Ebola Update 10/16/14
Dear Pastor Les and Sis. Jane,
Thanks again for the prayer and financial help. We are away grateful and praise the Lord for you. Say a big thank-you to our donors. Indeed the Ebola crisis is overwhelming. Up to now most of the hospitals are afraid to treat sick people for fear of contracting Ebola. Over the week end, one law maker's daughter died right in his arm at the John F. Kennedy Hospital gate when the doctors and nurses refused to admit her. Two weeks ago, a pregnant woman gave birth to a twin on the side walk. One hospital had refused to take her in because she could not pay USD $ 400. This is why the death rate is so high, because people cannot get treatment from other sicknesses. That is how serous the situation is here. So the church had to get involved in the awareness. For the past three weeks we have conducted workshops and shared food. There will be a counseling workshop on Saturday at Calvary for all pastors and health workers from our churches. Our Ebola awareness team has produced a manual to help our churches.
Praise the Lord for Vic. When nothing else seems to works, don’t give up hope; try what you know will help with your faith in God. He will make it work. She is a brave woman who put her profession to work with trust in God. In this Ebola fight, we are trying many things that seem to work. Dr. Logan, my church member, who is assigned at the Bomi hospital, used HIV drugs to treat Ebola patients and they got well. Dr. Brown at the ELWA unit tries something unconventional that is working as well. In Africa, we sometime go against the norm in desperate time and God blesses it. Our Ebola Awareness team is teaching the same home emergency safety method that Fatu uses. My wife Rose teaches it very well.
The situation here, Sis. Jane, is very scarring. What you hear from the western media is not what it is here. The death rate is very high. Today Rose and her niece went to the Island Clinic unit to look for the niece’ son that is being treated there. More than two weeks we cannot get any information as to whether the child is dead or alive. What they saw there is beyond description. The unit that was built to take 120 persons is now taking more than 200 with more people being turned away daily to die at home. Only God can save us.
Continue to pray for us; only the Lord can again save Liberia.
Lord bless
Pastor Vaye
Thanks again for the prayer and financial help. We are away grateful and praise the Lord for you. Say a big thank-you to our donors. Indeed the Ebola crisis is overwhelming. Up to now most of the hospitals are afraid to treat sick people for fear of contracting Ebola. Over the week end, one law maker's daughter died right in his arm at the John F. Kennedy Hospital gate when the doctors and nurses refused to admit her. Two weeks ago, a pregnant woman gave birth to a twin on the side walk. One hospital had refused to take her in because she could not pay USD $ 400. This is why the death rate is so high, because people cannot get treatment from other sicknesses. That is how serous the situation is here. So the church had to get involved in the awareness. For the past three weeks we have conducted workshops and shared food. There will be a counseling workshop on Saturday at Calvary for all pastors and health workers from our churches. Our Ebola awareness team has produced a manual to help our churches.
Praise the Lord for Vic. When nothing else seems to works, don’t give up hope; try what you know will help with your faith in God. He will make it work. She is a brave woman who put her profession to work with trust in God. In this Ebola fight, we are trying many things that seem to work. Dr. Logan, my church member, who is assigned at the Bomi hospital, used HIV drugs to treat Ebola patients and they got well. Dr. Brown at the ELWA unit tries something unconventional that is working as well. In Africa, we sometime go against the norm in desperate time and God blesses it. Our Ebola Awareness team is teaching the same home emergency safety method that Fatu uses. My wife Rose teaches it very well.
The situation here, Sis. Jane, is very scarring. What you hear from the western media is not what it is here. The death rate is very high. Today Rose and her niece went to the Island Clinic unit to look for the niece’ son that is being treated there. More than two weeks we cannot get any information as to whether the child is dead or alive. What they saw there is beyond description. The unit that was built to take 120 persons is now taking more than 200 with more people being turned away daily to die at home. Only God can save us.
Continue to pray for us; only the Lord can again save Liberia.
Lord bless
Pastor Vaye
Ebola links...
Showing the importance and possibility of containing and preventing Eblola.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/liberian-rubber-farm-becomes-sanctuary-against-ebola-1412629331
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_EBOLA_AFRICA_CONTAINMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-16-14-24-38
http://online.wsj.com/articles/liberian-rubber-farm-becomes-sanctuary-against-ebola-1412629331
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_EBOLA_AFRICA_CONTAINMENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-16-14-24-38