THERE IS JOY IN SERVING JESUS

TODAY, SATURDAY, 24th July 2015 we celebrated the 24th Parents Day of Testimony School which we started back in 1981 when I was forty one!     Above is a photo taken today in the School Home Science Lab.    On the back row, left, in Mrs Angela Omobi our Secondary Headmistress.   She also happens to teach Home-science and Biology.   To her right are five of her current students who had also set up the Lab for today.    In the front row, as from the left is our County Education Officer, then Bishop Patrick M. Mungai our Guest of Honour for the day, who had come down from Nairobi.   He is eight years my junior born in Kericho District in 1948.     Coming from a polygamous family, he has a wonderful testimony of Salvation, and of the leading of God in His live ever since.   And yes that is me sitting next to him at the end of the row.                    
This is the view that we were all looking at, as from the previous photo, down the length of the Lab, where the students were busy serving the rest of the Guest of Honour's Party with refreshments largely made and baked by themselves.     They continued serving the rest of the Parent Body that was following us around.   These were all Secondary School students.

Within a few minutes we were all on our way to tour the School, Nursery, Primary and Secondary.    It was just a little past 11 a..m. our time.   Parents were arriving; usually expect more than 500 of them!!      This was really Daryl's day, for as the new Director overall, it falls to him to host the Day.     Esther and I are now officially termed 'The Founders' and as such we were, for the first time, able to take a back seat so to speak, although we were still part of the Guest of Honour's Party, and walked round with him.    I am including some photos, but not of all that we saw - would take too much time and space.    All Classrooms were visited,   WE will not view them this time.   WE shall visit the Science Laboratory next.....

These are general views of the two laboratories, and are pretty self explanatory.  The lab tables were presented to the School by the British High Commission in 1988.     This was also the first year we competed in Standard 8
for K.C.P.E.    It was a big step
for the School, and development and academic standards began to be seen and felt.     The new facilities and improvements put the School on the academic map.
The young lady student on the right was curious to know how I had founded TFH - she had just thought I was a temporary expatriate!      Kind of interesting to know I am becoming unknown by new students - at least from the point of view of my place and history here.  
ANTHONY NDUNGU was of course with us, still as Principal of the School and I was very comforted to see him still with us and taking a huge part in keeping the School together and safe.

He and I started the Primary Section together in 1983.  The day before we opened he collapsed, and we all thought we had lost him even before we began.   But he recovered and has maintained good health all these years, working hard to put all his effort into the School's success hand in hand with Jesus.

Here is one of the Primary School Choirs

After lunch everyone repaired to the School Hall - more than 500 parents and visitors squeezed in!   At 2p.m. the afternoon Concert began, mainly put on by students from Nursery through Secondary.     The Annual Prize Giving followed, preceded by a short Address by our Guest of Honour.    The whole program ended at 5.20p.m. and was very well received, and enjoyed by all. A VERY good Day, and the RAIN and THUNDER that has been with us daily for the last week held off until 4.30 so that no one was discomforted.       I feel that one of the BEST things about a Day like this is in seeing staff and students; adults and children AND young people, pulling together to demonstrate their pride in their School.   UNITY is a very special commodity to find revealed in everyone working so well together.

 The Program included Choirs, Dances, Recitations, Skits and Dramatic Items from all sections of the School from Nursery to Secondary.      In the photo to the right you might notice a student (a girl).    She is very dark; she is Sudanese, AND very tall for her class.     She started School late in life BUT she is also much taller for her age than her peers.   It has been a struggle for her to remain in a glass full, comparatively, of pygmies.     But she has made it with Jesus.   Praise Him for ever!

Well this was our 34th Bash.       That IS the age of the School.    But, of course, the Homes began a little early in 1969 and so in August we shall celebrate, more quietly, our 46th Anniversary of the DAY ALL OF THIS BEGAN.   He IS Faithful.       To-day is over.    Tomorrow may never come! It is good to live so, and to lay down our heads upon our pillows without fear or anxiety.  We are all in His Hands. and He holds us SAFE.

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Our Guest of Honour was, as I have said, Bishop Patrick M. Mungai of Calvary Temple, Nairobi.   A man of spiritual distinction and determination.   Coming from a Polygamist family who although Roman Catholic outwardly were more tied to the old 'animist gods of their ancestral culture. Patrick was discovered by God alone in his father's fields.   God made Himself known to him, He finally gave his life to Christ and was Born Again in 1956 when he was just 8 years old.   His family were poor and schooling was not something that he could have without hard work and vision.   But God worked with him and little by little he worked slowly upwards.   He is now the holder of a Phd., and his story is one of considerable  challenge and encouragement to all young people.    He says he always knew God would use him to win souls, and this is what he has devoted his life to do.     It was an Inspiration to have him with us, both to the students AND the parents who attended.      We Thank God for bringing him to us at this time.

Well,   nothing else has changed.    We are as we are, but we are also happy to be alive and to be able to converse with each other, and to see the wonderful works of our God.    Thank you all for walking with us through the week, and for praying for us and being His Strength to us.    May He BLESS you all.

Mixed reception to my new Blog  'Keep God in Mind' and I confess I am not sure what direction to take with it.   Please pray for me to have wisdom....     I have seen my Doctor today, and he says I am good for another fifty years.   THAT was encouraging.    Let us hope HE has the wisdom of God, and not just his own.       I do feel well at this time, and I do Thank God for it.    It is a real blessing to FEEL well, as well as just being well.

Our love to you all in Jesus Name

John, Esther, and Daryl Green