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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of On the Ground with

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Speaker 2: Samaritan's Purse, where we take you to the front lines

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Speaker 2: and behind the scenes of our work around the world.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Christy Graham, and you may have seen

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Speaker 2: in the news about the Abola outbreak in the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Republic of Congo or the DRC. Samaritan's Purse, our Disaster

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Speaker 2: Assistance Response Team or DART for short, is on the

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Speaker 2: ground in the DRC. We have opened two Ebola treatment

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Speaker 2: centers otherwise known as ETC's in the hardest hit areas

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Speaker 2: by the outbreak, and we're also training medical workers, providing

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Speaker 2: personal protective equipment, and doing training in the community to

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Speaker 2: teach people how to prevent the spread of this virus.

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Speaker 2: And it is with the Lord's help that Samaritan's Purse

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Speaker 2: is equipped to take on this disease. We've done it

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Speaker 2: before in Liberia in twenty fourteen and the DRC in

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. It's such a horrible disease and it's difficult

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Speaker 2: on our staff, but God redeems and restores difficult times.

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Speaker 2: With him, nothing is wasted, and you're going to hear

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Speaker 2: about how He has prepared us through these two past

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Speaker 2: responses to take on Abola yet again. The disease is dangerous.

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Speaker 2: It is truly a sacrifice to say yes and go serve.

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Speaker 2: I am in awe of these team members that are

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Speaker 2: saying yes, Lord send me. Though there's a high mortality

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Speaker 2: people who have recovered from Abola and have gotten discharged

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Speaker 2: our staff. They're bringing hope. I got to take part

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Speaker 2: in an infectious disease response training alongside members of our

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Speaker 2: Disastro Assistance Response Team. I got to suit up and

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Speaker 2: experience what it's like to put on the personal protective equipment.

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Speaker 2: Being a part of this training it impacted me so much.

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Speaker 2: I've always had great respect for our teams, but now

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Speaker 3: So usually at an etc.

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Speaker 3: Either national stuff that've been trained or someone that would

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Speaker 3: That's a lay up mirrors because if you get in

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Speaker 3: they're gonna put their suit on, second layer of gloves

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Speaker 2: How long can you be in the suit, like to

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Speaker 3: We kind of like the slowest smooth smooths fast. But

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Speaker 2: Like I mentioned earlier, Samaritan's purse has responded to Ebola

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Speaker 2: know that God never wastes or you know, he uses

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Speaker 2: So tell me about how twenty fourteen our team kind

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Speaker 3: I think one of the things we learned so much,

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Speaker 3: like you said, God has redeemed it.

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Speaker 2: Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing so in

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Speaker 2: the field, after suiting up, our teams humbly go to

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Speaker 3: what you've asked them to do. Our Lord, we pray

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Speaker 2: BEV led the Water Sanitation and Hygiene team through the simulation.

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Speaker 2: BEV talked about how it's important to detach panic and

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Speaker 2: But it's also such a critical time because the disease

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Speaker 2: But we also want to respect these image bearers. Our

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Speaker 8: Of infectious diseases.

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Speaker 1: So think about our COVID responses in the past, or cholera.

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Speaker 4: Growth in that because actually, like now, you know, we a.

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Speaker 5: Little while ago, I got kind of tipped to maybe

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Speaker 4: I was like, do you even love me anymore?

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Speaker 5: But actually God has just to stayed them so many

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Speaker 4: Yeah, He's been their comfort, he's been their protector.

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Speaker 5: So actually, yeah, they have so much more peace about

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that verse, that piece that passes all understanding.

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Speaker 5: I think the verse that I think this has really

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Speaker 4: And that is God's promise.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we are not sure that every patient

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Speaker 5: all of the time, but the light does shine in

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Speaker 4: We're bringing that and just trusting that everything.

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Speaker 5: We do, whether it be you know, great stuff like

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Speaker 5: Or whether it be you know, comforting a family member

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Speaker 5: and the loaf and the peace of Christ and just

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Speaker 5: just my prayer really is that He'll just keep using

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Speaker 5: what I kind of pray as I prepare to go, like,

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Speaker 5: you know, let me bring a little bit of Christ,

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Speaker 5: whatever that might look like.

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Speaker 2: Pray for all the people affected in Central and Eastern Africa.

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Speaker 2: Pray that ultimately this virus would stop spreading. And please

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Speaker 2: be in prayer for our country office team in the

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Speaker 2: DRC our Disaster Assistants Response Team as we respond. Pray

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Speaker 2: that we would be lights in this darkness. I want

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Speaker 2: to close with the portions of Ephesian six. It reminds

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Speaker 2: us to put on the armor of God as I

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Speaker 2: was putting on that taivex suit, you know, we put

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Speaker 2: on physical protection to face the disease, and you never

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Speaker 2: take it more seriously than when you're going up against ebola.

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Speaker 2: But we as Christians, were to take on spiritual defense

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Speaker 2: the midst of this difficult disease. Ephesian six ten through

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Speaker 2: thirteen says, Finally, be strong in the Lord and in

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Speaker 2: his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God,

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Speaker 2: so that you can take up your stand against the

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Speaker 2: devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,

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Speaker 2: but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers

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Speaker 2: and of this dark world, against the spiritual forces of

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Speaker 2: evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full

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Speaker 2: armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes,

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Speaker 2: you may be able to stand your ground, and after

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Speaker 2: you have done everything to stand. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for listening today, Thank you for praying for our teams.

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