Created for Life! Course

Created for Life - August 2008

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A Rocha's 7th Creation Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership Course was enjoyed by young adults from the Netherlands, Scotland and South Africa.

Eleven young adults including engineers, computer analysts, a youth worker and a Scripture Union adventure centre director joined the course this August for five days in Karkloof, KZN. Geoff Gould, Noluvuyo Mshumpela and Allen Goddard presented the course's mix of outdoor learning, Bible teaching and environmental interpretation.

Trust games open the outdoor initiative programme, which ends with a 20 meter abseil into a mountain pool

Life Groups explore the overlap between participants' personal narratives and the Bible epic.

Making pizza, stick bread, banana boats, stir fry and morning pancakes on the braai grill is part of meal time enjoyment.

Introducing Afromontane forest biodiversity

Putting it all together in solitude - times of contemplation as a group in a hillside studio or alone in a bush solo for four hours is integral to the course

97% of the Afromontane Mist belt Grasslands of South Africa have been transformed through agriculture, forestry and development. The course takes place in a protected area of the 3% that remains

Exploring the interface between human creatureliness and the promise of the new creation in a South African wilderness is what participants have found most beneficial