[1][2] Emile Zaki is a pastor and also the general secretary of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Egypt, also known as the Synod of the Nile.
It helps with running hospitals, clinics, social service and employment agencies, retreat centers, day schools, and its own seminary.
However, a steady trickle of Orthodox and Catholic Copts are joining the Evangelicals because they are seen as (among other things) less laden with heavy ritual, more generous with welfare and more flexible over marriage and divorce.
[10] Evangelical Christians belonging to this group form a tight-knit community where everybody knows everybody and share common rituals like serving as "Beit Feel" in Beit El-Salam in Agami and, more recently, going to Kasr El Dobara Evangelical Church's hip camps known as Wadi Sports Camps.
The early evangelicals played a role in Egypt's education and this was documented in Paul Sedra's book: From Mission to Modernity.