DONE AT LAST - we have succumbed to Clutter on the Roof!      Well, but the Contractor did a quick clean and efficient job, and took almost three full days sorting out the best place to set it up.  It works very well, and now we do have very hot, even scalding, water all day from early morning till sunset - as long as the sun shines, and total darkness has not descended.     Are we Happy with it?  We are happy with having hot water for free rather than having to either pay for it to Power & Lighting Co., or go without, YES.        BUT our lovely green roof, blending in so well with our leafy surroundings, is now somewhat intruded upon by this surreal piece of external plumbing with its own little plastic tank also on a stand of its own clutching the roof higher up.      I felt shocked when I first saw it, and now I do not look up to see it unless I have to; a necessary (?) progressive item stealing sunlight from a dying sun that will one day, without our help, burn up the planet and everything on it, including the heating unit.       I shall no doubt get used to it, and I cannot but be thankful for its installation that will inevitably reduce our cost of living - not just ours personally, but the Homes and School as well.    For now we see it works, we shall no doubt see more such units as God Provides appearing in many other places AND maybe not just providing hot water, but what would be even more money saving, Lighting!!

The Unit, as purchased and installed, has a guaranteed life of 5 years.......It is not especially an eyesore, and makes no noise, and has no smell.    It is NEW,  clean, and quite honestly inoffensive.   Will it rust away slowly in the rain and heat of years?    Will it age visibly, and become a kind of scab or scar upon the green roof; perhaps a new perch or look-out place for birds to survey the lawns from, and perhaps even use as a lavatory?   We shall wait and see  -   though being elderly ourselves and not able to determine the number of days left to us, it is possible we shall not live to see it.   Does it matter?     Are any of these matters life changing or a cause of real challenge to happiness or joy? 
No, indeed.     They are just the meanderings of an old man who just prefers to live in the past  -  probably not the only one!        The world is very different and far from where it was when I was a child, and free of a great many fears and apprehensions heaped upon the world today by the Media, and by the misguided reasoning of those ignorant of history and heedless of God - generally.     And just this afternoon I heard someone on SKY news telling us that a huge percentage of our young people (in the U.K) are leaving school unqualified, and before the expected conclusion of their education; does this warn us of a generation quite out of touch with the development and learning of thousands of years of civilised behaviour?    I would not be surprised.     Strangely I have never felt out of touch or odds with my forbears, those who lived before me; but I feel  quite estranged from much of what is today being taught and held up as 'human' in thought word and deed.   We ARE moving on and changing - into something quite different.   Do all the elderly of every generation feel like this?     Then I think that I must feel it more acutely.     Certainly I have felt more and more as if I, myself, am a sudden stranger here.       In my 79 years of living, how is it that I do not feel as if I belong any more.      Ahh...STOP!      I am in danger of truly meandering now.  Must be time to take a 'chariot' to my more certain sense of being at home.

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THIS WEEK has been a good week for me.     I have shared in meetings here, discussing ways in TFH might develop, both the homes and the school.    It was good to just sit and put in a word here and there, and to listen to others, and to come away feeling that we together had been led of the Lord, by His Spirit, to reach a united purpose based on what we had already learnt from the past fifty years, and upon leaning even more upon God for the future     We were not many.    Myself, Daryl, Esther, and Anthony Ndungu, who has headed up the School since 1981 when it began, and our Chief Accountant, Tony Koech, and our Board Secretary, one of our old boys, Joel Edaria.     Two good Meetings held on the 11th and 19th of this month.     Prayer, Discussion, good fellowship in peace and unity.     How very good it was.     Long may it be so in the future.

I also managed to turn my attention to my own flagging correspondence and bring it up to date once more.. Praise the Lord.    Now I should have time and determination to KEEP up to date.

I am also continuing to keep an eye on our young people in the homes who are now outside in College - we have fellowship about their Courses and how they are going, and their needs along the way.    It can be quite demanding, but it is also a very important link, and we have seen great profit in it.      We have twenty at present in College, and about SIX are boarding in college.    They all come  to discuss with me, and with Dan Notte who assists Daryl with Accounts, about their Fees and other needs whilst away from home.     And I am just their grandpa - not the Director, or some other person considered to be 'management'.       Very homely and informal family business.


THE WEATHER HAS CHANGED just a bit and we have been having clear skies, sunshine and quite warm days; very enjoyable and pleasant     But scattered showers of rain still happen but very few this week.      We hope it will continue - and even get warmer, as it should this time of year.

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THIS WEEK I also came across an account of a Blasphemy Case. heard at the Old Baily in London, under the respected Q.C and Judge Alan King-Hamilton who was 71 at the time, and lived until 2010.
He was a Christian.    He was the last to hear a Criminal Case relative to Blasphemy under the Blasphemy Act of 1697.    This Act was in fact Repealed in 1967, in Parliament.    Now anyone can say anything they like against any thing religiously considered sacrosanct.  It is no longer considered a Criminal Offence in the U.K.   I think it applies to all faiths.     The case was especially unsavoury to Christians since it concerned a poem written by a well known poet - James Kirkup - about an imaginary sexual relationship between the dead and crucified Christ and a Centurion guarding the corpse.     The Case was brought against the publisher, and won.    The Judge, summing up, said that he hoped the verdict was a sign that the national climate had changed for the good.      By 2010, when he finally passed away, he would have discovered that he is wrong.      The Climate has worsened;  so much so that the majority of those now living are quite unaware of it, and indeed, if such a case could be brought to Court today, it would not only be unable to achieve the result that it did in 1976, it would in any case be rejected as inadmissible for a Hearing!    TODAY any thing is allowable and perhaps even permissible morally and spiritually.     Indeed, it has been stated that 'Christianity is no longer part of the Law of England'.    This was in fact stated by the defence counsel in the  Case mentioned above, and recently upheld by a Chief Justice of the United Kingdom, in the press.     So it seems the Sure Foundations have been crumbling, and we shall soon be a free to accept all free thought as well as speech - and thus finally be an uncontrolled chaos.  SURELY the days WILL be shortened, if GOD exists, and ultimately Governs.   We should be VERY watchful, and VERY READY, for the Final Trumpet to sound.

GOD Bless you all, and speak to your heart and spirit, awakening you and enlivening all your thoughts to be aware of HIM, and of His Coming.      Do not be unprepared!

Lovingly in Him

John. Esther and Daryl Green