{"id":4078,"date":"2018-10-24T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arielgate.com\/html\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:43:07","slug":"feedback-on-egypt-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielgate.com\/html\/archives\/4078","title":{"rendered":"Feedback On\u00a0Egypt Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|46.078125px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|23.03125px|0px|false|false&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.74&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>30 September 2018 \u2013 8 October 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>By Shirley Swannack<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Firstly, a very big thank you to everyone who prayed and fasted into this trip for us, you certainly laid a solid foundation for the Lord to build on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On our <u>first day<\/u> we arrived at 1.20am and after getting our luggage, packed ourselves into our bus with our\u00a0luggage on the roof and headed to our host family, and caught a few hours\u2019 sleep followed by an Egyptian Breakfast spread that was very welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We then visited Ambassador Vusi at the South African Embassy where we sang to him and his Zimbabwean receptionist in their home languages, prayed for them and we even stopped time!\u00a0 The clock at the embassy stopped as the last of us signed in on our arrival, we believe God re-set time prophetically for South Africa and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We paid a visit to <strong>The Garbage City<\/strong>\u00a0where 50,000 Coptic Christians live in appalling conditions; having been unable to find accommodation in Cairo.\u00a0 They exist completely from collecting garbage, including clothing and feeding themselves and where possible recycling the garbage from which they eke out a living.\u00a0 In the midst of the Garbage City is the <strong>Cave Church, <\/strong>a Coptic church which seats up to 19,000 people and to this day miracles still happen there.<br \/> <a href=\"%0Dhttps:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY%0D\" data-cke-saved-href=\"%0Dhttps:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY%0D\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In 979AD a Muslim Caliph asked the Christians if they really believed in their scriptures which they said they did and he insisted in asking if they believed in every word.\u00a0 He then asked them if they believed faith could move a mountain as per their scriptures, again they said they did.\u00a0 The Caliph then challenged them to either, move a particular mountain, convert to Islam or be killed.\u00a0 The Christians prayed and fasted and the mountain that the Cave Church is held,\u00a0physically\u00a0moved 3km.\u00a0 The Caliph saw daylight between the ground and the mountain and was so impressed by the phenomena and\u00a0at their faith, he converted to Christianity and the <strong>Cave Church<\/strong> came into being.\u00a0 The <strong>Cut Mountain<\/strong> (in Arabic) has been geologically confirmed to be of the same soil type as ground 3 km away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Apostle Natasha ministered to us out of 1 Samuel 2:1-11 (Hannah\u2019s prayer) but what moved us in particular was verse 8: <em>He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory.<\/em> \u201cAsh Heap\u201d can be translated as garbage heap.\u00a0 This led us to pray for the people of the <strong>Garbage City<\/strong>, that the Father would raise them up and it was agreed that a First Fruits from Ariel Gate will be sown in the form of a book translated into Arabic to\u00a0be sown into the Garbage City people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That evening we sailed in a gentle breeze on the Nile in a traditional Feluca and prayed for the people of Egypt.\u00a0 The cool of the evening was a welcome end to a hot day followed by a delicious sea food dinner at a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 2<\/u> saw us driving through the <strong>City of the Dead<\/strong>. Two million Egyptians live here, the original families were unable to find accommodation in Cairo so they moved into the existing cemetery either into family mausoleums or built their houses around the existing grave stones.\u00a0 When a family member of an existing mausoleum needs to be buried the squatter family moves out, the family member is buried in the ground and after a couple of days the squatter family move back into their mausoleum-home.\u00a0 It is a place with little electricity, water or a sewerage system so conditions are dismal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After passing through the <strong>City of the Dead<\/strong> we visited a Coptic church, called the <strong>Cavern Church, or Hanging Church (Al Muallaqa in Arabic) dedicated to the Virgin Mary, <\/strong>where the Holy Family took refuge at the time of the murder of all boys two years and under by Herod.\u00a0 The church becaume the seat of the Coptic patriarch for several decades until the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century. \u00a0This was a stunning church built on two pillars of a Roman Fortress built in 98AD. The churches foundations on the pillars consist of palm tree lots and layers of stone, and it had beautiful lattice work walls of ebony and ivory inlays and a pulpit built on 15 beautifully sculptured columns of marble erected in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> century and a baptismal font dating back to the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century. We went into a side room to look through a floor viewing glass to the Roman columns below, and quietly began to sing to the Lord in Zulu.\u00a0 Just into our Zulu praise, a Muslim guide and a young Zulu couple on honeymoon entered; the guide was so moved that we should be \u201ccoincidentally\u201d singing in Zulu to the Lord at the very time he brought his Zulu tourists into the side room that he openly wept!\u00a0 After the Zulu couple agreed we could pray for them and their marriage, we left the room and church with the guide and couple in tears!\u00a0 God moves in mysterious ways!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A quick visit to an Egyptian Coffee house at the Khan Kalili Souk (main Cairo market) where we enjoyed delicious coffees, Egyptian delicacies and ice cream.\u00a0 Whilst waiting for our bus to arrive and collect us home, Magdy our host tried to marry Maki to an Egyptian Secret Police Officer much to\u00a0our\u00a0amusement.\u00a0 We arrived home to pack for our trip into the Desert for the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 3 and 4<\/u> took us north towards Alexandria and west of the Nile to a \u00a0Centre that sleeps 1,100 people with all the necessary facilities to feed, lecture and host their guests including a swimming pool.\u00a0 During the Revolution 2011-2013 the local Bedouin protected the centre from revolutionists who wanted to destroy it.\u00a0 The first evening we attended David Damien\u2019s praise and worship conference in the desert. Day 4 we toured the centre and prayed for Magdy and Annelis. We\u00a0met a monk\u00a0of St Bishoyi and his Muslim guest at the Centre and that evening prayed for an Egyptian couple recently returned from the USA \u2013 they were astonished at the insight the Lord gave us when praying for them and sent another married couple to get prayer from us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Day 5, <strong>Monastery of St Bishoyi<\/strong>\u00a0in our vehicle and through our first Egyptian roadblock (protection for the monastery against militants) where they wanted to see our passports which not everyone was carrying, fortunately, they were so fascinated with a Zimbabwean passport held by a white woman they weren\u2019t interested in anyone else\u2019s<strong>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Our host was soon behind us in another vehicle and all was well and we were allowed through.<br \/> The <strong>Monastery of St Bishoyi<\/strong> was established when the desert fathers fled Roman occupation and oppression approx. 300-400AD and a Coptic Christian monastery where the un-decayed remains of St Bishoyi remain was established. \u00a0Like most orthodox monastery\u2019s (Greek, Russian or Coptic) they are based around miracles and saints and have wonderful stories to tell.\u00a0 St Bishoyi apparently tied his hair to a rope suspended from a beam so that if he fell asleep while praying the pull on his hair would awaken him and he would continue to pray.\u00a0 He had many encounters face to face with the Lord and the other monks begged him to take them with him to the next encounter.\u00a0 The story goes, that it was agreed that the Lord would appear to them on a mountain on a specific day.\u00a0 On the day of the Lords visitation an old disabled man was at the entrance of the monastery begging for someone to carry him to the mountain where visitation would occur.\u00a0 All the young monks refused and went on to the mountain; however St Bishoyi agreed to carry the old, disabled man on his shoulders.\u00a0 The further St Bishoyi went, the greater the weight of the old man became and St Bishoyi struggled all the way to the mountain, where it was revealed to him alone that it was in fact the Lord that he had carried all the way.\u00a0 As a result of his faithfulness to an old, disabled man the Lord promised him that on his death his body would never decay.\u00a0 To this day a casket of the body of St Bishoyi remains.\u00a0 Whilst it appears that it is a place of religiosity, we owe these desert fathers a gratitude of thanks, that for 1600 years they have preserved our scriptures, faced incredibly difficult conditions in the middle of a desert, persecution etc.\u00a0 In the VIP room a dear monk came and sat with us.\u00a0 He wanted to know all our names and occupations and questioned Apostle Natasha at length about her beliefs and Ariel Gate.\u00a0 Due to the wonderful rapport he and Apostle built up in a short time he asked us to pray for him \u2013 something unheard of!\u00a0 Apostle asked him if he was sure he wanted us to do that?\u00a0 As Apostle prayed for him and the seers described what they were seeing, he began to weep as every vision was a confirmation to him, from seeing Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, to his tears being written like poetry in a book for the Father (he was also a poet).\u00a0 We were all moved in such an incredible way,\u00a0that I am still in awe and wonder at how the Lord used Apostle Natasha to show this man that Protestants, Pentecostals and Charismatics can live in the world and not be \u201cof the world\u201d.\u00a0 We have no idea the future impact our hour and a half had on this man, butt we were all visibly moved.\u00a0 It was an absolute high-light of our trip, despite our resistance to visit this \u201creligious\u201d Monastery.<br \/> After the monastery we returned home to Cairo via and Egyptian lunch on the road opposite the Pyramids to pack for our trip to Aswan the next day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 6<\/u> took us on a flight and our main prayer mission south from Cairo domestic terminal (where we saw a beautiful Egyptian bride), to Aswan.\u00a0 Later that afternoon when it had cooled down from 42\u00baC we caught a water taxi across to Elephantine Island and the Movenpick Hotel.\u00a0 We went to the top floor to overlook the Nile in every direction, ordered flavoursome juices to drink, and then called Cheryl, Lisa and Anton and began to pray (under cover as the waiters kept trying to see what we were doing) who gave us spiritual insight as to our mission in Aswan which came out of history, (see Wikipedia \u2013 Elephantine Papyri for full information) where recorded on papyrus scrolls a Jewish man bought an Egyptian wife and children out of slavery on Elephantine Island, so we began to pray that Hagar the Egyptian maidservant (see Gen 16) will marry Jesus and that the whole of Egypt will come to know Yahweh-Elohim as their Lord and Saviour.\u00a0 This mission was short, sweet and to-the-point and accomplished at sunset at the close of the Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 7<\/u> we returned to Cairo from Aswan by 6am in the morning, packed and rested up before our long trek home via Addis Abba.\u00a0 Apostle Natasha, after being \u201chunted down\u201d by Nader\u00a0and his wife Nancy whom she last saw in New Zealand in 2011. Nader\u00a0and Nancy have been working the Repentance Book she gave him\u00a0in New Zealand ever\u00a0since, teaching it in Egypt and are now assisting with translating it into Arabic.\u00a0 Again we had the opportunity to pray into their lives as well as to do Magdy and Annelise\u2019s bloodline\u2019s in the afternoon and watch an incredible video made by their son on the Revolution and how it affected and threatened their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Overall, it is too difficult to explain the hand of God on this trip.\u00a0\u00a0 I know for me the ease of preparing for this trip at such short notice, let alone getting a visa when the embassy is in another town, the finances, and the timing could have only been God.\u00a0 How each Egyptian who needed prayer were \u201cbrought\u201d by divine providence to Apostle Natasha, how each encounter glorified God and left us once again in awe of His greatness.\u00a0 Thank you to everyone who held us up in prayer, your reward awaits you in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=&#8221;4178,4179,4180,4157,4156,4153,4155,4158,4159,4154,4160,4173,4174,4148,4149,4172,4147,4151,4171,4150,4168,4162,4166,4163,4167,4164,4169,4170,4175,4152,4176&#8243; 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having been unable to find accommodation in Cairo.\u00a0 They exist completely from collecting garbage, including clothing and feeding themselves and where possible recycling the garbage from which they eke out a living.\u00a0 In the midst of the Garbage City is the <strong>Cave Church, <\/strong>a Coptic church which seats up to 19,000 people and to this day miracles still happen there.\r\n<a href=\"%0Dhttps:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY%0D\" data-cke-saved-href=\"%0Dhttps:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY%0D\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4x83NmFvpY<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/f58d920662153d4dfd65f0a8d\/images\/5d2de8a4-3547-424c-8b69-7095d66df7b0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" data-file-id=\"1854145\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/f58d920662153d4dfd65f0a8d\/images\/5d2de8a4-3547-424c-8b69-7095d66df7b0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In 979AD a Muslim Caliph asked the Christians if they really believed in their scriptures which they said they did and he insisted in asking if they believed in every word.\u00a0 He then asked them if they believed faith could move a mountain as per their scriptures, again they said they did.\u00a0 The Caliph then challenged them to either, move a particular mountain, convert to Islam or be killed.\u00a0 The Christians prayed and fasted and the mountain that the Cave Church is held,\u00a0physically\u00a0moved 3km.\u00a0 The Caliph saw daylight between the ground and the mountain and was so impressed by the phenomena and\u00a0at their faith, he converted to Christianity and the <strong>Cave Church<\/strong> came into being.\u00a0 The <strong>Cut Mountain<\/strong> (in Arabic) has been geologically confirmed to be of the same soil type as ground 3 km away.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/f58d920662153d4dfd65f0a8d\/images\/b1897338-cb8f-40c8-a15c-f226e7f84d17.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" data-file-id=\"1854153\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/f58d920662153d4dfd65f0a8d\/images\/b1897338-cb8f-40c8-a15c-f226e7f84d17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Apostle Natasha ministered to us out of 1 Samuel 2:1-11 (Hannah\u2019s prayer) but what moved us in particular was verse 8: <em>He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory.<\/em> \u201cAsh Heap\u201d can be translated as garbage heap.\u00a0 This led us to pray for the people of the <strong>Garbage City<\/strong>, that the Father would raise them up and it was agreed that a First Fruits from Ariel Gate will be sown in the form of a book translated into Arabic to\u00a0be sown into the Garbage City people.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That evening we sailed in a gentle breeze on the Nile in a traditional Feluca and prayed for the people of Egypt.\u00a0 The cool of the evening was a welcome end to a hot day followed by a delicious sea food dinner at a restaurant.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 2<\/u> saw us driving through the <strong>City of the Dead<\/strong>. Two million Egyptians live here, the original families were unable to find accommodation in Cairo so they moved into the existing cemetery either into family mausoleums or built their houses around the existing grave stones.\u00a0 When a family member of an existing mausoleum needs to be buried the squatter family moves out, the family member is buried in the ground and after a couple of days the squatter family move back into their mausoleum-home.\u00a0 It is a place with little electricity, water or a sewerage system so conditions are dismal.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After passing through the <strong>City of the Dead<\/strong> we visited a Coptic church, called the <strong>Cavern Church, or Hanging Church (Al Muallaqa in Arabic) dedicated to the Virgin Mary, <\/strong>where the Holy Family took refuge at the time of the murder of all boys two years and under by Herod.\u00a0 The church becaume the seat of the Coptic patriarch for several decades until the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century. \u00a0This was a stunning church built on two pillars of a Roman Fortress built in 98AD. The churches foundations on the pillars consist of palm tree lots and layers of stone, and it had beautiful lattice work walls of ebony and ivory inlays and a pulpit built on 15 beautifully sculptured columns of marble erected in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> century and a baptismal font dating back to the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century. We went into a side room to look through a floor viewing glass to the Roman columns below, and quietly began to sing to the Lord in Zulu.\u00a0 Just into our Zulu praise, a Muslim guide and a young Zulu couple on honeymoon entered; the guide was so moved that we should be \u201ccoincidentally\u201d singing in Zulu to the Lord at the very time he brought his Zulu tourists into the side room that he openly wept!\u00a0 After the Zulu couple agreed we could pray for them and their marriage, we left the room and church with the guide and couple in tears!\u00a0 God moves in mysterious ways!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A quick visit to an Egyptian Coffee house at the Khan Kalili Souk (main Cairo market) where we enjoyed delicious coffees, Egyptian delicacies and ice cream.\u00a0 Whilst waiting for our bus to arrive and collect us home, Magdy our host tried to marry Maki to an Egyptian Secret Police Officer much to\u00a0our\u00a0amusement.\u00a0 We arrived home to pack for our trip into the Desert for the next couple of days.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 3 and 4<\/u> took us north towards Alexandria and west of the Nile to Wadi Natrun (Valley of Salt) where Magdy and Annelise have a Christian Centre that sleeps 1,100 people with all the necessary facilities to feed, lecture and host their guests including a swimming pool.\u00a0 During the Revolution 2011-2013 the local Bedouin protected the centre from revolutionists who wanted to destroy it.\u00a0 The first evening we attended David Damien\u2019s praise and worship conference in the desert. Day 4 we toured the centre and prayed for Magdy and Annelis. We\u00a0met a monk\u00a0of St Bishoyi and his Muslim guest at the Centre and that evening prayed for an Egyptian couple recently returned from the USA \u2013 they were astonished at the insight the Lord gave us when praying for them and sent another married couple to get prayer from us!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Day 5, <strong>Monastery of St Bishoyi <\/strong>without Magdy in our vehicle and through our first Egyptian roadblock (protection for the monastery against militants) where they wanted to see our passports which not everyone was carrying, fortunately, they were so fascinated with a Zimbabwean passport held by a white woman they weren\u2019t interested in anyone else\u2019s<strong>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Magdy was soon behind us in another vehicle and all was well and we were allowed through.\r\nThe <strong>Monastery of St Bishoyi<\/strong> was established when the desert fathers fled Roman occupation and oppression approx. 300-400AD and a Coptic Christian monastery where the un-decayed remains of St Bishoyi remain was established. \u00a0Like most orthodox monastery\u2019s (Greek, Russian or Coptic) they are based around miracles and saints and have wonderful stories to tell.\u00a0 St Bishoyi apparently tied his hair to a rope suspended from a beam so that if he fell asleep while praying the pull on his hair would awaken him and he would continue to pray.\u00a0 He had many encounters face to face with the Lord and the other monks begged him to take them with him to the next encounter.\u00a0 The story goes, that it was agreed that the Lord would appear to them on a mountain on a specific day.\u00a0 On the day of the Lords visitation an old disabled man was at the entrance of the monastery begging for someone to carry him to the mountain where visitation would occur.\u00a0 All the young monks refused and went on to the mountain; however St Bishoyi agreed to carry the old, disabled man on his shoulders.\u00a0 The further St Bishoyi went, the greater the weight of the old man became and St Bishoyi struggled all the way to the mountain, where it was revealed to him alone that it was in fact the Lord that he had carried all the way.\u00a0 As a result of his faithfulness to an old, disabled man the Lord promised him that on his death his body would never decay.\u00a0 To this day a casket of the body of St Bishoyi remains.\u00a0 Whilst it appears that it is a place of religiosity, we owe these desert fathers a gratitude of thanks, that for 1600 years they have preserved our scriptures, faced incredibly difficult conditions in the middle of a desert, persecution etc.\u00a0 In the VIP room a dear monk came and sat with us.\u00a0 He wanted to know all our names and occupations and questioned Apostle Natasha at length about her beliefs and Ariel Gate.\u00a0 Due to the wonderful rapport he and Apostle built up in a short time he asked us to pray for him \u2013 something unheard of!\u00a0 Apostle asked him if he was sure he wanted us to do that?\u00a0 As Apostle prayed for him and the seers described what they were seeing, he began to weep as every vision was a confirmation to him, from seeing Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, to his tears being written like poetry in a book for the Father (he was also a poet).\u00a0 We were all moved in such an incredible way,\u00a0that I am still in awe and wonder at how the Lord used Apostle Natasha to show this man that Protestants, Pentecostals and Charismatics can live in the world and not be \u201cof the world\u201d.\u00a0 We have no idea the future impact our hour and a half had on this man, butt we were all visibly moved.\u00a0 It was an absolute high-light of our trip, despite our resistance to visit this \u201creligious\u201d Monastery.\r\nAfter the monastery we returned home to Cairo via and Egyptian lunch on the road opposite the Pyramids to pack for our trip to Aswan the next day.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 6<\/u> took us on a flight and our main prayer mission south from Cairo domestic terminal (where we saw a beautiful Egyptian bride), to Aswan.\u00a0 Later that afternoon when it had cooled down from 42\u00baC we caught a water taxi across to Elephantine Island and the Movenpick Hotel.\u00a0 We went to the top floor to overlook the Nile in every direction, ordered flavoursome juices to drink, and then called Cheryl, Lisa and Anton and began to pray (under cover as the waiters kept trying to see what we were doing) who gave us spiritual insight as to our mission in Aswan which came out of history, (see Wikipedia \u2013 Elephantine Papyri for full information) where recorded on papyrus scrolls a Jewish man bought an Egyptian wife and children out of slavery on Elephantine Island, so we began to pray that Hagar the Egyptian maidservant (see Gen 16) will marry Jesus and that the whole of Egypt will come to know Yahweh-Elohim as their Lord and Saviour.\u00a0 This mission was short, sweet and to-the-point and accomplished at sunset at the close of the Sabbath.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>Day 7<\/u> we returned to Cairo from Aswan by 6am in the morning, packed and rested up before our long trek home via Addis Abba.\u00a0 Apostle Natasha, after being \u201chunted down\u201d by Nader\u00a0and his wife Nancy whom she last saw in New Zealand in 2011. Nader\u00a0and Nancy have been working the Repentance Book she gave him\u00a0in New Zealand ever\u00a0since, teaching it in Egypt and are now assisting with translating it into Arabic.\u00a0 Again we had the opportunity to pray into their lives as well as to do Magdy and Annelise\u2019s bloodline\u2019s in the afternoon and watch an incredible video made by their son on the Revolution and how it affected and threatened their lives.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Overall, it is too difficult to explain the hand of God on this trip.\u00a0\u00a0 I know for me the ease of preparing for this trip at such short notice, let alone getting a visa when the embassy is in another town, the finances, and the timing could have only been God.\u00a0 How each Egyptian who needed prayer were \u201cbrought\u201d by divine providence to Apostle Natasha, how each encounter glorified God and left us once again in awe of His greatness.\u00a0 Thank you to everyone who held us up in prayer, your reward awaits you in heaven.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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