THIS IS A LOGO WE MADE SOME YEARS AGO, and this year we shall be using it on the front of our Testimony Faith Homes Jubilee Brochure, soon to be printed.     We felt it summed up our image so well, providing glimpses of some of the homes and the families that live in them.    Daryl's wife there in the midst as the loving mother and loved Mum she will always be.
The Brochure will be made up of Twenty-two pages of photographs spanning 50 years of growth related to the Homes and the School.    Also many other items relative to the various events and history of our Family in Jesus       It will be printed on gloss paper A4 size, and we hope it will be a valued keepsake to all those who are part of the Family, and who may have also come to know us.    The printing is being beautifully done by one of our family members now married with his own family growing up here in Eldoret - Wilson Lokitali.     Wilson, and his brother William, aged ten and eight respectively came to us in 1982.  Wilson studied Information Technology, and is now a Lecturer, as well as involved in printing.   He suffered a serious accident on his way home, on foot, from work.    A car veered off the onto the pavement, knocking Wilson down and also running over his legs.   Both legs were broken in many places, and he was in hospital and then at home in bed for a year or more.     It took years for him to be able to walk again, and this photo, taken last year at our family reunion, recorded his miraculous recovery.
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We are Blessed to have so many of our 'sons and daughters' now living and working, many with family of their own, right here in Eldoret where we can still be within reach of them, and have opportunity to meet and have fellowship.   We are glad to see them independent and making out on their own.    God has been so good in answering prayer for them, and in opening up ways and means for them to find faith and future.     We are filled with gladness to be in some way 'family' with them.
|NB - If you are interested in obtaining a Brochure but unlikely to be able to be with us in August,  we can reserve a copy and even send it to you.    We shall be asking a small contribution toward the cost of each copy equating to the sum of Kenya Shillings Fifty only.

IN 2015 WE RECEIVED A DONATION FROM Stuart and Janet Brown and the Kirkby Trust in England.
The Old Jacaranda Cottage was old and decaying, and was also of an awkward and difficult design not so easily run. We opened the  NEW house made possible by this donation, on 13th June 2015.   A Service of Thanksgiving with all the children and staff attending.     Stuart and Janet were unable to make it for that occasion, but their part in it all has been, and ever will be remembered.
IN EACH OF OUR HOMES there is a House Blessing, similar to the one above which is in the New Jacaranda - in their case, part of the special framed Memorial of the Opening of the Home, and of those who had made it possible.     Our hearts were full of Joy and Gratitude that day, and still are as we witness the ongoing Family life that fills every room still, as the family lives their safe, secure, and loving days.     God is so Good, and it remains a miracle how He brought Stuart and Janet to know us, and to have us put upon their hearts.       EVERY individual day is filled with such miracles that provide every detail of what we each need here in each of our homes.    God Bless and return such blessing upon the heads of each and every one of our dear friends who  have been been prompted by the Holy Spirit to help us materially and in lifting up their voice in prayer for us all.  (Stuart and Janet are standing on the left of the photo opposite.)

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TODAY, SATURDAY, the Kenya Private Schools Association has been meeting in our School Hall.   Most of the Private Schools in Kenya are associate members, and our own long time Principal, Anthony Ndungu, is a national officer of the Group.

Looked like between 4 and 5 hundred people attending.  They had lunch and continued on thereafter.    The School is well thought of, and we ourselves have been very encouraged to see our prayers answered.     We are proud of what He has helped us to build here.

To the left is a photo of me being shown some apparatus in one of the Science Labs during Parents Day.    And parents never get tired of coming to see and admire what the school and their children are doing here.

THIS YEAR Parents Day will be early - on the 16th MARCH.

Although I and others will still attend, the School will in future make THIS day their very own, whilst the HOMES will have their own Day on the last Saturday of August each year.

THIS IS AMAZINGLY GOOD ADVICE!    And the truly amazing thing about it is, that it is not HARD to let it happen, and to change your day.      There have been many challenges to our faith, and to our joyful spirit over the last year or two, and I have realised that I am more affected by adverse news and even circumstances than I had realised.  Although I have understood that I am often negative.
BUT I have not discovered that all this is able to be changed as quickly as the flip of a light switch!    And sadly I should have seen it long, long ago!
It is amazing how deceitful we can be not only to ourselves but  to others.     Here comes my neighbour,  "Hi John, how are you today."   I look up and smile "Hi |Mark! Oh, I'm fine, just fine."   Mark passes on,  and my smile droops, and I tell myself that  it's not really true, I am NOT 'just fine' at all.     We can put ON the smile, even lighten our voice, and make it seem true, but I am just putting it on.      WELL, friend, I can assure you, you can just as easily put it off!    All you have to do is to take your mind away from your self pity, sorrow of heart, negative evaluation of the weather, the fellowship, the situation you are in  - and GET GLAD.       Yes, I know we can push this away by declaring to ourselves that nobody knows the sorrow I bear -  but we CAN turn around and 'count our blessings' naming them, and remembering them, one by one.    We can, in a moment, be GLAD, even the face of real pain and anguish of mind.     Do it with JESUS.

Another week has sped by.    Time running by faster and faster.       We have been blessed by so many in the past week, and we feel greatly loved by our Father,  and by each one of you .   God Bless you, your home, and you family.

John, Esther and Daryl Green