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Because of your faithful support of Kenya Children’s Fund and the Kinyago-Dandora Schools (KDS), we have much to celebrate as the end of 2011 draws near….and great things to look forward to in 2012.
Your prayers and financial gifts have made such a difference in the lives of families living in one of the poorest areas of Nairobi. You have played a major part in helping us in our ministry of raising the next generation of African leaders and we are very grateful. Together we can rejoice over the following highlights of 2011:
Primary School:
Secondary School:
What a precious meaningful ministry to which we have been entrusted. Together, with God’s help, we are making a profound difference!
God’s richest blessings to you and your family in 2012.
For His Precious Little Ones,
Ginger Palm President
 Kenya Children's Fund together with Kinyago-Dandora Schools is pleased to introduce video updates from our school. Click a link below to see what is happening at KDS and KDSS! To receive regular email video updates on the most recent happenings at our schools please CLICK HERE to provide us with your email address! Asante Sana!
 Kenya Children’s Fund and Edge of Seven are teaming up to complete the final phase of construction need to complete the Kinyago-Dandora Secondary School. The infrastructure project consists of building three new classrooms, administrative offices, a library, and a computer lab. We are currently seeking partners to fund the $45,000 budget for our project. PROJECT
LOCATION: *Program fees are subject to change based on flight fare changes INCLUDES: *For groups, we can provide price quotes
for alternate gateways July 9th, July 23rd, August 6th
Project Details Minimum stay: 2 weeks in Kenya Housing: Local Guesthouse
Program Fee includes:
Program Fee does not include:
Volunteer
Expectations For payment, $2,000 will be due right away and the balance will be due 60 days before you depart. If you would like to sign up, please email erin@edgeofseven.org. Please include your preferred start date, the date you need to be back in the U.S., and your full passport name. Two Week Schedule Day 1: International Departure Day 2: International travel day Day 3: Arrival in Nairobi and Sightseeing Day 4: Orientation and Sightseeing Days 5 – 16: Volunteer at Project Site Day 17: International Departure Day 18: Arrival Home
Optional
Excursions
 KDS works diligently to adhere to a very rigorous timetable which means teaching from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and tutoring students on Saturdays. While school is in session all year long except for three month long breaks (April, August and December) 7th and 8th graders, juniors and seniors, along with their teachers, limit their vacation time to remain focused.
Our teachers, students and
parents are to be commended for their hard work. We thank God for helping KDS achieve such
great results in spite of the challenges of acute poverty. And we thank you for caring enough to support
these precious children with your prayers and financial gifts. Together with God’s help, we are making a
difference! For His Precious Little Ones, Ginger Palm, President
Our Grade 8 students will receive scores in January which determine whether they enter High School, or whether they may repeat Grade 8 if they choose. Our Grade 12 students will not have scores available until February or March.
 The 2011 Kilimanjaro Tour will take the team to the roof of Africa at the peak of the highest freestanding mountain in the world. The team will trek to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro and upon conquering it, spend time working in one of the largest slums in Nairobi with Kenya Children’s Fund and Venture Expeditions. What
can this trip do for me? It can bring a group of
adventurers together. It can help bring clarity to what team members want
to do with their lives. It can bring over 500 lbs. of much needed
supplies and thousands of dollars to meet the needs of some of the most
beautiful children on the planet. It can fulfill a lifelong dream of climbing
Africa’s tallest mountain. It can teach
you about yourself, as well as your neighbors across a big pond. It can
be the very change of scenery needed for God to speak to you in amazing ways.
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I'm a second year student of economics and finance at Kenyatta University and accounting at Strathmore University. I aspire to be one of the world's best economists and financial advisors so that I may be a position to change Kenya, Africa, and the world at large.
Having seen the light, what I try to do is to encourage the young ones at KDS by assuring them that everything is possible through Christ who strengthens us. We, the KDS Alumni Association, give them advice on how to cope with day to day pullbacks.
My desire is to be the best I can be and to be one of the best examples of what KDS can and has done for the community. May God bless you and the stakeholders of KDS for the wonderful work being done there. It is a privilege to serve with you.
Sincerely in Christ, James Muthuku |
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
*Two new classrooms were constructed last spring. The 7th and 8th graders are delighted to be 
back in their former classrooms and the nursery students now occupy the new rooms. 
*The community was blessed with the annual Easter Care Baskets and Global Health Outreach 
Clinic last August. Thousands of people have received much needed food and medical care over the years through these two significant ministries.
In October and November, our Grade 8 and Grade 12 students take very important exams. The scores they receive determine whether they may continue on with their education. Please pray for these children as they prepare to receive their results.
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 
