Out Of Africa

Dear friends and readers,
This will be our last post on this blog - our family is immigrating to New Zealand in about two-to-four weeks time, so we will no longer be "under African skies".
The past month has been really busy for us with all the preparations and paperwork needed for the immigration, but the Lord has been so good to us and smoothed the whole process - undertaking miraculously  in every way! It's wonderful to see His Hand in everything and know that He is leading us! We are so thankful for His Grace and loving kindness!

New Zealand is a long way from South Africa - we will be flying to Hong Kong or Singapore and then onto New Zealand...a trip of about 27 hours! Once in N.Z. we will be "living like gypsies" for about a month - that is, living in a camper and touring around N.Z. until Dad has to start work. :P :)

If you're all wondering whether we're excited about the move.....Yes, definitely!! :) There is much we will miss about South Africa, especially our family and friends and all the things that make S.A. unique but we are also looking forward to New Zealand and all the new things which are waiting there! :)

Thank you to all our loyal and wonderful friends and readers who have visited our blog and also for the kind comments and feed-back you have given! Perhaps we will start up a blog once we settle in N.Z. but whether or not that happens, we will be still visiting all our friends and followers blogs whenever we get the chance.:)
If you'd like to stay in touch with us by email, just send us a note and your email address by clicking on the "Contact Us" button (right-hand side bar, near the top of the page) - we'd love to hear from you. :)

Goodbye, or perhaps "Totsiens" is a better word...in Afrikaans the greeting also means "till we see/meet each other again"! :)
~Jessica & Rachel

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

The LORD make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

~ Numbers 6: 24-26 

Greetings!

Greetings in the precious Name of the Lord Jesus Christ!

We are really excited to get this blog up and running at last! We have had the idea for it for quite a while now and have worked on it in bits and pieces but somehow just never reaching the stage where it could "publish online". Eventually we decided that it's either now or never so here it is - our first blog post. :)

We have started this blog for many reasons, most of all to glorify God and share His amazing Love. It's so wonderful to be a Christian and truly know the Lord! God is so good to us and does so many wonderful things in our lives - some of these we'd like to share on this blog, and we hope that you'll comment back and tell us of what the Lord's done in your life too. For anyone who doesn't know Christ as personal Saviour, it is our hope and prayer that you may find something here to encourage you to seek Him and that you to may come to know Him and find peace that passes all understanding and fullness of joy!

We have always been homeschooled, rather 'unschooled', also called "Natural Learning" or "Delight-driven Learning". It has worked so well for our family to be educated this way, but we do get a lot of questions asked about "how does one unschool". As it is a lifestyle and not a curriculum, it is often difficult to explain in brief and usually there's not time to go into detail. We hope that we can share something about natural learning in some of the posts.
Many of our overseas friend want to know what it's like living in South Africa, so hopefully you'll get some insights into that as well.

Then, of course, we are looking forward to fellowshipping with friends here and look forward to meeting new ones! :)

We hope you enjoy your visit to our blog.
May God bless you.
~Jessica & Rachel~

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.- Ps. 34:3