STILL PART OF THE FIXTURES AND FITTINGS.

HERE WE ARE for our 49th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY today, the 14th August 2020   Pictured with our daughter Helen's baby girl, Abigail aged 6,   Three Happy Greens wearing very well, and still able to enjoy life here in Testimony Faith Homes.     Esther will be seventy six on Monday next week, just four years behind me, the Octogenarian!       We do Thank God, our Father in Heaven, and His Beloved Son, our Lord and Savior for having Kept us safe.    THREE shades of colour here, and all in love with each other, and glad to be ONE together.    A dear friend presented us with a beautiful Cake.    We did nothing special.    We were blessed to be able to speak with Steve, Michael, and Lizzy by video during the day,  and Manu also dropped in us during the morning.  It  was a good day, and we Rejoiced in it.

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Well, right now in Testimony Faith Homes it is mid winter, and we are seeing a fair amount of RAIN,  delivered via HEAVY and UPROARIOUS Thunder storms, some of which last four or five hours at a time.   YET the sun DOES shine a little here and there, and we have often been able to sit outside on the Veranda, enjoying it's warmth, brilliance.      BUT for the last week it has also been exceptionally SILENT during the morning hours -  ALL our children have returned to SCHOOL.
NO - Kenya's Schools, Colleges and Universities all remain CLOSED till January 2021, BUT we felt that it was not a good thing to leave all OUR children idle, and forgetful, so our senior young people who have been in College and University, came to ask if they could open School for three hours a day just to keep minds alert and motivated.     The photo below shows the group that offered themselves, and  who have not been teaching for the past week in all classes from Nursery to Secondary Form 1V.

These EIGHTEEN, of our senior children, all studying in College or University,  have all been affected by C.19's interruption of their Courses, but are all very determined not to let it get them down, and want to make sure those in the family following them are not allowed to drop behind, and get a chance to finally re-open REAL School well prepared and full of confidence.
AND the children have all, with Glad excitement, risen to the challenge, and given themselves to attending classes with  full support and good will.   More than a hundred of them, all from our four families -

As you can see they make for quite a motley crowd, but all very happy, and glad to be alive and loved.     We took both photos last Monday Morning during a break in classes.    It is not a school as it would be in the normal way of things - just three hours,  8.45 a.m. to 12 noon, Monday to Friday. 
But it will be enough to keep brains moving; a small stimulus that hopefully will save many from ending the year retarded.

I have just returned from what will be a Weekly Assessment  with all the 'teachers'.   They were all very happy with the past, initial, week, and full of determination to carry on until early December.  It was so good to see them all so encouraged and determined to carry on - even without any  reward!

Covid 19 AS ON 14TH AUGUST 2020 - including the day's count.
CONFIRMED CASES since March -   29,334
Recovered Cases...............................    15,298
DEATHS...........................................         465  

the days count as on the 14th August -      
New Cases Confirmed ..............................580
New Recovered Cases...............................198
New Deaths...............................................005

ONLY 4 new Cases in our County - possible a total of 12. altogether. and not in our immediate 
location.

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Officially we are still in Quarantine although there has not been one suspected case of C.19 found here since the onset.     Thus we are virtually Marooned here, but safe.      

God Bless you all.    I am sorry to have left being in touch over the last two weeks, but as I had warned everyone at the beginning of the year I cannot be sure of being as regular as before.  We appreciate all those who were aware, and who were keeping us all in prayer.   But we just found the days too full and my old head not so full of inspirational comment.    I like to share what might be relevant or at least interesting,       Our love in Jesus to you all, and our continued Thanksgiving for being Channels of His Blessing to us.      

John, Esther, and Daryl Green - and all the labourers and children with us in Testimony Faith Homes