Saturday 25 December 2010

Merry Christmas from South Africa

Happy Christmas everyone!

I hope you all have had a wonderful and restful day, and have had the opportunity to really dwell on the wonder and significance of Christmas, when God humbled himself so that he could come and experience life with us, such that he can completely emphasize with the human condition.  And through his life, and subsequent death and resurrection he has achieved for us something we could never ever achieve for ourselves, something far greater and more spectacular than we could ever imagine.  Through Christ we can have eternal life and relationship with God our creator, and I am so excited.

May your Christmas be blessed.

With love and prayers
Stephanie

Wednesday 22 December 2010

Game drive/Cat sanctuary/River tour

I feel that being in South Africa is a real blessing, it is wonderful to be able to see somewhere different and to visit other places.  So the first weekend in December I joined some other Mercy Shippers to go on a game drive in one of South Africa's many game reserves in Hluhluwe.











Afterwards we went to EMDONENI Cat sanctuary where we got to watch the cats being fed and got to stroke a cheetah (unfortunately the pictures are on my friends camera...but below is my friend!)

And then after staying the night in a round house we went on a river boat tour in St Lucia and saw hippos and crocodiles.