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Related: About this forumAfter Ebola Outbreak, Liberian Churches Confront Crisis of Faith
MONROVIA, Liberia It decimated hospitals, schools, families, fortunes and, for many, even their faith.
Now, it is officially over. The Ebola outbreak has ended in Liberia, the World Health Organization announced Saturday, an enormous milestone that seemed impossibly far off last year when dead bodies blocked roads and the sick prayed for ambulances that never came.
Desperately, the country is trying to rebuild just about everything, from its health and education systems to its economy and international image.
But in the dim hall of the United God Is Our Light Church, its generator turned off to shave costs, the congregation has been trying to repair something more fundamental: its spirit.
Some of you are thinking that this church will die, the church secretary, Joseph Vayombo, recently shouted in the small Pentecostal church here, no longer able to contain his frustration at all the empty seats around him. There are people here who want this church to die.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/world/africa/after-ebola-outbreak-liberian-churches-confront-crisis-of-faith.html?_r=0
There is hope after all.
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After Ebola Outbreak, Liberian Churches Confront Crisis of Faith (Original Post)
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
OP
your prayer quota got used up with your begging for a winning lottery ticket.
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
#2
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. your prayer quota got used up with your begging for a winning lottery ticket.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)3. Shit! Can I use yours?
bvf
(6,604 posts)4. I'll pray for them.
Can I go now?
bvf
(6,604 posts)6. I feel so much better knowing I've done some good.
Jesus Christ Almighty.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)8. They will come to the natural conclusion that god spared them
and should be thankful for it.