Praying for you! Pr. Amy, I'm glad that you made it safely to Egypt! You are very much in my prayers. I know that you will do much good there! Please tell Fr. Calabria that I said hello! I had him for Scripture during my time at Bonaventure. Enjoy your time! God bless you! -Emily M.
I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying your experiences and conversations so far, and I will pray for some cool weather (or at least that you find ways for rest and refreshment in the midst of the heat)! Missed you tonight at Pilates :)
Hello Pastor Amy I am so glad to hear you arrived safely. You will be in my daily prayers as you once again teach and learn with the students. Blessings to you for this wonderful ministry! Enjoy!
prayers Oh Amy, losing a child . . . I'm so sorry for them and for you and for the briefness of little Mina's life. While I believe God holds that child and understands our pain, it does not relieve the pain itself. I pray that the waking moments leave joy unspeakable for little Mina's family. Oh Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
Hospitality Amy, I continue to read your posts and am inspired by what you are doing and who you are becoming! I thought of you when I read this quote from "Radical Hospitality" 'When I let a stranger into my heart, I let a new possibility approach me. When I reach past my own ideas, I begin to stretch myself open to the world, and this opening of my heart could change everything." Praise be to God!
Amy
Craig and I have really enjoyed reading your entries, I love the tatto. As a tattoed pastor myself it makes me smile. I have a lady in my congregation who just got her first, and only tatto last week. She is 82 years old!! - Lisa
a knee tattoo? Hi Amy and Hans,
We've been following your exciting journey and hope that Hans' stomach and your knee are feeling better. Considering your knee, maybe you should have gotten the coptic cross on your knee instead of your wrist so that it could be permanently healed!
It sounds like you are having the best, most intense, most spiritual, most rewarding time. Since you are so good at taking pictures with recently baptized children that you don't even know, perhaps you could help Brad and Angelina out with their new babes? :-)
Stay safe, healthy, and cool!
Peace,
Marsh and Ann
Mike says that he's expecting you to only have one arm when he picks you up at the airport, as the infection will have taken your other one by then (I am more optimistic).
I celebrated a baptism yesterday as well, and so it was fun to read your experience and compare it to what happened in Bellona. Very different, and yet how wonderful that children of God were welcomed into the faith on the same day in different parts of the world! And I can't wait to see your tatoo!
What an experience! Oh, Amy, I got chills of excitement down my spine just reading about this fantastic day of baptisms and tattoos! I can't wait to meet with you in person to hear more about life in rural Egypt. This blog has been so wonderful! I get excited every time I find a new entry. Thank you for all the education and entertainment I have found here. Hello to Hans, and safe journey back home to both of you. Love, Diane
thank you! Thank you Amy for allowing us to follow your journey. It has been so interesting so far, and I am happy just because of the joy in your entries. Thank you!!
It's always good to know that after you leave someone at the airport, they do indeed make it to their intended destination, so thanks for the notice! Enjoy your time together!
I admire your ability to engage so deeply with the students even across this disconnect, and your ability to not let your sadness or sense of injustice detract too much from your genuine love for the people and the culture there. I'm afraid I would just get angry and/or hurt. May your presence there be a quiet witness to a new way of life.
what can be learned A man spoke at our church this year after having been on a mission/learning trip to Africa. He and his pastor, a woman, travelled deep through uninhabited territory, finally landing themselves in a seminary in the middle of no where in which every student was required to make their own houses from the dirt so that they would have shelter during their time of learning. They helped at the seminary, but finally sat down with many of the leaders who, point blank, asked the woman how she could be ordained when it was so obviously against God's law? "It was as if she had been waiting her whole life for that question," I was told by her parishioner. She got up and boldly declared the history of women called by God through the scriptures, and then told of her own call to service. Her parishioner stated that he could see the Holy Spirit come down upon her. The men listened and began to understand the reaches of God's call.
I will be in prayer for a "teaching moment" for you -- one in which you can declare the glory of God and enjoy God's presence immensely as you share your call and are invited to join the Christian "brotherhood."
I'm a Lutheran pastor from Geneva, NY. I'm returning to Egypt for my fourth summer of teaching English at St. Leo's Coptic Catholic Seminary. I'm excited that in 2010 I will also be preaching and leading worship at St. Andrew's Church in Central Cairo, a ministry supported through ELCA Global Mission. I'm looking forward to my husband's return to Egypt in July. Hans and my sister Jen will join me on July 1. ... full info
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