Rain peppered down on us as we snaked our way between the rows of looming apartment buildings in New Cairo, 5th Settlement. I was reminded of our good-humored tour guide, Mourad’s, words, “It only rains 15 days out of the year in Egypt!” Undeterred, we reached a beautiful cemetery that opened up in the midst of the buildings. It was filled with a maze of walls topped with cross after cross - Protestant, Catholic, Coptic - all pointing upward into the heavy clouds toward heaven. On the edge of the cemetery, facing a busy square in this poor area of the 5th Settlement, sits a steep area of sand, waiting. It is waiting to be the foundation of a new church plant building to bring glory to God and transformation to this city with the love and witness from God.
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