Speaker 1: I want to be able to go to the ends
Speaker 1: of the earth for people that I haven't even met before,
Speaker 1: because that's what christ did for me. That's what he
Speaker 1: took on humility, he took on human form when he
Speaker 1: had no need to. And if he did that for me,
Speaker 1: like there's just no appropriate response but to do that
Speaker 1: for others.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of On the Ground with
Speaker 2: Samaritan's Purse, where we take you to the front lines
Speaker 2: and behind the scenes of our work around the world.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Christy Graham, and you may have seen
Speaker 2: in the news about the Abola outbreak in the Democratic
Speaker 2: Republic of Congo or the DRC. Samaritan's Purse, our Disaster
Speaker 2: Assistance Response Team or DART for short, is on the
Speaker 2: ground in the DRC. We have opened two Ebola treatment
Speaker 2: centers otherwise known as ETC's in the hardest hit areas
Speaker 2: by the outbreak, and we're also training medical workers, providing
Speaker 2: personal protective equipment, and doing training in the community to
Speaker 2: teach people how to prevent the spread of this virus.
Speaker 2: And it is with the Lord's help that Samaritan's Purse
Speaker 2: is equipped to take on this disease. We've done it
Speaker 2: before in Liberia in twenty fourteen and the DRC in
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. It's such a horrible disease and it's difficult
Speaker 2: on our staff, but God redeems and restores difficult times.
Speaker 2: With him, nothing is wasted, and you're going to hear
Speaker 2: about how He has prepared us through these two past
Speaker 2: responses to take on Abola yet again. The disease is dangerous.
Speaker 2: It is truly a sacrifice to say yes and go serve.
Speaker 2: I am in awe of these team members that are
Speaker 2: saying yes, Lord send me. Though there's a high mortality
Speaker 2: rate to the disease, there is still hope. There are
Speaker 2: people who have recovered from Abola and have gotten discharged
Speaker 2: our staff. They're bringing hope. I got to take part
Speaker 2: in an infectious disease response training alongside members of our
Speaker 2: Disastro Assistance Response Team. I got to suit up and
Speaker 2: experience what it's like to put on the personal protective equipment.
Speaker 2: Being a part of this training it impacted me so much.
Speaker 2: I've always had great respect for our teams, but now
Speaker 2: even more. Bev Kofelt, who has served on the last
Speaker 2: two egol of responses, took me through the training wow.
Speaker 3: So usually at an etc.
Speaker 4: We would have like wash people.
Speaker 3: Either national stuff that've been trained or someone that would
Speaker 3: help with the downing. So like you always have a
Speaker 3: partner when you're donning, so that I can check Katelyn
Speaker 3: and say, yeah, Kate, when you're good to go. We
Speaker 3: kind of give the once over and then Katelyn.
Speaker 5: Be like, Okay, that's yet We're going to go.
Speaker 3: That's a lay up mirrors because if you get in
Speaker 3: there and all of a sudden you have a little
Speaker 3: liver breach, like you have to go right out. So
Speaker 3: what we're watching for in this training is making sure
Speaker 3: that everyone's getting the order right. So first thing is
Speaker 3: they put the first layer of gloves on and then
Speaker 3: they're gonna put their suit on, second layer of gloves
Speaker 3: and their masks and then their hood. So you'll watch
Speaker 3: kind of the sequence that they're following there, and we
Speaker 3: have people in here helping them out too.
Speaker 2: How long can you be in the suit, like to
Speaker 2: keep it no.
Speaker 3: More than forty five minutes to an hour. We put
Speaker 3: the time on their arm and so as a wash lead,
Speaker 3: I'm on the outside watching my teeth and if I
Speaker 3: saw that Caitlin's looking a little red in the face.
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, Calen, let me see your arm, and
Speaker 3: she shows me that she went in at like say,
Speaker 3: two thirty. I'm like, okay, what do you have left
Speaker 3: to do because you need to get out.
Speaker 2: You have the stress and the adrenaline.
Speaker 4: So it's the mood different.
Speaker 3: We kind of like the slowest smooth smooths fast. But
Speaker 3: I heard someone say that once and I'm like, that
Speaker 3: is so good for Ebola. There's no rush here. No
Speaker 3: one should be panicking. It should just be calm before
Speaker 3: they cross this threshold to talk through everyone's starting. Who's
Speaker 3: responsible for what we pray? There's no wasted movements, and
Speaker 3: you have to just be calm, patient, listen, have each
Speaker 3: other's back. You can't be all moving at once because
Speaker 3: all of a sudden hit Christy and now her goggles
Speaker 3: are like this. She has to go out and there
Speaker 3: has to be that built in trust with each other.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned earlier, Samaritan's purse has responded to Ebola
Speaker 2: before I spoke with Beth about how years later she
Speaker 2: has seen the Lord redeem that incredibly difficult season. We
Speaker 2: know that God never wastes or you know, he uses
Speaker 2: all things our failures, Our shortcomings are you know, setbacks,
Speaker 2: obstacles for his glory. Man memori evil God uses for good.
Speaker 2: So tell me about how twenty fourteen our team kind
Speaker 2: of went blind. Yeah, didn't know what we were doing,
Speaker 2: didn't have this training. How US is redeeming that time
Speaker 2: as hard and painful as it is.
Speaker 3: I think one of the things we learned so much,
Speaker 3: first of all, and then to see that what we've
Speaker 3: learned has not been wasted, the fact that then we
Speaker 3: did training and we were better prepared in twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: in DRC, and then we continue to train every year
Speaker 3: for infectious disease. So every year we have people come
Speaker 3: through getting these suits and train and we also like
Speaker 3: people like Sasha who put an incredible amount of work,
Speaker 3: who are liaising with the wh show. We're now seen
Speaker 3: as a leader US and doctors about borders for infectious disease.
Speaker 3: And now being able to have these guys here, I
Speaker 3: feel so much better about being able to train them
Speaker 3: prepare them for what they're going to go to in
Speaker 3: DRC now, which of course we didn't have before. But again,
Speaker 3: like you said, God has redeemed it.
Speaker 2: Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing so in
Speaker 2: the field, after suiting up, our teams humbly go to
Speaker 2: God in prayer before they begin their shifts.
Speaker 3: Lord, I just pray that you would just go with
Speaker 3: this team, give them strength and give them clarity of mind. Lord,
Speaker 3: and we just pray that you would help them do
Speaker 3: what you've asked them to do. Our Lord, we pray
Speaker 3: for the people of DRC and the people that are
Speaker 3: being impacted byable.
Speaker 6: In your name.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 2: BEV led the Water Sanitation and Hygiene team through the simulation.
Speaker 3: You want someone to come in this room. That is
Speaker 3: a completely clean room. So even if there's a little
Speaker 3: bit of waste in here, as soon as it hits
Speaker 3: that chlorine, it's deactivating the evola, right, So you just
Speaker 3: have to give a once over. Just be really good,
Speaker 3: don't leave until everyone's ready and everyone's agreed that the
Speaker 3: room is good. So Brian, you're like, okay, guys, there's
Speaker 3: anything else. Let's take a quick look. Okay, we're good,
Speaker 3: Squeegey is back. Everything's good. Levels of our hand washing
Speaker 3: stations is good, all right.
Speaker 2: BEV talked about how it's important to detach panic and
Speaker 2: full emotion while keeping compassion. I imagine that it's hard
Speaker 2: to balance for our staff WASH teams. They must stay
Speaker 2: task oriented, they must protect themselves in these high risk situations,
Speaker 2: and if a patient passes away, it's an opportunity for
Speaker 2: our WASH teams to treat that individual with dignity and respect.
Speaker 2: But it's also such a critical time because the disease
Speaker 2: is still highly contagious, so they must spray the body
Speaker 2: down and care for it to prevent disease from spreading.
Speaker 2: But we also want to respect these image bearers. Our
Speaker 2: medical teams also went through simulations. They're getting used to
Speaker 2: doing things that they've done hundreds of times over, like
Speaker 2: starting an IV on a patient, but this time in
Speaker 2: the thick layers of gloves and hot tie XXA.
Speaker 7: So we are going to be giving a starting an
Speaker 7: IV en Bolla sing little Timmy today. So we're going
Speaker 7: to think through once we walk in the room, just
Speaker 7: like you do in your normal environments at home, doing
Speaker 7: an observation of the room, seeing what you need to
Speaker 7: move and order to do what you need to do,
Speaker 7: so looking to see your sharps container. So if Kate's
Speaker 7: going to be starting an ID, she should have a
Speaker 7: buddy that's able to hold with somebody her body.
Speaker 2: At the training, BEV talked with me about a passage
Speaker 2: of scripture that has been on her heart.
Speaker 3: This person I should have the team today is so
Speaker 3: perfect acts twenty twenty four policys. But my life is
Speaker 3: worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing
Speaker 3: the work assigned to me by the Lord Jesus, the
Speaker 3: work of telling others of the good news about the
Speaker 3: wonderful grace of God. And before that, he says, and
Speaker 3: now I'm bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: I don't know what awaits me, except that the Holy
Speaker 3: Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and
Speaker 3: suffering lay ahead. So he knows going in the same
Speaker 3: way we know going in. And yet he says, you know,
Speaker 3: but my life is worth nothing to me unless I
Speaker 3: use it for the finishing the work assigned me by
Speaker 3: the Lord Jesus. And we talked about that this morning,
Speaker 3: about we know three to a certain extent what you're
Speaker 3: going into. If you've never done it before, you never
Speaker 3: know exactly unho you get there. But that's what we're
Speaker 3: doing this training. But this is the purpose, you know,
Speaker 3: And just to spend that time in prayer with the
Speaker 3: Lord asking the Holy Spirit to discern do you want
Speaker 3: me to go Lord or is it my ego and
Speaker 3: my pride. You have to have a little bit of
Speaker 3: a reverence for the disease. Yeah, you have to respect it.
Speaker 3: So you have to check your ego at the door.
Speaker 2: All I can think about is like, are you called
Speaker 2: or you capable? And I think this is even like
Speaker 2: a tricky balance because we want to be capable, We
Speaker 2: want to be trained and equipped as well as we can,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, we have to
Speaker 2: be surrendered and called right, So you do want the knowledge,
Speaker 2: you do want the training. We don't want to go
Speaker 2: into a blind But if you get too capable and
Speaker 2: too I know what I'm doing, that's.
Speaker 3: Where you There's no room for arrogance your pride anywhere
Speaker 3: in our life in general, but especially in a response
Speaker 3: like this. There's a humility of understanding, just the weight
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: One of our staff members who can speak into this
Speaker 2: humility is Dustin Martin. He is a WASH technical advisor
Speaker 2: in our International Project's department. Dustin works and supports our
Speaker 2: field offices around the world in their water programs, and
Speaker 2: he is likely going to deploy to DRC very soon.
Speaker 2: One of our podcast correspondents caught up with Dustin at
Speaker 2: the training.
Speaker 1: When we do this training on an annual basis, it
Speaker 1: is normally for a broad group.
Speaker 8: Of infectious diseases.
Speaker 1: So think about our COVID responses in the past, or cholera.
Speaker 1: These are the situations that we're trying to prepare for
Speaker 1: this week in response to the current crisis that's going
Speaker 1: on in the DRC, we are trying to do a
Speaker 1: just in time training for people who have availability to
Speaker 1: deploy to the Congo over the next three months. I've
Speaker 1: been involved in a couple of infectious disease responses in
Speaker 1: the past. One of them was in Uganda in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, but in that case I didn't actually have
Speaker 1: to don ppe and go into the high risk zone
Speaker 1: where either suspect or confirmed patients were. So this time around,
Speaker 1: in doing this training and preparing for a deployment, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different for me because although I've done
Speaker 1: this training before, I am for the first time staring
Speaker 1: down like a very real deployment where I will likely
Speaker 1: in the next couple weeks be going into the high
Speaker 1: risk zone. Also, since twenty twenty two, I've had two
Speaker 1: children with my wife, and so my family situation is different,
Speaker 1: and so all of that is kind of rattling around
Speaker 1: in my head as it becomes very real. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff in trainings and in manuals
Speaker 1: and in PowerPoint decks that talk about it in theory,
Speaker 1: but it's becoming very very real for all of us
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 6: So why are you willing to go?
Speaker 1: I believe that everyone was created in the imago day
Speaker 1: the image of God, and that means that they have
Speaker 1: intrinsic worth and value, and that value extends beyond cultural borders.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what passport you carry, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: the color of your skin. You are worth something in
Speaker 1: the eyes of the Creator. And I love my family,
Speaker 1: I love my colleagues, and I would I would go
Speaker 1: to the ends of the earth for these people. But
Speaker 1: I want to be able to go to the ends
Speaker 1: of the earth for people that I haven't even met before,
Speaker 1: because that's what Christ did for me. He took on humility,
Speaker 1: he took on human form when he had no need to.
Speaker 1: And if he did that for me, like there's just
Speaker 1: no appropriate response but to do that for others.
Speaker 6: You are preparing physically this week learning doing the training.
Speaker 6: How are you preparing spiritually? What does your prayer life
Speaker 6: look like right now going into that, and are there
Speaker 6: any scripture versus passages things that you're reading right now
Speaker 6: that are encouraging you.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of short prayers.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of like just taking a moment to reflect,
Speaker 1: being willing to talk to people. It's a ton of
Speaker 1: short prayers over my kids, with my wife, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of intentional conversations about these things and reflecting
Speaker 1: on why, like what I just answered, like why it
Speaker 1: is that we do this? So in terms of a
Speaker 1: scripture verse honestly, like I mean one that comes to
Speaker 1: me right now, and many times when I think about
Speaker 1: this line of work and why I do it is
Speaker 1: Philippians chapter two.
Speaker 8: Or have this attitude which is also in Christ.
Speaker 1: Jesus who, being in very nature God, did not consider
Speaker 1: a quality with God something to be grasped, but made
Speaker 1: himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant. And
Speaker 1: that is what drives me, that is what keeps me grounded,
Speaker 1: that like Christ did that for me, I'm meant to
Speaker 1: have that attitude, and so that's something I often come
Speaker 1: back to is just like I'm doing this. I'm doing
Speaker 1: this because it's what Christ, what Christ has done for me,
Speaker 1: what He's demonstrated for me. I don't think it means
Speaker 1: that he guarantees my safety, but I do have confidence
Speaker 1: and peace going into these into these environments knowing that
Speaker 1: He is with me, knowing that I've made this decision
Speaker 1: with him and with my family on board. The thing
Speaker 1: I like, I really want to just emphasize is that
Speaker 1: for many of our DART members, and I know for
Speaker 1: our IHQ staff talk with folks about this is like
Speaker 1: it's more than just the individual that goes to serve
Speaker 1: that that are like quote unquote the heroes of this story.
Speaker 1: Like I really do mean it that, like I can't
Speaker 1: I can't do this without my wife, and this is
Speaker 1: something that we do together. And I would hate for
Speaker 1: someone to think that like, oh, look at this, like
Speaker 1: brave man who is willing to go and to put
Speaker 1: himself at risk, when like the truth is, like my
Speaker 1: my wife and my kids are are are as much
Speaker 1: a part of that as anything else. They stay behind,
Speaker 1: but they bear they bear the weight of it as well.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I think of a lot of like
Speaker 1: everybody at ed quarters is. You know, not everybody's got
Speaker 1: children or a spouse, but like families bear the weight
Speaker 1: of this as well, and they're they're as much in
Speaker 1: this and a part of this as the people going
Speaker 1: because they are supporting in prayer, they're keeping home life stable.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it without without her behind me.
Speaker 2: I love that Dustin and his whife are united front.
Speaker 2: They are both serving the Lord in their different callings.
Speaker 2: Some of us are the senders and some of us
Speaker 2: are the goers, and that can change based on the
Speaker 2: season that we're in, and we need to remember that
Speaker 2: one role isn't more important than the other. Just like
Speaker 2: the Body of Christ. We all have different gifts that
Speaker 2: the Lord gave us, and he wants us to use
Speaker 2: them for his glory. I know for me, I was
Speaker 2: a sender for many years when Edward was in the military,
Speaker 2: and it truly gave me such pride and just was
Speaker 2: a privilege to be able to take care of our
Speaker 2: kids so that he could go. And so I want
Speaker 2: to speak to people that are the senders. Your job
Speaker 2: is important. These men and women could not go into
Speaker 2: the fire without knowing that their home and their loved
Speaker 2: ones back home are taken care of, okay, and now
Speaker 2: it's hard as well for the goers to put on
Speaker 2: these suits. So now let's take you back. We're going
Speaker 2: to get into that suit. This is called the dawning.
Speaker 8: Though.
Speaker 7: That's how you do.
Speaker 2: And I'm already really hot and I'm not even halfway there.
Speaker 3: It gets hard, yes, all right for goggles.
Speaker 2: Yes, we got really putting into perspective what our teams do.
Speaker 2: I mean, this in a safe, confined environment is still
Speaker 2: makes you anxious. And that's why I think training is
Speaker 2: so important.
Speaker 4: And that's why I keep thinking.
Speaker 2: You know, we have to prepare in season and out
Speaker 2: of season for the gospel, you know, because when it's
Speaker 2: in hard situations, you have to go back to what
Speaker 2: you know over hand. We've been trained, We've been prepared.
Speaker 2: Every minute that I was in that suit felt so long.
Speaker 2: It was finally time to take the personal protective equipment off.
Speaker 2: I was thrilled. This process is called doffing. It is
Speaker 2: similar to donning, and it was a whole process requiring
Speaker 2: a lot of patience. I can't even imagine how difficult
Speaker 2: it is to be slow and methodical. After working a
Speaker 2: long shift facing ebola, all you want to do is
Speaker 2: rip that suit off and get some air. But safety
Speaker 2: is the number one priority, and so it's important to
Speaker 2: go slow and you have a team member that talks
Speaker 2: you through every single step. They're watching and making sure
Speaker 2: that you're following each procedure.
Speaker 3: All right, Christy, come on in here. So the first
Speaker 3: thing you're gonna do acting you go back and you're wash.
Speaker 4: My hands.
Speaker 2: After every single step I had to wash my hands
Speaker 2: in chlorine solution, from taking the layers of glove off
Speaker 2: to the goggles, the apron, the suit, the hood, the mask,
Speaker 2: every single time you had to wash your hands forget layers.
Speaker 3: You have to do this.
Speaker 6: We're gonna get another bath where that apron was.
Speaker 3: Okay, see do you feel better already?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're going to remove those gloves and wash our hands.
Speaker 8: Good job.
Speaker 3: The most important thing is that, yeah, you're listening. That's
Speaker 3: where it's so important that you know you trust yourself.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the doffer and you're not like, no,
Speaker 3: I think I should be doing this, and you're like,
Speaker 3: you're really at the mercy of them, especially if you've
Speaker 3: been in there for a really, really long time, you're tired,
Speaker 3: you can't see through your goggles. He's thinking clearly, he's
Speaker 3: keeping the calm boys.
Speaker 2: That's what I think.
Speaker 4: Thank you, well done, Thank you.
Speaker 2: It was such a relief to get that suit and
Speaker 2: that mask off. It gets so hot in that tie
Speaker 2: deck suit, and again I can't even imagine what it
Speaker 2: would be like under dangerous circumstances where you're facing ebola.
Speaker 2: But even under practice, it was still really difficult. I'm
Speaker 2: extremely clastrophobic, and so putting that suit on was really difficult.
Speaker 2: I had to pray and I had to say scripture
Speaker 2: in my mind to stay calm, and again I couldn't
Speaker 2: imagine wearing all that in the heat of Africa while
Speaker 2: serving patients who have a deadly disease. It truly helped
Speaker 2: me to have more empathy and compassion and to pray
Speaker 2: for our teams more urgently. Once I was out of
Speaker 2: that suit, which again was such a relief, I got
Speaker 2: to meet a member of our disastro Assistance Response team,
Speaker 2: Kate Allen. Why did you sign up for the dark Arresser?
Speaker 2: Why would you do something like this?
Speaker 4: I think just got really spoke to me about if
Speaker 4: you don't go, he will.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of places that have a
Speaker 5: lot of need war zones, catastrophes where there's a sense
Speaker 5: of danger and discomfort and going and yeah, I just
Speaker 5: felt really strongly that was calling me into mission work,
Speaker 5: but not long term mission work, more the kind of
Speaker 5: using my skills to feel to just drop in, provide
Speaker 5: something and.
Speaker 4: Then go from what kind of doctor are you? I'm
Speaker 4: an emergency room doctor? Okay, so you see it all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so much like these hospitals and clinics that we
Speaker 2: set up, you know, who can see anything, but this
Speaker 2: specifically is Ebola, so you know what you're going into.
Speaker 2: And as I was putting the suit on, I thought
Speaker 2: of the armor of God, you know how we are
Speaker 2: supposed to but we have a spiritual attack and an enemy.
Speaker 2: We should be putting our armor on and taking it
Speaker 2: very seriously. So maybe what is the difference of saying
Speaker 2: yes to a trip like this?
Speaker 4: I think it's the same.
Speaker 5: I've been to Iraq, I've been to the Ukraine, Like,
Speaker 5: none of these situations are secure, and I think I've
Speaker 5: counseled a lot of people who've thought about going into
Speaker 5: dark you know, of just being that God hasn't promised
Speaker 5: you to come home safe. God doesn't say you're going
Speaker 5: to be absolutely fine. You're not going to catch e
Speaker 5: buller or you're you're going to come home completely safe
Speaker 5: with no injuries, whether they be physical or potional traumatic injuries.
Speaker 5: But he does promise that he goes with us, and
Speaker 5: he promises that he goes ahead, and he promises he
Speaker 5: him's us in from behind. So we go with the spirit,
Speaker 5: and we go knowing that he has a plan and
Speaker 5: that he has already paid the ultimate price. So I've
Speaker 5: often said to my parents, you know, if something happens
Speaker 5: to me on these deployments, I'm going to be fine
Speaker 5: because I.
Speaker 4: Go to be with Jesus.
Speaker 5: The trauma is more for you than it is for me,
Speaker 5: because you're losing a order. But for me, if something
Speaker 5: happens to me, I'm going to be with Jesus and
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: Absolutely certainly where I'm going to be.
Speaker 5: And obviously I hope that it doesn't happen and I
Speaker 5: come back and I'd be able to go on another one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, God promises me that he goes with me,
Speaker 4: and I.
Speaker 2: Think of that verse Paul, you know, to live his
Speaker 2: christ to die is gain, you know, And he said,
Speaker 2: and I don't know which one's better, you know, to live,
Speaker 2: I still have things for you, you do, but to
Speaker 2: die is to be in your presence. And I think
Speaker 2: same when my husband's a military I think it was
Speaker 2: almost harder for us back home because we don't know
Speaker 2: what's happening. We don't know where he is he's facing,
Speaker 2: and I think he would always say, you know, he
Speaker 2: had that assurance from the Lord, you're you're safe, You're.
Speaker 4: With me, and also we're called into it.
Speaker 5: So I am completely one hundred percent certain God has
Speaker 5: me where he wants me to be. My parents to
Speaker 5: that degree have not had the same assurance that they
Speaker 5: haven't had that same calling on their life. They haven't
Speaker 5: got that same passion inside their soul to go this
Speaker 5: is where I need to go. So they very much
Speaker 5: have to rely on Okay, God likes to say me too,
Speaker 5: as I let it go again. And I will say
Speaker 5: that one of the most beautiful things about I've been
Speaker 5: deploying with sp since twenty sixteen and just seeing my parents'.
Speaker 4: Growth in that because actually, like now, you know, we a.
Speaker 5: Little while ago, I got kind of tipped to maybe
Speaker 5: be going to an insecure situation. But I told my
Speaker 5: parents and they were like, all right, yeah, when are
Speaker 5: you going? And I was like, oh, we used to
Speaker 5: have tears and arguments over this, and now they just
Speaker 5: go yeah sure.
Speaker 4: I was like, do you even love me anymore?
Speaker 5: But actually God has just to stayed them so many
Speaker 5: times that he has.
Speaker 4: Yeah, He's been their comfort, he's been their protector.
Speaker 5: So actually, yeah, they have so much more peace about
Speaker 5: these situations than they used to do.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that verse, that piece that passes all understanding.
Speaker 2: It's not that the circumstances have changed or lightened, it's
Speaker 2: that I trust my Father deeper. I love that the
Speaker 2: Lord has not only given Kate peace about the calling
Speaker 2: in her life, but he's also given peace to her
Speaker 2: parents as well. I wanted to hear what scripture God
Speaker 2: has taught her and what he brings to mind as
Speaker 2: she prepares to possibly deploy to the DRC.
Speaker 5: I think the verse that I think this has really
Speaker 5: come to my mind with this one is the light
Speaker 5: shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.
Speaker 4: And that is God's promise.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we are not sure that every patient
Speaker 5: will make Kate or that everyone will be completely safe
Speaker 5: all of the time, but the light does shine in
Speaker 5: the darkness, and we are that light.
Speaker 4: We're bringing that and just trusting that everything.
Speaker 5: We do, whether it be you know, great stuff like
Speaker 5: discharging a patient and having a party with them at
Speaker 5: the end of their time in the in the etc.
Speaker 5: Or whether it be you know, comforting a family member
Speaker 5: when their family has died. Actually we bring the light
Speaker 5: and the loaf and the peace of Christ and just
Speaker 5: just my prayer really is that He'll just keep using
Speaker 5: us in that way, that he'll strengthen us. And that's
Speaker 5: what I kind of pray as I prepare to go, like,
Speaker 5: let me be that light that shines in the darkness,
Speaker 5: you know, let me bring a little bit of Christ,
Speaker 5: whatever that might look like.
Speaker 2: Pray for all the people affected in Central and Eastern Africa.
Speaker 2: Pray that ultimately this virus would stop spreading. And please
Speaker 2: be in prayer for our country office team in the
Speaker 2: DRC our Disaster Assistants Response Team as we respond. Pray
Speaker 2: that we would be lights in this darkness. I want
Speaker 2: to close with the portions of Ephesian six. It reminds
Speaker 2: us to put on the armor of God as I
Speaker 2: was putting on that taivex suit, you know, we put
Speaker 2: on physical protection to face the disease, and you never
Speaker 2: take it more seriously than when you're going up against ebola.
Speaker 2: But we as Christians, were to take on spiritual defense
Speaker 2: as well, because we are fighting a spiritual battle in
Speaker 2: the midst of this difficult disease. Ephesian six ten through
Speaker 2: thirteen says, Finally, be strong in the Lord and in
Speaker 2: his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God,
Speaker 2: so that you can take up your stand against the
Speaker 2: devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
Speaker 2: but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers
Speaker 2: and of this dark world, against the spiritual forces of
Speaker 2: evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full
Speaker 2: armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes,
Speaker 2: you may be able to stand your ground, and after
Speaker 2: you have done everything to stand. Thank you so much
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