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I have missionary friends living in Uganda and one friend who recently left after spending several months there.

I’m probably like most people in that I’m usually pretty busy with the stuff right around me… my own work, my family, Taiwan, etc. When I heard about the Ebola outbreak, I figured my friends were all OK as I’d probably have heard otherwise if they were not.

My friends are all OK for the time being, but it ends up that Scott had been working closely with one of the doctors who has been treating Ebola patients. He recently posted about this on his blog.

In that blog post, Scott links to Drs. Scott and Jennifer Myhre’s blog: Paradox Uganda

Here is an article from AP about Dr. Scott Myhre’s involvement in caring for ebola patients as well as other news about the outbreak.

Dr. Myhre’s blog is jammed full of information about the outbreak… medical and technical… but also touching and human and emotional and genuine.

For now I would like to continue as we have been. We are here to serve the sick, to step into whatever gaps we can to assist the national and international responders, and to be a voice of witness to our friends and family to the suffering of Bundibugyo. Those three roles seem to be the path God has called us to. For instance, we try to interpret culture to the foreigners, and we are available to Ugandans who want to use us to connect with NGO’s. Right now Scott is working on dismantling one of the mission phone antennas to see if he can improve the signal for Kikyo Health Center. Later we’ll go check on Jonah’s family, then to the briefings. Tomorrow he and Scott Will are planning to make a concerted effort to get patients back to Nyahuka Health Center for treatment of all the other myriad of non-Ebola life-threatening conditions that have always been abundant here. So we are stretched. If you read things that give you pause, then please give us grace. If we are told by our mission that we are overstepping our bounds, we’ll listen. This is not about us, it is about people whom we love and care for, and we only want to communicate what we are truly experiencing in a way that enables their story to be heard and your prayers to be informed.

Please go read and make an effort to do something. If you can’t read it all… read this post about Dr. Jonah Kule. I believe prayer is an appropriate and effective response. If you can only do one thing… I suggest you pray. But if you are in a position to help in other ways… please do. Everyone can do something.

Go. Do something.

Médecins Sans Frontières

World Harvest Mission - donations for support of Dr. Kule’s family and other expenses directly related to those involved in the outbreak. Undoubtedly, the most personal way to help for most of us.