The Red Cross

and why I donate Alexandria, Egypt.  The fear had been building up for perhaps a month.  Suddenly we were called together and packed away into a hot empty school building.   The Egyptian police begged us not to leave the premises. They were protecting us from their own people. Those caring for us here were… Continue reading The Red Cross

God Bless the Red Cross

I wasn’t expecting his reaction and it hit me like a blow to the head. During the Arab-Israeli war, we were hastened unceremoniously from Egypt, (where I’d been teaching at a mission school), onto a German freighter, one of the last vessels to leave the country with fleeing, or expelled foreigners. The ship had pulled… Continue reading God Bless the Red Cross