I'm thankful that prayers for David and Nancy Writebol are being answered, but my heart is still heavy for the thousands affected by this health crisis in West Africa. It's situations like the one detailed in this report: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/ that are even more disturbing.

Continue to pray for Nancy as she battles Ebola. And pray for Kent, the other doctor who is infected and fighting beside her. According to this article, when a single dose of an experimental Ebola drug arrived at ELWA, he told them to give to Nancy instead of him: http://www.wbtv.com/story/26164653/doc?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

The situation in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea is still serious, and those governments are taking more precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. Read more from the New York Time here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/africa/sierra-leone-declares-health-emergency-over-ebola.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Yesterday as I pondered the whole situation, I started reading Psalm 80 and praying through it for West Africa:

"Restore us, O God; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.

O Lord God Almighty, how long will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful. You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us. Restore us, O God;make your face shine upon us, that we make be saved."

If you're on the Internet, you probably have heard something about the Ebola crisis in West Africa. SIM, the organization where I used to work as a video producer, has been a part of the fight since the virus first appeared in Liberia. SIM's ELWA Hospital prepared a special isolation ward in partnership with Samaritan's Purse and started receiving the first cases of Ebola in Liberia when the outbreak reached the country. Over the weekend, the bad news was delivered to the US Office of SIM where my husband still works: two of the American staff at ELWA were now infected with Ebola. This news has brought serious attention to this outbreak that has killed more than 670 people and infected over a thousand.