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Nancy Writebol is a loving mother. A devoted wife. A
woman of faith. A missionary who has traveled the world to help others.
And now, the world knows her as an Ebola patient.
Last month, while working in Liberia, Writebol contracted
the deadly virus. She’s one of three Americans known to contract Ebola during
the outbreak that has ravaged West Africa.
The others are colleague Dr. Kent Brantly and Patrick
Sawyer, a naturalized citizen and Liberian government official who died from
the disease earlier this week.
The missionary is expected to be picked up in West Africa
and flown back to the United States, where she is expected to join Brantly —
who arrived Saturday — in a special isolation unit at Atlanta’s Emory
University Hospital. According to Todd Shearer, a spokesman for the Christian
charity Samaritan’s Purse, she should be in Georgia early next week.
Ebola patient walks into Atlanta hospital
The trip will be the latest of many journeys for
Writebol, whose other missionary ventures include Ecuador and 14 years
ministering to orphans and vulnerable children in Africa.
Since August 2013, the Writebols have been in Monrovia,
Liberia, with the Serving in Mission group, which worked with Samaritan’s
Purse.
Nancy guided missionaries and teams and worked with
nurses at ELWA hospital, where her husband is the technical services manager,
according to the Christian group’s website. Nancy was diagnosed with Ebola on
July 25.
Those who know Nancy best say that she’s motivated not by
any quest for personal glory or thirst for adventure, but because she and her
husband feel compelled to act because of their faith.
As husband David explained from Africa via Skype to
members of Cavalry Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, at a recent vigil for
Nancy: ‘We have been blessed because of what Christ has done for us, (by
giving) us eternal life and salvation.
‘What else could we do (but help)?’
The fact the Writebols left the comforts of America to live
in an area rife with poverty, instability and disease, the fact they put their
lives at risk to assist those suffering everyday, isn’t surprising to those who
know them.
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John Munro, their friend and pastor at Cavalry Church,
describes the couple as ‘the salt of the Earth,’ the kind of people
who wouldn’t give a second thought to dropping everything to help.
The only thing perhaps ironic about what’s happening now
is how such an ‘unassuming’ and ‘very humble’ woman has
become international news.
Ebola patient arrives at hospital
‘She is … not someone who would ever make the
headlines,’ Munro said, ‘apart from something like this.’
That doesn’t change the fact the Writebols have
extraordinary lives.
Wherever they’ve gone, their lives have been centered on
their church and their family, including two now-adult sons who live in the
United States.
One of those sons, Jeremy Writebol, told CNN’s Chris
Cuomo that the recent ordeal has been hard on his father. Nancy Writebol has
been isolated in the couple’s Liberia home; she and David talk by phone but,
given fears she might pass on Ebola to him, they can’t touch.
‘It’s very difficult, and we feel the emotion of
that,’ Jeremy Writebol said of his parents’ physical separation.
Then, of course, there’s the inherent danger of Ebola.
The World Health Organization reports that there have been at least 1,322 cases
in recent weeks in West Africa, some 729 of which have resulted in death.
Even before it was known his mother would return to the
United States, where she’ll get top-notch care at Emory, Jeremy Writebol took
solace the mortality rate isn’t even higher.
‘We feel like Mom has a chance,’ he told CNN
affiliate WCCB.
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