Tomorrow marks the beginning of my trek to Cairo, Egypt for the onething conference there. I'm super excited - I've never travelled internationally before! I'll be heading there with Luke Wood, Justin Rizzo, and other members of the onething team. Dwayne and Jen Roberts and Wes Martin will be speaking at the 4-day event, and we'll be leading worship many times (even a few times in Arabic, believe it or not). After the conference, we'll be ministering at a church in Cairo for a few days and doing a little bit of sightseeing before returning home.
We've received word that the conference will be drawing some 4,000 Egyptian young adults, possibly many more. It's truly a groundbreaking conference and they're estimating that it's probably going to be the largest gathering of Christian youth and young adults in Egypt since the monks back in the early first century.
I count it as an unbelievable privilege to go and serve the Egyptian church during this time. Our team has been praying for the conference and the Lord has really highlighted the issue of servanthood particularly to my own heart. It's so easy in our typical American consumer mindset to go somewhere, "do our thing", and take off. But I want to go and be among them as one who serves so that they see Jesus in me, just as Jesus came to serve and not to be served. Jesus loves the church in Egypt, so much so that scripture prophesies many things about the Lord's redeeming work in Egypt prior to and following Jesus' second coming. So to partner with them in servanthood is to partner with Jesus.
I'm hoping to document the conference as much as possible with photos and regular updates here on my blog if we have any sort of internet access in the middle of the desert. I'm sure there will be wireless when we get to Cairo, though, so keep your feed readers and browsers tuned in!
I would so appreciate your prayers during the trip.
Here are some prayer requests:
- God's protection as we travel - by plane, shuttle, car, and bus
- Help physically to cope with jet lag
- Protection against Satan's attacks and schemes
- The power of God to be released on the worship and speaking
- Preparation for the hearts of the Egyptian young adults that will be attending
Thank you for praying!
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i really cant wait for you to
i really cant wait for you to come
U r most welcome
We really can't wait to see this movement of God. Egypt is really thirsty for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and hungry for God's righteousness.
welp your finished with day
welp your finished with day one now on to day two! God speed bro im praying for you!
Thanks man I really
Thanks man I really appreciate your prayers!!!
I wanted to ask a question!
Hi Josh,
My name is Rafik and I was amongst the thousands that went to see you and praise with you in the ONETHING EGYPT.. =))
You can ask Luke about me. :D
I really appreciate how you explain everything about your equipment and about using your Mac and all that stuff, well what I saw was that all of you guys were doing that, I play guitar (lead) and I have this small band/choir composed of me and my family members. :)
And so I had a lot of questions to ask (?) about him using a Mac/Laptop as well and which effects he uses and stuff like that, kinda like what you have written here, But I don't know his name or how to search for him =(
and by (?) I meant your lead guitarist that has been playing with you in Wadi (Egypt).
So any help from you about what he was using or how I can contact him would be greatly appreciated. =)
You can of course reply me on the e-mail I wrote above!! I'd also like to have you on my Facebook, search me using that same email!!
At last I want to thank you so so much for coming and doing that great thing here in Egypt and Praising with us. =)
Looking forward to hearing again from you!
Your brother in Christ,,
Rafik
Hi Rafik! I am so glad that
Hi Rafik!
I am so glad that Jesus touched your heart at onething and that you really enjoyed the conference!
Our lead guitar player's name is Jordan, and you can find his website and contact info at http://jordanvanderplate.com
He would be glad to answer any of your questions, so feel free to ask him!
Josh
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