TESTIMONY SCHOOL, our beautiful School is in danger of closing.   TODAY we expect the President to announced possible dates when schools, generally, will be able to re-open, and the changes that will need to be made to ensure continued protection to the students and teachers from Covid 19. 
We do not forsee this to be a smooth and easy practicallity!
For example the School has 24 classsrooms with a total population of 860.   IF we were to re-open with the same students that were
with us before the Lock down, we would have to find as much classroom space again in order to cater for 'Spacing', for example in every classroom.    This would not be possible for us.     
Then again, if we had to REDUCE our intake, our INCOME would not be able to support the salary of the necessary teaching staff.
Then there is the factor of whether or not we would even find parents willing to return their children to school, when Covid 19 is still with us, and increasing.
ALSO, as I have shared before, having had to release our teachers, being unable to pay them, we may still have difficulty in replacing them without a sure ability to discover the necesssary incoming FEES.    So we need parents to comitt themselves FIRST...... 
WE WAIT to see what will be suggested today.   BUT for us, whatever the word might be, it will still present us with considerable problems.     Considerable financial risk, and a need to secure what we have without loss.
AGAIN, if our School remains shut, then our children will have to remain out of school, OR we shall have to find places in other schools that may be open around us - at a cost we have so far been able to avoid.
However we look at it, we are confronted with a challenge greater than any in the past.
WE, from the point of view of our human reasoning mind, are looking at an impossible situation - BUT WITH GOD, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!
YES - and so we hang on;  we STAND, wide eyed and expectant, yet conscious that we still need to enlarge our faith.....AND that, I believe, is what our Father in Heaven is all the while endeavouring to do - grow our faith in us.

ABOVE IS Testimony House, our flagship family home, and a viewe of the whole Family, all locked together, waiting on God, and safe in His Loving Hands.

Beginning in 1969, fifty years ago, with just two boys, and a promise from God that He would take care of us, we have grown to see more than  350 come and go, and a standing total current family of 120, all enwrapped in His everelasting arms.      God asked me to depend only on Him and no other.  This has meant we have done our best not to share our needs, specifically, with any man.   We have not always had a smooth ride in doing this  (neither did Elijah) .   But this is what we felt he wanted from me, and from all of us together,      He has never failed us.    He has increased us, and increased our initial little faith - step by step..       We are now in the process of making another step.   Are we alone in this?  NO!   Father still has hold of our hand.    HE is with us.      BUT, dear brothers and sisters out there, we do feel weak at times like these, and perhaps weaker than usual now, when all the world seems to be in a 'twist' all around us.     Indeed I think we ARE, all of us caught up in a veritable 'WHIRLWIND' of unnerving events.     YET GOD IS STILL WITH US.     We all need to remember to pray - not merely for oursleves either, but for one another, for WE ALL, who believe, ARE one Family in Jesus.

AT TIMES, we have felt we are being prepared for an ending;  an ending, or wrapping up, of this ministry.     After all, what he set before me in 1969 has been accomplished - we have seen four family homes for homeless children and young people come into being, AND a School to prepare them for the world outside.      It MAY have been something transitory to meet a special need for a time.      There has been opposition often, and the world has changed for us.    BUT on the other hand this may just be a time of transition, rather than a complete end in itself.     We must not lean  to our own understanding in any thing, but at the same time we have to take care that, whilst we are here on Earth, we keep our feet on the ground as well.

TODAY

is a cloudy day.   Rain is forcast for the week ahead of us.

Within our compound, in our family,

there is peace and joy in each other.

OUTSIDE

the world waits crazily, impatiently, even rebelliously.

for tomorrow.

And it waits ready to be swomped by human unreasonableness

in every kind of impassioned, lawlessness.

WE THANK GOD HERE FOR OUR LITTLE ISLAND OF QUIETNESS.

Standing with Jesus, our Rock of Security and Confidence

we may be sure that we are not IN this Whirlwind, and not of it.

WE ARE SECURE.

God Bless you ALL, as we continue to pass through the world on our journey Home.  Remember THIS is not our home, we are sojourners, pilgrims on our way further, not residents seeking residence finally were we now find ourselves.     Day by day the scene is changing, and being left behind, as we draw nearer and nearer to HOME......H O  M E at last! ever to Rejoice!      

From us all 

John, Esther, and Daryl Green, and ALL of us here in Testimony Faith Homes.