I’m sorry for the lack of any information regarding my trip to Cairo with Times Square Church that I am currently in the middle of. Between helping with TSC’s On Call Blog(please keep up with that if you want to know more details about the trip!), working on my blog, my e-mails and attempting to be here in Cairo all at once I’ve just been a little overwhelmed.

I’m sitting on a balcony overlooking a beautiful and very un-crowded (very very very rare to find here) street in the heart of downtown Cairo right now at about half-past midnight trying to reflect on the past week that’s disappeared somehow without a trace.

Somehow sitting here in the dry warm air of Cairo, thousands of miles from home and almost a week since I last slept in my bed I feel somewhat disconnected from the “real world”.

Maybe it’s the trip, perhaps the team. It could be the fact that I really had just settled back in to Central time before jetting out again; whatever the reason, I’m just sort of in a daze. It’s hard to look back at the last few days here in Egypt, a part of Africa that couldn’t be any more different that my experiences in Kenya earlier this year, and even remember where I’ve been or what I’ve done.

To give you a little “solid background” on the trip, the team that I came with split into 2 parts upon landing in Cairo. The 1st and smaller of the two groups has been dubbed the “Evangelistic Team” and is who I’ve been spending the last several days with. Their purpose here, in a nutshell, is to support the local church for a couple of weeks in the various outreaches that are going on here in the City. So far we’ve had ministries and kids groups, played games, made crafts and met a lot of amazing Egyptian Christians. The pictures below are from the first 2 days of our work here.

In a few more days I’ll be heading across town to join up with the second and larger group, “The On Call” group (or the medical team) to document the work that they’re doing on the outskirts of the city. More on that once I’ve been there.

The next week and a half will be a maze of traveling around Cairo, visiting, praying, working, playing, attending medical clinics, taxis, crowded roads, dust and sand, pyramids, the Nile, and great fellowship. Surely enough to wear one out.

I’ll be back again with more from the trip, but I just wanted to let the world in on what Bedouins has been blessed to be a part of right now. Thanks for checking in…Love you guys!

-Stephen

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Friday, October 16th, 2009 5:58 pm | Posted by Stephen | RSS 2.0 feed | Comment | Trackback