Site of Assassination

This is the reviewing stand where Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was sitting watching a parade in October of 1981 when he was assassinated. He is buried across the street from this place where there are two armed guards on duty 24/7.

Cairo, Egypt

Yes...it is the Christian symbol right here in North Africa!

This is a Coptic Church that was carved into the mountain...never seen

anything like this before! There were two churches like this a few hundred yards from each

other and this is the smaller one!

All of this and more was carved into the side of the mountain! And we thought Stone

Mountain had some artwork! More carvings are still being done.

One view of the larger of the two churches. They have services every

Thursday night and thousands of people go every week.

Another view of the Coptic Church

"Garbage City"....all of the garbage in Cairo is sent to this place

recycle what they can with most of the work being done by women and children. The two Coptic Churches above are nearby the Garbage City and we were told that those workers in the are the people who did the work to build the churches and do the carvings in the mountain

DESERT!

A family living on the roof of a building. Notice the satellite. One person called it the 'national flower'. People may not have much, but they will have a satellite. That is why our investment in the Kingdom Sat is so worthy. I was speaking to a group of women who did not know me but they saw a picture of Johnny and said, "He is famous here! He is on our TV!"

The Nile River

Our first view of the pyramids from the city of Cairo!

Here we are! Giza Pyramids

You can even shop in the desert!

Another taping for the IMB

Right across the street from the Spinx was a KFC where we had lunch! You could take a

picture of the pyramids from the window of the KFC!

The pyramids are only a short distance from the city

Tunisia in North Africa

Welcome to Tunisia

Beautiful green countryside

More tapings at an ancient baptismal site

American Cemetery

World War II Map in colored marble

American Cemetery - World War II

Streets of Tunis

Algeria

Welcome to Algeria

Police escort through Algeria as we made our way to the border to enter Tunisia.

Sometimes Americans are targets for bandits and the likes.

Rural city life in Algeria

A resort area along the coast of Algeria

The seaport of Annaba

Where the New Testament was canonized by Augustine

An actual bone from the body of Augustine in cased behind the glass in the tube

The Cathedral of St. Augustine in Annaba, Algeria. Throughout our journey, Johnny did on the spot challenges to the Church in America to motivate and mobilize Christians toward the Middle East.

Jordan

Incredible is not a good enough word to describe the things we have seen and heard during these last two weeks. Life changing is also not a good description of what our hearts have experienced. There is a great work going on in the Middle East and we are only a small part. More workers are need to join in the harvest. Long term, short term, even just a few weeks would help. Are you willing to go? I am going to post only a few pictures from each of the four countries we visited. These are not even highlights.....people and their testimonies are the highlights and this blog will not be sufficient for those issues. However, I will share some of the sights with you briefly.

Mount Nebo and the desert....A personal word from the Pastor was video taped

for the church on Sunday

Geocaching at its best! Found 2 in Amman, Jordan

An olive wood factory that was staff by workers with disabilities

Overlooking a city in Jordan

A Special Occasion

It takes a special occasion for the Hunt clan to get together and it finally happened after many years. Norman celebrated his 20th year as pastor at Hopewell and it brought the brothers, sister and even some of the cousins together for the weekend. It was great fun!

Race at Kenly, NC

We had a race last week, but I don't want to talk about it. (This was NOT a picture of it)

Happy Birthday, Maddie!

Happy Birthday to my sweet niece, Maddie!

She is so adorable (but she is stuck on Julio)!

To see more pictures of her modeling for the store she works for in Wrightsville Beach, NC, go to www.shophallelu.com

Gatlinburg, Tennessee! (oh boy!)

Well....I didn't get any pictures of the Timothy+Barnabas conference in Gatlinburg, but I did get a picture of my wonderful assistant, Sarah, at her first geocache! During the free afternoon at T+B I couldn't find anything better to do than go find a cache and one was a block from our condo. I don't know that Sarah is 'hooked' on geocaching after just one hunt, but she definitely got a good taste of the 'thrill of the hunt'! Thanks, Gulfwind!

Can you believe so many senior adults in one building! This is only the first of two Jubilee Conferences for this week. The first conference sold out quickly with 6,000 registrants so they had to add a second one for the same week. Wow! Jake does such a great job planning and seeing that everyone is taken care of and having a good time. Best of all, I get to spend time with Katie and Carson. Watching them 'work at the conference' and being excited about the opportunity is a great thing. Last night they were walking back to their room from our room with Millie and Scott as their escorts and in just a minute they were banging at our door to get back in. A bear had crossed their path in the parking lot! They were all scared to death! We got in the car and went on a 'bear hunt' riding up and down the parking lot looking for the bear. We couldn't find it then, but later spotted it in the small woods down the hill from the condo. Tonight I heard a lot of banging and realized it may be the bear in our trash can outside and sure enough...there he was, right outside my door! I ran and got Johnny out of bed, sound asleep, to see the bear and by the time he got there, he was gone! Johnny went back to bed, not caring as much about the bear as I did, but caring about me waking him up from his sleep to see a bear that wasn't there! Well...I looked out the front into the parking lot and there he was....again!!! I had to call somebody, so I called Lindsey who is in the next building and finally, she saw the bear!!!! There really are bears in Gatlinburg! (at least one)

Fun Time!

We had two great Timothy+Barnabas Conferences in Atlanta and Gatlinburg this year and I didn't get a single picture that was clear enough to post on my blog! So sad! In between the two conferences during the fall school break for Katie and Carson, I made a quick visit to Disney and Universal Studios with them. We had a great time and wonderful weather. (We managed to be away during all the flooding) While we were there we celebrated Lindsey's birthday. I finally found out that she is good at something....she won the hoola-hoop contest for the adults at the Hard Rock Hotel Pool! If you go to Universal, watch out for the Jimmy Neutron ride! It's a killer!