from List Serv IGRC IL GREAT RIVERS Conference of United Methodist Church:
Due to the U.S. State Department's heightened international travel alert until
late February 2016, and the recent three new cases of Ebola in the outlying area
of the capital city of Monrovia, the January IGRC teams scheduled for travel to
Liberia are being postponed.
Although there have now been 21 days with
no new cases of Ebola in Liberia, it will take 42 days for CDC to declare
Liberia once again Ebola free.
Our mission partnership with Liberia
continues although we are not currently taking teams. New Hope UMC in
Paynesville (IGRC Advance #6675) and Bethany UMC in Buchanan (designated
donations may be channeled through IGRC Advance #6660) are ongoing building
projects.
Approximately 160 students in Liberia are attending school
because of the IGRC Liberia Scholarship Advance #6995 with many other students
being sponsored by direct gifts. Our mission partners and friends in Liberia
remain in constant contact with us.
Let us pray not only for Liberia, but
also for neighboring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone that the region of
West Africa may remain Ebola free.
Everyone, our teams waiting to go and
our partners in Liberia, all await for the day when IGRC mission teams may
resume travel to Liberia. Both teams will be rescheduled. At the present, the
rescheduled dates are not yet determined. In the meantime, no ocean, no
heightened terrorist alert, no potential threat of disease will separate us as
we remain connected in prayer for one another.
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