EDITORS
NOTE
It is with great joy and
humbleness that I write these words. This magazine has been my dream; I had
always wanted to develop something that brings the teachers, students and other
staffs together. My idea was to bring something that students can view as their
own. As I write these words, it is exactly four years since my dear grandma
died, she always believed in the power of faith in God. In all she did she
involved God almighty. I want to take this opportunity to thank our two mums
Ginger Mumbi Palm, president KCF and Mrs. Jane Njuguna , project manager, for
their love and tender care and
accepting to write an article in the magazine. Also I would like to
thank Mrs. Wendi Dwyer for her support of the magazine’s success. Also to be
thanked is our dear principal Mr. Gatune for believing in my idea. I wish also
to take this opportunity to thank the entire editorial team, the massive
support we have received from our teachers and fellow students like to thank my
very good friends Erick and James in helping me chose who to work with and
finally I thank the entire magazine team for their dedication towards this
project.
This magazine is dedicated to;
God, Kenya Children’s Fund sponsors and friends, parents, all KDSS teachers,
other staff and students. Chief Editor: Patrick M Mbuguah
From Our Directors:
When God calls, He does not need to interview us. None of us
is worthy of the calling of God but all he asks of us is to “come” and He leads
us to the path that is unimaginable in our human state. When we obey, God opens to us a
book of ministry that we follow page by page. God opens the next page only when we are through with the
one we are on; no pages are skipped.
Our students are at different pages in the book of life; our
duty is to encourage them to keep moving on and stretch out their hands so that
God may lead them from page to page. The first page is opened at KDS and each
child is given the opportunity to move through the pages as the Lord leads.
Whenever we look at the students, we see the love of God in
each one of them. We know they may
be going through a lot at home but there is joy in knowing that God loves each
one of them and has provided KDS as a place of love and laughter, togetherness
and joy. We wrap our “hands” around each of them in heart and mind. We are
counted as blessed for working with the KDS community. Our students who have
graduated
from the KDS program are doing something constructive in
their lives and giving back to their communities.
Great men and women are not necessarily born in well-to-do
families. Let us remember that God is not a respecter of persons. He created
the earth and the heavens out of nothing more than the words of His mouth. He
can create a great person out of no attractive background. We encourage our children to prophesy
good things in their lives. Among our students we see teachers, doctors,
nurses, pilots, engineers, farmers and business people. Perhaps even a future President of
Kenya. God has provided KDS as a
springboard from which each child is called to live in their God given
potential.
We encourage you, our dear children, to keep your eyes fixed
on God, and you will see His faithfulness. Pray always–every prayer counts. Continue to grow in the
grace and the knowledge of our Lord and stay steadfast following the Lord as He
opens the pages of your book. God
is making something beautiful out of every child that passes through KDS. We love you and Jesus loves you.
Jane
Wanjiru Njuguna and Ginger Mumbi Palm
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
This
being our first issues of the “Piga Ngoma” I hope that it will go a long way in opening the creativity,
originality and editorial skills of the Kinyago Dandora secondary school
student.
With our origin,
direction and destiny at the back of our minds, we should be able to endeavor
to sustain this idea of a school magazine so that future generation shall know
that our original ideas and concept was and shall be.
Let’s be guided by
Martin Luther’s statement that “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go
to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree” as we start off. Let me encourage
the entire student fraternity to retain the bigger picture of life as a whole
guided by the Holy Spirit and actualized by us all.
I wish all those
involved in the birth of this idea success and God’s blessing.
Principal ,
Gatune J.W.
PEER
PRESSURE
Peer refers to people who are of the same age or same social
status as you.
Peer pressure is whereby one’s way of life is greatly
influenced by friends or age mates. Negative peer pressure has been a great
threat in our day-to-day life.
Through research, it has been noted that most young men and
women have been influenced negatively due to ignorance of whom they are walking
with. When teens behave negatively, it’s due to the external pressure from
peers mostly.
Most
young people fear being isolated from their friends. If their friends are
sexually immoral and they abuse drug, they too engage into these evil acts so
as to please them and fit into the group and avoid being mocked by those
friends when they try to be good.
SOLUTION TO YOUNG PEOPLES PROBLEMS
Life
is full of choices, if you find yourself in a mess it is simply because you
messed up during your stage of choice. You need friends to guide you in making
choices, which will impact your life positively and not negatively.
Categorize your friends into two, one as pillars and the
other as caterpillars. Pillars:-
• Are true supporters of your
life,
• They
are always there to add value into your life,
• They
multiply your gifts,
• They
are God sent to come change your season hence become your door openers and
• Finally
in tough time, they are always there for you.
On
the other hand, caterpillars:-
• Are there to reduce your value,
• they
decrease you by subtraction and division,
• they
always represent you badly on others and
•
they are always looking for opportunities to destroy you .
Be keen, who your friends are, for
they dictate your future. You can either live a miserable life or an enjoyable
life because of who is close to you. Do not be misled; bad company corrupts
good character”. (NIV 1 Corinthians 15:33)
Proverbs 27:17 KJV: As
iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friends.
QUIZ:
FRIENDSHIP
Below is a set of questions to help you assess and evaluate
your friends.
WHAT MAKES A TRUE FRIEND?
• Your friend Peter, asks you to
join him and his buddies at a wild party. How will you respond?
• When
you make a mistake and have to ask the forgiveness from a friend. What will a true friend do?
• You
have a friend who continually hurt your feelings by the things he say to you
about you. What action do you think you are likely to take?
• To
stay in you ‘clique’ you need to?
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT
On that chilly morning, the
cries heard are loud and clear which made everyone gather out of curiosity to
know what is happening. Reports of death are laid and the villagers join in the
cry. Comforting each other with dirges and Bible verses which are meant to give
the departed spirit a good send off as they lay the body to rest in eternal
peace. While another hungry mouth to feed is born in the slum, his mother cries
in pain, wondering if the creature will make it through the unsympathetic
world.
As a young man he
roams the streets in rags with a running nose while cold wind blows across his
bare chest. Due to hunger and helplessness he learns to steal and sneak to
safety in the streets, thinking stolen bread is sweeter than hardship. As time
goes by he learns to reap where he did not sow. He enjoys eating what he did not work for, forgetting that
the word of God clearly states that if one does not work ,then he should not
eat and everyone who takes what is not theirs has broken God’s commandment;
thou shall not steal.
One day he wakes up in
desperation, purchases cheap and readily available drugs that he hopes will
save him from reality. Under the influence of drugs, he steals a car. With the
thoughts of getting out clean and without a trace, he tries to run but cannot
get far nor can he hide before the roaring bullets suddenly blast life out of
his frame. Helplessly he lies in a pool of blood with foam frothing from his
drug taking mouth.
The
villagers gather to satisfy their dead, viewing urges with dirges, as they
collect ,the village day top story .The mother of the young man wails in pain
and the community says nothing about it, the cycle goes on and on, leaving the
village with no young people to be leaders, the eyeball to the future.
You as
a student you have the key to put this to a stop! We in Kinyago believe that
with God, quality education and respect, for everything you strive to do the
sky will be the limit. You as the leaders of tomorrow live within and learn
from what the KDS fraternity is doing, for all this is possible in the name of
our lord God almighty, who strengthens and abide in us uniting us as one.
This story is to change and remain unchanged and is to be passed to all
generations who may care to witness. Let us always remember to ask for anything
and I mean anything from the Lord and work hard to make the society you are in
ideal place for life. Be the audacity of hope. Change dreams to reality.
By The secretary, T.N GITAU
Environmental consciousness
Students
gathering the garbage.
These and other
theories of education emphasize the applicability of education. These theories
and principles inform the objectives of education in Kenya. For instance one of
the objectives of the teaching and learning of Biology is to promote and
enhance environmental awareness conservation and protection.
Heaping the
garbage on a wheelbarrow for transportation.
It is therefore apparent that
environmental conservation is a matter of urgent concern. Proverb 22:6 says “Train
up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from
them”. To ensure
that this is instilled in the learners, the curricula of various subjects such
as Geography and Biology include topics on environmental conservation and
rehabilitation and ecology respectfully.
This second
term, form three (Grade 11) biology class covered the topic on Ecology whose
one of the main subtopic is Human Environment. This subtopic deals with issues
such as Pollution, Human Diseases and Parasites.
At the end of
the topic, the students’ conscience was sufficiently pricked and stimulated and
they felt obliged to apply what they have learnt in class. They therefore, with
the assistance and guidance of the subject teacher Peter Ngaruiya, organized a
cleanup session.
Burning the
garbage.
The learners
organized themselves and collected, gathered and burnt this unsightly heap of
garbage and others all around the school compound. They also slashed and
cleared the weeds around the main entrance to the school compound.
To prevent
further dumping at this, the place is being rehabilitated by first leveling it.
Later, it will be fenced and flowers planted to ensure its aesthetic. The
students have dedicated themselves to taking care of the flowers through
watering and tending them until the place is completely renovated.
This is just one
of the main ways our students under the auspice of KCF and KDS projects, are
applying and giving back to the society.
Actually one of
the major objectives of KCF and KDS is to provide quality education to the underprivileged
children of Dandora and help them break free of the vicious circle of poverty
and be able to go back to their society and upgrade it by giving back in
various ways as God will provide and enable them.
It is the hope,
prayers and aspiration of KCF under the able leadership of the President Ginger
Palm, Ms Jane Njuguna, the Manager of KDS Project, the Head teachers, teachers
and all the members of KDS family, to see the students achieve their full
potential and “be good, independent citizens” as echoed by the late
Bernard Sewe, a graduate of Kinyago Dandora Primary School. Peter.
M. Ngaruiya
Dr. Majibu’s Corner
Hi, Dr. Majibu,
I am always thinking of my family current financial
status. We are very poor and I think a church mouse is better off. It’s
beginning to affect my studies because I am first born male in our family. I
think the burden of this poverty has been thrown on my back although I am
blessed with both parents. Back at
school I can’t help but think about my other siblings. Please advice.
From help-seeking student
Dear help-seeking student,
Staying focused in school should
be the desire of any good student. This situation you are in is usually a big
blow to a growing person. But I should tell you in on a little secret, it is
not something you had planned but the perfect plan of the Lord. It is not that
poverty is your weakness, look it at an angle that let the situation be your
strength. Let it empower you and give you the determination to succeed in life.
Just look at the examples of people like “Ben Carson” who was once very poor
but now a world renowned neuron-surgeon. He did not see where he was coming but
where he was heading. Let everyday you do something that will inch you to
closer to a better tomorrow
Dear Dr. Majibu,
I always keep to myself and
sometimes my friends accuse me of being a loner. This has never bothered me
until I joined high school. I like spending hours on end reading a novel. What
I hate is nobody seems to understand me. Please advice
From student needing
answers.
Dear student needing answers,
There are people who are just
happy with their own thoughts and company. You should therefore not let it
worry you. Perhaps what you should do is to try to explain to your friends that
you are not really odd but is just being yourself and they should respect that.
Sometimes being a loner has its advantages. It can help you think more clearly
and reflect on the right and wrong of life. But a loner doesn’t mean you have
to spend every minute of every day alone. You have one or two friends whom
sometimes you can chat with. Every loner has to go through some sort of
socializing at one point or another.
Dear Dr Majibu,
My problem is that I am trying
all my best working tooth and nail to succeed in my academics. But when my
results come I don’t have the intended results. I don’t see the fruits of my
labors. Please advise me on the best strategy to use.
From student looking for
answers.
Dear student looking for
answers,
Performing well in class is every
student’s dream but you should not lose hope after you’ve done so much work to
excel but it has happened the opposite try the following tips of studying since
your hindrance to excel is mainly study method.
• Participate
well in class by asking questions to boost your understanding but if you don’t
still comprehend, it is your duty to follow the teacher afterwards for further
consultations .
• Develop
interest in whatever subjects you are revising, you should know the logic of
that subject. Without grasping the logic even if you were to read 100 times you
won’t gain much. Make sure you really understand what you are learning.
• Try
different ways of revising like group work or past paper revision.
• Take
your assignment seriously; most of important concepts are covered in the
assignment.
• Organize
your time well so that you can have an early revision or at least two weeks of
revision before exams.
• Never
under any circumstances panic during examination. Just keep calm and relaxed.
All the
best as you follow the above golden tip of achieving the best in your
academics.
CLOSE SHAVE IN THE LAND OF LANDSLIDES
A week ago I was in the parts of Kenya where you sleep in
one location and wake up in another
The Aberdare
Ranges
That place is on the slopes of the Aberdare ranges where
once upon a time there lived a paramount chief called Karuri Wa Gakure. Years
after Karuri became past tense; another chief came on the scene and ruled the
place called Tuthu. The man is John Joseph Kamotho a.k.a JJ, he who used to
crow like a rooster –until some of his feathers were plucked off.
I was at Tuthu to join the creed of that Italian priest, father
Camissassius, who came all the way from Milan to fight the devil on the slopes
of Mount Kenya where I was born and brought up. I had joined the relatives to
remember the day earlier relatives of the Italian priest arrived in our parts
of the world. It happens that three hundred and sixty five days have passed
ever since the earlier relatives of Fr Camissassius came to this country and thus
it is time to sing and dance about it.
So I arrived at Tuthu, the former kingdom of JJ, and two things
happened. The Italian priest with a peeling nose turned and smiled in his
grave, and then he threatened to wake up and commit murder. He smiled when he saw people of all
sizes, colors and shapes who had gathered to sing a song called magnificent, a
song of happiness, because of his ancestors who were the first to travel from
Milano to preach the gospel in Tuthu.
Fr. Camissassius wanted to rise from his grave because of what followed
later in the evening. I, the son of the soil, thought that it was bad manners
to leave Tuthu without signing the visitors’ book at the places where the
frothy beverage is sold at the right price and right temperature. I decided
that my throat must register its presence in those places.
That is why I ended up in places where people sleep in
one location and wake up in the same bed but in another location .The place was
calling itself New Young Bar and the man in the counter was a bearded
character who looked as if he had taken a day off from strangling elephants in
the Aberdare. In short he had a face that said if you made attempts to take off
with the bill, he would just break your legs with his bare hands.
Suffering from someone’s mouth I chose not to deal with
him. Instead I spoke to his personal assistant, a man called Muiga, who was
engaged in a conversation with a fellow drinker a man called Wa Gituiku.
I learned that Wa Gituiku loves to listen to his voice so his idea of
asking for a drink was to make a very loud speech. It was to announce that he
has the blood of the paramount chief Karuri, he who welcomed the relatives of
Fr. Camissassius to Tuthu. He announced that those with Karuri’s blood have the
habit of fathering twins and that he was no exception.
He
reminded Muiga and the others listening that those with the blood of chief
Karuri were not famous for being enemies of the real money “money does not grow
wings when it sees my face. In short, Muiga, bring me a swallow.” As the
obedient Muiga started going to get the man a drink, Wa Gituiku shouted,
“Muiga, bring me two tribes of drink. Bring me a green and a frog.” In the
language of the kanywaji drinkers of Tuthu, a green is a bottle of the beer called
citizen. It is called a green because it has a green label.
A frog is a sachet of a drink that refuses to
define itself either as whisky, brandy, vodka or other spirit. However, the
thing is so full of spirit that it can drive the engine of a tractor. That
thing is called a frog not because it makes its drinkers look like a toad when
drunk but because the huge sachet in which it is sold looks like a well-fed
toad resting on its belly.
A man who can afford a green and a frog is supposed to be a tough one
on the slopes of Aberdare and so Wa Gituiku asked for his drink as if he was
ordering for vintage wine from France. As he waited, he drew from his jacket a
two day-old newspaper and started telling those who were willing to listen,
things to the effect that he had read it very well and therefore understood
what he called “the psychology of our dear president.”
By the time his drinks arrived he
had told his audience that since he learned psychology he understood “our dear
president” to have what he called “an excess of what is produced by some glands
in the centre of the brain, the result of which is to like touring the country
at every excuse”.
I left the man expounding on his
theory to visit the little room called the toilet. The one behind the bar was
full so I decided to go to the lavatory outside a church in Tuthu that is so
daring that it stands next to a bar. A lavatory does not call itself a toilet
because it happens to be a pit latrine. This is to say that it has a pit
instead of a seat.
I had not been to a place like that for a long time, but that was
neither here nor there. What was there and then was that in the process of
doing what had taken me there, the devil went to work. The devil made my
trousers turn ominously and my wallet dropped out.
My wallet always missed the target of having real money. However this
time it was not willing to miss. Its new target was to go through a hole and
end up in the stomach of the pit that was the latrine. It did exactly
that. In a matter of seconds I was
minus my wallet.
Something told me that I was being punished for what I had done during
the day, had done it during the mass for the relatives of Father Camissassius.
When the basket was being passed around for the people to give their offerings,
I opened my mouth very wide and pretended that all my attention was being taken
by the hymn I was singing. I even…………
Continued on the next
issue
(Story by James & Sharon)
Sports Camp 2009 - INTERVIEW
The long awaited evangelical community sports camp was
finally here .The anxiety registered on the attending students faces was
evident. They had been waiting forever for this camp, finally and by God’s grace, it was here with us. I stole this
opportunity to interact and got to know a few people. However it was a bit hard
I must say, finding a confident interviewee and just as I was about to give up
the search and settle for like an article I came across this ever smiling,
talented and blessed girl. I’m honored to note that today she will grace
our corner. Interview by
Kenneth
Q: Hi? Who am I speaking to?
A: Jackline, a grade eight pupil here at the ever blessed Kinyago-Dandora
school.
Q: What are your
expectations for the KDS sports camp?
A:
A lot! From having fun, spiritual nourishment, socialization with other schools
to talent improvement in sports.
Q: So Jackline, what have you learned from the sports camp?
A: Revelation of parables, new games, spiritual improvement, life skills.
I have learned to make new friends with other schools within our community.
Q: Any person who you know got saved?
A: Yes a girl who I had met
in the field as we were playing decided to give her life to Christ after
witnessing the amazing love of God in the KDS community.
Q: Favorite game in the camp?
A: Base ball and football.
Q: Any sport that you wish would have made it to the camp?
A: Just a little netball and if possible cricket.
Q: There are a lot of young people who aren’t sure about giving their
lives to Christ, what can you tell them?
A: The moment one accepts Christ, He takes control over our lives and we
only live to await the day He will call us into heaven, and that is just too
incredible for one to miss.
Q: Any closing remarks?
A: Just thanking God and looking forward to the KDS Sport’s Camp next
year.
Jokes
A teacher asked the students who would like to go to
heaven; every student lifted their hands except Jane. Later after the lesson
the teacher called Jane and asked her why she never raised her hand up. Jane
responded that her mother told her to go straight home after school.
John: Thief, why did you color your hands blue? Thief: To avoid being
caught red handed.
THE HEART OF A DISABLED CHILD (Hannah.)
When I look at the world I see
A world full of closed doors
A world of disappointments
A world which does not recognize me
A world which sees me as a curse
In Africa I am a “bad omen”
I wonder how the rest of the world views me
I wonder what is wrong with me
I can feel the same as they do
I know how pain feels like
How it feels to be loved
And most of all I have mind
But nobody sees this
I wonder if it is me
Or is it them
Maybe I can’t walk
May be I can’t see
Maybe I can’t talk nor hear
But this all you see
Is considered to me as strength to defeat the
impossibility
Yes! Yes! I have a disability
But I am still human and
Most of all a child
My blood speak of greatness
For I know disability is not inability
Give me a chance to prove it!
AFRICAN CHILD
(By Makori)
I know you can see nothing beyond me
But there is great potential yonder
I try to practice Martin Luther King’s quote
(Ever and always the world is made better by the few
and educated minority in the society)
But I definitely find it not necessary
Our leaders have no concern for us
Yet they want us to work hard in Education
We live from hand to mouth
Yet we are struggling after our Education
It is out of nobody that God makes somebody
And out of a coward that God makes a hero
But to tell an African child
Such words are like abuse or insults
Why? Why? Should an African child suffer?
Poem By Mkenya
TARAKILISHI COMPUTER
Amka! Wake
up!
Uondoe utandu machoni take
off ignorance from your eye
Uone mtandao duniani and
see the internet in the world
Uchawi wa karne hii witch
of the century
Uunganishavyo watu that
connects all people
Amka! Wake
up!
Uwe mtu mpya be
a new person
Uabiri mtandao ulimwenguni take
the internet across the world
Ukuvushe milima na mabonde
carry you across the valleys and mountains
Ujuane na watu for
you to know people
Amka! Wake
up!
uone ulimwengu see
the globe
Ulivyofanywa mdogo sasa has
now become a village
Ulivyopea kimawasiliano it
is enlightened in communication
Uunganike na watu join
with others
WISDOM
BEATS Compiled
by: Mr. Ochelle
• Give
God what is right……..not what is left
• Give God the best…….not
the rest
• Man’s ways leads to a
hopeless end!.......God’s ways leads to an endless hope
• A lot of kneeling will
keep you in good standing
• He who kneels before
God can stand before anyone
• When praying, don’t
give God instructions…….just report your duty.
• We don’t change God’s
message……His message changes us.
• Plan ahead….it wasn’t
raining when Noah built the ark.
• Are you suffering from
truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
• Never give the devil a
ride….. he will always want to drive.
• Nothing else ruins the
truth like stretching it.
• He who angers you
controls you.
• Worry is the darkroom
in which negatives can develop.
• Give Satan an inch and
he’ll be a ruler.
• God does not call the
qualified…..He qualifies the called.
Catch a
revelation
Psalms 23.
WISE WORDS FROM WITHIN
Farmers don’t make haste
They’ll have to wait
Till all the oranges become ripe to avoid waste
As a result he enjoys his ripe orange fruit
On his bed, recalling of the past
Bliss and delight paint his face
Knowing
apparently that planning time
Is better than
time planning you.
THE LAW OF PERSONHOOD
When the real leader speaks, people listen.
It’s funny how some people regard leadership. In one way or
another, we are all leaders. You don’t have to be leading a certain group. We
are all responsible of our own lives. Everybody have his /her version of life.
To some it’s a gallivant maneuver, to others it’s a futile maneuver, but in the
long last, life is what you take it to be. Have you ever wondered why people
listen to us when we speak? Here is some observation about this law.
• Relationships: people listen to
how they know.
• Sacrifice:
as a leader people listen to you because of what you have suffered.
• Character:
because of your integrity (this is why people listen to Billy Graham).
• Relevance:
you identify with their needs-(identification led to Martin Luther’s success).
• Insight:
because of what you know.
• Vulnerability:
because you are genuinely transparent. (Vulnerability led to people listening
to princes Diana).
• Experience:
people listen to us because we have succeeded in the past.
• Humility:
because we incarnate meekness.
• Competence:
people listen because of our ability and expertise.
• Courage:
because you demonstrate conviction. Don’t be a puppet for anyone.
TONGUE (BY JAMES FORM 3)
Did you know that most of the
conflicts in the world are caused by narrow minds and wide mouths! Hasty angry
words have a way of inciting conflicts, breaking homes and causing a lot of
heartaches. What most of us don’t
realize is that you will seldom get into trouble by listening and that
you can learn more from what others say than what you say.(JAMES 3:1-12)
We put a bait in the mouth of a
horse to make it go where we want. Think of a ship big as it is, and driven by
such strong winds, it can be steered by a very small rudder, and it goes
wherever the pilot wants it to….But no one has been able to tame the tongue. It
is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison. We use it to give thanks to
our Lord and Father and also to curse other people who were are created in the
likeness of God……
READ THE WORD OF GOD & LEARN TO CONTROL YOUR
TONGUE
Of course we should talk about our
Savior and tell others about His love. But we must stop the idle charter and
nasty words that so often wound those around us.
If you talk when you are angry, you
will always regret it. Think back in your own life and consider how much
heartache you caused because you were not “swift to hear and slow to speak”
nothing is more often with mistake than the mouth.
In Mathew 12; 36 Jesus said “For
every idle word men speak they will give an account of it in the days of
judgment”. So before you speak ask the Lord
to teach you when to speak, what to speak and when to be silent.
How surprised we would be to hear
the recording of a conversation for a single day! It would be amazing how much
we grumble and complain:- the child about, homework; the mother, about being on
beck and call of everyone in the family; the father, about his boss at work,
the list is endless.
In Numbers 14:2-3, we read about
the complaints of the children of Israel, they should have been appreciative
and eager to obey Him; however because of their unbelief, an entire generation
never reached the Promised Land.
Even today those who grumble spread
discouragement to those around them and consequently forfeit God’s blessings.
Among us, words and emotions can
get out of hand and when this happens, feelings get hurt, friendships ends, and
things get out of hand.
It is important to secure our lips
against words that hurt and be swift with words of comfort, praise and cheer.
Our words have the power to build up or tear down (Proverbs).
Quotable Quotes
• If you want to run fast
run alone but if you want to run for long run with others.
• If a
man has not discovered what he, is worth dying for then he is not fit to
living.
• We
either find a way or make one.
• God
gave us one thing equal everywhere and that is time; what distinguishes us is
how we use it.
LETTER FROM CHRIST: PROBLEM SOLUTION.
I know that you are hurting; yes my eyes behold your
tears.
I know there are times you wonder if my presence lingers
near.
I know it’s hard to hold your faith when shadows shroud
the light,
I understand the pain of struggling through the wintry
night.
I understand your question and I know the cross you bear.
I lived on earth among you and I endured more than you
share.
I, too, want sin to end and will soon affect its fate,
for now I ask you trust in me,
And counsel you to wait.
I want to bear your troubles; how my heart goes for you
for times like this I offered you my strength to bring you through.
Don’t mourn as do some other feelings that you cannot
cope.
See the imprint of nails….they are prove that you have
hope.
FRIENDLY MATCH
The obvious question that many
were asking was who would win? KDSS had never actually had a match with the sister
school. So it seems to me that both parties were afraid of each other. The team
started at precisely 4.30 at KDSS ground. The KDSS players were Sharon,
Laurine, Sarah, Julian, Mary, Caroline and Antoinette the goalkeeper.
The opponents seemed strong and
also agile especially in the field but still the KDSS Team held their heads
high and their teamwork strong.
They
gave it all their best which was evident in their dripping sweat. Their agility
bore fruit, before the first half, Laurine skillfully scored when she was given
a free kick. The roaring crowd went wild with screams and songs all over which
was supposed to encourage on our team.
As the game resumed, our
opponents played wild and rough. They had had known the KDSS team’s top secret
weapon together with their stronghold. This was revealed as true facts when,
within dying seconds just after twenty minutes, the captain from the opposing
team equalized with a swift goal which sent the KDSS spectators to a grave
silence.
The silence was then broken by a
goal from the midfielder Sarah, which impressed even the opposing goalkeeper
whose eyes widen in amazement. The crowd went crazy when the final whistle was
blown at 6.30 p.m. ending up in 2-1.
The magazine team
I thank God for KDS because going through the program has transformed my
whole life and that of my community. Through KDS, many children who would
have otherwise no chance to go school, due to high poverty levels, can now
access free and high standard education in a Christian based institution.
Being one of the many beneficiaries, I can strongly say that KDS HAS
TRANSFORMED MY LIFE to what it is today, and at last, I can see the light at
the end of the tunnel because I 
