HERE IS A VERY ROUGH SKETCH of Testimony School Field
- as we hope it will soon become!
At present it is in the process of being put into shape, so to speak, and it is quite a BIG job, and a lot of work - all directed and pushed forward by DARYL our Director.
Instead of sitting in his Office he has suddenly decided to attack the long awaited development of the School Field - NO not quite single handed, but with a large team of workers drawn from our grounds and even cleaning staff!!   AND THEY  HAVE WORKED!\
The field has a very pronounced slope from top to bottom, AND a number of other miscellaneous dips and bumps all over.    It has needed levelling, and  this has meant importing soil and then distributing it by hand in wheel barrows.      We have not completely done away with ALL the slope, but otherwise a great work has been done so that the whole now looks much more uniform, and certainly more able to be put into use as a Sports Field.      Another task has also been to sow GRASS since much of the field was like a desert.     Stones have had to be taken out and all of this endeavour at a time when the RAINS should have ceased.     BUT the Grace of God HAS brought some rain to water the grass plantings and help consolidate the earthworks in general.     Even so it may not be able to actually be put to use before MARCH 2020.      To date the soccer pitch and Track are almost totally in place - though still with quite a bit of manicure work to be done to finalise it all.     The Basket and Volley Ball Courts are still to be levelled.      We shall not put down so much grass but MURRUN  (a kind of sandy clay) which will provide a good dry and stable surface, temporarily.

These photos are of the Field as it was  yesterday.  The left is taken looking down to the School, and the one to right, taken from the same spot, is looking up to the top of the field, and our boundary.  It is hard to convey the huge area, or the difficulty of the terrain !! Three three acres altogether.

IN THIS PHOTO ABOVE I have stepped back a little, to the far edge of the Field where we hope to lay down the Basket and Volley Ball Courts, just in front of the Primary Boarding Block behind me as I take the photo.     You can see almost the entire area under construction.    A VERY big and physically demanding task.       It would help to have one of those lovely earth movers!    BUT it will still get done.     It will be a huge improvement for the School which so far has had to borrow facilities in other school.......

THE NEW AND THE OLD!    This was taken at the Jubilee, in August this year.     I must say Daryl looks the New chapter of events...... and I look ready to pass out!    And indeed I have felt much less energetic this year, and ready to let Daryl prove his strength and energy at 47.  Apart from a few days when life is cloudy, he seems to enjoy doing it all, and as I said earlier, is too busy to even put on his suit, just now.    The suit I am wearing fitted me well on my 70th Birthday, but almost ten years later appears to hang on me, and certainly I am a at least an inch, if not two, shorter that my son in this photo - I think I have shrunk - though perhaps not everywhere!!     

SO this must be all for this week.   I am now tuned in to a Cookery program on the TV - so much more interesting and peaceful than SKY TV and Party Politics.   But in truth I watch little of anything these days - still occupied and busy in my own way.       Keep well, and busy in the week ahead.  Give your time and mind to JESUS, and let HIM fuel your life and living with HIS Vision and Energy.    God Bless you, so very much.

John, Esther and Daryl Green