Why Mount Sinai?

Sinai is a natural altar, a 7.500ft high mountain that rises abruptly from the desert, higher than all others mountains in that range.

Also known as Horeb, one of the meanings of the word is 'waste'. It is until this day a desert area, with few people living there, e.g. Bedouins and shepherds.

That's where 'the waste of Egypt', that is the Hebrew slaves, came to encamp afther their departure from the land of slavery.

When they arrived there, they were nothing but real human waste: men and women, youngh and old and children, with their backs scarred from the whips of their slave masters, their feet callous from standing knee-deep in mud all day making bricks to build cities for pharaoh, their clothes but old rags, their eyes seeing nothing but the horrible image of slavery from the day they were born.

But right there, at the foot of that mountain, that people became a great nation! The desorderly slaves departed from there with the book of the law, given to them by God Himself, with clear directions to the Promised Land and the assurance of God's help and protection as they marched on to become one of the most prosperous and feared nation on earth.

So, Mount Sinai is a symbol of victory, of rising from the ashes, of the impossible becoming possible, the weak becoming strong. It is where the waste become wealth and the forgotten are remembered. It is also a sign that God sees and remembers His people and does not leave them at the mercy of their oppressors.

Sinai is the only mountain on earth where God set foot and decidedly changed the destiny of His people.

And that's why we go there! When we are standing on top of Mount Sinai our faith is at its highest. All these facts come to life to us because you are not just reading about that place, you are seeing with your own eyes!

That's why we have campaings of faith to Mount Sinai once a year at the UCKG. Since we started doing this in 1980, great victories have been accomplished there through prayers made there.

We go to Mount Sinai for great things. We go there to change lifes. We go there to resolve difficult situations.

We go there to sacrifice our all, in return for God's all! It is a privilege to be part of it. It is a blessing to take part in the campaign of Mount Sinai.

Bishop Renato Cardoso