WEBVTT - Bringing Hope In: DRC Ebola Response | Bonus Episode | On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:03.480 I want to be able to go to the ends 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.680 of the earth for people that I haven't even met before, 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.200 because that's what christ did for me. That's what he 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.760 took on humility, he took on human form when he 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.720 had no need to. And if he did that for me, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.840 like there's just no appropriate response but to do that 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:18.560 for others. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.720 Welcome back to another episode of On the Ground with 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.360 Samaritan's Purse, where we take you to the front lines 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.320 and behind the scenes of our work around the world. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.360 I'm your host, Christy Graham, and you may have seen 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.400 in the news about the Abola outbreak in the Democratic 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:40.360 Republic of Congo or the DRC. Samaritan's Purse, our Disaster 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.239 Assistance Response Team or DART for short, is on the 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.120 ground in the DRC. We have opened two Ebola treatment 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:53.320 centers otherwise known as ETC's in the hardest hit areas 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.520 by the outbreak, and we're also training medical workers, providing 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.800 personal protective equipment, and doing training in the community to 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.280 teach people how to prevent the spread of this virus. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.000 And it is with the Lord's help that Samaritan's Purse 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.039 is equipped to take on this disease. We've done it 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.319 before in Liberia in twenty fourteen and the DRC in 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:21.560 twenty eighteen. It's such a horrible disease and it's difficult 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.840 on our staff, but God redeems and restores difficult times. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.680 With him, nothing is wasted, and you're going to hear 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.000 about how He has prepared us through these two past 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.480 responses to take on Abola yet again. The disease is dangerous. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.639 It is truly a sacrifice to say yes and go serve. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.680 I am in awe of these team members that are 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.560 saying yes, Lord send me. Though there's a high mortality 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.080 rate to the disease, there is still hope. There are 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.400 people who have recovered from Abola and have gotten discharged 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.840 our staff. They're bringing hope. I got to take part 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.800 in an infectious disease response training alongside members of our 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.040 Disastro Assistance Response Team. I got to suit up and 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.240 experience what it's like to put on the personal protective equipment. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.320 Being a part of this training it impacted me so much. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.480 I've always had great respect for our teams, but now 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.880 even more. Bev Kofelt, who has served on the last 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.440 two egol of responses, took me through the training wow. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.359 So usually at an etc. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.120 We would have like wash people. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.280 Either national stuff that've been trained or someone that would 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.360 help with the downing. So like you always have a 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.760 partner when you're donning, so that I can check Katelyn 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.240 and say, yeah, Kate, when you're good to go. We 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.080 kind of give the once over and then Katelyn. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.000 Be like, Okay, that's yet We're going to go. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.360 That's a lay up mirrors because if you get in 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:46.640 there and all of a sudden you have a little 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.760 liver breach, like you have to go right out. So 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.919 what we're watching for in this training is making sure 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.640 that everyone's getting the order right. So first thing is 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.080 they put the first layer of gloves on and then 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.880 they're gonna put their suit on, second layer of gloves 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.960 and their masks and then their hood. So you'll watch 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.280 kind of the sequence that they're following there, and we 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.040 have people in here helping them out too. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.840 How long can you be in the suit, like to 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:11.560 keep it no. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.959 More than forty five minutes to an hour. We put 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.160 the time on their arm and so as a wash lead, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.080 I'm on the outside watching my teeth and if I 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.240 saw that Caitlin's looking a little red in the face. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.200 I'm like, hey, Calen, let me see your arm, and 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.800 she shows me that she went in at like say, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.919 two thirty. I'm like, okay, what do you have left 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.320 to do because you need to get out. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.040 You have the stress and the adrenaline. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.240 So it's the mood different. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.760 We kind of like the slowest smooth smooths fast. But 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.680 I heard someone say that once and I'm like, that 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.000 is so good for Ebola. There's no rush here. No 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.800 one should be panicking. It should just be calm before 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.000 they cross this threshold to talk through everyone's starting. Who's 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.520 responsible for what we pray? There's no wasted movements, and 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.160 you have to just be calm, patient, listen, have each 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.120 other's back. You can't be all moving at once because 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.520 all of a sudden hit Christy and now her goggles 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.800 are like this. She has to go out and there 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.560 has to be that built in trust with each other. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.960 Like I mentioned earlier, Samaritan's purse has responded to Ebola 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.080 before I spoke with Beth about how years later she 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:26.120 has seen the Lord redeem that incredibly difficult season. We 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.159 know that God never wastes or you know, he uses 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.680 all things our failures, Our shortcomings are you know, setbacks, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.080 obstacles for his glory. Man memori evil God uses for good. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.159 So tell me about how twenty fourteen our team kind 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.159 of went blind. Yeah, didn't know what we were doing, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.640 didn't have this training. How US is redeeming that time 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.400 as hard and painful as it is. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.640 I think one of the things we learned so much, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.440 first of all, and then to see that what we've 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.920 learned has not been wasted, the fact that then we 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.280 did training and we were better prepared in twenty nineteen 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.560 in DRC, and then we continue to train every year 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.760 for infectious disease. So every year we have people come 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.320 through getting these suits and train and we also like 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.760 people like Sasha who put an incredible amount of work, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.360 who are liaising with the wh show. We're now seen 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.800 as a leader US and doctors about borders for infectious disease. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.000 And now being able to have these guys here, I 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.800 feel so much better about being able to train them 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.760 prepare them for what they're going to go to in 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.640 DRC now, which of course we didn't have before. But again, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.960 like you said, God has redeemed it. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.000 Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing so in 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.400 the field, after suiting up, our teams humbly go to 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.320 God in prayer before they begin their shifts. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.680 Lord, I just pray that you would just go with 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.200 this team, give them strength and give them clarity of mind. Lord, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.880 and we just pray that you would help them do 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.360 what you've asked them to do. Our Lord, we pray 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.520 for the people of DRC and the people that are 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:54.920 being impacted byable. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:55.320 In your name. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:55.760 Amen. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.680 BEV led the Water Sanitation and Hygiene team through the simulation. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.400 You want someone to come in this room. That is 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.799 a completely clean room. So even if there's a little 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.080 bit of waste in here, as soon as it hits 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.680 that chlorine, it's deactivating the evola, right, So you just 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.279 have to give a once over. Just be really good, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.760 don't leave until everyone's ready and everyone's agreed that the 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.960 room is good. So Brian, you're like, okay, guys, there's 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.320 anything else. Let's take a quick look. Okay, we're good, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.080 Squeegey is back. Everything's good. Levels of our hand washing 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.880 stations is good, all right. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.720 BEV talked about how it's important to detach panic and 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.599 full emotion while keeping compassion. I imagine that it's hard 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.359 to balance for our staff WASH teams. They must stay 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.920 task oriented, they must protect themselves in these high risk situations, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.440 and if a patient passes away, it's an opportunity for 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.800 our WASH teams to treat that individual with dignity and respect. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.799 But it's also such a critical time because the disease 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.560 is still highly contagious, so they must spray the body 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.920 down and care for it to prevent disease from spreading. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.480 But we also want to respect these image bearers. Our 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.200 medical teams also went through simulations. They're getting used to 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.200 doing things that they've done hundreds of times over, like 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.520 starting an IV on a patient, but this time in 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.440 the thick layers of gloves and hot tie XXA. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.440 So we are going to be giving a starting an 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.880 IV en Bolla sing little Timmy today. So we're going 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.680 to think through once we walk in the room, just 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.640 like you do in your normal environments at home, doing 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.120 an observation of the room, seeing what you need to 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.720 move and order to do what you need to do, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:46.440 so looking to see your sharps container. So if Kate's 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.240 going to be starting an ID, she should have a 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.280 buddy that's able to hold with somebody her body. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.560 At the training, BEV talked with me about a passage 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.560 of scripture that has been on her heart. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.760 This person I should have the team today is so 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:05.160 perfect acts twenty twenty four policys. But my life is 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.239 worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.960 the work assigned to me by the Lord Jesus, the 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.960 work of telling others of the good news about the 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.880 wonderful grace of God. And before that, he says, and 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.640 now I'm bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.720 I don't know what awaits me, except that the Holy 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.160 Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.560 suffering lay ahead. So he knows going in the same 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.360 way we know going in. And yet he says, you know, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.560 but my life is worth nothing to me unless I 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.040 use it for the finishing the work assigned me by 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.720 the Lord Jesus. And we talked about that this morning, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.520 about we know three to a certain extent what you're 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.319 going into. If you've never done it before, you never 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.400 know exactly unho you get there. But that's what we're 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.800 doing this training. But this is the purpose, you know, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.520 And just to spend that time in prayer with the 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:53.719 Lord asking the Holy Spirit to discern do you want 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.400 me to go Lord or is it my ego and 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.520 my pride. You have to have a little bit of 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.800 a reverence for the disease. Yeah, you have to respect it. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.280 So you have to check your ego at the door. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.360 All I can think about is like, are you called 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.480 or you capable? And I think this is even like 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.560 a tricky balance because we want to be capable, We 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.280 want to be trained and equipped as well as we can, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.360 but at the end of the day, we have to 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.600 be surrendered and called right, So you do want the knowledge, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.360 you do want the training. We don't want to go 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.120 into a blind But if you get too capable and 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.000 too I know what I'm doing, that's. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.360 Where you There's no room for arrogance your pride anywhere 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.400 in our life in general, but especially in a response 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.880 like this. There's a humility of understanding, just the weight 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.240 of it. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.480 One of our staff members who can speak into this 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.880 humility is Dustin Martin. He is a WASH technical advisor 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:49.200 in our International Project's department. Dustin works and supports our 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.400 field offices around the world in their water programs, and 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.320 he is likely going to deploy to DRC very soon. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.840 One of our podcast correspondents caught up with Dustin at 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.240 the training. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.400 When we do this training on an annual basis, it 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.599 is normally for a broad group. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:06.640 Of infectious diseases. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.079 So think about our COVID responses in the past, or cholera. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.600 These are the situations that we're trying to prepare for 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.840 this week in response to the current crisis that's going 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.480 on in the DRC, we are trying to do a 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:26.120 just in time training for people who have availability to 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.520 deploy to the Congo over the next three months. I've 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.480 been involved in a couple of infectious disease responses in 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.559 the past. One of them was in Uganda in twenty 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.640 twenty two, but in that case I didn't actually have 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.760 to don ppe and go into the high risk zone 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.920 where either suspect or confirmed patients were. So this time around, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.080 in doing this training and preparing for a deployment, it's 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.160 a little bit different for me because although I've done 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.920 this training before, I am for the first time staring 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.400 down like a very real deployment where I will likely 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.280 in the next couple weeks be going into the high 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.640 risk zone. Also, since twenty twenty two, I've had two 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.040 children with my wife, and so my family situation is different, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.280 and so all of that is kind of rattling around 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.560 in my head as it becomes very real. We've talked 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.280 about this kind of stuff in trainings and in manuals 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.800 and in PowerPoint decks that talk about it in theory, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.959 but it's becoming very very real for all of us 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:28.439 this week. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.800 So why are you willing to go? 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.240 I believe that everyone was created in the imago day 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.560 the image of God, and that means that they have 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:44.160 intrinsic worth and value, and that value extends beyond cultural borders. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.000 It doesn't matter what passport you carry, it doesn't matter 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.560 the color of your skin. You are worth something in 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:55.360 the eyes of the Creator. And I love my family, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.720 I love my colleagues, and I would I would go 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.440 to the ends of the earth for these people. But 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.000 I want to be able to go to the ends 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.680 of the earth for people that I haven't even met before, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.800 because that's what Christ did for me. He took on humility, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.400 he took on human form when he had no need to. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.720 And if he did that for me, like there's just 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.520 no appropriate response but to do that for others. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.360 You are preparing physically this week learning doing the training. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.400 How are you preparing spiritually? What does your prayer life 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.360 look like right now going into that, and are there 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.280 any scripture versus passages things that you're reading right now 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.600 that are encouraging you. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.000 It's a lot of short prayers. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.000 It's a lot of like just taking a moment to reflect, 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.640 being willing to talk to people. It's a ton of 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.200 short prayers over my kids, with my wife, you know, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.360 a lot of intentional conversations about these things and reflecting 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.440 on why, like what I just answered, like why it 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.520 is that we do this? So in terms of a 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.680 scripture verse honestly, like I mean one that comes to 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.000 me right now, and many times when I think about 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.319 this line of work and why I do it is 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:06.560 Philippians chapter two. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.400 Or have this attitude which is also in Christ. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.480 Jesus who, being in very nature God, did not consider 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.920 a quality with God something to be grasped, but made 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:20.480 himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant. And 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.160 that is what drives me, that is what keeps me grounded, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.520 that like Christ did that for me, I'm meant to 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.240 have that attitude, and so that's something I often come 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.200 back to is just like I'm doing this. I'm doing 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.320 this because it's what Christ, what Christ has done for me, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.920 what He's demonstrated for me. I don't think it means 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.880 that he guarantees my safety, but I do have confidence 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.520 and peace going into these into these environments knowing that 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.400 He is with me, knowing that I've made this decision 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.880 with him and with my family on board. The thing 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.760 I like, I really want to just emphasize is that 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.800 for many of our DART members, and I know for 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.360 our IHQ staff talk with folks about this is like 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.000 it's more than just the individual that goes to serve 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.880 that that are like quote unquote the heroes of this story. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.080 Like I really do mean it that, like I can't 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.720 I can't do this without my wife, and this is 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.960 something that we do together. And I would hate for 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.640 someone to think that like, oh, look at this, like 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.520 brave man who is willing to go and to put 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.800 himself at risk, when like the truth is, like my 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.360 my wife and my kids are are are as much 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.120 a part of that as anything else. They stay behind, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.400 but they bear they bear the weight of it as well. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.040 And yeah, and I think of a lot of like 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.320 everybody at ed quarters is. You know, not everybody's got 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.200 children or a spouse, but like families bear the weight 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.080 of this as well, and they're they're as much in 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.720 this and a part of this as the people going 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.160 because they are supporting in prayer, they're keeping home life stable. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.920 I couldn't do it without without her behind me. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.800 I love that Dustin and his whife are united front. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.240 They are both serving the Lord in their different callings. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.440 Some of us are the senders and some of us 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.400 are the goers, and that can change based on the 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.600 season that we're in, and we need to remember that 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.040 one role isn't more important than the other. Just like 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.680 the Body of Christ. We all have different gifts that 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.200 the Lord gave us, and he wants us to use 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.360 them for his glory. I know for me, I was 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.080 a sender for many years when Edward was in the military, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.840 and it truly gave me such pride and just was 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.680 a privilege to be able to take care of our 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.480 kids so that he could go. And so I want 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.680 to speak to people that are the senders. Your job 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.120 is important. These men and women could not go into 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.760 the fire without knowing that their home and their loved 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.320 ones back home are taken care of, okay, and now 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.720 it's hard as well for the goers to put on 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.160 these suits. So now let's take you back. We're going 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.400 to get into that suit. This is called the dawning. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:00.280 Though. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:00.880 That's how you do. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.600 And I'm already really hot and I'm not even halfway there. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:12.080 It gets hard, yes, all right for goggles. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.840 Yes, we got really putting into perspective what our teams do. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:23.000 I mean, this in a safe, confined environment is still 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.480 makes you anxious. And that's why I think training is 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:27.080 so important. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:28.200 And that's why I keep thinking. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.000 You know, we have to prepare in season and out 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.960 of season for the gospel, you know, because when it's 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.960 in hard situations, you have to go back to what 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.360 you know over hand. We've been trained, We've been prepared. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.760 Every minute that I was in that suit felt so long. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.560 It was finally time to take the personal protective equipment off. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:58.240 I was thrilled. This process is called doffing. It is 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.119 similar to donning, and it was a whole process requiring 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:06.280 a lot of patience. I can't even imagine how difficult 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.439 it is to be slow and methodical. After working a 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:14.119 long shift facing ebola, all you want to do is 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.160 rip that suit off and get some air. But safety 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.080 is the number one priority, and so it's important to 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.119 go slow and you have a team member that talks 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.760 you through every single step. They're watching and making sure 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.879 that you're following each procedure. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.360 All right, Christy, come on in here. So the first 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.399 thing you're gonna do acting you go back and you're wash. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.639 My hands. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.800 After every single step I had to wash my hands 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.400 in chlorine solution, from taking the layers of glove off 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.159 to the goggles, the apron, the suit, the hood, the mask, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:18:00.439 every single time you had to wash your hands forget layers. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:01.439 You have to do this. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.800 We're gonna get another bath where that apron was. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.880 Okay, see do you feel better already? 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.800 Yeah, you're going to remove those gloves and wash our hands. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:17.640 Good job. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.880 The most important thing is that, yeah, you're listening. That's 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.200 where it's so important that you know you trust yourself. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.639 You're listening to the doffer and you're not like, no, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.119 I think I should be doing this, and you're like, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.080 you're really at the mercy of them, especially if you've 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.240 been in there for a really, really long time, you're tired, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.920 you can't see through your goggles. He's thinking clearly, he's 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.199 keeping the calm boys. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:41.560 That's what I think. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:47.840 Thank you, well done, Thank you. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.919 It was such a relief to get that suit and 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.440 that mask off. It gets so hot in that tie 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.159 deck suit, and again I can't even imagine what it 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.440 would be like under dangerous circumstances where you're facing ebola. 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.360 But even under practice, it was still really difficult. I'm 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.760 extremely clastrophobic, and so putting that suit on was really difficult. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.960 I had to pray and I had to say scripture 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.480 in my mind to stay calm, and again I couldn't 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.400 imagine wearing all that in the heat of Africa while 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.760 serving patients who have a deadly disease. It truly helped 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.639 me to have more empathy and compassion and to pray 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.240 for our teams more urgently. Once I was out of 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.520 that suit, which again was such a relief, I got 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.560 to meet a member of our disastro Assistance Response team, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.600 Kate Allen. Why did you sign up for the dark Arresser? 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.159 Why would you do something like this? 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.440 I think just got really spoke to me about if 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:48.440 you don't go, he will. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.760 You know, there's a lot of places that have a 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.840 lot of need war zones, catastrophes where there's a sense 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.840 of danger and discomfort and going and yeah, I just 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.560 felt really strongly that was calling me into mission work, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.040 but not long term mission work, more the kind of 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.320 using my skills to feel to just drop in, provide 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:06.800 something and. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.560 Then go from what kind of doctor are you? I'm 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.760 an emergency room doctor? Okay, so you see it all? 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.800 Yeah, so much like these hospitals and clinics that we 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.359 set up, you know, who can see anything, but this 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.080 specifically is Ebola, so you know what you're going into. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:21.680 And as I was putting the suit on, I thought 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.359 of the armor of God, you know how we are 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.000 supposed to but we have a spiritual attack and an enemy. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.040 We should be putting our armor on and taking it 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.880 very seriously. So maybe what is the difference of saying 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:32.200 yes to a trip like this? 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.800 I think it's the same. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.560 I've been to Iraq, I've been to the Ukraine, Like, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:44.160 none of these situations are secure, and I think I've 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.000 counseled a lot of people who've thought about going into 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.280 dark you know, of just being that God hasn't promised 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.919 you to come home safe. God doesn't say you're going 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.520 to be absolutely fine. You're not going to catch e 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.000