Liberia is trying to
fight the world’s
deadliest virus al and spiritual
Liberia was devastated
by fourteen years of civil
war.
Now Liberia is suffering
from a tragic Ebola epi-
demic. Liberia does not
need our pity. Jesus
said a father does not
give a stone when a son
asks for bread. Liberia
needs our urgent help.
The Church Projects
are reliable ways for you
to help Liberia.
“FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND
YOU GAVE ME FOOD, I WAS THIRSTY AND
YOU GAVE ME DRINK.” MA-MATTHEW 25:35:35
Churches want to help Liberia but do NOT know how
EBOLA EPIDEMIC IN LIBERIA
September 2014 Being the hands and feet of Jesus
Time for the Church to help
Liberia as Ebola spreads
QUICK FACTS:
4.4 billion people
live in Liberia
Liberia is the 2nd
poorest country in
the world
It lacks electricity
and running water
Liberia has no real
health care system
because it only has
50 doctors for the
entire country
YOU CAN HELP
ENGAGE YOUR
CHURCH:
1. challenge your church/
youth group to take
on a project whether
it is raising awareness
in their various
schools or fund-raising
for a project.
2. Choose a CHURCH
PROJECT to support
and create a ther-
mometer to show
how funds are grow-
ing. Give generously
to Liberia.
3. Pray for Liberia and
see how God answers.
It's not enough to DO NOTHING
It's time for us to
DO SOMETHING -Matthew West
CHURCH PROJECTS:
Samaritan’s Purse (medical supplies, education)
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/disaster/ebola-crisis/
Christian Aid Ministries (medicine & medical supplies)
https://www.christianaidministries.org/programs/60
Women’s Bucket Brigade for Liberia (buckets/soap)
http://www.gofundme.com/Womens-Bucket-Brigade
Equipping Leaders (rice, education, leadership)
http://www.equippingleadersinternational.org/tag/chuck-mcarthur/
African Bible College University (Christian radio)
http://www.africanbiblecolleges.net/ebola-update/
Seeds for Liberia (vegetable seeds and medicine)
Samaritan’s Purse is the largest Christian NGO in Liberia.
Head-quartered at the ELWA compound in Paynesville, it has
strategically been working in Liberia with a focus on health,
spiritual welfare, the family, and education. The fourteen
years of civil war between 1989 and 2003 destroyed Liberia.
Charles Taylor’s reign of terror is vividly shown in the movie
Blood Diamond starring Leonardo de Caprio. He used child
soldiers to kill teachers, doctors, siblings, parents, and govern-
ment workers. Houses, schools, hospitals, and companies
were all destroyed. Lives were shattered.
MSF (Doctors Without Bor-
ders) desperately tried to get
the World Health Organization
(WHO), the Centers for Dis-
ease Control (CDC), and na-
tions to come to the aid of
Guinea and Liberia at the end
of March 2014 when it said that
the Ebola outbreak was
“unprecedented” in its rapid spread both geographically and
in terms of rate of infection.
The WHO disagreed. It
thought that containment, con-
tact tracing, and treatment
would soon halt the virus’
spread. It was wrong.
The world did not respond
significantly until September
2014. It watched as a by-
stander, lacking a leader to be a
Good Samaritan and jump in
with aid.
The body of Christ needs to
mobilize now to help West African and particularly Liberia
where Ebola is totally out of
control. The church cannot be
a bystander like the world.
Samaritan’s Purse (medical supplies, education, Ebola awareness, family & health)
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/disaster/ebola-crisis/
Bystander Effect
Samaritan’s Purse rebuilt African Bible College University in
Yekepa, Nimba County so spiritual leadership could be developed.
Recently it has been concentrating its efforts in Lofa County, lo-
cated in northern Liberia. It was already well-established in Lofa
when the Ebola virus entered the county from infected Guineans
seeking medical help in Liberia.
Samaritan’s Purse works closely with SIM (Service in Mission). Dr.
Kent Brantley was a Samaritan’s Purse volunteer doctor at the
hospital located within the ELWA compound in Paynesville., a
suburb of Monrovia, Nancy Writebol was a nurse volunteering with SIM. Now MSF (Doctors Without Borders) is manning the
three Ebola Treatment Units adjacent to the hospital.
Samaritan’s Purse has the organizational network to help Liberia. It
also has the facilities and logistics to be effective. Its white heli-
copter and airplane seem to be angels of help to those in need.
Samaritan’s Purse provides medical help, education, family and
health support. Support Samaritan’s Purse Ebola Response online:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/disaster/ebola-crisis/
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Ruins of homes in Yekepa, Nimba County. Zinc roofs, window iron
bars, doors and plumbing fixtures were all looted during the civil wars.
Christian Aid Ministries in Liberia gathers and delivers medicine
and medical supplies. It reaches out to all areas of Liberia,
including the most remote corners of the country.
It delivers precious boxes of medicine to medical clinics as
pictured to the right and to mobile clinics in remote villages
many miles away from any hospital.
Your donation will help CAM to continue to be effective.
Please see their website: for more information:
https://www.christianaidministries.org/programs/60
The roads of Liberia are absolutely brutal on vehicles.
Land Rovers are standard to get through the mud of the
rainy season and dust of the dry season. CAM has a
fleet of vehicles which are maintained in good mechani-
cal condition, a must in order to be effective in Liberia.
Equipping Leaders International is another charity begun by a pastor from St. Augustine, Florida
who has taught at African Bible College University in Yekepa, Liberia. Chuck McArthur has
been travelling back and forth from Liberia equipping leaders for the past 30 years. He has a
passion for raising up strong Christian leaders. With the Ebola outbreak, he has been pro-
moting Ebola awareness and providing rice to those who are starving. Chuck uses his net-
work of trustworthy pastors to help the poor in Liberia.
You can read more by visiting the Equipping Leaders International website:
http://www.equippingleadersinternational.org/tag/chuck-mcarthur/
African Bible College Student—
a future Christian leader in Liberia
Christian Aid Ministries (CAM)
Equipping Leaders International
Women’s Bucket Brigade for Liberia
The Women’s Bucket Brigade for Liberia is a hygiene and edu-
cation program which uses trustworthy pastors to distrib-
ute buckets, soap, and bleach to those who cannot afford
these cleaning products. A $1.50 bucket in North America
before the Ebola epidemic cost $5.00 USD in Liberia. By
August 2014, the price rose to $10. A month later in Sep-
tember, an ordinary plastic bucket was selling for $15. Libe-
ria is the 2nd poorest country in the world. The unemploy-
ment before the Ebola epidemic was between 75-80%.
Now that schools and most government offices are shut
down, the unemployment rate has increased.
The average income before Ebola was only $450 a year!
For more information on how you can help, go to:
http://empowerwomenleaders.org/
"As Lazarus lay
there longing
for scraps from
the rich man's
table, the dogs
would come
and lick his
open sores."
-Luke 16:21
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CAM delivering 7 boxes of medicine to the Firestone Rubber Plan-
tation medical clinic located in Margibi County, near Kakata.
My name is Dian Wood. I am a missionary English professor at African Bible College
University who was to return to Liberia in August 2014, but Ebola changed all that. I
have prayed about what I am to do, and am convinced that God has called me to be
an advocate for Liberia by raising awareness among North American churches and
showing them how to help our Liberian neighbours. I am on a mission— or rather
a drive-a-thon of hope on behalf of Liberia. I want to visit churches and speak to
whoever will listen in Canada and the United States so that lives are saved and God
is glorified. I will have no peace or rest until I complete what God has commissioned
me to do. When Naomi said to Ruth, "the man will not rest, until he has finished the
thing" (Ruth 3:18)-- that describes how I am feeling. As soon as schools are re-
opened in Liberia, I will return, but in the meantime I hope you will join as the
body of Christ in helping Liberia.
God bless. ~Dian
African Bible College University (ABCU) is located in a remote part of Liberia just one mile from the
Guinea border. Its students come from all over Liberia, and even other countries such as Guinea and
Côte d'Ivoire. However because the university is closed (as are all schools in Liberia due to
Ebola) the university does not have incoming funds from student tuition to operate the radio
station since fuel is needed to operate the generator (there is no electricity). The radio sta-
tion is key for two reasons during this epidemic: it can provide information about Ebola and
it is a source of Christian evangelism to the lost— whether in Muslim Guinea or the secret
societies of Liberia. To read more about ABCU’s radio station please go to:
http://www.africanbiblecolleges.net/ebola-update/
Seeds for Liberia
Most of Liberia’s food is imported. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Liberians that they
needed to plant their farms because of the closed borders due to Ebola. Seeds for Liberia aims
to provide vegetable seeds for those in need. For example, vegetables are needed for or-
phanages, the poor in remote villages, and everywhere. Seeds will provide a hand up instead
of a hand out. Just a packet of seeds will grow a lot of food. Seeds can be purchased from
Guinea and transported through one small border crossing still open. The types of seeds
include: beans, pepper, corn, onion, cucumber, melon, Benny seed, cabbage, collard greens,
okra, pumpkin, Irish potato, tomato, sweet pepper, carrot, lettuce, rice, groundnut.
Seeds can also mean seeds of hope. Medicines needed in mobile clinics serving remote vil-
lages are many. Seeds for Liberia also provides medicine. You can view needed drugs at:
http://ebola2014liberia.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/medicines-needed-in-liberia/
To make a donation to Seeds for Liberia, please contact:
Dian at [email protected] or Laurel at [email protected]
Seeds for Liberia can also be spiritual seeds. The Genesis story of Joseph and his brothers
comes to mind. Even though Joseph’s brothers sold Joseph into slavery out of jealousy, God
used the evil done to him and changed it into good. Seeds will be distributed along with the
Gospel.
African Bible College University RADIO STATION, Yekepa
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all
your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight. Those who trust in
the LORD will lack no good thing." -Proverbs 3:5-6; 34:10
Help LIBERIA
SEEDS FOR LIBERIA
Professor Dian Wood African Bible College University
Yekepa, Liberia
Email: [email protected]
Blog:: Ebola2014Liberia.wordpress.com
U.S. cell: 517.295.9697
Canadian phone #:
519.422.1881
In all things I have shown you
that by working hard in this
way we must help the weak
and remember the words of
the Lord Jesus, how he himself
said, ‘It is more blessed to give
than to receive.’” -Acts 20:35
Bear one another's burdens,
and so fulfill the law of Christ.
-Galatians 6:2
Today, through North American Christians helping both Christian and non-believing Liberi-
ans, God’s goodness and love can be demonstrated through his church— the body of Christ.
Please prayerfully consider which area or areas God would like you to help in Liberia.
There is no time to waste.