Conservative Baptist Leader in Egypt Recounts Leaving Life in America to Serve There

Dr. Ishak Morgos, president of the Conservative Baptist Churches in Egypt and founder and dean of the Conservative Baptist Theological College in Egypt, has described how he and his wife, Dr. Rania Morgos, left the United States in 2014 to serve in Egypt. Speaking in an interview, he said the couple moved with their three children, leaving behind property, vehicles, professional positions, friends, schools and business projects. They settled in Egypt during unstable political, economic and security conditions that followed the 25 January Revolution.

According to Morgos, the couple dedicated their work to serving the needy, the sick, orphans and widows, a practical form of charity toward neighbors (Matthew 25:35). He described the work as carried out with faithfulness and joy despite hardship.

Morgos said he was born in Alexandria in 1969 to a family with roots in Assiut. He wrote that he came to personal faith in Christ on 22 February 1984, at age 14, after attending a meeting at the First Apostolic Church, where Pastor Jimmy Estefanous was the pastor. He later worked in business while studying, and in the United States he completed studies in engineering and theology, earning a master’s degree and then a doctorate in theology.

The couple lived in Northern Virginia from 2002, where Morgos said they were members of a large Baptist church near the White House. He said the family’s children attended private Christian schools affiliated with the Baptist denomination. Morgos said he was prosperous in those years, and he described a period of pride in his own life, which he attributed to the prayers of his wife.

Morgos said his wife, a physician, had long believed she was called to serve in Egypt, a conviction she held even before they married. He said he had been reluctant at first, pointing to the difficulties of daily life in Egypt, but that she remained committed to the calling she believed she had received. He said she “held firmly” to that calling.

Source: Read the original report (translated from Arabic)