This post is to let you know that blogging will be light this week and next. The Kronicler has left the country. I arrived in Beirut yesterday. I will be in Lebanon until the weekend and in Cairo next week. I’m here with Amgad Beblawi from the PCUSA, Office for the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia. Tomorrow Charles Wiley and Roger Dermody will be joining us. We are meeting with our partner denominations, the Synod of Syria and Lebanon, and the Synod of the Nile.
Amgad and I arrived late in the afternoon and had a chance to walk by the waterfront in Beruit …
… before having some dinner at this restaurant on the Mediterranean.
This morning we joined a group from the Outreach Foundation and visited the National Evangelical Institute for Boys and Girls, an institute started by Presbyterians that now has 2,100 students.
In the afternoon we drove through Sidon and went to Tyre. There we visited the ancient ruins where the Kronicler had his picture taken at the Hippodrome.
I hope to post more in coming days but we will see what time and internet connections to permit.
