DID HE, OR DID HE NOT?

AT LAST, on Tuesday 9th April, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta was Sworn in as Kenya's 4th President.
And YES, he did hold a Bible in his right hand as he did so - and not just ANY Bible but one that had been used and owned by his father, the 1st President of Kenya, JOMO Kenyatta.     He also laid his LEFT hand on another Bible held by his wife Margaret Kenyatta to underscore his belief that they would stand together supporting each other.
Hope everyone is now happy and satisfied that all that outwardly could be done was done to persuade the watching world that promises made WILL be kept.
BUT WE ALL KNOW that promises can be broken, even the best of them!    Usually on the day we make them it is all 'Smiles and Good Will' but once put to trial by disappointment, unfaithfulness and stress the smiles and the happiness can fade away, and those initial words prove breakable and of no account!!  Consider how many men and women standing before God at an altar, swearing their life long constancy and faithful loyalty to each other, later find a reason to FORGET, NEGATE, and totally ABANDON their words and Vows.     Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones once wrote - 'What right have we to expect nations to stand by their promises and to keep their vows to each other, if men and women do not do it even in this most solemn and sacred union of marriage?     We must start with ourselves, we must start at the Beginning.  We must observe the Law of God (not Moses) in our personal and individual lives.'
A man is only as good as his 'word'!     It used to be that a man's 'word' was his bond - his bondage - that which bound him to being true to it.      This was considered the proof of a man's integrity, strength and quality of moral character.       In those days - how far back should we go - a promise was a promise, a VOW was a Vow, and to break either was considered the greatest shame and sacrilege possible.      TODAY, with the world divorce rate rising every month, this concept and confidence seems to have been swept away in a continuing 'mud-slide' of moral decline.      By the way I read this week that one Nation has now passed legislation in relation to marriage/partnership of any kind - that it should be for a Agreed and and Certificated period of TWO years only!     It would seem that in THAT nation no one can keep their word longer, and it may well be that it cannot be kept for even shorter intervals of time!!!     Has Humanity, after thousands of years of progressive thought and learning, now entered into its dotage, and begun to decline into a universal condition close to Alzheimer's?
As a Christian, I believe in MARRIAGE.    I believe in it as a sacred contract to be arranged in front of God to be durable for life between one man and one woman.      I believe it ought to be indissoluble; a secure and reliable foundation on which to build a refuge strong and endurable; a 'family' home where the warmth and  dependability of love and welcome may always be found.      The building block of our world society, interlocking us into a network of conformable and dependable units working together for each others good.
TODAY we have 'partnerships' instead of marriage, partners instead of husbands and wives, and progeny instead of sons and daughters.       Soon Marriage and Family will be outmoded by the unrecognisable.
OUTSIDE of Religion there may be a reason NOT to see Marriage as something special and sacred.   And, since religion is somewhat challenged and considered out-dated, it no  longer has a voice that is heard.  SOON  a man and a woman, two men, two women, or whatever other union will be fashionable enough to try out, will all be as 'acceptable' as each other.   'Marriage' if any longer in the common vocabulary, will mean nothing more than a casual, sexual relationship of no particular gender, and of an indeterminate, self determined length.     THIS is where the world is going.     This is where the Government of the United Kingdom is going, in front of the Queen.          She has declared her stand as a Christian, but if the new Marriage Bill goes through SHE will have to sign the Bill to make it LAW......She HAS signed other Bills, some quite recent, that are definitely NOT based upon or encouraging to a GODLY life.      
CHRISTIANS, AND ALL OTHER GOD BELIEVING PEOPLE  -   WAKE UP, stand up, and cry out aloud when you see your Faith and Belief being eroded and endangered by an UNBELIEVING world system which is universally directed and in the hands of an EVIL spirit;  Satan himself.

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OUR THREE LITTLE  GUESTS FROM ELDORET'S STREETS, ARE STILL WITH US! They are all very happy and well behaved in fact. Our Social Worker and the house-parents have done their best to put them at ease and encourage their confidences regarding their past and present history. Very LITTLE has been gleaned so far. We have TWO weeks to try and unravel their past and to find a home or family that might belong to them. One week left - will we succeed? Maybe not, and then this will mean we will have to keep them a while longer, perhaps till they have completed school!

We expect the other Homes to have been having a similar experience. NEVERTHELESS, we are determined to put an end to this 'traffic' from country to town, AND to find a way to clean up the street of stragglers, beggars, AND children out to make a living. Our NEXT Meeting will be on MONDAY next week. We will keep you posted as to how we propose to go and, and what progress is made.

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ON FRIDAY THIS WEEK,  Schools closed across the State for the 'Easter Holiday Break'!!   All rather cock-eyed this year because of the election and so on.     It is usually a short Break of some  two to three weeks.  (We shall re-open on the 6th May.)    UNLIKE all other holidays it will be purely recreational without any EXTRA TUITION intruding into the freedom of the students to just relax and take a rest from Books.     This is by LAW now, and is a totally new departure from what has been practise before.     

THUS our School is now empty of its 800 students.     The four Homes are of course still very much full, plus a few more than usual as our 'family members' studying away in College and University will be home as well.     House-parents will be busier that usual since they will have to find ways and means to help the holidays to pass well and happily all day - where before there were still EXTRA studies to be done.

This year it will be more difficult still since the RAINS seem to have been more, and prolonged.

We have the mornings free at present, but as from 3 or 4p.m. the RAINS come heavily down and continue to do so well into the late evening - and again later in the night till early morning.   The world for us is a WET  one just now.     Good for the GARDENS, and bit depressing at times for the COWS and even the chickens, who seem to cluck and jostle each other less on wet and sunless days.   Maybe the roar of the raindrops on the iron roofs of their shelters is just too loud and oppressive !!!   Its simply POURING DOWN with deep eruptions of truly menacing thunder and lightening as I type this!!    We are ALL holed up in our houses for sure.

This rain has also SLOWED DOWN work on the School Swimming pool which ought to have been completed by now.    Still a lot of MUD around, and this means finishing the surrounding area of the pool has almost come to a standstill.    We are hoping all will be complete by the end of the month if the Weather-men are right and the Rains cease by the end of next week.    We shall see.

OUR SON MANU is celebrating his 29th Birthday with a Party for his friends and work mates today in his own apartment.     It will be rather WET.......his apartment being quite small he had made arrangements to have the party in the garden!!!      He expects about 20 guests and it will be a kind of Farewell to his Youth, he says,- since next year he will join the pre-elderly 30s!!!!     His actual Birthday is Monday the 15th.       The Family,(Daryl and co, me and Esther and possible even Helen) will have our own celebratory supper with him on Monday evening here at home in Green Cottage.

TOMORROW I will be sharing the Word of God at our Sunday Morning Fellowship with the Family - some 140 kids and 20 staff and others.     We usually begin with Worship and Prayer prior to Breaking Bread together.     There are hymns and singing and testimonies, and then the Word.

'I have gone astray like a lost sheep!

Seek thy servant!

For I do not forget thy commandments

Psalm 119v176

THE ONE THAT LOVES ME SAID TO ME,  'I will NEVER leave thee nor forsake thee!'

BUT I STRAYED!   I wandered away from Him until I WAS all but lost, unable to find a way back to the safety of His arms.   I was in despair - as a Christian!

In the original GREEK in which the New Testament is written Hebrews 13v5 has God assuring those who have come to know Him through faith in Christ Jesus - 

I WILL NOT IN ANY WAY FAIL YOU, NOR GIVE YOU UP,

nor leave you without support!

I will not, I will NOT, 

I will NOT in any degree leave yo helpless, nor forsake you, nor let you down

(relax my hold o you)

ASSUREDLY NOT! 

CAN someone who knows Jesus STILL wander away and get lost?     I DID!

And getting into a subsequent mess, I cried out for him to FIND me  -   again, NOT because I had kept his commandments, but because I still BELIEVED in them; that they were good, and meant to guide my life.    YES, Jesus, to whom I belonged, in whose hand I had put my own, and who had secured my forgiveness and salvation with his own Blood, had promised NEVER to let me go.

WE HAVE ALL SINNED, AND FOLLOWED OUR OWN WAY (Isaiah 53)   AND we will ALL suffer temptation to go on doing so until we DIE.    SIN is in our FLESH, - in the stuff we are MADE of.

God did not put it there - but it wormed its way in .......

SO we WILL all find ourselves in a tight place sometime!    Where will my help come from?

Psalm 121v2 assures me that - 'My help cometh from the Lord who made the Heavens and the Earth.

TURN TO JESUS -  The very one that gave his life for us on the Cross.    He will not forget you or give you up,    HE will rescue us from our going astray.   He WILL save us to the uttermost!

AND EVEN MORE THAN THIS PSALM 121 TELLS US that HE is our Keeper, the One that never ceases to care for ME - He will watch over me SLEEPLESSLY.

When He sees me straying He will follow after me, and will BRING ME BACK to my true home.

HE WILL PRESERVE ME FROM EVIL;  He will preserve my soul!    FOREVER!

IS YOUR HEART HEAVY TODAY?

Are you heavily born down with sins that have separated you from God's Love?

Even Jesus felt forgotten of God as he hung on the Cross.   WHY?    Because of my sin, Because of YOUR sin, that He carried for us - which ultimately HID him from God; from his Father's sight.

HE said on the cross UNDER the thick blanket of OUR SINS,    WHY have you forsaken /left/ departed from ME.        The sins that you BARE hide you from my sight, prevent me even from being SEEN by you.

BE SURE JESUS KNOWS how it feels to be ALONE ad CONDEMNED.

He took YOUR trouble and MINE - that SIN that so easily sticks to us - and made it to BE his own.

He knew how that sin of ours FELT when it touched the purity and holiness of GOD.   He Cried out!

My God!     My GOD!

AND SO DAVID cried out too, desperately to the only one he knew that could help him. He cried -

SEEK THY SERVANT

DAVID knew as well as Jesus did that He was born to Serve God, and that SIN Had taken him out of the way and hidden him (made him to get lost from God's sight)

'I am HERE Lord, under this SIN, behind this SIN!    SEEK for me - LOOK for me, for I am Your Servant - I am here only to do YOUR will and to KEEP your word

Why are you cast down oh my soul - and WHY are you so disquieted within me? - Psalm 42v5

LOOK AWAY TO JESUS.......remember HIM!

CONFESS YOUR SIN, your back-sliding - the error that has come between you, leading you astray and AWAY....

ADMIT TO HIM that you WANT to be his servant - that you ARE his servant, and that you acknowledge and accept that His Commandment, His Word and Way IS good.

HOPE THOU IN GOD ALONE.

He is already looking for you - seeking you out.

He will never give up on you, neither forsake or forget you - if you have called on his name.

AND IF YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN HIM?    If you have not believed on His Name?  What then?

CRY out to Him NOW.   Accept Him as Lord and Saviour, the ONE who has purchased your Forgiveness with His own life blood, making you to BE a child of God.

THEN YOU WILL BE HELD ON TO - NEVER LET GO OF - NEVER AGAIN TO BE GIVEN UP AS DEAD OR CONSIDERED TO BE PERMANENTLY LOST.      You will be SAFE somehow, somewhere in the Saviour's Arms.

KEEP CLOSE TO JESUS.     Our prayers ascend daily for you, day by day - not ALL of you every day, but day by day we pray for some of you without forgetting any.      Take good care and be of good cheer.

John and Esther & Daryl and Carol

THE PRESIDENT HAS A WIFE!

A VERY HAPPY COUPLE!    And VISIBLY together - our incoming President Uhuru Kenyatta and his wife Margaret.     They have been married for 23 years, and on the 3rd April Mr. Kenyatta asked if his wife could HOLD the Bible whilst he LAID HIS HAND upon it, during his Inauguration and Swearing-in on Tuesday of this coming week.
IMMEDIATELY there has been an out-cry from the public objecting to this.   Their point is 'How can a Head of State Swear on the Bible when someone else is holding it - why is he afraid of touching it?'
HOWEVER,  the TRUTH of the matter is NOT that  the President will not TOUCH the Bible as he takes the Oath - He WILL lay his hand upon it; it is only that his WIFE will be holding it for him as he does so.
No Big Deal to my way of thinking.     Interesting how people of a certain way of thinking will always find a way to TWIST words to mean what they want them to mean.       OUTWARDLY, at least, the President Elect wants to demonstrate the close relationship he and his wife have toward each other.   BUT some are saying the President Elect is unwilling or afraid to TOUCH the Word of God (the Bible) for his own private reasons, and that is a bad omen.      This has never been intimated in the press, who have throughout clearly reported the true case - that the President will place his hand ON THE BIBLE as he takes the Presidential Oath - it is only that instead of HOLDING it himself, his wife will hold it.     Sad how something meant to be a demonstration of marital solidarity and support can be used for evil surmising.         Of course there are many that believe the worst about the 'man' who is to lead us.        But here he is by God's Grace.    Let us believe the best and trust in God, for the State, ourselves, and for the man's family.


LAST SATURDAY, as I had shared, we all went to the Wedding of Joshua and Miriam Mbithis daughter Esther to Dan.     The Service was held in town at the AIC Fellowship Church.   It was not full but almost so (it holds about 3,000 people) It went very well, and then afterwards the Reception was held in the grounds of a College known as Alphax College. A truly joyous and auspicious occasion. One of our Old Boys, Rev. Moses Ongong'a officiated, and a number of Testimony Family Members also attended even from out of town. There were also a little group of 'angels' who had 'flown in' from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Both the Mbithis and the Greens have known them for some years now, and from time to time they have visited.........Always in time to be a Blessing to us all. To us they are 'angelic' even though they look human enough! I have included a photo of the happy couple AFTER their Marriage, AND a photo of Esther and me with our some 'angels from Guernsey' - Daryl tacked on at the far right. They are all back in Guernsey now, and we hope for another flying visit sometime in the future as the Lord might dictate. John Henry, third from the left, is the eldest of them all, and truly adventurous for an 'angel' insisting on getting a ride back to the Mbithis on a piki-piki - His outward appearance being 80 or so, he demonstrates very well Life springing Eternal. We do all appreciate their willingness to come to do the work of God amongst us; they cheer and encourage us every time, lifting up our hearts, and also minister God's provision before they even know our need. 

THIS WEEK has been a busy and active one for me - and also for Daryl who is himself involved with me in activities that take us both away from the Homes.    BOTH of us are invited Members of what is known as the Eldoret Court Users Committee - The CUC.     This is a quarterly Meeting of the Judiciary and Magistrature, Lawyers and Advocates,  together with senior Police Officers, Probation and Children's Officers.      Basically this is an empowered Country level watchdog and regulator on criminal and social justice as it may be administered in the locality of the Uasin Gishu Country.      The Committee last met on the 21st March, and during its deliberations the matter of Street Children was once again brought up.  Numbers were noted to be rising on the streets of the Town of Eldoret.    Exact numbers could not be given but well over a thousand it was thought - many as young as three years.       Police were demanding some collective action - but what?     A TASK FORCE was set up, and I was appointed Chairman.     Our first Meeting too place on TUESDAY of this week.     We sat (nine of us) in one of the High Court Rooms.
The outcome was a unanimous plan to BEGIN to clear the streets with almost immediate effect - we would start with seeking out FIRST all those seven years and under.       The Police estimated about 30 could be picked up.      It was decided to contact all the Children's Homes in the area in order to ask for TEMPORARY places for those picked up - to stay for two to three weeks whilst vetting and research into their histories were carried out, AND THEN either repatriated to their families or found alternative help.
On Wednesday Morning we met with the Eldoret Children's Forum and set the matter before them and obtained their assistance in contacting the Managers of Children's Homes in the area.

Anthony

On Thursday we had an audience with the Police Chiefs in Eldoret and organised for them to make an unexpected SWOOP to pick up children 7 and under that very day.      They would be held over night in a special facility, then taken to Court the next Day.     They picked up FIFTY TWO CHILDREN. (52).
On Friday at 9a.m. I was at the Court.       Only 27 vacancies had been offered by Children's Homes. TESTIMONY FAITH HOMES had offered to take THREE boys (Anthony 7, Joseph 6, and  Newton 7.)  I was in the Court for almost two and a half hours as all fifty two cases were heard, and the children temporarily assigned to the Juvenile Remand Home and to seventeen different Charitable Children's Homes.  

Joseph 6

It is known that most of the children living on the streets are NOT orphans - they do have parents and even homes.     It had been hoped that when they did not appear overnight that parents would immediately show up at the Police Station to enquire - but none did so.        Nevertheless it is hoped such parents WILL be found and that they will be persuaded to take hold of their responsibilities as they stand before the Police and Magistrates.      We shall see.      As an operation it went well and according to plan - but it will not stop here.       There are HUNDREDS more still on the streets, and we must go after them, and help them to realise the street cannot be home sweet home for them.        The Task Force will meet again on Monday 15th April, and it hoped to commence PART TWO of the 'Clearance Plan'.        It will not all be solved at once, but little by little we hope to accomplish the Task almost to completion by the end of the year.      

Newton 7

THE THREE LITTLE BOYS WE HAVE TAKEN INTO TO TESTIMONY,   undoubtedly have home and family somewhere.     We will of course have to find out during the coming week or so as many of the real facts of their background as we can.      Mary Atieno our Social Worker will be quite busy trying to win their trust and discovering their history.     All three boys are VERY happy today, and seem to think they have arrived in 'heaven'.........Their future - like all the others that have been picked up - is uncertain right now.   We will need great wisdom, justice and mercy as we research their lives to discover what has forced them to the Streets, and what will be the best action to take in their BEST interest.     Please join us in prayer for this.
It is also a lot of EXTRA work and running about for Daryl as well as me.

l to r - Janet, Dominic, and Naomi

TODAY IS THE SCHOOL SPORTS DAY!         The weather is not very nice in that there is little sun and the sky a bit grey overhead.    It has been raining a LOT this week.     Our School Field is in the process of being levelled and replanted with grass, SO this year we have had to borrow the Eldoret Sports Club field which is about  three kilometres away from us.      Everyone has gone there, leaving me here typing.    It will be a great time I know - it always is.      Maybe some photos next week.       The three boys above will be there enjoying themselves AND three others that came in November last year - a boy of 7 Dominic, and his two sisters Janet 9 and Naomi 13.   They were supposed to stay with until the end of December but they have just now been committed to us permanently - their parents both died of AIDS and the family refuses to have anything to do with them - because of the stigma attached to them.    None of the have HIV even.  Lovely children who are able to remember loving parents and a happy home!

SOMEONE WROTE ON MY FACE BOOK PAGE and suggested that The Christian Church needed evangelising - that it had, itself, gone to sleep and become unaware of the world it existed in.
I wrote back and said that JESUS had tried doing that - and had ended up Crucified!!       Jesus had come and found the Jewish Church cold and unaware.    He tried to wake them up to SEE and to HEAR, but they were blinded and deafened by their own righteousness - and they rejected, objected and put their hands to their eyes and ears whilst shouting AWAY WITH THIS MAN - we will have Barabbas.........

EZEKIEL, in his day, also found the People of God deaf to God's Words.  Ezekiel 3v12-13 finds him being led of the Spirit of God - He says 'I went in the bitterness of discouragement, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of God was strong upon me.'
Ezekiel was not in the MOOD to go.    Not anxious to be the one to GO!     Certainly SATAN our Enemy and God's, does not want any one of us to GET UP and GO with the Word of God - ESPECIALLY to those of a failing heart and spirit!    He does not want those one time 'firebrands' and disciples of Christ, to be RE-AWAKENED.      They are back in his hand - shall he let them be RESCUED?
In chapter 3v15  Ezekiel found himself led to a special community of the People of God - his own people - and he stayed and lived with them, and became 'overwhelmed' with astonishment at their lives - and he was silenced.   He could not witness to them.        These people - the People of God - were living without regard for God.  He was amazed..       Some 'christian' church groups are like that - they have become as the world without realising it.......Ezekiel was SO surprised to realise the condition of his fellow Christians, that he laid down for seven days unable to act.     He knew them all well - he was one of them, and until that moment had been as blind as they were.   BUT God's hand was upon him to WITNESS.   God's Holy spirit had opened his understanding.   He knew he had to do this.   Whether they would hear or not - he HAD to speak what God had told him to speak.      As he lay mulling this over, the LORD spoke to him again and said -

Son of man I have made you a watchman to the House of Israel (The People of God)

THEREFORE, hear the Word at My mouth, and give them warning for me.

WELL dear ones, we are ALL, each one of us, WATCHMEN and women.      We must not avoid the issue, but GET UP and witness to the truth - even amongst our own brethren - amongst our own congregation.       We must each one be quick to Exhort, and to Encourage one another.........And let us not FEAR to do it, for HE HIMSELF is alive by our side to give us the STRENGTH and COURAGE to do so.

Our Love to you all and our thanks for sharing what you have with us.     Pray for us that even more might be  burdened to support the ministry of God's Word and the Reclamation of children lost and away from home.

God Bless and be with you

John and Esther & Daryl and Carol Green

We Wish you all, from deep within our hearts -
                A VERY BLESSED 
                           EASTER

TODAY IS GOOD FRIDAY
All is well with our soul, here in Testimony Faith HOMES, and we are also in the midst of sorrow and joy MIXED, as we Remember DEATH Jesus endured for our sake, and the RESURRECTION to prove we too can share in His LIFE.

This morning Daryl and some of the children put on a very moving presentation of the life and ministry of our dear Lord, ending with the crucifixion.  It was all done in mime, but costumed and it brought a few tears to many eyes as we saw again the LOVE of God for us all in the Man JESUS and all he revealed to us, and finally DID for us.

LAST NIGHT we all remembered PASSOVER as we remembered the 'Last Supper' with Jesus and the Disciples, sharing in a meal of Roasted Lamb with bitter herbs and and unleavened bread  -   NO, it was not exactly following the whole Jewish Tradition, but adapted to allow for an otherwise normal evening meal.     We began by recounting the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt though, and ended with a family prayer and Breaking of Bread as related in the Gospels.       Always a wonderful time.



NOW we are just welcoming our Easter visitors - our little daughter Hellen from Nairobi and also our nephew, Martin Mwaura, and his wife and family.     TOMORROW the Wedding of Esther Mbithi, which will involve EVERYONE since ALL the staff and children of Testimony will attend.     We pray for a fair day since it has now begun to RAIN seriously.







THEN ON SUNDAY,  our REAL Rejoicing will dawn upon us as we yet again remember the Resurrection.     YES,  we DO believe that JESUS rose up from the tomb and yet LIVES.     The most wonderful date in our calender.         Obviously not all of us that are here BELIEVE in any of this - just those who have COME to know it - not by rote or learning, but by 'experience'' -  To KNOW God  IS an experience - one that is quite incontrovertible.        It makes room for those who have not yet arrived..... and usually the whole place somehow is affected by the joy and atmosphere ........and ALWAYS more of those who didn't  know, enter into an unexpected experience as they 'meet' the real and resurrected LORD face to face.     

I know you will have forgiven me for only sharing a Greeting with you.     This is not the time to indulge in other matters - we are CAUGHT UP in the Wonder of God's Love.
May HE Bless you and bring you to share more and more in this same Wonder.

With Gladness and Thanksgiving to you all

John and Esther & Daryl and Carol  

EMOTIONAL CONFLICT

GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH was a man raised up for a special purpose with a special Vision for the Day.    He also was a man of clear perception as to where the world was headed, and the words remembered and quoted here seem indeed very apt in relation to the 20th Century, and perhaps increasingly so in our current 21st Century.

It will soon be EASTER, the most important Religious Festival in the World, if you really consider what it commemorates, and how much its abiding Truth can change a human being and even the entire world!.      BUT it is remembered less and less as Christianity loses its LIFE.   The very Truth it proclaims is being obliterated by the WORLD, so that its Blessings, as well as its alternatives are more and more hidden from our understanding.    

Esther Mbith & Fiancee

TODAY  I was looking on the web for symbols and images of EASTER.     I was confronted with page after page of pictures of Easter Eggs, bunny-rabbits, and holidaying.....Where was the Cross on which JESUS died for us all?      Where the Empty Tomb?       Easter these days is purely pleasurable - a time to be 'Off Work',  At Rest, With the Family!    A time to eat and make merry, and maybe have a romp or too - and this even within the fraternity of the Christian Church.
WHAT IS EASTER to US?

NEXT Saturday Esther and I will be attending a Wedding.    Not just any Wedding but the Marriage of our grand-daughter in the Lord, Esther Mbithi,  Joshua and Miriam's daughter.   On the face of it rather surprising to think of having a Wedding at Easter - at least on Easter Saturday the day AFTER the Crucifixion of our Lord and BEFORE He has risen from the Tomb.     It seems almost unthinkable to enter into revelry on such a day of memorable sorrow and heartache.
There is some mitigation for it on this particular occassion since the DATE for Easter had been wrongly publiscised, and arrangements went ahead on the basis of Easter being a week later than it actually is this year.      Too late to change?   Yes indeed it is.     THUS we shall be scooped up from meditation of His Dying for us, and of his buriel and decent into Hell, and thrown into the expected atmosphere of a Wedding with a throng of excited, merry, and joyous people, gathered to witness two beloved youngsters joined in matrimony - a Day to Remember, in the midst of GLOOM and ANGUISH.             Well, yes it will seem a bit like that I suppose.     But, on the other hand, life does go on, and it undoubtedly went on the day after the Crucifixion as well.   After all no one knew it was to happen, and no one could have realised or previously been prepared for all that it was to mean.      On THAT day social events had been planned and had to go on, no matter how heavy the heart, or how inappropriate it might seem.       Such would have been forgiven them and will no doubt be forgiven now.         It WILL be a happy occassion entered into on an UNHAPPY day, and it WILL be Blessed of a Merciful, Gracious and Understanding God who is Father to us all.    

Because we shall be attending this Wedding, I may have no time to sit down and write much next Saturday - though I hope to at least send Easter Greetings to all.   It will be a busy time.     Esther and I will be having a married nephew and his wife and children staying with us, and also Joshua and Miriam will be having a full house of relatives, and even friends from Gurnsey.

HERE IN TFH we shall begin our Easter Remembrance on Thursday evening.    In 2009 we ALL, staff and children, came together on Maunday Thursday evening to eat a common meal together in the School Hall; a meal of roasted lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread - after which we all broke bread together.      It was such a very real blessing to remember the Last Supper in this way, that each year since we have continued it, though not all together in one place.    Since 2010 each of our four Family Homes have provided for their own family supper together.      Esther and I will also celebrate in Green Cottage with family and friends.       After supper we sing hymns, and talk about the Lord and spend a little time praying together.      A blessed prelude to the Good Friday morning Service.        Saturday some will gather to see the Video JESUS whilst we are at the Wedding.     THEN on Sunday the JOYFUL Resurrection Day Morning Service and happy fellowship.        BUT the most important day for us will be Good Friday when we remember Jesus Crucified on Calvary for our sins.     A hymn by F.A. Graves says it all -

What a wonderful, wonderful Saviour,

Who would die on the cross for me!

Freely shedding His precious lifeblood,

That the sinner might be made free

He was nailed to the cross for me,

He was nailed to the cross for me.

On the cross crucified

for me He died!

He was nailed to the cross for me.

Thus He left His heavenly glory

to accomplish His Father's Plan;

He was born of the Virgin Mary,

took upon Him the form of man

He was wounded for our transgressions

and He carried our sorrows too;

He's the Healer of every sickness

This He came to the world to do.

SO He gave His life for others

In redeeming this world from sin,

And He's gone to prepare a mansion,

That at last we may enter in.

Charles Wesley also captures my own personal wonder and amazement in his hymn -

'And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Saviour's Blood?

Died He for me, who caused His pain?   For ME, who Him to death pursued?

Amazing Love!     How can it be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for ME?'

ME at 1+

YES, HOW CAN IT BE?   The more so that I should come to understand and KNOW that it DID happen, and that it happened FOR me!   How is that I should KNOW this, deep in my spirit?    How is that such as I was, deep into a selfish and self centred life, could ever come to know myself to BE a sinner, astray from God...?    It is a mystery to me even today.  Wesley continues in this same hymn to testify and say -

'Long my imprisoned spirit lay, fast bound in sin and natures's night;

Then eye diffused a quickening ray - I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;

My chains fell off, my heart was freed, I rose went forth, and followed Thee!'

As I have grown older I have been the more amazed, as the implication of this has dawned increasingly upon me.   He died for ME!     Perhaps age and experience teaches us the depth of degradation that is within us all, but I do understand that I am a far worse person, left to myself, than I ever knew myself to be when I was a youth.

It is likely that I was born out of wedlock, the fruit of immorality.  Yet I was born, and immediately given up and adopted.  I grew up for the most part unchurched and untutored in any faith.  My adopted father an habitual drunkard, and my adopted mother, flighty and unfaithful.   YET, in the midst of beery brawls and illicit romances somehow I grew up conscious of GOD.   I intuitively KNEW there was a God, and that He was there for me.    That is in itself a mystery to me!

But I grew up, nonetheless, selfish and liberal in my manners.  I learned to drink inordinately, was pre-occupied with sexual imaginations, not always convenient.  Unlearned, often dishonest, emotionally unbalanced, and introspective, a life imprisoned.      Would I have done for myself, what Jesus did for me?   I think not.   Why, I was not even calling out for help; was continuing on my downward, heedless plunge to self destruction - without a care, and without happiness.   When eleven years old I could still not read - even a three letter word!    It was as if my mind was blocked and unable to recognise letters.    But, one evening when I was ten a half, I picked up reader called 'A Dog called Spot' and found myself reading it easily all the way to the end!   It was as if someone had turned a key in my mind and unlocked a door; light dawned, and where I had been blind and unable, suddenly I could see and understand.    So it also was when I was seventeen that I also one day opened my spiritual eyes and found Jesus.   My life was then turned inside out.  And the words of John Newton became true for me also -

I once was lost, but now am found;

was blind, but now I see!'

Every day since then has been a day of discovery - not always to my credit, but always towards my improvement.      And I have striven to apprehend and know more and more of His Love.

Oh Lord!  Help me to know you more and more for Who and What you are in my life.

Help me not to spoil or tarnish Your Life given up for me, to make a mockery of it in any way.

Help me to live Your Life.

Help me to be truly dead, YOU to be seen alive in me!

As YOU stood in for ME in front of my Accusers, and took my punishment upon Yourself,

so now stand in for me again, making YOU life to be MY life.

MORE than a role model I would have you be;

YOU must be my LIFE, in thought, and word, and deed.

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TOMORROW, I am the one presenting the Word of God once more.    This time I shall be sharing about the Grace of God in our hearts - how to take care that it does not fail us, that it might ever be there for others, as sit is for us.      How this is part of LIVING a holy life, and will prevent us from judging and hurting others, and from degenerating back into a flesh pleasing mind as we were BEFORE we received His New Life, and new HEART and MIND.     Pray for me to be honest and truthful in all I may be led to say - and that His Spirit will guide me.

On Tuesday we (all administrative staff) will meet to discuss finance generally relative to the running of the Homes and the School.    Esther, Daryl and I will be part with those others attending inclusive of other heads of department and the Finance Office      We usually meet once a fortnight on a regular basis.

On Wednesday morning Daryl and I will attend the Children's Forum once more during he morning, and later in the day, about 5.30p.m. we shall have a quarterly meeting of our Board of Management.

In between all this, of course, the daily chores and events of routine matters.    Visits to the Homes,  daily inspection of the different parts of the work - the Dairy, the Bakery, the Poultry and Gardens, and the progress of the swimming pool.     Meeting staff with problems, visitors, and visits to town on business.     Never a dull moment - though often under fire of that old enemy who never tires of launching his fiery darts at us all.         Thank God we stand and run not alone but with the Lord of Hosts.

THREE more children will be Admitted to Testimony House on Monday.    Will hope to send a photo and share more about them later on.     Till then our Love as always flows to you all in Jesus Name, as we pray for your own anticipation of His Blessing over Easter

John and Esther & Daryl and Carol.

AS TIME GOES BY...!

THIS IS A PHOTO TAKEN IN FEBRUARY 2012 of my sister Pat Wilson.     Pat and I met for the first time in 2011 when I was 72 and she was 73.     Seventy one years had gone by without sight, sound or even knowledge of each other.      The first thing Pat in fact said when we met on her Birthday in Scotland in 2011 was ' WHY!  Why did we have to wait a life time to know each other?'
Pat had a stroke a year or so before we met, soon after her husband had passed away, and although this left her with a slight speech debility she remained well and strong, driving her own car, and living alone.   In 2012 she and her son and daughter in law visited us here in Kenya and stayed at Testimony for almost a full month, or more.    It was a very happy time....but all too short.      Scotland is quite a long way away from Kenya, and WE do not travel to UK often.      Pat's stroke also left her with a writing problem so she could not reply to letters I might write to her.    She is without access to the Internet and so we could not communicate that way either.     Telephone was left as an option, but our lines have been out or on the blink for more than a year (main line) and this and other complications meant that we did not speak very often successfully.       It has been difficult to bare a separation that previously did not affect us.        Each of us grew up as an only child.     NOW we needed to be together and could not.      Was God teasing us. and if He was, wasn't it a little cruel?   It might certainly seem so!   BUT NO.......I do believe God has something in mind that He will accomplish in our discovery of each other, and of each others family.     AND I believe it will ultimately work for GOOD if we can BELIEVE for it - even now as I write this.
YESTERDAY my sister had a SECOND very strong stroke and was rushed to hospital.    Last night the doctors were not too hopeful she would come through, and Esther and I took ourselves to prayer.   But this morning we have heard that on waking she was able to get out of bed, and to walk around.    She seemed a little 'confused' but otherwise aware of her situation, and strong as ever.      We thank God for it.     Our son Steven and daughter Elisabeth have both travelled up to Scotland from Manchester to be with her and with her son Harvey.

Well many of us are - in our seventies - beginning to notice signs of wear and tear in our physical and even mental condition.     Some of need 'oiling and greasing' from time to time - and some of us could probably do with a complete 'makeover'.       As a diabetic myself I certainly at times am conscious of 'change' in my 'body suit' and even in my 'electric circuitry'.      As we all get older we need more careful maintenance after we attain seventy years.     There are obviously exceptions but  generally we see life after seventy presenting us with more restrictions and 'prescriptions'!   As the Bible points out in Psalm 90v10 'The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.........'      Quite an apprehensive picture of old age  -   not that we should, as Believers, dwell morbidly or fearfully upon it.........yet we must surely accept,  AS TIME GOES BY, that each new day is a day of grace.       But perhaps you might be kind, and remember my sister, and me - that if it is possible God will arrange for us even yet to have more days to get to know appreciate and be a blessing to each other.

TALKING OF AGEING brings me back to Testimony House.     Some weeks back I mentioned that some of the exterior walls were cracking and giving cause for concern - after a hundred years of weathering and ageing in front of the tropical assault of sun and rain.        We managed to have this particular wear repaired with inserted iron rods and a 'makeover' of new plaster.    We were careful to use the same materials and methods used when the house was built in 1908/10, and it now looks fine.       BUT this week we noticed an INSIDE wall dividing the sitting room with the dining room was also cracking.     Our builder was called to look at it, and to remove the exterior plaster to see more clearly the condition of the wall - a two foot thick, mud brick wall.    He was astonished not only see the condition of the bricks, but also to see that no cement mortar had been used to bind the bricks together, but instead only 'dung' and grass mixed together.      When we further explained to him that the house, in excess of an area of some 2,250sq.ft and roofed by enormously heavy corrugated iron sheets nailed to even heavier trusses and beams made of IRON WOOD,  had itself NO foundations.      The house is in fact built on rough hewn boulders sited directly on the surface of the ground, and dressed with dung and grass mortar on which the sun baked mud bricks are in fact laid.     The builder could not believe it - and went off mumbling that if a house so large could last so long he might as well save himself money and build one like it - and keep away from foundations, footings, sand. cement and stonework...........    

The sitting room/dining-room walls are looking good now, the plaster replaced and just the painting to be done on Monday.   I wish all the human deterioration and erosion in the world could be so easily dealt with!     Well of course it WILL, one day.    That Day when the Trumpet Sounds, and We - all of us BELIEVERS in Christ Jesus - are changed, in the twinkling of an eye!    What a day that will be, no creaking joints any more, no involuntary flatulence, no frequent trips to the bathroom,dentist, consultant, doctor, and no longer failing teeth, eyes or ears.   Oh my....even so COME lord Jesus and let us all individually together, RENEWED and REMADE in a form unable to be corrupted, aged or, destroyed by any sin in us, or our environment, enter into LIFE - new and everlasting life of a calibre and fullness we cannot yet even begin to understand or appreciate.

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THIS WEEK on Thursday afternoon I had a session with our School Teachers in which I spoke to them on Hebrews 12v15 'Take care lest any man fail of the grace of God.....

I had been struck by these words quite recently - to my shame.     The way it spoke to me was by asking me if I was failing of the grace of God;  was I running short of this 'commodity'.     Was I gracious to others as much as God was and continued to be gracious to ME?     Was I kind to the undeserving and unthankful?    Was I ready to overlook what I found offensive, unattractive or annoying in others - of the family of God first, and then to all comers.      Proverbs says that it is the delight of a 'good man' to do so, but is it my delight....am I a good man?      I found the answer to be a disturbing NO, and this made me go on and examine myself to see IF Jesus did in fact LIVE in my heart, or mind, my very self.      I did manage to conclude that He did (else why was I bothered about it) but that I tended to ignore HIM.     Oh dear.   It is so easy to NOT practise the Presence of God in our moment by moment lives.     It is difficult.    It is impossible ?     BUT I have no excuse NOT let JESUS  LIVE.     He gave His Live for me that I should let Him live in me.    Forgive me Lord.   Help me LORD - please DO truly and really come into my heart, my mind, and DO GOOD,  BE KIND to the undeserving and unattractive.     It has been and still is a challenge to me.     I have yet again discovered how deaf and blind I can be to His Will at work in me.    

KENYA remains generally peaceful except on certain university campuses where the upper crust of our learned youth ignorantly, and unlearnedly show themselves willing to be disgraceful.   Mostly their anger has been based in mistaken assumptions and immature behaviour.     Not for the first time and no doubt not the last.

The Country is quiet.    The current 'losers' in the General Election are presenting their Petition to overturn the Result in the Court today.      We have yet to see what it will generate amongst the watching and waiting citizenry.     There may yet be 'uproar'.     We continue in prayer, trusting the Mighty Hand of God will restrain all unrest and social upheaval.     Surely a time for God's Grace.

If CORD could only have grace enough to suffer, accept, forgive, and WAIT for the next Election in 2018!     Or just WAIT on events.......If only THEY could trust God.     It would be so good for the Country and the People  But it is not in man, it seems (with Bible agreement) to know how to arrange his life.    THUS please do pray on for us all.     This next week should be revealing.

God Bless and be with you all,     Keep awake, keep AWARE, and keep Expectant............

Lovingly

John and Esther & Daryl  and Carol

KENYA HAS A PRESIDENT!!

Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta

AFTER FIVE DAYS of 'waiting' and as Votes were laboriously counted, TODAY the Country has woken up to the news - UHURU KENYATTA is our President!       THE time is 7.20 a.m. in Kenya as I write this......TV is loudly proclaiming him - AND at the same time saying it will not be officially confirmed until 11a.m.!!   BUT the people are in the streets rejoicing ......   The whole week Mr. Kenyatta has led the race, and the whole week the Electoral Commission has played a game of 'cat and mouse' and for five days done their best to DELAY clear explanations of what was happening.     It has otherwise been an orderly and peaceful process; VERY different from 2007 when the Election erupted into violence.     The general atmosphere today (accepting the disappointment of the other contenders and their followers) is still one of calm, and relief that life can now go on.

WHEN I SET FOOT IN  KENYA in 1968 JOMO ~KENYATTA was President.   He was the FIRST President, rough, tough, and a modern autocrat.     Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta is this president's son, and will be the FOURTH President.       We now must wait and see what kind of President he will be.      Whatever character his Government might take, it will be entirely different from that of Jomo Kenyatta's, who ruled almost as a dictator.    We have a NEW Constitution now, one that severely restricts the powers of the President, and which is already changing the face of Kenya.        BUT I will take a rest at this point and WAIT till the 11 o'clock Announcement.     I must be sure you get the RIGHT information.

Mr. Jomo Kenyatta

It is NOW ten minutes PAST eleven in the morning, and the promised Announcements still not given - Kenya's usual problem with TIME and punctuality in particular.  We are expecting visitors at any time ourselves, so I have already written the rest of the Blog whilst delaying to make this short 'insert'.    It is 11.40a.m. now, and all are seated in the Nairobi venue - waiting still for the advertised Announcement to tell us 'once and for all' (we hope) exactly who IS the President Elect!    TIME GOES BY!!    It is now 12.40p.m......and STILL no sign of this Announcement.      Keep calm, Green, you should be very much used to WAITING by now!      Well I think I must cease to wait on this occassion in order that I do not lose my opportunity to send this week's Blog.      It seems safe to say that whatever the 'Announcement' might be it WILL merely confirm that Uhuru Kenyatta IS the President Elect......we trust there will not be a lot of opposition to this so that matters can take their course, and Government be able to press forward.       We HOPE they will not press forward as they have begun - with continuing delays, procrastinations, and seeming inability to plan ahead with some certainty.     Probably too much to hope since, in forty years, I have never been surprised by appointments, promises, or agreed procedures being kept without delay and excuses.      It is part of the social scene.    


THIS YEAR will see Testimony Faith Homes celebrate, God Willing, its 44th Birthday.    I will celebrate in December of this year, 45 years in Kenya.   The Country was only five years old as an independent Nation when I arrived.       It had passed from Colonial Government to that of a free Republic tightly led by a very single minded man.     Slowly Kenya has undertaken quite a choppy transition from a One Party to a multi party State in which the full fruits of 'democracy' are still ripening.      Kenya has advanced and is still advancing.  
Will Testimony Faith Homes find its own place in this onward and progressive surge toward change and advancement?      Testimony Faith Homes is in fact also in a time of 'transition and change'.      As its first Director I am now slowly seeing things go forward under my successor.     From just two small boys that I took into care in 1969 we have seen three hundred others come and go, until now we currently care for a regular number of some 140 boys and girls.     BUT, whereas, when I began the numbers of neglected children was not so much in evidence, and ways to help such children were many and welcome,  today it is different.   Today there are upwards of 2.8 million children in need all very much in evidence, BUT with ways and means to help them severely hampered by new government legislation based on sociological theory rather than practical common sense.     Where, initially, our own small assistance in reaching out to disadvantaged children at risk in the community was accepted with appreciation, we are now viewed purely as a 'tool' of the government, permitted only to help according to their own dictate.        This poses a lot of question and consideration right now and also for the future.      There are changes on the way.     We are not alarmed about this.   We know that God walks with us.     He has walked with us along the way all the years that are past, and He will continue to do so as long as we trust in Him, and look to Him day by day.

We, today, encourage you to remember the people of Kenya, and the children of Kenya that we have with us here in TFH as we together prepare to enter a new era under a new Government and Constitution.        We are praying for an increased sense of 'nationhood' that will over-ride tribal culture and tradition, and be the means of bringing cohesion to National identity.     Many have FEARED that this past week would see a repeat of the 2007 Trouble and Violence.      It is truly a cause of much REJOICING to see the opposite come to pass - PEACEFUL CALM and patience in the entire Country.     This must be landmark in Kenyan political history.  
The WEEK had passed quietly - almost boringly!     Shops shut, schools shut, and the majority away from work for the duration of the Election process.    Eldoret almost an empty shell during the period.     As from Monday things will be back to normal.     The CLOUD has passed over us, and life will go on.       WE are all well.   The children ready to resume school.    The weather has been glorious - hot and golden.    We Thank God for what has seemed purely and simply like a 'holiday'!     We thank Him for keeping us all in peace.

Our Love to you all in Jesus

John and Esther & Daryl and Carol

HERE WE ALL GO AGAIN!!

ALL LINED UP AND READY TO GO!!   These are the EIGHT vying for the post of PRESIDENT of Kenya, who will go to the polls on MONDAY 4th March.    Quite a mixed bag of tricks!!     Polls are suggesting that either the 2nd or 3rd from the left are the favourites (Mr. Raila Odinga and Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta), with the 3rd so far in front SLIGHTLY.     The 'popular' vote.    Perhaps not the most sensible or intelligent.      ANY of the remaining SIX might in fact be preferable to the TWO.    But the majority vote will decide what Kenya will be blessed with for the next four years.     WE may not express our views in this Blog since we are pledged to be 'non political' as a Charity, and thus, although all our divergent workers will be voting on Monday (except this loyal servant of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN), we may not as an entity express our preferences.      Just TWO days to go!      

The LAST Election was on the 27th December 2007.      It erupted into violence and mayhem throughout Kenya, and Eldoret was then one of the chief focal points of it all.      Disturbances continued for almost two months.     Our daughter Elisabeth and her two children were with us throughout Christmas and into the New Year.    Quite scary for her husband left pastoring in England, but SHE was ready to give a fight to any that might have been brave enough to come looking for one.       It WAS scary - but the Lord also gave us stout hearts and even a MERRY spirit.  In the photo she is standing in front of our little Christmas Tree in Green Cottage with a Turkana Spear and a Carving knife from the kitchen.    She does not LOOK very fearsome, but behind the smile is a brave heart.
Everyone is NOW seemingly rooting for PEACE, and the general consensus is that 'this time round' there will be no unrest, and no violence.     Certainly it is the prayer of all that are trusting in God.     BUT there is still a certain tension in the air, and it is clear that everyone is a little on edge WAITING for the Day to Come.     WE ourselves feel AT PEACE within ourselves, and generally confident that things will go off quietly.   Our HOPE is in God, and not in ANY man.     We know no man is to be trusted; we are all unreliable, even the best of us - we WAIT for our Redemption when the last vestiges of SIN at work in us will be removed.   THAT is the DAY that I am looking forward to with all my heart.
TODAY the Candidates are all running around seeking last minute votes.    Otherwise all is quiet and normal.
Tomorrow is Sunday and there will be no political activity.    It IS the Lord's Day.     THEN comes Monday, and maybe, WHO KNOWS, perhaps a Miracle - and the current first may become last, and current last FIRST.      With God nothing is impossible.         BUT, in the end, as I have in another place suggested, God will do what is 'good' for the situation in which we find ourselves.      We will trust HIM to give us what we NEED as a nation, and what will eventually prosper us.      Whatever the outcome of this Election, GOD is able to keep those that are His safe and sound for as long as it takes.      HALLELUJAH!

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WE SENSE THE ENEMY all around us, in the work here, and in the Nation.       We may not recount or share everything that we feel affected by.     There are very deep challenges to the ministry here in TFH, and also to the Nation.     

The sun and sky are brilliant and cheer filled, and our co-workers and children all have happy faces and there is laughter in the camp!      Of course!    The LORD our God is with us and the Holy Spirit also moves amongst us.      It is not 'depression' but oppression, in a sense.      All is not well................

This week our big cow, Rosie gave birth to twin calfs;  they were still-born.  Such a sadness for her, and she has mourned loudly for three days now.    We are not too sure yet why this happened as she has given birth safely before.    The Vet will search it out.     A set back for us also as the milk yield will be a little interrupted as well due to our other three cows being de-wormed - part of a regular program.     BUT otherwise we do remain with two calves, a bull and a heifer.    They and their mothers all moved from Testimony House to Tyndale Cottage Compound.     This to make way for the Swimming pool development, which continues on, and will hopefully be completed sometime in April.     We have been delayed there a little bit due to a number of rainy days that were very unexpected, and rather caught the builder out.

THIS WEEK THE HIGH SCHOOL FORM 1V results have come out.    They were not very good.  WE had only ONE B+ out of 39 candidates.      Partly, there is little doubt, the Government is a little to blame, since it suddenly changed examination dates in the middle of the School Term and threw everyone - students and teachers - right out of gear.     Nationally ALL the results are disappointing with only 1000 students with a Mean Grade of C+ and over.     A lot of VERY disappointed youngsters, including some of ours.      The summer sunshine certainly seemed to DIM for many yesterday when the results were announced.

Quite a number of you have again been asking about the Reprint of the Book.    It is still available as from -  FASTPRINT  www.fast-print.net/store.php       ISBN 978-184426-861-0      The edition has been updated to 2008, but is not illustrated.     It is also a bit pricey.      If you wanted to go to the trouble of bringing it down I could send it to you via E-mail as we have the entire text on computer.     If you would like a copy I can arrange to send it to you.  (197 A4 pages).  Just let me know.      In fact this unpublished copy is a little more up to date and more accurate than the FastPrint copy.       Please also note that if you go for the FastPrint edition you will find the publisher has stated on page iii that the book is fictional.  This is of course in itself untrue and an error on the part of the printer.

Right now the School is SHUT until the 11th March - our Half-term extended to take in the Election.    Very quiet once more.

This is about all for this week.    A short edition for a change.     We do wish you all well, and trust that the Lord our God is blessing YOU, and giving you every hope in ever day.    There is no doubt in our mind that the KING is coming SOON.      Keep a watch, and don't be caught out.

Our much Love to you all in Jesus Name


John and Esther & Daryl and Carol