God is love. 1 John 4:8 She looked over and there he was. She couldn’t believe when he walked up to her and started talking. It was like they had known each other their whole lives. It truly was love at first sight. It seems like this is how many love stories start. All you […]
From the beginning of creation, Satan keeps presenting God’s counterfeit: a wicked, half-truth about God and His character. He does not appear immediately as blatantly wicked. He starts his evil by sowing minuscule doubt that soon grows exponentially, causing destruction. Satan planted the seeds of doubt in Eve, making her uncertain about God’s love […]
Have you ever come away from a first meeting with a fellow believer, moved by realizing “we share the same heart”?! Not just like-minded but sharing the same heart…in Christ. Susan and I have been blessed by that experience more times than we can count. Once again we shared that blessing at the 4G3 Middle […]
During the conference, we learned that the Sudanese are poorly treated in Egypt. Women are harassed, stoned and beaten up. Their children are bullied in schools. On day four, the Holy Spirit prompted Wahid and me to ask the Sudanese for forgiveness for all the mistreatment they face. We decided to take one Sudanese man […]
Being a shepherd to others entails that I forgive others to be able to shepherd like Jesus. We asked the Sudanese to share whom they needed to forgive. Little did we expect the heart-wrenching testimonies that the Sudanese shared. One Sudanese lady, Madelaine, shared that her 17-year old brother disappeared. When she tried to call […]
Last night, after the conference program was over, Wahid and I went for a walk in the conference center. The air was cool and refreshing; the moon gave just the right amount of light. As we walked, there are sitting areas in the garden of the conference center. We hear sounds coming from each sitting […]
We traveled today to go to the Mountain of Prayer, a conference center in the middle of the desert. The center is about two hours away from Cairo, around 100 miles. I know that 100 miles will not take you two hours in the USA, but it does because of traffic here in Cairo. On […]
In 2003, a mission trip led by Wahid and Laila Wahba with members from Highlands Fellowship radically changed how our church approached the call of Jesus to ‘go and make disciples’. From this trip, Highlands Fellowship stepped out in faith to take the Great Commandment and Great Commission seriously. The church has now hosted and […]
“..For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are […]
