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The World Needs More Doctors INSIDE 22 LET MY HEART BE BROKEN: A heart for medical missions drew Dr. Ashley and Mike McCurry to Kenya to serve for two years at Kapsowar Hospital through World Medical Mission's Post- Residency Program. CALLING FOR One thing I have learned is that following God HELP COVER often leads to unexpected places. 6FOCUS 28 DR. KENT BRANTLY THANK YOU FOR SERVING: We want to WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU acknowledge the men and women who NEEDED? Look at the latest "Calling volunteered at mission hospitals around the for Help" (back page) to see which world during the last quarter. Thank you for mission hospitals need volunteers in following in the footsteps of the Great Physician. your specialty. 12 17 World Medical Mission assists evangelical mission hospitals SAMARITAN’S PURSE HEADQUARTERS BAND OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS: REBUILDING HOPE IN NIGERIA: and clinics by sending Christian doctors and dentists as P.O. Box 3000 • Boone, NC 28607 • (828) 262-1980 ©2014 Samaritan's Purse. All rights reserved. Mission hospitals around the world depend Government and church leaders from volunteers, and by providing equipment, supplies, and other resources that help them treat patients in the Name of the samaritanspurse.org on physicans who volunteer to help treat the across Kogi State celebrated the renewal Great Physician. sick, save lives, and share the Gospel. of Egbe Hospital. DEAR FRIEND any of the mission hospitals where we send physicians through the streets in celebration, openly praising God for the revitalization of World Medical Mission have been providing life-saving Egbe Hospital, a project that had major support from Samaritan’s Purse. Mmedical care and reaching patients with the Gospel of Jesus The rebuilding of Egbe Hospital will help keep that hospital alive as a Christ for decades. center for healing and evangelism, bringing the Gospel to thousands of Years of hard use have created a desperate need for rebuilding and Muslims in a nation that is under siege by Islamic terrorists. renewal of medical facilities. Samaritan’s Purse is involved in critical We always want to be ready to help restore aging mission hospitals hospital reconstruction projects in countries like Bangladesh, Liberia, and keep them strong by sending volunteer physicians and medical Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. supplies. Thank you for your prayers and support for Samaritan’s Purse We are committed to helping these hospitals continue in their and the ministry of World Medical Mission. With your help, missionary mission to treat the sick and share the Good News. “As it is written: ‘How medicine will continue to play a vital role in God’s plan for reaching our beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad lost world with the Gospel. tidings of good things!’” (Romans 10:15, NKJV). These hospitals are not only in remote regions where people struggle Sincerely, to find medical care, but are often in nations where great spiritual battles are raging as well. In contrast with recent terrorist attacks and unrest in northern Nigeria, more than 1,000 people in the southern town of Egbe took to Franklin Graham PRESIDENT, SAMARITAN’S PURSE 6 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse “God Saved My Life” ON CALL | 7 Dr. Brantly was discharged from Emory University Hospital on August 21, 2014. “Today Is A Miraculous Day” –Dr. Kent Brantly survives the deadly Ebola virus 8 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse “God Saved My Life” ON CALL | 9 Kent Brantly became the focus of international, front- page news when an emergency medevac plane from Dr. Liberia carrying the Ebola-infected missionary landed in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 2, 2014. Mass media attention and fear of the deadly virus that was claiming lives across West Africa suddenly hit home. News crews camped outside Emory University Hospital where Dr. Brantly was confined to an isolation unit. Kent’s wife Amber was able to view him through a glass wall and communicate by intercom, but he was in a life-or-death battle with the most deadly virus in the world. On August 21, four weeks after Dr. Brantly first exhibited symptoms of Ebola infection in Liberia, he faced the news media in Atlanta, praising God for his recovery and release from the hospital. “Today is a miraculous day,” Dr. Brantly began. “I am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. God saved my life—a direct answer to thousands and thousands of prayers.” Kent and Amber never imagined Joined by his wife Amber, Dr. Kent Brantly addresses the media following his release from what lay ahead when they and their Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. two children left Fort Worth, Texas, LIBERIA last October to serve as medical Kent’s involvement in the Ebola outbreak grew with the spread of missionaries in Liberia. Population: the disease. The first cases appeared in Guinea in March and quickly The Brantlys’ move to West 4,190,000 spread across neighboring borders into Liberia and Sierra Leone. Africa was made possible through Physicians: Samaritan’s Purse and Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans the Post-Residency Program. 0.1 per 10,000 Frontières) worked with national ministries of health to combat the first Coordinated through World Literacy: wave of infection, but everyone feared that a resurgence of the disease 42.9% Medical Mission, the medical arm could easily overwhelm available hospitals and clinics. of Samaritan’s Purse, the Post- Repeated requests for additional assistance from the United Nations Residency Program enables young physicians and their families to serve and the international health community were made, but little support at a mission hospital for two years, working alongside veteran medical had arrived by the time a second Ebola outbreak erupted in June and missionaries in preparation for a lifetime of service on the field. quickly spread across the region. “When my family and I moved to Liberia last October to begin a Dr. Brantly assumed the role as the director of the Ebola Case two-year term working with Samaritan’s Purse, Ebola was not on the Management Center at ELWA Hospital. He and a crew of nurses and radar,” Kent said at the news conference. “We moved to Liberia because physicians worked around the clock to care for a growing number of God called us to serve the people of Liberia.” Ebola patients. 10 | ON CALL WORLD MEDICAL MISSION - A Ministry of Samaritan’s Purse “God Saved My Life” ON CALL | 11 “I held the hands of countless individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away from them,” Dr. Brantly said. “I witnessed the One of the things I have learned is that horror firsthand, and I can still remember every face and name.” “ When Dr. Brantly was stricken with the disease, he and Amber knew following God often leads that without God’s intervention, Kent’s chances of survival were slim, but they also believed that God was in control. to unexpected places. “We are confident in our faith that God is sovereign and ‘works ” all things together for good to those that love Him, who are called Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse, gave testimony, urging a according to His purpose,’” Dr. Brantly said during the crisis. “We serve a coordinated, international response to the Ebola crisis. God of great mercy, grace, and redemptive power, and we look forward “The infection and death rates of this recent West African outbreak to witnessing our God at work in the midst of this seeming disaster.” will easily and quickly surpass the combined total of all previous The World Takes Notice outbreaks,” Isaacs said. “The disease is uncontained and out of control The media storm that was generated when Dr. Brantly arrived in in West Africa. The global impact of Ebola has yet to be fully realized.” Atlanta brought the gravity of the Ebola crisis in West Africa to the As the Ebola crisis came to the forefront of public attention, the world’s attention. Five days later, prominent health officials and program United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO) committed $200 coordinators were addressing members of Congress and the House million to help contain the disease and provide care for Ebola victims. Committee of Foreign Affairs. Ken Isaacs, Vice President of Programs and Throughout the crisis, Dr. Brantly had a global platform for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Every statement that the Brantlys released to the press expressed their unwavering faith in God. Franklin Graham presented Dr. Brantly with a new World Medical Mission lab coat to replace the one he had to leave behind in Liberia. “I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life and am glad for any attention my sickness has attracted to the plight of West Africa in the midst of this epidemic,” Dr. Brantly said at the hospital news conference. “Please continue to pray for Liberia and the people of West Africa, and encourage those in positions of leadership and influence to do everything possible to bring this Ebola outbreak to an end.” Franklin Graham and the staff of Samaritan's Purse welcomed the Brantly family to the international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina, in mid September. “Kent and Amber and their children sitting here is a testimony as to what God can do,” Graham said. “There is no God like our God. He loves us, He cares for us, His Son died for us, He was buried for our sins, and God raised Him to life. If he can do that, there’s no God like our God.” The Brantlys are on home leave in the U.S., praying for God's direction for the future while Kent regains strength.
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