MALE AND FEMALE MADE HE THEM

THESE PARENTS ARE UPSET AND INCREDULOUS  that the Church of England Primary School, their 8 and 6 year old sons attend, has permitted another male student to attend the School wearing GIRLS clothing.      The Rowes are a Christian couple wanting to bring up their two boys in the best possible way open to them.     The Sunday Times has reported Mr. Rowe as saying 'A child aged six would sometimes come to School as a girl, or sometimes as a boy.    Our concerns were raised when our son came back home from School saying he was confused as to why and how, a boy was now a girl.
We (my wife and I) believe it is wrong to encourage very young children to embrace transgenderism.
Boys are boys and Girls are girls.

They want to sue the School!

The School has stated that their pupils are protected under the Equalities Act of 2010. and   "The refusal to acknowledge a transgendered person's true identity was 'transphobic' behaviour."

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THERE IS A GREAT DEAL I MIGHT SAY ABOUT THIS.     However, I do not wish to enter into strife with anyone, or inflict myself with the hubbub of ill informed spite which this couple had to undergo both on TV and in the Press.      BUT, in principle. as a Christian, and by intuitive inclination, I must support Mr. and Mrs. Rowe in removing their children from that School.    They were and are RIGHT to be concerned.      I would have done the same.     And, of course, they have every reason to be free to choose where to send their children to be educated        They are said to be Christian, and so no doubt they felt a Church of England School would be a reasonably safe place.   But these days it is rather difficult to be sure what a Christian or a Christian Institution stands for.

AS A CHRISTIAN, and as a reasonable human being, expecting my species to be pretty well uniform when it comes to sexual differences, I would expect that my SON should be treated as a BOY, and brought up in an environment which would confirm him in his own understanding that he is a BOY.         I have never been agreeable to the idea of muddying the truth.      I was biologically asserted to be a 'boychild' at birth, and have no reason to question that fact.     AND YES, I am leaving out all the arguments about In or Out balances of hormones, testerone, and other chemistry.   I concede they can make a difference as to HOW any of us might feel, but nevertheless I cannot accept that it can overturn my CREATED and intended AND planned MALENESS - unless I let it do so, unless I give in to it.     I do not feel it is healthy to confuse the issue.     I was brought up that way.    My belief in the Word of God in the BIBLE confirm this belief, and my inner conviction of who and what I AM underlines it.   ANYTHING that might in any way affect or blur that belief, and fact, needs to be ministered to.   Not all of us will see it this way.    And those who don't Will make their stand and continue to live as they persuade themselves to live.     ALL of us have the right to be HEARD with love and understanding, appreciating  that we ARE all part and parcel of the human race.    I believe God creates each one of us, but that we also have ability to take ourselves out of the Plan and Pattern He means us to follow and demonstrate  -   AND that we are responsible for the outcome of our own wilful actions and human liberties.

OUR BROTHER AND SISTER,   following the Bible direction, have been trying to obediently bring up their boys in the WAY that they should go, hoping and believing that they will one day become well balanced, educated, and confident young MEN.    See Proverbs 22v6 together with Deuteronomy 6v4-8 (The Bible).      WE also, in Testimony, are trying to do the same with the children we have been entrusted with by Government, as well as our own.     We have not permitted  'Cross-dressing' or encouraged a 'Unisex' perspective, and it is very unlikely that we ever will unless our Human Rights are nullified, and we no longer be free to believe what we believe in.    It IS confusion, and of the worst kind.      

BUT, with the greatest sympathy for the treatment meted out to the Rowes for publicising their feelings and actions related to the practise found in their chosen Christian School, I feel they are WRONG to go to Court.       This is NOT the truly Christian answer or Way.    Let us all remember that God has Himself stated in His Word  'Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, says the LORD - and again I will judge my people.   - Hebrews 10v30 together with Deuteronomy 32v35-36. (The Bible).         The Primary School in question is under the Church of England - for a Christian to sue THEM is like suing a family member - part of the 'Body of Christ'. And again St. Paul (the great Evangelist - AND lawyer), in his 1st Letter to the Corinthian Christians, chapter 6v1-7 clearly states the WRONG in this kind of action.      He says in v.8  'NO, you do wrong......'     If you cannot have Agreement between you; if you cannot be satisfied; if the CHURCH cannot judge fairly, then leave the matter with GOD the only JUST GOD.     Go you way.    Shake the dust of you shoe against them.   Seek another School for your children, or continue as the Rows are now doing, to to their boys, teach them yourself at home.        In the midst of disagreement, miss understanding, unjust persecution of any kind .......' Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering............and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works ' Hebrews 10v23-24.
IF we do not seek the way of PEACE and Forgiveness then we shall be eaten up and devoured with BITTERNESS encouraged by an unreliable self righteousness.    ' BEWARE that any root of bitterness.springing up, trouble you, and thereby MANY are (contaminated by it).      FOLLOW PEACE WILL ALL, AND HOLINESS, without which no one shall see the LORD.'  -  Hebrews 12v15 and 14.

AT IS SAD, that the world is falling away from all it has learned and been taught to value, into a free fall towards progressive moral and human darkness.     Those who may still have LIGHT keep their lamp burning, and their wick trimmed. (so that their light is not dimmed, or made to smoke, or waver).     This IS the time to SHINE.    My heart goes out to the Rowes  -  my brother looks so upset, even outraged, (even angry) and both look shocked that such a fissure should have opened up between themselves and the school they had felt would stand with them.        I AM EVEN MORE SHOCKED by the short thrift they were given by the Presenters of the TV Program, how they were interviewed , AND many unpleasant comments from the viewers themselves - all without ANY understanding, or moral insight, OR human respect for another point of view apart from their own.     Not that they might not disagree, but with more CARE and KINDNESS.         What they achieved was only another form of discrimination and judgement founded only on their own opinion without the confirmation of any GOD given Truth..

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THIS IS PHOTO OF ME taken recently with the adopted son of good American missionary friends of our.     When I first met Joshua he was small - just a baby - in  November 2003.
I was Guardian ad Litem on his behalf before and during his Adoption.    NOW he is 14 and taller than my 5'11''!!   He is now just commencing his High School away from home, and his parents are feeling his absence.     All these years, as an only child in the family, Josh has grown up in the midst of a busy Christian life and ministry, becoming himself an integral part of it.       We have always had him much in prayer and have met fairly often at missionary prayer meetings, watching him GROW in every way.
This photo was in fact taken at a Prayer Fellowship just a few days before he left home.      He seems to have settled well at his new Christian School,  but I think his Mum and Dad have really found it hard to fill their home and space without him.   It has been like taking part of their life away, but necessary for his further development and education.
I shall always be glad for his advent into a loving but childless marriage, and for the sonship AND togetherness God has sewn in their lives with each other.    Thank you Lord.    It was a real privilege to be able to stand with him that evening, and to be share in his Sending Off with Prayer.

THE DATE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SET FOR 17TH OCTOBER, is still at risk. The Opposition say they will boycott it unless the Government fulfils what they believe are necessary obligations.      The Government refuses to do so.     The days go by.    We WAIT.     The Elephants still trample the grass around them.    The Economy still trembling with baited breath.   The schools and their examination classes still unsure if the National Exams will go ahead on time or now - or indeed what might happen.     BUT so far all is 'peaceful'.

Our August Salaries and Bills have now been PAID, and we are full of Thanksgiving for it.    BUT we are still - both school and Homes - having to retrench some staff.     We had been unguarded in taking ON staff from time to time, and really were over the necessary number.      This should also assist us to keep our General Monthly costs down.        We shall not be losing any houseparents.

God Bless you all.     We shall be praising God for you and praying for you.     Receive our sincere love and thanksgiving in Jesus Name.

John. Esther and Daryl Green