Easter Service in Massawa, Eritrea

Sailing Faith: The Long

Way Home

Boats in Suakin, Sudan

The Gregg A Granger

Family Adventure

Faith heeling on passage to Sudan

Mosque along the Suez Canal, Egypt

Asmarra, Eritrea

UN Hospitals seem always to be in areas where peacekeeping activities are occurring, and it's a testimony to the effectiveness of the peacekeeping mission in Eritrea, or maybe it’s their ability to shoot straight, that while I’m here, the UN Hospital has one patient.  The hospital is run by competent medical officers of the Jordanian military. They test me for malaria, and this time it’s positive.  They start me on a regimen of sleep, with brief periods of wakedness to change the IV bag, or have me take a couple of pills, or poke me with something.  Lorrie gets a room for the family, and Amanda stays with me the first night...

...The longer I’m in Cairo, the more difficult things become in Eritrea, but the more blessings are provided at the same time.  Lorrie's money is running out.  On hearing this, a French man sailing to Asia, who could never expect to see us again, hands Lorrie $200, saying, "With what you've got going on, anybody would do that."

A boat in the anchorage is broke-into while the owners are sleeping and they lose a camera, and binoculars, among other things.  This, by the way, is the definition of piracy.  The officials are, with exception, making life difficult, and Lorrie has a tough time dealing with everything.  Food is scarce – the main staple being cabbage.  Cabbage soup, casserole, stew.   They can't buy eggs, or even a chicken...

...What is most heart wrenching is that our experienced hardship over the course of less than three weeks in the country of Eritrea, is experienced years on end by Eritreans without a lifeline to imported protein.

The Nile River at dusk, near Luxor, Egypt

Amanda in downtown Suakin, Sudan

This bombed-out structure stands over the entrance to Massawa Harbour

Christian summer camp with Mama Maggie (in white) in Cairo, Egypt

At the UN Hospital in Asmara, Eritrea for treatment of Gregg's malaria by Dr. Shono (on left)