Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic

“When I knelt next to Teresa on that rainy June night outside our hospital, I told myself that everything was about to change.  I had no idea the extent of that truth. But one thing has not changed: our desire to live faithful to God’s calling.” —Dr. Kent Brantly, in Called for Life Just months after Dr. Kent Brantly arrived in Liberia with his wife, Amber, and their two children, the Ebola virus erupted in West Africa. Kent and his colleagues began to fight one of the most horrifying, incurable diseases on earth, only to see patient after patient die. Then, after six weeks of intense battle to help others survive, Kent woke up one July morning with a fever. Three days later his diagnosis was confirmed: Ebola.   Kent knew his life was at stake.