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Please take a moment and read the following letter from Rev. Powell, the General Secretary of the EC Church in Liberia. Then please pray for the people there as their country is being ravaged by the Ebola virus. Greetings! We hope this email meet you well and good in the Lord. We write again to say thanks to you and our brethren of America and EC’ers around the world for your continual prayer and support given us between the period of April and May towards what we may now call a plague of EBOLA. Your support given us during this period enable us to construct a shelter, transport EC’ers from the Margibi communities to the site and kept them for 3 months and was able to send them back safely which brought the first wave of EBOLA under control for which we are very grateful. Having believed that the situation was now under control, five weeks later, EBOLA again entered our country from Sierra Leone which is now sweeping every corner of our society and is more devastating than the first one. This is now alarming not only in Liberia but in the entire West African countries and other international communities. A vivid description of what we now have is “Health Practitioner” including Government ministers have begun to die from the virus. About 13 nurses, 4 physicians assistants, 2 medical doctors (which include one of your citizen Dr. Kent for Samaritans Purse) has died including a Deputy Minister of the government who died in Nigeria and a Minister at the Finance Ministry is being quarantined. Randy! Matthew and I are in tears right now and everyone in the EC Church of Liberia are depending on us to take some actions but we are very much confused and just don’t know what to do next. As we now write, Bomi County was attacked last week which is the location of our Trinity E. C. church. One health practitioner including eight of his family members has been diagnosed of the virus which led to the closure of the only hospital in that county (Bomi). Seven of the fifteen counties of Liberia are reported to be Ebola’s infested. This has led our president, Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to announce a state of “HEALTH EMERGENCY” and calling on all donor organizations and philanthropic organizations, Liberian organizations’ partners to do all they can do to come to the aid of Liberia by the eradication of this diseases/virus in whatever way they can. This wave have also brought upon a deep degree of poverty and hunger that we do not even experience during the recent civil war. Offices have been shut down and humanitarian movement restricted and public gathering banned indefinitely. However, as desperate as things are, with the help and protection of God, we have begun to move our members from Bomi, Cape Mount and the populated Duala market areas. This is a huge financial, spiritual and social burden that we cannot bear alone not even our national government. As we now write, we have just left the quarantine site that you helped us built in Grand Bassa County. The scene is very pathetic as women and children have to be moved under heavy down pour of rain without food and adequate shelter. We have suspended the youth conference (camp) because one of the youth members (Ophelia N. Scott) who served as usher in St. Paul died from Ebola and not knowing who all she came in contact with during her illness and also because of the ban on public gathering. At our various churches we neither shake hands nor sit near each other. This is very embarrassing to our usual way of fellowship but we cannot help it. We are also not very sure whether academic school will commence this semester. Thanks Randy and hope to hear from you soon. Kindest regards, Rev. G. Abraham Powell General Secretary, Liberia Annual Conference Evangelical Congregational Church of Liberia
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:54:32 +0000

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