit, and also built a six foot tin fence across the top of the Jacaranda Cottage Compound.      Might not seem a lot in cold print, but in fact a lot of heavy and intensive work and effort - more so when only HALF of the Team were achieving it, whilst the other half were with Miriam and Joshua at Neema Children's Homes doing even more.

TO THE LEFT is a photo of the front of the Layer's House, and to the Right is one of the rear of the same.     We hope to put in about 300 layers into this building.
BELOW are glimpses of the interior ...........

A job well done and finished.  Also PAID for by the hard work and generosity of Tyndale, staff, parents and students who have always joined together to really HELP and improve us every year that they come, self sacrificially, to just GIVE ....

ABOVE THE FENCE PUT UP across the top end of the top end of the plot.    Drakeley Cottage is out of sight to the right of the photo, the fence extending a little beyond it.     Previously it was just bush and scrub, and dogs, plus other livestock would always be pushing their way through into our compound.    We had no security at all.     NOW all is made safe.     Wonderfull!!

The 2017 Team

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NEXT SATURDAY WILL BE THE 36TH PARENTS DAY FOR TESTIMONY SCHOOL founded in 1981, and also the 48th Founder's Day for Testimony Faith Homes.   It is slightly early this year due to the expected General Election in early August.      The Country a little nervous and apprehensive on coming up to an Election, but generally we are not seeing any sign of serious disturbance so far.    The government just feel Schools should be well and truly SHUT by the time Voting begins..      We expect to open for the 3rd Term at the end of August, God Willing.     Are WE feeling 'jumpy'?    No.  All is well with our souls.      Daryl will be hosting the day as our CEO, and the General Secretary of the Kenya Private School Association will be Guest of Honour.        Hope I might get some photos of the Day, but I might be a bit late insending .       In 2019 we will be having the 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of TFH, but that will be AUGUST of that Year, and we hope to host a great many of our Old Boys and Girls plus friends on that occassion.      

Psalm 103v.1-5

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; 

Who crowneth thee with loving kindess and tender mercies;

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renews

like the eagles.

KING DAVID wrote these words.   The man who testified in another Psalm and said 'I acknowledge (confess and admit) my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.'     Taken as they are, one can read the words in Psalm 103 as a simple statement of well being;  they can almost be taken for granted.     It IS a statement of Truth for the one who is Trusting in God, and whose sins are forgiven.       BUT,,,,,,,,,,these words come across so much more strongly when one sees and accepts that they apply to the sinner that I am.      Yes we all DO sin, even after realising\the Blood of Christ; we are prone to sin, and although we now have means to overcome and be victorious over sin, it is a fight and a struggle.     AND YET the Blessing of a Loving God abides with me and upon me, quietly and constantly refreshing my life with His Goodness.       It is SO EASY just ignorantly accept this, and be thankless, or without a clear realisation of it - but when He opens our understanding, our ears and eyes to the moment by moment truth of it - THEN humbling it is, finally be aware of who and what I am were it not for the voluntary death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Cross.   My Heart cries out more and more, to such a God, such a Heavenly Father - who spared not what was most precious to and loved by Him, in order to rescue you and me from our own willful waywardness.     Oh my!

Hallelujah!  What a Saviour!

Who can take a poor lost sinner,

Lift him from the miry  clay and set him free.

I will ever tell the story

Shouting glory, glory, glory,

Hallelujah,  Jesus ransomed ME!

Julia H. Johnston

 

TODAY - this very DAY, He has yet again provided ALL our needs.     HIS love never fails.

May He so love you too, and fill your hearts with the expanding knowledge of that love both for yourselves and your enemies and those who may despise and take you for granted.

John, Esther and Daryl Green