LOOKING BACK BRIEFLY!

A WEEK AGO, ON SATURDAY,  the 36th Annual School Parent's & Prize Giving was still continuing.          Above is a photo of some Lower Primary students presenting a song on stage.
The Guest of Honour had arrived at 10.30a.m. together with his wife and one of our Old Boys, Mark Ouma, who had accompanied them.       The photo above was taken during the afternoon Concert.
I had hoped to bring these photos on the very Day, but they had arrived too late.   I regret that the clarity is not as good as hoped, and representation of the events and scenes very scanty.

TO THE LEFT, on arrival, Bouquets of flowers were presented.     The Guest of Honour is wearing a white suit, with his wife standing to the left of him also in a white with a cloth of gold turban.    Me and Esther on the left.   Mr. Ndungu, the School Principal, Heads of School, and our Pastor out of the picture to the right. Mr. Mark Ouma is standing on the extreme right of the photo.   Students from Secondary and from Primary (wearing navy blue) presented the Bouquets.       The weather was not bad, but a little cloudy and quite cool.  It rained heavily in the afternoon during the Concert when we were all under cover

TO THE RIGHT we have moved on to the gate of the School Field.    Our Guest of Honour is an Engineer by profession, and we had wanted him to see our Field which is on a severe slope, and very irregular.    We hoped to get some advice and help from him in showing us the way forward in levelling the whole - some 3 acres.
In THIS photo our Guest is standing centre.  Mr Ndungu is on the extreme right, and the Head of Primary, Mr. Benjamin Emajong to the left up front.
We spent some time viewing the scene and discussing how to go about the task of improving the site and general facility.    Through the gap you can see part of Testimony House and the Bakery.

On left is a photo of Mrs Angela Omobe, our Secondary School Head, and Mrs.Ochome the wife of our Guest of Honour, as they walked round the Nursery .
By this time all our School Heads had joined the party, including Mrs. Miriam Ondanga, Head of Nursery School.          Parents had also begun to gather, and would begin to follow the main party around to see for themselves the exhibits and also their children's School work with the Class Teachers.     By mid day they would all be offered lunch in tented pavilions erected in the School grounds.



To the left a snap of Miriam Ondanga front, then Mark Ouma, then myself and Daryl Green.    WE have all now toured some sixteen classes, and are about to visit the Science labs before adjourning for our Lunch.

(( Since the Primary School opened in 1983 we have always combined the School Parents Day with the Homes' Founders Day, which until then had been remembered on it's own.       HOWEVER IN FUTURE,  Founder's Day may be once again celebrated separately as it used to be during the last weekend of August each year.)).      The School has grown so much, and on Parent's Day there just isn't time to draw attention to the Homes and to remember how the Lord began everything, and brought the School into its own existence

AND FINALLY a shot of a group of students taking part in a traditional tribal dance on state.

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SCHOOL has now closed down at the close of 2nd Term.   In just under two weeks the National General Elections will take place, and then School will hope to re-open in the first week of September.     The weather is 'wintery' quite COLD, and a lot of cloud and RAIN.     Gloomy days and rather chilly nights.     This may continue on now until September, when we expect a slow return to more warm and sunny times.

We have successfully sent out the 3rd UPDATE of the year to all our supporters, family  and friends, either through the Internet or by post.       Some E-mails have been returned due to the address having been changed.     We have now sent to those concerned at their physical address in the hope of restoring the internet connection.

PLEASE, in the three weeks ahead, pray for the PEACE of Eldoret, and of Kenya as a whole, as Election Fever continues to build up.      It is now TEN years, almost, since the political troubles arising from the Elections of 2007.       We are believing the Lord to have used the intervening years to have helped us all to grow in maturity, and to trust in God for the Election of a Government that will be right for ALL the people.     HE alone knows what is good and right for us, not we ourselves.

There is an underlying sense of anxiety and apprehension as to how the Result will go, and also how it will be accepted.      A kind of 'jumpyness'.    But we ourselves have been through this many times, and He has given us perfect peace, and brought us through safely with all our children.     He is WITH all those who BELIEVE and TRUST in HIM.    We are not in fear or dread. 

God Bless you all, and walk closely with you imparting to you all confidence and peace of mind moment by moment, day by day, till He COMES.......not long now.   Be on tip-toe, in prayer, and in keeping watch, for He WILL come SUDDENLY, in the twinkling of any eye.

Lovingly to each and every one, beloved as you all are

John, Esther and Daryl Green