DO WE NEED A SCHOOL

                                                                                                        
DOES TESTIMONY FAITH     

HOMES NEED A SCHOOL...?

What is the point of it?   How did it come about?   Is it still necessary?  After all there are dozens of Govern-ment School in Eldoret area..!

TO BEGIN WITH, in January, 1981,

we had commenced a small nursery school in the compound of Testimony House.  It began because we could find no nursery or pre-primary places for our under sixes.   There WERE schools but  the children were just there to play whilst a superviser read or knitted!!!    In our opinion this was a waste of time and money, since no child could enter Primary School Grade 1 without having passed a test in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.     OUR little Nursery School was soon inundated with requests from local parents to take in their children!     The result of this was that we began to consider starting our own Primary as well.    At least it was part of the reason for doing so.   But one day in 1983 I was asked by the Headmaster of a primary school some of our boys were then attending, to go to his Office.   I went immediately, and settling myself into one of his office chairs, I asked what the promblem was.  He look most upset.     He began "It is a very heavy matter Mr. Green, and I need you help and co-operation in order to solve it!    Your boys, Daniel and Joseph have been found smoking ciaargettes in the school field.     I shall have to suspend them from classes, with your permission of course!"

 Where we began Standard 1 - 3
and where the present Nursery School is.

I did not approve of them smoking, of course, but I was surprised he wanted to take such serious action.

He told me that the boys should return their books to school the following morning prior to their official suspension, which he proposed to announce before the assembled school - with me present.

The next morning we were there, the three of us, for the morning Assembly.      The two boys were grabbed roughly and marched to the front, where they were forced to lay down on the tarmac in front of the 700 or so students and all the staff.    They were then given a homily on 'ungrateful orphans' who having no parents, misspent public  money.   They then received six strokes of the cane - still lying prostrate on the ground.   

School Round a bout.

There were to my certain knowledge others there, quite undelt with, who were smoking Marijuana.    
This and other incidents like it now made us feel that OUR children could not expect to be treated the same as other children in a normal school, coming as they did from what was considered to the 'that Orphanage!


We started 1st to 3rd Grade of Primary in January 1985.     Anthony Ndungu, now Asst. Director overall, and Principal over the whole school. was one of our first three teachers.     Also Mrs. Susan Iraya, and Mr. Titus Mbatiah also were on the team - I stood as Administrative Headmaster from 1985-88.
In 1986, with the help TEAR Fund  U.K., we were able to put up a new double storey building of EIGHT classrooms which allowed us to have complete a full Stream of Primary Classes from 1-8.   The 8th year being the final Primary Year before entering Secondary.  The School now comprises TWO Primary Streams of 8 Classrooms each, and FOUR classes of Secondary School, with the Nursery section still in place as the filter from which the 1st Primary Grade is filled up annually.     

1st double storey Tuition Block

From the start it has done well academically and proved itself.    BUT it has also an unexpected 'downside' for the ministry of TFH as a whole.      Certainly our children are well taught without discrimination of any kind, and in a well ordered environment where discipline is administered fairly and according to the dictate of the Ministry of Education.      Nevertheless since its creation the School has somehow obscured the Orphanage, and diminished the public's sympathy for this side of the Work.     All outsiders now tend to see IS the School, which of course is more visible, and eyecatching seeming to proclaim the apparent wealth and profitability of Testimony Faith Homes totally.        Whereas previously we were often visited by well wishers with gifts of used clothing, food and even cash, since the new School Buildings have gone up, this interest and charity has slowly been removed.         It as if people have the feeling that the School now supports and finances the Children's Homes.    In FACT the School DOES allow for each orphan in our four Homes to attend the school FREE of charge.     This IS a very big fasility for us.     BUT it does not contribute to the general cost of running the four Homes in any way,    THUS, in this sense we are the poorer, because of the School tends to take away from the public eye our dependance upon their charity, by the Mercy of God.       But we are not poor academically.    

Primary School Class

We still see the School as necessary to us, and to the children we care for.      It ensures the highest possible educational standard and foundation, and thus the best possible future for our children who have no other hope if they do not make educationally.      With a rising 60% unemployment in Kenya jobs are at a premium - and finding employment has become the biggest challenge to us.     We must help our children all we can to ensure they will in fact be able to find a job and LEAVE us safely into the wide world.
BUT it  is harder and harder to maintain what we began with - a strictly disciplined and ordered student body.      In 1987 we did not have to contend with immoral temptations, alcoholism or drugs.    Neither did we have a problem with obtaining the respect and good behaviour expected from a minor.        But since then almost explicit 'sex education', the removal of corporal punishment in the most harmless proportions, the lack of respect for elders, and the influx of drug and alcohol peddlars and consumers has increased alarmingly.    So alarmingly that the situation is no longer the same.    Society is changing, and the NEW standards of behaviour both morally and socially are causing endless problems.        BUT Testimony School continues to do its best to ensure sound morals, a studious mind, and a sound respect for one another.       Yesterday in the Kenya Daily Nation it was again reported that more and more students are taking hard drugs.    The Lobbyist Secretary (Amina Abdalla) wrote -

We cannot just sit back and watch

our children being destroyed

Secondary study group

School Scout Troup

ACTION is needed.       We need to make up for lost time, and per-haps restore what has been deceiptfuly taken away from us both as teachers and parents.

TESTIMONY SCHOOL IS STILL NEEDED.......still viable.

TODAY we have, including all the children in the four Children's Home, more than 750 children in school daily.     Nearly 200 are also Boarding in what is currently rented property.     Truly God inspired us to build the School and has done all that has been needed to make it prosper.

DARYL together with his assistant and School Principal Anthony Ndungu need your prayers as they deal with daily needs of the school in all wisdom and understanding.       The 43rd Anniversary of the Founding of Testimony Faith Homes combined with the 31 School Parents and Prize Giving Day will take place on Saturday 28th July.   May it be a Glorious Day that will Glorify our Father in Heaven.

Ever with our love and prayers for YOU

John and Esther

WORKERS TOGETHER FOR HIS SAKE!

THESE ARE THE 'PARENTS' of our four Families - from left to right they are, Francis and EuniceLAHOL, in Drakeley Cottage; Hesketh and Alice MULI, in Testimony House;  (Benson KOECH, Assistant parent), Joseph and Beatrice ROP, in Jacaranda Cottage and Micah and Catherine (Senge) YEGO. in Tyndale Cottage.

They are the backbone of the Homes side of the ministry here in Testimony Faith Homes.    The work they do is that of a parent, and thus knows no let up.   A 24 hour on call day and night job.    We appreciate them all.  Apart from Mr. and Mrs. Rop, they all have two or three of their very own children growing up cheek by jowl with the other children that make up the total population of each family.    Each couple lives residentially as Dad and Mum in each of the four Home.    We pay them individually an un-guaranteed £75 a month at present which is basically pocket money. They have no personal outgoings since they are housed, fed and looked after, and their own children freely educated up to the end of Secondary School.    Still, they could all earn more elsewhere for less hours and less sacrifice of privacy and their own family life.     We feel they all very much dedicated with a sincere and heartfelt care for children.     We value your prayer for them.

To the Right is Eunice and Francis Lahol.    Francis is 38 years old, and grew up from when he was 7 in Testimony House.    After completing his Secondary Education he actually trained as a Chef, and in Hotel Management.    He and Eunice have a boy and girl of their own currently in Primary School.
Eunice is also 38.   She met Francis whilst he was training in Nakuru in 2000.     They both had a real desire to make a home for themselves - and now also for an additional 21 boys and 9 girls in Drakeley Cottage.   It is six months since they took over from Steve and Emily Situma, who left us in December.  A very happy and settled family.

To the Left are Alice and Hesketh Muli.   Hesketh is 42, and was himself brought up in a Children's Home much more spartan than our own!   Prior to joining us he was working with African Inland Church as a Warden for a Working Girls Hostel in Eldoret.  
Alice is 38.    She and Hesketh have two girls and a boy of their own, all in Primary School.    She was previously a very capable and well qualified Pre-School teacher, and often continues to help out in our own Nursery School.
They joined us in 2005, taking over Testimony House from Daryl and Carol when they felt the time had come for them to set up their own private family home for their own three young children just a kilometre away.    Today Alice and Hesketh have 18 boys and 12 girls in the Family plus their own

We DO provide opportunities for house-parents to take time off and enjoy time away from the Homes for refreshment and to visit family members outside.     In order to facilitate this we engaged the assistance of Benson Koech (Right) who is a single young man, and one of many parts.   Initially we employed him to teach MUSIC in the School on one to one personal interest basis of individual students.    He is 29.
Benson takes over a family whenever the parents are absent.   He is also our Church Fellowship choir master and song leader.   He also assists Daryl very much in shopping and keeping track of daily needs in the Homes at large.  He joined us in 2008.

To the Left again is Joseph Allan Rop, aged 53 and his wife Beatrice, 49.    Joseph has been an Accountant working in Banking for a good part of his life till he took early retirement.    Beatrice was employed by Kenya Posts and Telecommunications, and was a Postmistress prior to joining us.
Their children are now all grown up and away from home.    Age-wise they are our oldest house-parents, but they have been well accepted by  the 31 boys and 6 girls in their Family.    When Joshua and Miriam Mbithi left us in 2003 the Family had a rather  unsettled time till Joseph and Beatrice joined us in 2009.   We hope they will endure for many more years yet.

And last, but not least, to the right is Micah and Catherine (Senge) Yego.    Micah trained as a Carpenter, for some years was Assistant to Daryl and Carol when they were parents in Testimony Faith Homes after taking over from us in 1998.  He is 38, and together with Senge is proud father of their own infant son and daughter.
Senge grew up in Testimony House from when she was just five months old.    She did well in school land went to College where she attained a degree in theology.    Apart from being Mum to 25 boys and 12 girls in Tyndale Cottage, she is very much occupied in and around her home.   She is 33.   they have been Mum and Dad in Tyndale Cottage since it began in 2003 when it was initially known as Trinity Cottage.   We changed the name in 2007 to Tyndale Cottage.

We do try to provide in-house training, when we can arranged to set it up, in Early Childhood Development and also also in aspects of Parenting altogether.     Micha and Heskekth have both obtained Certificates in Early Childhood Development externally.      But, for us, the most important qualification they all have is that of their Christian Faith and Commitment.     Without this no written 'certificate' would ever be enough.

DARYL HAS JUST RUN DOWN FROM THE OFFICE - He tells me that 'Funds' have arrived from AENON Trust in the UK!       We had been waiting, since we had literally reached our last cent or penny!
Thanksgiving is never FORCED from our lips, it just pours forth because of His Faithfulness to us, and because again and again He proves Himself a Father to us all, watching over us and providing for all our want.       And we do not Thank our Father only, but we thank all those of His Adopted and Beloved family that hear him prompting them to remember us.    May God so Bless each one of YOU dear brothers and sisters for being our salvation today.      We had nothing to hand when the sun rose here today, and we all arose and washed our faces and combed our hair and went out into the sunlight trusting in His Love for us, and NOW at1.p.m. He has brought Salvation once more.         Can you imagine how we feel each time this occurs.      

Well now  you have a little glimpse into the Family Elders here in Testimony Faith Homes.    We all together send our Love and thanksgiving to all of you that think of us, and pray for us so that our hands and hearts are lightened as we work here for the good of the children He has brought us.

With our Love in Him always


John and Esther & Daryl and Carol Green

A PROSPERITY OF RATS!!

HERE IS A PRETTY ACCURATE PICTURE OF A GERBIL.   Nice little fellows with tails that fluff out endearingly.   Not so large a rodent as a rat, and content to eat scraps, lick up jam and margarine, and even drink milk.     TWO actually fell into a basin of just boiled and left to cool milk in our kitchen last night.      We are hoping to discourage them altogether over the next week.     They have come indoors before, but not often, over the last 14 years.    All my womenfolk scream, shudder and flee at the least sight of one - and they are VERY small and of no physical danger to anyone.     Ah Well, where is my 'club', I had better go and stop one in its tracks.........   OR maybe skin, and COOK it!

YESTERDAY it was Kenya's Budget Day, and a chance for a new Finance Minister to try his luck with our economy.  The Daily Nation, says 'It's a feel-good Budget'.     Not a very apt headline for an increasingly poor and run down population,
who look for more than 'feelings' to assuage their needs.   I mention the Minister, The Hon. Robinson Njeru Githae, pictured to the left, because he is accredited with the words I shall now quote, spoken at another event previous to the Budget Day Speech.       He is reported to have said

IN TANZANIA they eat rats.

But in this country (Kenya),

if you tell people to eat rats, they will NOT eat!

Therefore, people will die of hunger -

and there ARE rats here!!

These remarks were taken as a warning that further austerity is on the way for the Kenyan - at least for the man in the street;   If you won't eat RAT, then you will eat nothing - no MEAT anyway!     How about that!       Many would be VERY unwilling to demean themselves by eating rat - but on the other hand hunger can force a man to do stranger things!

In Viet Nam, Cambodia, and other smaller nations such as Tonga, rats are eaten.  Even the French have been known to eat them - with snails and frogs legs!     I have seen 'rat' described as providing 'a nutritious additive to the diet' of the undernourished, and to those more wealthy 'tempting snacks' and even 'tasty meals'       Poverty seems to have forced many in the world to turn to unusual and previously unappetising sources of food -  should we prepare ourselves?  I mean if we could accept rat meat as a food source, then it could be the beginning a new 'prosperity', and the setting up of a Rat Meat Commission, and A Rat Procurement Agency that would give jobs to thousands.     And, of course, no doubt Rat Meat Fast Food Bars might spring up Country Wide, and we all be persuaded of the 'finger licking goodness' of Fried Rat.     Indeed take a look at the photo below - looks like fried chicken - they say it even tastes like fried chicken - but THAT is RAT my friend!!  

AMAZING.....and there are SO many of them - everywhere!  Especially in the sewers!       And just because they are so many, and reproduce en-mass so quickly and regularly they will be CHEAP!       Rat and Chips - rat and ANYTHING will be cheaper than Maize & Beans (Githeri), cheaper than Ugali, or Rice and Sukuma (cabbage)......it will be within reach of EVERYBODY.   Why it could be a WORLD ANSWER to the international food problem.       Perhaps I should not kill that harmless, unsuspecting little Gerbil too quickly - this needs some thought.

We all shut up and besieged by world financially induced famine, and all the while there is food out there for every table  -  surely we do not well to tarry too long thinking about  it?    -  lets get busy telling everyone how to find LIFE and how to BETTER themselves..................Start advertising ...start a rat farm.....!

Well, you are all right this week,  I had nothing NEW to share with you about Testimony or even those who live here.      Just the Gerbil Invasion of Green Cottage, and the stress filled ladies that I share the house with.

I have strongly advised them both  to import a Rodent Exterminator from the Town, but am assured that some erstwhile herbalist or 'medicine-woman' (has to be a woman) , has a sure fire remedy.    Just a pinch of their 'discourager' here and there, and every Gerbil, Rat or even sluggish caterpillar will be gone.      I wrestled with this for about three weeks, giving in week by week.    We still have the Gerbils falling into the milk, licking up the marmalade, and enjoying the sugar.    I have given up now.  Especially now, since the better action might just be to TRAP them and EAT them.       Remember this and be duly warned - just in case you will be visiting,,,,,,

Well this is ALL I have.    Be GLAD with us that we are all WELL,  and Praising God for His Comforting Holy Spirit.     He is our EVERYTHING.   He has been very close this last month, and speaking clearly to us.      It has been desert like yet the grass under our feet is green and lush,     But if we have materially been in need, it seems to have sharpened our perception of many things, and shown us our values etched in and more defined.

Much Love in Jesus to each one of you

John and Esther / Daryl and Carol

From A to Z and many more

Testimony House Family in 1983 whilst John and Esther were visiting UK

MOST OF THESE YOUNGSTERS  came to be with us when they were very young, some like  Sara and Catherine Senge in the middle row, when they were babies.     In 1983 many of them were already in College or finished with School and ready to fly!      Top left in this photos is Nicholas Mwangi, my Deputy at the time, and now a Business man (Electronics) of his own in Eldoret Town.    At the far right of that same top row is Peter Kalulu who was then one of our Teachers on the Motor Mechanic Course that we were then running.   Peter sadly became seriously ill shortly afterwards and died.  The Course closed that year in fact, and we then used the premises to commence Primary School classes 1 to 3.      Amongst the rest in the photo, one has  passed on - Ezekiel Kipchumba (2nd fro left in front row). 

For the rest all except one is married with a family, all employed, and all, with just one exception, going on in their Christian life and faith.      We are always glad to look BACK and see where so many have GONE ON to!

TOP ROW - left to right - Nicholas Mwangi.     John Ngugi, an Accountant in town.   Moses Ongonga, and ordained pastor with Africa Inland Church here in Eldoret.    David Koech, an Accountant in the USA.    Joseph Kihara, a Gardener here in TFH.   Daniel Kinyanjui,  Hotel Waiter in Nairobi.    Anthony Wanyama, Business man in Eldoret (Repairs and Maintenance).

Mwangi Macharia, Taxi Driver here in Eldoret.   Peter Kalulu, deceased

MIDDLE ROW - left to right -  Sarah Njere, Bank Manager in Mombasa.     Catherine Senge, House parent with TFH in Tydale Cottage.

BOTTOM ROW - left to right - Jotham Chege, an ordained Clergyman with the Anglican Church here locally.   Ezekiel Kipchumba, deceased.    Sammy Macho,  Security Guard in Mombasa.    Christopher Kosgei, pastor with the Pentecostal Church in Eldoret.    Peter Wangolo, Chef here in Eldore.     Anthony Bones, pastor with the Africa Gospel Church in Nairobi.      David Senoga, Business Man(Refuse Disposal) in Nakuru Town.   Richard Ochieng, Business Man in Eldoret (Road Surfacing).    William Lomyrot.  Dairy man.   Charles Salim (Green). Evangelist with YWAM in Ethiopia.    Daryl P. Green. Director Testimony Faith Homes.    Sammy Kirui, pursuing a Ph.D in the USA.

These are of course just a small sample of the more than 300 that have in fact come and gone their way.    Pretty representative though, and perhaps especially encouraging to Esther and me because we brought these (plus quite a few others ) up ourselves in our own home.    They are all 'family'.

Days and years go by, often in a hum drum and similar way, and it is often surprising to understand just how many differing personalities and characters have arrived and spent years with us growing up..........   Amazing that we could all live together, and that God in His Grace and Compassion made a way for us all through the years.

WE HAD GIRLS as well growing up with the boys in the four Homes.       We taught them all to see each other as brothers and sisters, and for the most part they have done so;   no romances or immoral incidents in the years gone by. None chose to marry anyone they grew up with.          BUT girls need more insight, patience and grace to bring up than boys WE think!      Definitely more complicated than the average boy.      YET even so, a delight to have around, and we are glad we took the risk in making each Home a true family of all ages of both sexes.      It seems to have worked very well indeed.       Our own two sons and one daughter also managed to survive unscathed.

I WONDER if these three girls in the  photo, remember who won the race that day in 1981.       We had not yet started our own school but we did have our own Annual Sports Day, and this was the occasion of the photo.     Hendrika, aged 11 is on the extreme left - now working and living in the USA.     Milka Wairimu and Jane Wanjiru both about 13 to the right in the photo, both married now and busy.   Milka is basically a mother and housewife while Jane is working as an Administrator with Moi University, not far from us.      Again just a small sample of the many  - right now we have Thirty-nine girls and 95 boys resident in the four Homes.

AND the pseudo China-man to the left is Richard Ochieng, NOW managing director of his own small Company employed in Road Works.    He re-carpets and lays down minor roads and driveways with tarmacadam, and is making quite a name for himself.        These are a handful of children God has been bringing to us over the years; children He had a plan and mind to rescue and secure for His Name's Sake.      A lot of LAUGHTER along the way, and oh yes, quite a few tears as well, when untoward pranks and jokes went too far for Mum and Dad to overlook.       BUT looking back we can say with full hearts - our souls feel satisfied and GLAD that we were willing and available to be here; to be parents where there were none.

THESE children have left us to LIVE their own lives.      NONE would have had the chance to do so naturally speaking.     They would not have had the chance to go to school, play and laugh, and feel secured and cared for.   No, if God had not stepped in and made a way there could have been no JOY.             Thank you all for taking us and THEM upon your hearts, as Father prompted you by His Spirit.     We want to share our joy at the outcome of your love and help.       We want you to feel glad for the prayer lifted up, the gift sent, and the life rescued.

God be with you constantly into the coming week.      

John and Esther

ANOTHER KING, ALREADY CROWNED IS COMING!

ONE OF THE BEST photos of Her Majesty the Queen that I have come across for some time.    This week-end celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, sixty years as  Head of State of the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth.    I was still eleven years old when she was Proclaimed, thirteen by the time she was Crowned.     My uncle RENTED a TV so that his family, including me, could watch the Ceremony.    AMAZING.   She has not changed her mind, broken her promises, deserted her duty in all the years.     She has seen change, seen others depart from what she continues to stand for.......but she remains determined to uphold what she has believed in from the onset of her Reign.     MANY have come and gone in Government of the United Kingdom, all with diverse views and opinions.   But SHE has remained as a bulwark against change........but the pressure has been growing against her, and against what she has stood for.
Perhaps she will be the LAST to rule a United Kingdom; the last of her forbears; the last of those called to do their Duty.  Not everyone recognises her worth!
We should honour her example and leadership under God.
I believe she has worked consistently and faithfully to fulfil her Coronation Vows both to God and to her People.     She has been a source of moral strength in herself even when manipulated by the terms of our Constitution to sign that morality away.     As a Constitutional Monarch she remains, though often the 'tool' of a befuddled democratic electorate, unblemished or sullied by any suggestion of ungodliness or hypocrisy.
For the most part devalued by the proletariat,  she might not be missed; might pass away unnoticed into uncertain history.     But I say today, with honest conviction and Thanksgiving 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!'.

YESTERDAY, Friday 1st June, was MADARAKA DAY, here in Kenya. a memorable National Holiday.  National and Provincial Parades in Nairobi and the major cities of the Republic.      What is so important about this Day?   It is the Day on which initial Internal Self Rule was granted to Kenya - the prelude to JAMHURI DAY when Kenya would become totally independent as a Nation, and free of the Colonial Government of the United Kingdom.  (on 12th December, 1963).      It is a very special Day.    The Day when Kenya came of Age, and the one to become Kenya's Head of State would no longer be the Queen but a man called Jomo Kenyatta, the 1st President of the Republic of Kenya.       A powerful and charismatic personality and statesman.   A colourful man, a man who could be ruthless in getting what he wanted.   A man to be feared.  

TODAY Kenya's Head of State is the 3rd President of the Republic, the Honourable Mwai Kibaki, now in his eighties, and soon to hand over to the one who will be the 4th President, God Willing.    Elections are expected to take place in March next year.      A lot of pomp and colour throughout Kenya therefore was expected and realised once again this year on the 49th Madaraka Day!    But the Day was peaceful and quiet.     But Kenya is also a Member of the Commonwealth of Nations and honours Her Majesty as its Figurehead.      The link remains, and there is still a very respectful interest toward the Queen of England.

IN TESTIMONY FAITH HOMES, all is continuing by the Grace of God.        The little girl that had been kidnapped, though safely restored to her family, has not yet returned to class.   Her brother is still with us, but her mother felt it good to keep her at home this last week - she is expected to come now on Monday next week.     Finally no parents re-acted un-towardly, and no children have been removed for fear of their safety with us.    We have made a few changes in relation to how parents drop and pick up their children, and we shall ourselves be putting up two or three cameras to increase protective surveillance.     Otherwise all remains the same.   The Bakery still baking bread, but not yet making general provision; this last week has been one of experimentation with various ingredients.    We now feel we are ready to start in earnest.  The chickens continue to lay, the cows continue to give milk, and the vegetables are growing well - the hale seeming to have given up.       AND it is GOOD that all of this largess has gone on producing food for us all since we had arrived at a distinctly difficult moment by last week, when I last wrote.     Funds generally had been dwindling, and by May 21st we had nothing in hand.     THEN on the 22nd we had word that at least some funds had been sent to us.......but they did not materialise, and we heard that the Bank had somehow lost sight of the transaction, and that there might be a delay.   There was, and we finally received hard cash at the Bank on 30th May.      Times like that, thought there have been many of them over the years, are often unnerving.   These nine days were not easy ones!  We could not have paid our way with food at all without the new projects we have begun, and even with them other matters had to go unpaid............ Creditors are quick to demand what is due to them.    I guess one can't blame them since in the main they are not living by faith themselves¬!!    BUT we also Thank all those, including Her Majesty's Inland Revenue, that God moved to help us.   We are Blessed.

Every Blessing be yours in Jesus Name during this coming week.   We send YOU our love and prayers as always, out of full hearts
John and Esther