 Beatrice, could you talk a little bit about what you've been doing here in the United States the last few weeks in terms of educating United Methodists about Ebola? I came here in July to have meetings for a community-based primary health care project. But then the Ebola incident escalated and widespread in Sierra Leone. So I have been visiting churches and speaking. I've been to Tennessee, I've been to Texas now, I've been going to Nebraska, I've been to Indiana, all speaking on Ebola. And what is the summary of the message you're telling United Methodists about where the situation stands in Sierra Leone? I am telling the United Methodists in the United States. What activities the United Methodists in Sierra Leone have been involved in and making requests as to what United Methodists here can do to help us in the response to Ebola. Can you mention in your talk here today in the North Texas conference that the disease has devastated Sierra Leone in different ways. Can you summarize some of the ways in which Sierra Leone is suffering from some people? The disease has not only affected the fabric of our humanness. It has affected the economy of the country. The health systems have all broken down. The means of living for common people like markets, markets cannot meet. So people are not raising the basic monies that are used for their survival. Markets cannot meet. Only a few people can even go to the market because of fear of Ebola. Education system is closed. Schools have been closed since June. And now there is a challenge to keep those young people out of school in homes. Some of them, I'm sure, have been infected and died. So that's how much the universities, all these educational institutions have been closed. Also the social life, our social fabric, our cultural fabric, all is broken down. For example, we are a touching community. We touch people, we greet by shaking hands, we greet by hugging. Ebola has made us to learn not to greet, not to shake hands. We bow down with our arms crossed across our chest to honor people who could wave or give you a thumbs up, which is very difficult to adopt. But we have had to adopt it for to save our lives. And the United Methodist Church and other religious groups there, including Muslim groups, have come together to communicate that message. Yes, they have. And one of the first responses we had was by the religious leaders task force that was formed, which included Muslims, Catholics, all the religious denominations in Sierra Leone. They came together and said, we came together to help end the civil war. We have to work together to end the Ebola from our communities. So they were the first organization that started giving education for the prevention of Ebola. They are education based on even giving authority to all their leaders, the Muslim clerics who would call prayers, the pastors, everybody has been acknowledged to speak on Ebola at each sermon, speak on Ebola on any Friday meeting for Muslims. This is the first time those two have come together to really make an impact. And now that task force continues to meet, to educate, to know what are the issues and to work out strategies to improve the situation of Ebola. Talk a little bit, if you would, about malaria and Ebola and the confusion you've seen in Sierra Leone about that. The symptoms of Ebola is so similar to that of malaria. With Ebola, you have malaise, general malaise, you have headache, you have fever. And sometimes you vomit, those are the same symptoms we have if you have malaria. So it's been so difficult to be able to differentiate between an infection of Ebola and an infection of malaria. Hence we lost a lot of health workers because they have been treating Ebola patients for malaria as malaria patients and in the process they got themselves infected. And we lost more than 150 health workers in Sierra Leone to Ebola. So that's how difficult it has been for health workers to be able to differentiate between the two disease conditions that are so similar in symptoms. Speak a little, if you would, about what specifically you would encourage United Methodist individuals and churches to do to be of help at this point. We want to ask our brothers and sisters, who are United Methodists, and even those who may hear of this message, who may read it, so help us with funds, with materials so that if we have funds, we have money, we could buy some of the materials we need in country. But there are a lot of materials that cannot be, that are not available in Sierra Leone. For those funds, if sent to UMPCO, United Methodist Committee on relief, at the General Board of Global Ministries in New York, those funds will get to us so that we can buy the necessary materials and they too can use those funds to buy materials and things we need that are not available in country. You're here in Dallas where we have one case, I'm sorry, go ahead. So we are asking our brothers and sisters to continue in prayer, to pray for us, to pray for our leaders, to pray for even the countries that are willing to help us so that their hearts can be with us so that together we can be able to eradicate Ebola. You mentioned how difficult the situation is, but you are hopeful. Speak about that. Yes. It is devastating. It is difficult. But for me, nothing is impossible for God. For God, all things are possible and I know soon we are going to see Ebola as history. Can you imagine a Sierra Leone without Ebola? Can you imagine all our schools, our colleges will be in session? Can you imagine if you didn't have Ebola, how much development we continue? Can you imagine how many lives can be saved without Ebola? That would be a big achievement, not only for Sierra Leone, but mankind and for even the world generally. And you're speaking here from Dallas. It has been emotional to you to witness all the attention on one case of Ebola here in Dallas and speak about the disparity you mentioned. I was really taking the day I saw the response on TV, I saw it on TV, the response to the Ebola incident of one family. And the day they went to take the family to be quarantined, you had the fire force, you had a whole private cleaning agent, you had the police, you had so many workers, so many people, all just to work with a family of four. If we in Sierra Leone and Guinea or Liberia would have a third of those facilities, if we had a third of those facilities, I am sure we would have controlled Ebola by now. The disparity touched me and I was so, I just told, I would say I froze in the chair, I said for one family, look at how much resources is available. Will that happen to us? This is the appeal we are making. Just let us have, even if it's a third of that facilities, those facilities are available to our communities, to our countries that are infected with Ebola. And when are you scheduled to return to Sierra Leone? I am scheduled to return on the 21st of October and I don't even know what I'm going to meet once I get in country. But you're not afraid to go, you want to go? It's a calling. I'm a missionary for the United Methodist Church. I'm a health worker and I'm a family member. I have those three aspects compelling me to go back.