Meet Egyptian Pastors Raffat and Ehab

During my time at the Egypt annual General Assembly of the Church of God, I had the opportunity to interact with some great pastors.  Many of the Pastors had a much greater grasp of English than I had of Arabic, and they were kind of enough to look past my limitation.

I had met Pastor Ehab in February when the Executive Committee came to visit us in Maadi.  Pastor Ehab is one of the younger pastors in the country, and has a great ministry in Alexandria with the Camp Caesar Church of God.  Their newly renovated Church is pictured here; Pastor Ehab is a musician and has an artistic flair that came out in redesigning the beautiful facility.  Pastor Ehab teaches music and uses this as a gateway to connect new people to the faith.

Pastor Raffat is another one of the young pastors in Egypt; he and his family moved recently into the "country" to plant a church in the King Maruit area.  They currently worship in the House of Joel Conference Center that the Church of God owns.  He is pictured here in front of the building used for their church activities.  Pastor Raffat previously attended at Baptist seminary in Lebanon where he learned of the Awana program that they use to minister to children.

Both Pastor Ehab and Pastor Raffat were gracious enough to allow me to interview them on video; they were, however, increasingly nervous as we recorded as they began to stumble on their English a bit.  I tried to reassure them that they had nothing to be embarrassed about!  There's a lot of background noise; the camp was a busy place, but a neighboring camp came on their loud speaker as we began to record.

As you see these two pastors sharing, remember to pray for the work of God in the country and in the city--among addicts and among students--from a church plant as well as an established church.  Pray for their families, their integrity, their vision--pray that their leadership will produce fruit just as their following allows God's Spirit to produce fruit in their own lives.