Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

It started out okay. Better than okay -- it was good. Better than good -- Jacob and his family were being well taken care of as guests in the land of Egypt. But then time rolled on. The new Pharaoh and the people of Egypt began to wonder... who were these foreigners living in their land? For they became much more than a family, but a people, a nation. One that had to be reckoned with. One that could turn against Egypt. And the people of Israel, the children who had descended from Jacob, cried out to the Lord. Lord have mercy! And we read that God heard, God remembered, God saw, and God knew.