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Prayer amid Pandemic

The Christian Teens Who Took on the Spread of Ebola

How young people in Sierra Leone stepped up when an epidemic broke out.

In 2014, the Ebola outbreak began in West Africa. Over the next two years, more than 11,000 people died, the majority from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. As people struggled to adapt to the new normal brought on by the epidemic, the government and public health workers enlisted church leaders in educating their congregants about the disease.

On this episode of Prayer amid Pandemic, John Jusu, a Sierra Leonean missionary with the Association of Evangelicals in Africa who currently serves with Overseas Council International as the Africa regional director,

This episode’s prayer is from Gabrijela Althaller, a youth leader at the evangelical church, New Covenant, in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Prayer amid Pandemic is produced by Morgan Lee, Mike Cosper, and Erik Petrik

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