December 26, 2001

Holiday visits are an all-generational activity.

The visits continued today, as they will for quite some time now - traditionally, at holiday times, families spend a lot of time visiting relatives. Since everyone is somebody's cousin, that takes a while! We then headed down to Amman to see more people from (surprise) Zababdeh, and to drop our computer off at a local computer shop, praying for its healing!

Then it was off to the airport and our flight to Egypt. Seems appropriate somehow to leave the troubled land of Palestine/Israel after Christmas with a little jaunt to Egypt, as Mary and Joseph saw fit to do. We are going to spend our time in Cairo with friends that we met in Iraq. The two of them are Presbyterian pastors teaching at the Coptic Evangelical Seminary in Cairo.

We arrived late at night but ended up talking well into the wee hours anyway - it's nice to be in a peaceful place sharing with folks from a similar language, culture, and faith background. We don't get that combination often in Zababdeh.