Des Moines presbytery travel journal from Egypt

By Nancy Lister-Settle
Hunger Action Enabler and Joining Hands facilitator, Presbytery of Des Moines 

We arrived in Cairo on the weekend of Eide, the celebration at the end of Ramadan. Our plane landed around midnight and by the time we got downtown it was after 2 a.m.  Still the streets were full of revelers spilling out of cafés, coffee shops, movie theaters. Car horns blared, firecrackers popped, young people sang and chanted. Even six stories up in my hotel room I could hear the sounds of celebration. It matched my excitement at being back in Egypt. [Read more]