Setting the Pace: Egypt Day 1
Where to start. Just over a month ago I boarded an airplane at JFK in New York City with about 20 strangers. We were bound for 2 weeks in Cairo of ministering, medical missions and, for me, photographing. About 10 hours of flying and we found ourselves stepping off of the plane and into a new world. This trip was my first time to Egypt, and although I’ve been to Africa, Egypt was a unlike anything I’ve experienced before.
The entire trip was a blitz…from the moment we stepped off of the airplane we were going. The first night, after checking into our hotel, we headed out to a church known as “the Foundation”, where we would return several times throughout our trip. Within moments of arriving our team leader was asked to preach a service and that was the beginning of a beautiful and exhausting trip.
As I’ve begun sorting through and editing photos for the project it’s been fun to stop and think back to some of the adventures that took place during my time in Egypt. This will be the first post of many telling the stories of the trip and I hope them all to be as inspiring and captivating as the trip itself was.
That first night, sitting there in a tiny church listening to our leader preach, literally as we arrived, was a beautiful experience. It set the pace and the tone for what was to be an amazing trip. From that moment on we didn’t stop. I, for one, am glad of this. More soon.
-S
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